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There is no talking pig in the restaurant at the end of the universe, it is a cow, trying to sell Arthur its body parts.
Some of these allusions to the guide series seem a little contrived. Is there any way we can verify some of these references? -- Jordan 12:21, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Then resume with "Lead singer Thom Yorke explained..." (or some suitably tidied up version thereof).The title is a reference to a character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy named " Marvin the Paranoid Android".
I concur 100% with DaveG's assessment. Those are fun and all, but they're essentially speculation. I'll check back in a week or so, and if nobody has objected, I'm going to alter it. -- Woodstein52 16:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Okay, it appears that nobody has objected, so I went ahead and deleted the speculation about Hitchhiker's Guide. Speculative interpretation of song lyrics would seem outside the scope of a wiki entry. Woodstein52 04:32, 4 Sept 2006 (UTC)
I removed another largely speculative bit about Hitchhiker's Guide, partially due to the fact that "first against the wall" is a common saying in the English lexicon. Good enough. Where Anne hath a will, Anne Hathaway. 21:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
An anonymous user came around and re-inserted the trivia; rather than get into a revert war, I just decided to tag it "citation needed". If someone can find a source of anybody involved with the band explicitly stating that the "first against the wall" this is, in fact, a reference to "Hitchhiiker's Guide", that's awesome. But if it hasn't happened in a couple of weeks, I'm going to take it out again, cos it doesn't belong. Where Anne hath a will, Anne Hathaway. 00:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I removed this:
as per above. Where Anne hath a will, Anne Hathaway. 19:08, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Giggy ( talk) 01:13, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
We need to tidy up the references somewhat - I'm happy to do it, but I'd like some opinions before I start. The specific issues are:
Let me know what you think! Papa November ( talk) 10:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
There's a lot going on in this section, and I think a cleanup is needed. The History section follows the order:
There's a bit of overlap with the "Composition and lyrics" section, which we may want to move there. In other Radiohead articles, we've split the sections up to firstly describe the background and set the scene, and then to describe the actual writing, recording, production and release of the record. Should we consider doing this here too? Papa November ( talk) 11:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Only a couple of things, but I'll put it on hold. Peanut4 ( talk) 18:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Meets all the GA criteria. Would be good to find anything on the point above, but it might be just a trivial matter not worthy of further clarification. A very good read overall. I just noticed it was a Alternative Music collaboration of the week, but a lot of good work has gone into it. If you were to push onto FAC, my only suggestion would be to get a peer review but it might not be that you will get much from that if it was a collaboration of the week effort. Otherwise, perhaps another image might help, but I can't make any other suggestions to help. Best of luck with any future work. Peanut4 ( talk) 23:19, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm thinking we have all the content necessary (though I was thinking that before the cover art section was added (nice work, BLZ!) so I may be wrong), so it's really just a matter of polishing for mine. Any other thoughts on what needs to be done? Giggy ( talk) 00:17, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
From the first paragraph of the music video section;
Eventually he devised a scenario that was to the band's liking after locking himself in his office and staring out the window at a distant bridge, while listening to the song over and over.[45] As Carlsson did not have access to the lyrics, the concept for the video was completely unrelated to the content of the song.[46]
I can't imagine how he could listen to the song repeatedly but still make a completely unrelated video, and still claim to be without access to the lyrics. Is it just me or do others find this odd too? Giggy ( talk) 06:27, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Giggy has asked me to do some copy editing on this article, and I've gotten a start tonight (well, I guess it's this morning!). So far, I have worked on the lead, the Background section and the Cover versions section. A couple of questions for when I work on the rest of the article:
I will continue working on this in about 8 hours. Risker ( talk) 07:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
More questions:
Risker ( talk) 16:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
And still more:
In O'Brien's quote about the original live performances of the song, he uses "pissing ourselves" to mean "laughing" while the literal meaning is quite different! Does this make sense to non-UK readers? If not, we might want to substitute "[laughing]". Papa November ( talk) 09:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The section feels a bit too congratulatory to me. Wasn't there any neutral or negative criticism of the single? For something so complex and risky to be released as a single, surely there must have been some critics who didn't "get it"? Also, there are a huge number of quotes here - do we need all of them? I mean, four quotes about the Queen comparison may be a bit excessive! How about something like:
The style of the song was compared to that of Queen by Rolling Stone's Mark Kemp, [1] while other critics, including David Browne of Entertainment Weekly, [2] Jon Lusk of the BBC [3] and Simon Williams of NME [4] wrote about its similarity to Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody". Williams described the song as being "not unlike 'Bohemian Rhapsody' being played backwards by a bunch of Vietnam vets high on King's Cross-quality crack". [4]
