Talk:World Party

message: Updated with details of Karl's illness in 2000 and recent return to live performance at SXSW in Austin. A few other tweaks. Here's to seeing Karl back on stage in the UK - a show on the Goodbye Jumbo tour in Portsmouth in 1990 (?) still stands as one of the most sublime gigs I have ever attended... Idoru66 18:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update April 2006 

message: I changed Emmy to Grammy because in the US an Emmy is a television award and a Grammy is a music award.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Horsenbuggy (talk • contribs) 
:Good catch.  Jkelly 19:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emmy? 

message: made a large addition to the article.  While the article was crying out for expansion, the new material makes some very strong claims without any referencing at all.  I left it mostly intact, changed a few things (such as the section header suggesting that The Waterboys had broken up), but the whole section needs some fact-checking, and probably some tone edits as well.  Jkelly 22:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The user's response to my original question is here.  Jkelly 22:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The addition is without a doubt rather scrappy, but probably worth keeping if it can be licked into shape. I do recall some of the NME discussion at the time, but not being an especially devoted fan (I enjoyed the music of the Waterboys, both before and after the 'folky' turn, and also WP) I can't recall it bothering me in any way so the details haven't stuck. If the facts are well known as Mr4. Boyle claims, there should be some dispassionate summary available we can use as a source. Personally I wouldn't go asking fan forums, since if it's such a touchy subject even now (get a life!) then NPOV is going to be hard to come by. Graham 11:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fan forums don't top our list of reliable sources.  Do any of the magazines mentioned have a back-issue search available?  Jkelly 17:30, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Fed up of looking at the very distorted Waterboys split story, for which there is not one scrap of citation, so have attempted a fairer Formation section, with "typical" write-up on Wallinger. Can add citations if really needed - not sure we still need the neutrality warning as presumably it focused on the slanders against Wallinger. MarkThomas 20:22, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Formation section

message: "Wallinger has also acted as a member of Bob Geldof's backing band."
Since there is a separate article dedicated to Karl Wallinger, I'm moving this sentence, which is irrelevant to World Party. emw 06:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved sentence

message: "World Party's music is hard to categorise, being a tuneful but sophisticated pop and rock combination, with elements of folk, funk, R n B and soul thrown in with a lot of sound samples to give a "recycled" feel in accordance with the band's "Green" image."
What? That would almost be an insult if it made any sense. --Macarion 04:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What?

message: I've attempted to tidy the article a little. Removed some of the more obviously subjective sentences. Perhaps others could join me in doing a little research so that we can provide a few citations for this article and get the (currently well deserved) tag removed. SolomonTrim (talk) 19:50, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up. 

message: Many years ago, I purchased the 'Egyptology' CD, and it came with a bonus greatest hits CD called 'A Brief History of the World Party'. I saw no mention of it in either the World Party discography, or on the 'Egyptology' page. Should it not be included somewhere, or is it not considered a proper release?
http://www.last.fm/music/World+Party/A+Brief+History+of+the+World+Party   AJC3fromS2K   — Preceding undated comment added 03:13, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bonus greatest hits CD included with 'Egyptology'