Talk:The Devil Went Down to Georgia

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[edit] Cleanup

I put in new headlines and reorganised the article a bit, but I dunno if I should remove the cleanup tag or not. The page needs a song info box, I think...but I wouldn't know how to put one of those up. --Gromreaper 03:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox and such

I tossed in an infobox, but I know very little about the single, so I couldn't add much. I'd appreciate anything anyone can add in.

Also, we can't have the lyrics there like we did. The Son Of Nothing 15:49, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

If lyrics and infoboxes can't do anything, then what can? MKguy42192 (talk) 04:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Genre

According to wikipedia's own website this is, in fact, a country song.

See Charlie_Daniels:

"Daniels won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1979 for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", which reached #3 on the charts."

[edit] Stephen Lynch

In Stephen Lynch's song "Beelz" (about a flamboyant version of Satan) he makes a joke stating that the devil "would never be caught dead in Georgia" (after imitating the Charlie Daniels Band briefly) This isn't really a parody, and i'm not nearly good enough at editing wikipedia to add it in a relevent section.

[edit] Spoilers?

Do we really need a spoiler warning? It's a song for crying out loud. Ungovernable ForceGot something to say? 06:31, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Devil went to Jamaica

This song was written by Travis Meyer http://www.drdemento.com/playlists/drd98.0815.html when he was at WBYR-FM.

[edit] Coyote Ugly

Should there not be some reference to the song being A) Used in the movie Coyote Ugly (film) as the main bar song, but more importantly that this is one song that every Coyote Ugly Saloon bar uses for the girls to get on the bar and do their routine? I think it's worthy of the recognition. Don't you?? Timclare (talk) (sign here) 02:28, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Covers/Adaptations/Parodies Sections

Since I was reverted, I'll go here. Please cite those sections, and show how they are important to this article. Otherwise, they will be removed per WP:V and WP:TRIVIA. seresin | wasn't he just...? 00:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I more or less second this, except I wouldn't be too hasty flat out removing them. Obliterating them will only serve to offend and aggravate the regular editors and I don't want to see edit warring here. As it stands, the tags should stay, if no improvement or attempt to trim, prune, integrate, or improve said sections is seen, then we should consider deleting the most trivial parts flat out. Wisdom89 (T / C) 01:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I concur with the sentiment expressed above. There is some good information in these sections that I would hate to see removed and should remain in the article in some form, but in its present form it has too much. It needs to be pared down, and some of the less important or more tenuous entries removed, and these three sections combined into one or two. At a minimum, the Covers and the Adaptations sections look like they could be combined. --Mwalimu59 (talk) 06:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Very little of the content in the sections I listed is relevent. In addition, it is not cited. seresin | wasn't he just...? 01:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I've added the examplefarm template to the header as I believe it more concisely addresses the problem of having too many adaptations/covers/parodies than the trivia tags did. I've also removed the comments about Guitar Hero since they seem overly pedantic. We can add some of those back later if that particular problem rears its head again. --Mwalimu59 (talk) 17:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC)