Talk:Iron Man (song)

message: The summary of the story is written like one of those rap songs translated into proper, literal English. Furthermore, there is a lot of detail in that summary not present in the song. Further still, the song is quite widely recognized to be an allegory for the Vietnam war. I'm far too lazy to cite sources here, but if no one else will, I propose the page be pared down to release data and made a stub.71.214.127.59 (talk) 16:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this article a joke?

message: Deleted "The Maoist Internationalist Movement interprets "Iron Man" as being about a veteran of the Vietnam War ."  While that may be true, it's not significant, as many groups may have many interpretations of the song, and it certainly wouldn't belong in the Composition section regardless. Squirrelcar 22:42, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Maoist Int'l Movement

message: I'm curious why the 2000s decade was picked for popularity at sporting events. I heard the song being played by my high school's marching band as early as 1996. Zarggg 18:11, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2000s?

message: "However, many budding guitarists make the mistake of playing it in the key of E (on the open sixth string) rather than the recorded key of B."
Why? And how do we know?
*I removed this; it doesn't even make sense.  The first note is B; the key is E minor.  Equalpants 08:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What?

message: I removed "In the arcade version of the game Ninja Gaiden, also known as Shadow Warriors, the second level boss theme is highly reminiscent of this song."  There's nothing to support this.  The second level boss was a barbarian with a sickle who wore armor, he's human however.    There little even reminiscent, and if we listed everything reminiscent of something else there'd be little else on the system.
If you're going to add obscure trivia we should have a citation or at least an proof Kinglink 20:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh... buddy? I hate to break it to you, but the boss themes for Levels 2 and 5 are actually highly reminiscent of "Iron Man." The bosses aren't even a Barbarian with a Sickle either! The bosses were a duo of wrestlers that looked very, VERY much like The Road Warriors of WWF fame, who used the song! The barbarian with armor can refer to two characters: either the Final Boss "Bladedamus" or "Spearmen." Monkeisquad (talk) 19:26, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  trivia errors. 

message: What's with that image of the iron man melody?  its wrong - first of all, it shows its in C and that part with the quavers repeats itself, it doesn't change like in the image
:Yeah, needs some work.  Also should reflect the fact that what is being played are power chords, not single notes.  Steve CarlsonTalk 02:11, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The quavers don't repeat the same note. It doesn't show it "In C", it simply is transcribed without a key signature (notice the F#'s). What key should it be in and what is your source for that information? Hyacinth (talk) 02:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transcribed melody 

message: The Birmingham Iron Man was finished in 1993.  The song "Iron Man" was written in 1970.  Therefore, the Birmingham Iron Man could not have been the inspiration for the song.
*More than likely it's the other way 'round.
- YES The statue was made as a tribute to black sabbath, who are from birmingham  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.17.216.130 (talk) 12:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted reference to Birmingham Iron Man

message: I'm surprised no one has yet brought up the idea that the titular character represents (or is at least inspired by) Jesus Christ; it's a rather obvious interpretation. A legendary hero comes to save humanity, but finds that they reject him, so he returns to destroy them. The song could have multiple meanings, but it seems like this ought to be at least be proposed as one. 71.146.32.97 08:12, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless you can find a source that says this is a common theory, we can't put it in.Cameron Nedland 01:36, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Iron Man is Jesus?

message: The entire section really sucks.  It needs a serious overhaul. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.67.160.216 (talk) 04:43, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What about the section needs to be improved? What would improve them? What is missing? Hyacinth (talk) 03:18, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composition. 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Paranoid.jpg

message: The first line of "Iron Man", "I am the Iron Man", electronically distorted, sounds mighty similar to the main lyrics to Daft Punk's song "Brainwasher" ("I am the brainwasher"), with exactly the same distortion placed on it. Anyone else see the similarities? Mageslayer99 20:35, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha yeah, I'd actually picked this as well. Worth a mention IMO. Geshpenst (talk) 07:55, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible link to Daft Punk? 

message: Maybe it should be mentioned somewhere that this song will be in the Iron Man movie coming up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.110.109.165 (talk) 14:46, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upcoming movie? 

message: Who says that the main riff is associated with Satanism?  That seems more like an opinion.  You probably need a source to back that up.  Disturbed360  —Preceding comment was added at 02:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Satanic Riff?

message: Why did Iron Man win the Grammy 30 years after it was released?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.7.106.244 (talk) 02:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammy 

message: On the part about the Simpsonws, it says DD adlibs the riff.  It is Nelson, not DD.=64.231.201.184 (talk) 16:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simpsons 

message: title  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.173.117.236 (talk) 18:26, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  the lyrics interpetation is subjective.. 

message: The opening line "I am Iron Man" is stated to be made by both a fan and a talk box.  Which is true?
Adam850 (talk) 20:55, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  dubious 

message: Edits explained here for lack of sufficient space in edit summary.
1.Self-fulfilling prophecy link is fairly obvious, I would have thought; the plot element I linked it through is a textbook example of this plot device.
2.The "God is Dead?" award has no apparent relevance to the subject.
3.Replacing the repeated use of the word "this" as a standalone noun - Do I really need to explain this one?
4.The removal of the Nativity in Black piping also seems like an obvious one. Wikipedia has redirects for a reason.
5.Capitalizing proper nouns - Again, do I really need to explain this one?
6.The fact that another band recorded a song called "Iron Man" with actual relevance to the character of the same name, coincidentally around the same time as Black Sabbath's song, is not vital information, but it's worth a side mention.
7.The actors who portrayed the characters in School of Rock has no relevance to the subject. Indeed, that whole sentence is simply pop culture trivia, and on reconsidering, it should be removed entirely.--Martin IIIa (talk) 19:51, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  November 2015 edits 

message: I don't know why the riff is on MID. It can't be played on Wikimedia, nor in VLC! This appears to be very wrong.--MisterSanderson (talk) 02:32, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  MID riff 

message: Should I tag this article or something? This is Black Sabbath’s signature song; I don’t understand why it’s Wikipedia article is so darn short. KevinML (talk) 03:35, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  IMPORTANT