Talk:Doolittle (album)

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Contents 1 Length of Doolittle? 2 This album is connected 3 Article rewrite 4 Chart positions 5 Wrong review 6 GA on hold

[edit] Length of Doolittle?

A copy of the album in my stereo presently gives its total length as 38:46, not 40:03. Do different versions vary, or is 40 minutes just wrong? Everyking 01:41, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Mine is 38:43. Blogbourri 05:37, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] This album is connected

• All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen ^Talk 22:20, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article rewrite

I'm currently rewriting the article here - I've already rewritten the lead, but have yet to source it. CloudNine 18:19, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I've incorporated the changes into the article, and I'm hoping to get it to featured status. CloudNine 16:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chart positions

Minor mistake: "Monkey Gone to Heaven" is listed as peaking twice in 1989 on the Modern Rock charts. I assume the second placing is meant to be on the UK Singles Chart. WesleyDodds 22:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Correction made. CloudNine 17:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong review

[1] This one Rolling Stone review gives the album 5/5 - one of the reviews in the infobox must be wrong. LuciferMorgan 22:54, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. CloudNine 16:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA on hold

Hello :), few things stopping this from GA status

• Notes and references need to be split so that the book details are in a separate section, check the article Heavy Metal and look at the sources section.
  • I've looked through the MOS, and there's nothing I've found that requires such an arrangement.

It's so the read can easily read what the book sources are, one of them is like ref #4. M3tal H3ad 03:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Listed it in a Further reading section.

• Accolades - Remove the external jumps in this table and convert to references
  • Are you sure that's required by the good article criteria? Albums FAs, including Illmatic, use this format.
    • Comment: Actually, Illmatic now uses inline citations rather than external links in tables - I changed it to get it through its own GA review!- Alex valavanis 17:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
      • Done. CloudNine 08:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• whore of Babylon". Full-stop comes before quotation mark
• April 2 1989. needs to be wikilinked and missing a comma - April 2, 1989
• 800 000 - 800,000
• All songs written by Francis except for "Silver", which was written by Francis and Deal. This needs a reference and needs to be emrged with another section
• Ref 36 needs a retrieve date
• Where do the reviews come from? There are 6 reviews and only two with links
  • They're mentioned in the Sisario book.
• References required here
  • a highly regarded but commercially unsuccessful release,
  • Throughout recording, Norton advised Francis to alter several songs; for example, "There Goes My Gun" had originally been a much faster Hüsker Dü-style song, but Norton slowed the song's tempo down greatly. i'm not quite sure on "greatly" slowing down a tempo either
  • album entered the Billboard 200 at #171.
  • it eventually rose to #98, all Billboard stuff can use [2]
  • The single reached #3
  • its highest position was #56
    • All Billboard positions are also mentioned in the Sisario book, which is cited at the end of the paragraph.
  • with the band's trademark loud-quiet dynamic featuring throughout.
  • expose a quieter, slower and more melodical side to the band.
  • which, according to him, "made a fundamental difference".

Thanks for your review. My comments are above. CloudNine 18:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)