Talk:The Bends
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[edit] Album cover
What does the cover represent? David.Monniaux 08:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- A crash test dummy? Banes 16:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Track Listing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums#Track_listing_2
I'd suggest leaving the table as it tidyed the article up better. This is in line with wikipedias suggestions that tables can be used. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.202.133.2 (talk) 23:43, 22 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Citation needed for "music to slit your wrists to" quote
This article popped up as one that needs sourcing. The only place I could find online referring to this album as "music to slit your wrists to" is on a list on Amazon.com. Amazon in not a publication and I recommend removing the quote. It was added by an anonymous user 6/17/2006 (diff link). Any objections?
I also spent some time trying to find a source for Yorke wanting to use an iron lung as the image for the album cover, but couldn't come up with anything. It was also added by an anonymous user 5/3/2006 (diff link). Perhaps this too should be removed? (As a relative newbie, I'm not sure if there's a WP "policy" about this type of thing. Are we supposed to leave these "citation needed" tags indefinitely or is there some rule of thumb for deleting unsourced statements?) Sanfranman59 03:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Criticism
Personally I love Radiohead but at the time I recall quite a lot of people (in the industry) being fairly harsh about this album. I'll go look up some sources before I start making any wild accusations but (if I can find some sensible sources) would anyone object to such a section being created? Also help tracking down some of Radioheads more famous/infamous critics would be useful! Cheers Waffle247 15:34, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Background
I notice this article is lacking a section/much info on the background and development of this album. Are there any Radiohead-heads out there who can help out with this? That's what I came to this article for and at the moment it's failing to provide for its readers! Yeanold Viskersenn 05:11, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Audio clips
I've removed the audio clips from the article for now, as they were included in a list without any commentary, and no fair use rationale was provided for them to appear in this article. They can be replaced in the article inside a sample box (with commentary) once a proper fair use rationale exists. Papa November (talk) 23:24, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Track Listing
The tables look better and are allowed in the formatting guidelines.
[edit] Redirects
I can't stress enough that redirects are meant to be used when the article is one unsourced line on a non-notable song. Redirecting Planet Telex to the album page seems unacceptable. By the strictest definition Planet Telex should be its own page because it is a single, if you find there isn't enough information, then find it because as a single there probably is some information. I'll see what I can dig up on the internet, but seriously it is starting to get annoying when all these pages get redirected with little if any effort being made to actually add to the article. This isn't what Wikipedia is supposed to be. TostitosAreGross (talk) 02:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Knockoff bands, Coldplay and the like
From the article: "Singing in a higher octave-range and falsetto voice to a backdrop of churning guitars became a much-copied idea, however, one which eventually coalesced into an entire decade of sound. Without this, Coldplay would not exist, nor Keane, nor James Blunt"."
This strikes me as somewhat promoting a POV, and despite having a reference, should not be regarded as fact. Instead, it should be "some people say" or something like that, however that would be using weasel words. Does anyone have anymore references, or know just to what extent this should be changed to be NPOV enough to be fit for an Encyclopedia? Sockseh (talk) 18:45, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
