Talk:Skillet (band)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 This article is supported by the Christian music WikiProject, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to Christian music. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Christian music Portal
B This article has been rated as B-Class on the Project's quality scale.
(If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)
This article is supported by the Contemporary Christian Task Force.

Contents

[edit] Collide

Is it really necessary to include Collide twice, with different pages for each release? Wouldnt Collide (2003/2004) & a note on the albums page be sufficent?

Not if you want to be accurate and helpful to those looking for information


[edit] Signed Promotional (EP?) CD

I added this but wasn't able to create a page for it (think wiki was having some weird login problems) with track list. I got this cd by promoting Alien Youth on message boards, as far as I know there are only 100 copies. There are two new songs on it which are VERY good and an explaination of the song Alien Youth. Track list is as follows:

1. Explaination of Alien Youth 2. Heaven in my Veins 3. Always the Same

there was 2 collide albums: collide, and collide (enhanced version) 0(*_*)0--jesusfreek2 18:03, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

-P

--jesusfreek2 18:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] skillet in mainstream media?

do we want to have a skillet in mainstream media section? i added a note about a skillet song in a tv episode under trivia.

User:RanDawg 17:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

That should work.Jesusinmysock 20:06, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grammy nomination?

Would someone like to add the fact that "Savior" was nominated for a Grammy? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 168.169.159.148 (talk) 16:28, 26 April 2007 (UTC). After further researching skillet i noticed that skillet had recieved a nomination... and i do agree that this should be added.

If you have a source for this information, then by all means add it. -- Shatterzer0 03:50, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

I've noticed there is a lot of information in here that's not referenced. I've added a bunch of "citation needed" tags; someone more knowledgeable than me should replace these with the appropriate references and sources. Gitman00 17:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Skillet was never "techno". They were "electro-industrial" which is MUCH different. Also, which of their tracks can be considered "punk rock"?!?

[edit] What happened to all the pictures?

The person who removed them is admin, so it isn't vandalism, but the pictures are allowed to be there as they are low-res versions of album covers. and, as the user who deleted them said, they are not flagrant copyright violations. RanDawg 15:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Marilyn Manson fan?

When was John Cooper ever a Marilyn Manson fan? From things I have read he once attended a Marilyn Manson concert to see what all the hype was about and found it "spirit crushing". I can't imagine him being a fan of Manson's at any point... "I agree John most likely was not a Marilyn Manson fan... but if u find citation refering to this then i guess its possible. I don't think this information would go under a Skillet article... moreless a seperate article on John cooper himslef."

[edit] top of the page

where it says "They span the musical genres from grunge to electro-industrial, nu metal to alternative rock." ...Where? All I see on all of their album pages is either "Christian Rock", "Hard rock" (which is obviously covered by it) and "Alternative metal." If this is true, then the genres need to be added to the page itself plus the correct albums. I only have their latest two, so I wouldn't know what goes where. -- Shatterzer0 06:26, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

The think the main intent of listing those things was to show how the different tracks can vary. The song “Whispers in the Dark” has a metal rock feel to it. The song “Say Goodbye” has a softer ballad and the guitar isn’t the prominent instrument. (172.191.101.243 (talk) 02:17, 4 February 2008 (UTC))


Though I don't know that their musical variation is that extensive, their last two CDs are certainly not representative of all of their music, for example, Alien Youth is not a "Hard Rock" album, and Hey You, I Love Your Soul is not "Alternative Metal". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.213.250.193 (talk) 07:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discography section

I noticed that the discography section of this article was just too extensive for the general length of the page, so I decided to create a Skillet discography article. I trimmed down the Discography section of this article, removing the sections that are not so major ("Compilations", "Music videos", "DVDs", "EPs") and that are covered on the band's new discography page that I made. I'm still in the process of organizing the information on the discography page, and making decisions as to what to columns to add to the wikitables and how to present the info, etc. I currently don't have all the information on the Skillet discography article that's contained in this one, so that's why I left "Radio singles" and "Billboard-charting singles" sections in this article. Let me know if all my trimming down of the discography section was too BOLD. I'm planning on trying to improve and rewrite this article anyway. I'm open to any suggestions with this, and with Skillet discography page too, because it feels like Skillet's discography and singles is a lot of information that I'm not quite sure how to organize and present. :) TIA for any feedback, JamieS93 23:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Major edit

I'm going to be giving this article a major edit for a little while (see the underconstruction tag at the top of the page). I'll be especially working on the "Band history" section; improving the tone, expanding where needed, and adding refs. Feel free to correct any formatting issues or tyops typos I might make in this process, especially in the event that I make several edits, and then leave for a few hours, oblivious to the problem. In other words, if I'm actively around editing the article, I'll probably be spotting and fixing formatting/typo problems if I accidentally make some. I'm hoping to make this a B-class article, so actually I would like collaboration from others if anyone would like to pitch in and help improve the history section with refs, or downsizing those big quotes, as well. Drop a comment here or on my talk page if you have any comments about my edits/this article in general. --JamieS93 19:52, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm removing the {{underconstruction}} tag from the article, because I'm basically done with major, active editing. I'll probably get some refs and info compiled together and contribute that to the article ocassionally in the future, but my major editing is done. I'm not quite sure where to go next with this article, as I don't really think it warrants a B-class rating at the moment. It definitely has potential, though, with some more band history rewriting, to be better than it currently is. --JamieS93 02:19, 15 March 2008 (UTC)