Papa November ( talk) 10:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
References
NMErev
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).That was a fun collab - well done all :) Giggy ( talk) 22:25, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Ergo Proxy uses this track as a closing theme, would it be proper to make some mention of cultural use of a song such as this? 74.13.38.191 ( talk) 08:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I highly suggest that we add a reference to this. 76.15.238.242 ( talk) 01:22, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
this line is from the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. please add —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.177.124.204 ( talk) 13:26, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
You ought to qualify the censoring by MTV part - it was censored in the US but not in Europe. The US isn't the world, you know. 81.156.125.51 ( talk) 06:54, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
The band El Ten Eleven covers the track on their album These Promises are Being Videotaped
Where would be a good place to insert the fact that it was licensed and used as the ending theme for the 2006 anime TV series Ergo Proxy? -- Eyevocal ( talk) 04:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
is this progressive Rock or not, can you please make your minds up, every time I go on the article it's changed and the big deal seems to be if it is, or isn't progressive Rock, well? 188.222.41.105 ( talk) 16:46, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I reckon the fourth section starts at 5:38 (give or take a second or two) - long after the currently stated 4:58. 27.96.215.179 ( talk) 12:33, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Radiohead is so well covered here that I don't want to venture into the main Article page, but I've measured this tempo with a digital metronome, BPM Tapper, and liveBPM. It holds so steadily at 82 BPM that it's probably done with a click, but a lot of Radiohead isn't done with a click, so not sure (and I'd love to read more inside information about this topic on Wikipedia), The fast part is exactly double, 164 BPM, then 63 BPM for the "God loves his children" part. Then the frenetic part at the end reverts to a very steady 82 or 164, depending on you count it. It's a bit of a nitpick, but 2 BPM is much more meaningful at a slower tempo and this is a pretty important piece. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevintimba ( talk • contribs) 06:19, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
I suggest that the band names are added in the image description under the "Music video" section of the article. I am aware this addition is not vital. But i thought i would suggest it anyway.
I suggest an edit in the likes of:
"The members of Radiohead (from left to right): Thom Yorke, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood and Philip Selway, as depicted in the "Paranoid Android" video. The video's protagonist, Robin, is shown at far right." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tryagen ( talk • contribs) 08:49, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
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There is no talking pig in the restaurant at the end of the universe, it is a cow, trying to sell Arthur its body parts.
Some of these allusions to the guide series seem a little contrived. Is there any way we can verify some of these references? -- Jordan 12:21, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Then resume with "Lead singer Thom Yorke explained..." (or some suitably tidied up version thereof).The title is a reference to a character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy named " Marvin the Paranoid Android".
I concur 100% with DaveG's assessment. Those are fun and all, but they're essentially speculation. I'll check back in a week or so, and if nobody has objected, I'm going to alter it. -- Woodstein52 16:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Okay, it appears that nobody has objected, so I went ahead and deleted the speculation about Hitchhiker's Guide. Speculative interpretation of song lyrics would seem outside the scope of a wiki entry. Woodstein52 04:32, 4 Sept 2006 (UTC)
I removed another largely speculative bit about Hitchhiker's Guide, partially due to the fact that "first against the wall" is a common saying in the English lexicon. Good enough. Where Anne hath a will, Anne Hathaway. 21:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
An anonymous user came around and re-inserted the trivia; rather than get into a revert war, I just decided to tag it "citation needed". If someone can find a source of anybody involved with the band explicitly stating that the "first against the wall" this is, in fact, a reference to "Hitchhiiker's Guide", that's awesome. But if it hasn't happened in a couple of weeks, I'm going to take it out again, cos it doesn't belong. Where Anne hath a will, Anne Hathaway. 00:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I removed this:
as per above. Where Anne hath a will, Anne Hathaway. 19:08, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Giggy ( talk) 01:13, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
We need to tidy up the references somewhat - I'm happy to do it, but I'd like some opinions before I start. The specific issues are:
Let me know what you think! Papa November ( talk) 10:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
There's a lot going on in this section, and I think a cleanup is needed. The History section follows the order:
