Ep41: 1995 - 1.Outside vs. MTV Unplugged or the Faux-Industrial Grab-Bagging of 1995

Scene: Inside the gameplay of a state-of-the-art, immersive virtual reality experience available on 7 CD-ROMs, particularly the 4th CD in the series of 7.

Bob Dylan: Hey fans.  Come along on an epic virtual journey with me, Bob Dylan, by watching this grainy, pixelated music video from 1986, available to view when you enter the door of 1961-era Cafe Wha?

David Bowie: NOT DARK ENOUGH, man.  Where, for example, are the gutted pigs, the shaved heads, the too-long trench coats, over-saturated color pallet?

Bob Dylan: What?  Are those words that you just said?  I can only assume that it has something to do with this archival photo of me, Bob Dylan, at Columbia Records Studios circa 1962 waiting for you in a dirty bathroom in Greenwich Village?

David Bowie: OOOOOOH, that does sound goth.  Goth is really in right now, says my best friend Trent Reznor.  Trent, come on over and play this game with me, it's really goth, man, really goth.  

Trent Reznor: You know, I would?  But I've got a date with Marilyn Manson to hang each other by giant hooks in a rotting meat locker by our belly buttons.  So...

Bob Dylan: How does that work?  Who goes first?  How does the second person get hung when the first one is already up there?  

David Bowie: Really goth, man, really goth.  I'd rather do that than bow to the establishment like a bloody sheeple wallowing in society's constraints.  I'm not playing my hits, so DON'T EVEN ASK!

Bob Dylan: I'm playing my hits...

David Bowie: Erm, well, me too, but not until 2000 or so, but until then, DON'T EVEN ASK.

Trent Reznor: In order to continue, please change to disc #5, on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.