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8	* ActingForTwo: Bowie gives voice to a 52-year-old detective, a 14-year-old ''female'' murder victim, {{mad artist}}s of both genders, a 78-year-old shopkeeper, etc. There are pictures of most of them in the booklet, via the magic of makeup, costume, and image manipulation of Bowie himself.
9	* BetterExportForYou: The Japanese release includes the B-side "Get Real" at the end as a bonus track, a configuration that would later be repeated for Creator/ColumbiaRecords' international reissue in 2004.
10	* BlackSheepHit: While Bowie has long been known for his constant shifts in sound, the Music/PetShopBoys single remix of "Hallo Spaceboy" is nonetheless an outlier for him. While it was a top 20 hit in the UK, its sound is much closer to Pet Shop Boys' distinctive brand of dance-pop than anything Bowie himself has done.
11	* CareerResurrection: General consensus is that ''Outside'' is considered to be the album which ends Bowie's AudienceAlienatingEra (well, for those that don't consider ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'' as such).
12	* ChannelHop: Because Savage Records went under shortly after the release of ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'', Bowie signed a deal with Creator/VirginRecords to release the album Stateside, marking a return to Creator/{{EMI}} after a 5-year gap; Virgin would gain the US rights to Bowie's material from ''Music/LetsDance'' to ''Music/{{Tin Machine\|Album}}'' in the process.
13	* {{Feelies}}: The limited-edition CD single release of "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" came on a shaped disc designed after Nathan Alder's head (as seen in the liner notes and single cover).
14	* PopularityRedo: "Strangers When We Meet" was re-recorded for ''1. Outside'' in part because the album it was first included on, 1993's ''Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia'', flopped and was deleted for a while due to MisaimedMarketing.
15	* PromotedFanboy: Longtime Bowie fan [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] co-produced the Alt. Mix of "The Hearts Filthy Lesson"; Reznor would also go on to produce most of the single remixes for "I'm Afraid of Americans" off of [[Music/{{Earthling}} Bowie's next album]].
16	* ReferencedBy: ''Theatre/TheSpongeBobMusical'' includes a rearranged version of "No Control" as part of the setlist, sung as the Bikini Bottomites' contemplation about an impending cataclysmic volcanic eruption.
17	* RefittedForSequel: The TitleTrack originated during the ''Music/{{Tin Machine\|Album}}'' sessions, where it was called "Now". It ended up being re-recorded, re-worked, and retitled for inclusion on ''1. Outside''.
18	* StillbornFranchise: Bowie had two sequels to this album planned: one was entitled ''2. Contamination'', and according to some sources, the third installment was going to be called ''3. Afrikaans''. Bowie claimed in early 1997 (during the promotional cycle for ''Music/{{Earthling}}'') that he'd already planned out characters for ''2. Contamination'', including some from the 17th century, and it's rumored that he even recorded some songs for it, only to shelve both records. Bowie later explained in a 2000 online chat that his main reason for doing so was because he didn't have the patience to spend "hours and hours and hours" scouring and reconfiguring the myriad of material recorded during the ''Leon'' sessions in 1994.
19	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
20	** The album was initially developed as ''Leon'', a series of extended ambient suites, which was dropped due to a mix of Creator/AristaRecords finding the recordings too uncommercial and a ContentLeak of the material by bootleggers[[note]]Sources vary as to whether or not the bootlegs contain the entirety of ''Leon''; Reeves Gabriels described ''Leon'' as "a three-hour improvised opus," while biographer Paul Trynka claims that the intended release spanned two [=CDs=], which at its longest would've been 2 hours and 40 minutes. The bootleg, meanwhile, is several minutes shorter than the final version of ''1. Outside'', at just over 70 minutes compared to almost 75[[/note]]. Excerpts of this iteration would be reshaped and reedited to form "Leon Takes Us Outside", the segues, and "A Small Plot of Land" on the final version of ''1. Outside''. The B-side "Nothing to Be Desired" would be the only portion of the original suites to see an official release (albeit considerably remixed); Bowie expressed interest in putting out the full original material, but this never came to fruition.
21	** Brian Eno initially proposed releasing ''Leon'' in all-black packaging, a-la Music/{{Prince}}'s untitled black album. This concept was not carried over to the final version of ''1. Outside'', which instead featured a self-portrait of Bowie.

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