Talk:Barracuda (song)/Archive 1

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Archive 1

May 2006

What is this song about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.213.92.196 (talk) 02:38, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Fishing, mostly. 171.159.64.10 23:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

The "relationship"

This is from memory, from what I can recall from their "Behind the Music" special. If someone can remember it better (and, preferably, has a source...), this should be added to the article page. IIRC, some rock mag did an interview with the Wilson sisters after their first album came out. When the article was published, it was either: 1.) titled/previewed/etc. in such a way as to falsely suggest that the sisters talked about a lesbian/incest relationship between them in the article, or 2.) the sisters did appear to acknowledge or suggest such a relationship between themselves in the article itself, but this was due to an enormous amount of misquoting and creative editing. Naturally, they were livid. Barracuda was their response. Tuckdogg 01:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

John Bonham

John Bonham didn't really play on this song, did he? 24.148.64.112 (talk) 06:24, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, I can't find any evidence, and the author hasn't supplied any ... Pdfpdf (talk) 11:32, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Riff Stolen

Would it be worth mentioning that the Ozzy Osbourne song "You Lookin' At Me Lookin' At You uses the main riff of this song? 71.3.229.237 (talk) 00:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

If you have supporting evidence from a reliable source, and quote it, Yes. Please do.

If not, then there's little point in adding it - it is almost certain that someone will remove it because it is "unsourced". Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 05:01, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

(P.S. Please sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Pdfpdf (talk) 05:01, 13 June 2009 (UTC))

Question

Hi. I'm listening to the song right now, and it bears a striking stylistic similarity to a lot of heavy metal. What's more, relatively few parts of the song seem to contain traditional blues/rock'n'roll/hard rock styles. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that songs like "Paranoid" or "Highway Star" have more elements of traditional hard rock than this song. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any sources explicitly agreeing with my opinion on the song's composition as of yet. Any input? (Albert Mond (talk) 20:33, 1 August 2009 (UTC))

Well Albert, Piero Scaruffi, a well known Italian music historian, has called "Barracuda" a heavy metal song (though personally I'd say it's just hard rock.) "the project is even top single Barracuda , a heavy-metal variation on the theme of Magic Man" RG (talk) 20:17, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

RNC use of Barracuda

The mention of the use of this song without permission, without any mention of the fact that the RNC doesn't need permission but only an up-to-date licensing fee to play the song, will suggest to many that the RNC did something illegal by playing the song without permission. Perhaps this should be rewritten so as to make it clear that there was nothing illegal about this. Parableman (talk) 00:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

- A thanks to the person who helped to update and give a little more meat to the counterpoint by Roger Fisher and Michael DeRosier. I put in the initial wording, but I did not get a chance to get back and actually work on it. Kagurae (talk) 08:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

I've edited to try to crunch this down to be as brief as possible without losing important details... (minor details like the location of the RNC convention or of Palin's high school I took out). It was as long as the rest of the article and as amusing as this incident is, it would be a shame if it outweighed everything else about the song. Wikidemon (talk) 05:45, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I've removed this again: "The McCain campaign was found ^[who?] to be paying all licensing fees to ASCAP and were legally permitted use of any ASCAP-controlled song at the RNC.[1]"

The ref does not say anyone found it to be true. The venue had a license for sporting events. McCain's campaign says they had a license (which is probably true), but the ref say nothing about anyone actually confirming it. The prev sentence already say McCain claims to have a license. --Evb-wiki (talk) 12:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I've removed "Noting that they paid all licensing fees" because the cited link does not address, much less support, that assertion. MisterJayEm (talk) 15:24, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion

Just wondering if it would be useful to add that this song appears in Charlie's Angels (the movie, not the TV show) and is part of its soundtrack. This little snippet of information could go under "In Popular Culture" on this page. --50.150.123.247 (talk) 23:52, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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