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8	* BetterExportForYou:
9	** Initial Japanese [=CDs=] slot in one additional bonus track, the "Don't Stop Praying Mix" of "Pallas Athena", between the remix of "Jump They Say" and "Lucy Can't Dance".
10	** The Singaporean CD release adds in an Indonesian-language version of "Don't Let Me Down & Down".
11	* ChannelHop: After parting ways with Creator/{{EMI}} in 1990 over their distrust towards Tin Machine, Bowie signed onto Savage Records, an imprint of Creator/AristaRecords, for this album; Arista co-distributed the album in most of the world. When Savage went under shortly after the album's release, Bowie fully moved over to Arista everywhere except the US, where he ultimately signed to EMI imprint Creator/VirginRecords in 1995.
12	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For a long time, this album was next-to-impossible to find in the US, as the album's distributor there, Savage Records, went bankrupt midway through its promotion cycle. The album would eventually be rescued when it saw reissues by Creator/{{EMI}} in 2003 and Creator/ParlophoneRecords in 2015 & 2021, but both omit the bonus tracks that were present on the original CD release to varying extents[[note]]"Lucy Can't Dance" is present on the bonus CD of the 2003 reissue and on ''Re:Call 5'' in the ''Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001)'' BoxedSet, but for whatever reason, the alternate mix of "Jump They Say" is absent from both; the 2015 Parlophone CD and the standalone release of the 2021 remaster lack bonus content altogether[[/note]].
13	* RealitySubtext:
14	** "Jump They Say" was inspired by Bowie's late half-brother Terry Burns, who had committed suicide in 1985.
15	** "You've Been Around" was written while Bowie was in Tin Machine; it is suggested that the song was also about the band.
16	** "The Wedding", "The Wedding Song" and "Miracle Goodnight" were written about his relationship and marriage to Iman.
17	* RefittedForSequel: Covering Music/{{Cream}}'s "I Feel Free" was an idea that went all the way back to the ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'' sessions. Bowie only got as far as recording an instrumental track back in 1980, but eventually revisited the idea for this album.
18	* SequelGap: The album was Bowie's first solo record since ''Music/NeverLetMeDown'' six years prior, owed to him choosing to work with Tin Machine during the interim as a means of artistically reinvigorating himself after a bout of ArtistDisillusionment[[note]]while [[Music/TinMachineAlbum the first Tin Machine album]] was classified as a Bowie album under his contract with Creator/{{EMI}}, its status as a band project means that it's typically considered separate from his solo catalog[[/note]].
19	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
20	** The album cover was originally intended to feature a headshot of Bowie, vertically mirrored down the middle, playing on the anisocoria that left one eye permanently dilated.
21	** "Night Flights" was intended to be released as the album's fourth single, but Creator/AristaRecords scrapped the release after both the TitleTrack and "Miracle Goodnight" stiffed on the charts, just barely reaching the UK Top 40 compared to the No. 9 peak of "Jump They Say". That said, a mimed PerformanceVideo did end up appearing in the DirectToVideo documentary ''David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise'', alongside similar clips for a number of other album cuts.
22	* WorkingTitle:
23	** ''The Wedding Album'' was brought up as a potential name for the record before Bowie settled on ''Black Tie White Noise''.
24	** As shown in the liner notes for the BoxedSet ''Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001)'' and the standalone release of this album's 2021 remaster, "Jump They Say" was originally penned under the name "Jump".

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