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[edit] FNORD

Hi! This is Icarus!, being non-Wiki (I'm not logged in...), saying thanx for the work on the Discordianism page! Keep it up!24.176.20.60 17:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD on Badger Badger Badger

I formatted your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Badger Badger Badger to fit the standard layout for Article for Deletion pages. I think you probably meant to vote keep, but I didn't want to presume and change it for you, so I marked it only as a comment. Please do update that if you want to register your vote formally. Cheers! — Saxifrage ✎ 18:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for this, it was my first time getting involved in one of these discussions, and since my comment landed there first I was unaware of the format. I voted "strong keep", as you probably guessed I would. - Ugliness Man 23:27, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
No problem! I figured it was something like that. There's all kinds of small learning curves like this scattered across Wikipedia—congrats on this milestone. ;-) — Saxifrage ✎ 23:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Children

In "Are You There God?...", Chef refered to Stan as children

When I get a chance I'll find my disc of that season so I can confirm, thank you. And please remember to sign your comments in the future, it's not really a big deal to hit four tildes. - Ugliness Man 10:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)


/Ombudsman welcome
/kooks

[edit] Canadian Idiot deletion

If you have any problems concerning my reasons for deleting the article, you could take it up with me at my talk page. If you want to open general discussion, you could start a new topic on the "Straight Outta Lynwood" article. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 00:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] From This Moment On

Thanks a lot for the info and cleanup. I'm leaving "Boulevard..." as the 12th track for now – if any editors want to change this later, they'll come across your comment and can decide for themselves what to do. Fvasconcellos 14:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Peer review/Sparks (band)/archive2

I've put this up for its 2nd peer review - maybe you would like to add some comments and suggestions. regards--KaptKos 09:31, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation, but to be honest I only started watching the article because of the Weird Al connection. I understand why the citation tag was added to the mention of "Virus Alert", but I don't really have enough interest in the article to start digging around for a source. My hope was that someone who's actually a fan of the band would go ahead and do so, but it doesn't seem to have happened yet. I listened to some of the Sparks' music on Pandora, and quite frankly I was underwhelmed. I wish you well in your efforts, but I don't really care enough about it to take part. For what it's worth, there's no longer any question as to whether or not the song is a Sparks tribute. The Mael brothers are thanked in the liner notes, the animated video features musicians that resemble them, and the musical resemblence is fairly obvious, all that's left is for Al to confirm the tribute in an interview, which is less likely to happen than it was on previous ablums, since he now includes his style parody targets in his "Special Thanks" (so the question isn't likely to be asked in the first place). - Ugliness Man 12:35, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Devo 2.0 and Alan Myers

Checking my Devo 2.0 album liner notes, Alan Myers did *not* play on the album. It lists Freese for Whip It and The Winner, and another drummer, Neil Taylor for the rest of the tracks.

[edit] Thanks

Heh, thanks for the notes. Added Stax to List of MTG terms. Tt's a Type 1 deck that uses, dunno if it's still viable, a variety of artifacts like Smokestack to lock down gameplay while using all that jazzy Type 1 artifact abuse to pump out powerful and expensive cards way too early. And I'd been meaning to archive my talk page. Staxringold talkcontribs 19:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFD on Doctor Steel

Uglinessman, changes have been made to Doctor Steel and I would like to direct your attention to the voting being done on the afd talk page.

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[edit] It's the ugliness man

I'm just trying to bug you (i thought that my dreadfulness might be a thing to annoy you with) Poobslag 16:04, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dare to be Stupid

Hi - thanks for your good faith input to Dare to be Stupid. It's actually not close to Devo's cover of Satisfaction. Al's Dare to be Stupid has some of the same chord progressions and rhythmic devices as "Big Mess" and many of the same synth riffs. I believe I can find a citation for it - I'll add something to the page... Yes, here's one, [1] - this person claims it has "Big Mess" and a little of "Deep Sleep" as well. Here's one that says it's "Freedom of Choice" and "Big Mess" [2]. This one also says "Big Mess" and "Deep Sleep" [3]. Anyway, thanks again, but I changed it back. Give "Big Mess" a listen if you want, then listen to "Dare to be Stupid." Here's a "Stupid" clip from Amazon [4] and here's Devo's "Satisfaction": [5]. Gekritzl 22:28, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Woops, sorry, I just noticed your comment said the video is closer to "Satisfaction". My mistake. And you're right, it is. (Feel free to add that info on the page if you want.) It's got a little of the "Whip It" video too (here's Whip It at Youtube: [6]). But, my contribution to the article did say bearing closest resemblance musically to Devo's "Big Mess" so it's still valid. Gekritzl 22:55, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Both the video and the song contain elements from many Devo songs (I see elements in the video from "Satisfaction", "Whip It", "Beautiful World", "Freedom of Choice" and "Come Back Jonee", and that's just from memory, I'm sure I could spot at least 3 more while watching it). As has been discussed at length in many Al-related articles, a style parody of a particular artist is by definition not a parody of a specific song. Mentioning similarities to specific songs is sometimes legitimate, but most of the time is OR. All of those links you provided to support your argument are the opinions of individuals and are not encyclopedic. The article in question is an article about the album in general, getting into the specifics of which Devo elements are present in the song would be superfluous at best, and OR at worst. If there is ever a Weird Al wiki, then every style parody can have a list of individual songs which seem to be influential, but this is not a Weird Al wiki, this is the general Wikipedia, and there is already way too much trivia on the Al-related articles as it is. - Ugliness Man 01:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


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