Talk:Games Without Frontiers (song)

message: I've always thought it was "piss on the goons" not "piss on the coons." As "Peter Gabriel lyrics Games Without Frontiers goons" gets 10 times as many Google hits as the same criteria with "coons" instead of "goons," I have changed it. Patricia Meadows (talk) 15:18, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: After listening to it repeatedly I have concluded that, to my ears at least, it definitely sounds like "coons" and not "goons"; however, given the controversial nature of the word, I will not change it until official confirmation is forthcoming.N^O^el (talk) 02:28, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Per his official website, 1 it's GOONS. I have corrected the article, and added a reference. CarpetCrawler (talk) 17:39, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  if you want to here it in the clear, register and download the remix pack from Realworld remixed. It gives you all the tracks as separate wav or mp3 files. You can then remix it and submit it.
BTW - it sounds like goons in the clear. The file name after extraction - MainVocalBridge.wav Wamnet (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 17:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

text: "Goons", not "coons"! Deb (talk) 19:52, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone ahead and changed it to "goons" as per Peter Gabriel's website citation. If someone can provide a reliable source that says it's coons then we can change it back. Personally I think "goons" could equally refer to the Vietnam War but that's only my opinion. ~ Brother William (talk) 10:29, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

text: The controversy in the lyric wasn't due to "goons", it was "piss on" - at the time (1980) it was too strong to feature on the family friendly BBC Radio 1 or Top of the Pops. Deadlock (talk) 16:27, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

text: Just a heads-up, I reverted the recent unsupported change from goons to coons here. The belief that the word sounds like "coons" appears to be common when searching the internet, but the primary source  did in fact have "goons", and if you obtain the very high quality original unmixed audio track from petergabriel.com (registration required) you can (at least this native English speaker editor can) clearly distinguish the hard "g" sound (original research warning). Although the discography URL is now dead and not archived, one can also see "goons" in the lyrics for the official video version here. -84user (talk) 13:14, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversial lyric 

message: When Peter is singing "Chiang Ching" (even though he mispronounces the surname with a long "i" followed by a short "a"; you know, "CHY-ANG" as opposed to "jee-AHNG"), is he referring to either Chairman Mao Tse-tung's wife, Chiang Ch'ing, or to Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek?
WikiPro1981X (talk) 21:41, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "Chiang Ching" Reference 

message: There appears to be two version of the music video for the song. The one featured on the main Peter Gabriel channel "itspetergabriel" appears to be a later version than this version. Do we have any information as to why there are two versions? There is some indication that the earlier version was "banned" but this is only hearsay at the moment.
206.248.160.226 (talk) 01:44, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music Videos 

message: Who designed/painted the cover shown in the article? Burraron (talk) 14:49, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cover art