There's a bit of overlap with the "Composition and lyrics" section, which we may want to move there. In other Radiohead articles, we've split the sections up to firstly describe the background and set the scene, and then to describe the actual writing, recording, production and release of the record. Should we consider doing this here too? Papa November ( talk) 11:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Only a couple of things, but I'll put it on hold. Peanut4 ( talk) 18:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Meets all the GA criteria. Would be good to find anything on the point above, but it might be just a trivial matter not worthy of further clarification. A very good read overall. I just noticed it was a Alternative Music collaboration of the week, but a lot of good work has gone into it. If you were to push onto FAC, my only suggestion would be to get a peer review but it might not be that you will get much from that if it was a collaboration of the week effort. Otherwise, perhaps another image might help, but I can't make any other suggestions to help. Best of luck with any future work. Peanut4 ( talk) 23:19, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm thinking we have all the content necessary (though I was thinking that before the cover art section was added (nice work, BLZ!) so I may be wrong), so it's really just a matter of polishing for mine. Any other thoughts on what needs to be done? Giggy ( talk) 00:17, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
From the first paragraph of the music video section;
Eventually he devised a scenario that was to the band's liking after locking himself in his office and staring out the window at a distant bridge, while listening to the song over and over.[45] As Carlsson did not have access to the lyrics, the concept for the video was completely unrelated to the content of the song.[46]
I can't imagine how he could listen to the song repeatedly but still make a completely unrelated video, and still claim to be without access to the lyrics. Is it just me or do others find this odd too? Giggy ( talk) 06:27, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Giggy has asked me to do some copy editing on this article, and I've gotten a start tonight (well, I guess it's this morning!). So far, I have worked on the lead, the Background section and the Cover versions section. A couple of questions for when I work on the rest of the article:
I will continue working on this in about 8 hours. Risker ( talk) 07:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
More questions:
Risker ( talk) 16:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
And still more:
In O'Brien's quote about the original live performances of the song, he uses "pissing ourselves" to mean "laughing" while the literal meaning is quite different! Does this make sense to non-UK readers? If not, we might want to substitute "[laughing]". Papa November ( talk) 09:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The section feels a bit too congratulatory to me. Wasn't there any neutral or negative criticism of the single? For something so complex and risky to be released as a single, surely there must have been some critics who didn't "get it"? Also, there are a huge number of quotes here - do we need all of them? I mean, four quotes about the Queen comparison may be a bit excessive! How about something like:
The style of the song was compared to that of Queen by Rolling Stone's Mark Kemp, [1] while other critics, including David Browne of Entertainment Weekly, [2] Jon Lusk of the BBC [3] and Simon Williams of NME [4] wrote about its similarity to Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody". Williams described the song as being "not unlike 'Bohemian Rhapsody' being played backwards by a bunch of Vietnam vets high on King's Cross-quality crack". [4]
Papa November ( talk) 10:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
References
NMErev
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).That was a fun collab - well done all :) Giggy ( talk) 22:25, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Ergo Proxy uses this track as a closing theme, would it be proper to make some mention of cultural use of a song such as this? 74.13.38.191 ( talk) 08:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I highly suggest that we add a reference to this. 76.15.238.242 ( talk) 01:22, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
this line is from the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. please add —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.177.124.204 ( talk) 13:26, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
You ought to qualify the censoring by MTV part - it was censored in the US but not in Europe. The US isn't the world, you know. 81.156.125.51 ( talk) 06:54, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
The band El Ten Eleven covers the track on their album These Promises are Being Videotaped
Where would be a good place to insert the fact that it was licensed and used as the ending theme for the 2006 anime TV series Ergo Proxy? -- Eyevocal ( talk) 04:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
is this progressive Rock or not, can you please make your minds up, every time I go on the article it's changed and the big deal seems to be if it is, or isn't progressive Rock, well? 188.222.41.105 ( talk) 16:46, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I reckon the fourth section starts at 5:38 (give or take a second or two) - long after the currently stated 4:58. 27.96.215.179 ( talk) 12:33, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Radiohead is so well covered here that I don't want to venture into the main Article page, but I've measured this tempo with a digital metronome, BPM Tapper, and liveBPM. It holds so steadily at 82 BPM that it's probably done with a click, but a lot of Radiohead isn't done with a click, so not sure (and I'd love to read more inside information about this topic on Wikipedia), The fast part is exactly double, 164 BPM, then 63 BPM for the "God loves his children" part. Then the frenetic part at the end reverts to a very steady 82 or 164, depending on you count it. It's a bit of a nitpick, but 2 BPM is much more meaningful at a slower tempo and this is a pretty important piece. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevintimba ( talk • contribs) 06:19, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
I suggest that the band names are added in the image description under the "Music video" section of the article. I am aware this addition is not vital. But i thought i would suggest it anyway.
I suggest an edit in the likes of:
"The members of Radiohead (from left to right): Thom Yorke, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood and Philip Selway, as depicted in the "Paranoid Android" video. The video's protagonist, Robin, is shown at far right." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tryagen ( talk • contribs) 08:49, 19 July 2020 (UTC)