Talk:Give It Away (Red Hot Chili Peppers song)

message: River Phoenix died 2 years after this song was released, so his death couldn't have inspired the song. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.26.165.180  (talk • contribs) 17:55, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: River Phoenix?

message: Could someone upload a screenshot from the music video? I would if I knew how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.33.215  (talk • contribs) 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Music Video

message: Can anybody make a disambaug page for this. Due to the song by george strait "Give it Away" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.134.123.62  (talk • contribs) 02:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thoroughly done.  Oldag07 (talk) 23:15, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambaug

message: "Proponents of this theory are also quick to point out that the next track on the album is "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"."
It's not a concept album... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.47.105  (talk • contribs) 16:57, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Next track

message: This article is praising the band too much. Someone need to neutralize it.--Nog64 03:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

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replies: text: —♦♦ SʘʘTHING(Я) 12:36, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Give It Away Single Cover.jpg

message: Has anyone else noticed that the riff Frusciante plays at the end of the song is *really* similar to the main riff of Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf".  Apparently this song was written in a spontaneous jam, I think it's very possible that at the end they were intentionally jamming on top of that riff.  At the very least I think we should include a mention of "Sweet Leaf" somewhere in the article.
 During recent performances (such as their special concert for Top of the Pops), the band has begun to include a heavy, energetic intro inspired by the 1987 Public Enemy single "You're Gonna Get Yours" (the first track from their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show), before segueing into "Give It Away" itself. 
They used this intro even back in 2001-2002 (on Off the map DVD, for example).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.222.142.20 (talk) 11:21, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf

message: I cleaned up links.  Most everything that used to link to Give it Away, now links to this page. Thank God for AutoWikibrowser Oldag07 (talk) 23:07, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: Give It Away is funk rock not alternative rock  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.81.201.149 (talk) 17:26, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's very much an alternative rock song. WesleyDodds (talk) 23:08, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

text: It is funk rock, Kiedis raps a lot in the song + the guitar riff and the bass line are very funky, so it should be funk rock. 84.248.39.41 (talk) 15:14, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Yeah, I've seen numerous sources stating that this a funk rock song too. This song is very funky too, so I can't see why it can't be listed under the genres. I would go as far as saying that rap rock should be listed as a genre too, since the vocals here almost exclusively consist of rapping. I'll go look for those sources again now. Kokoro20 (talk) 12:14, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Alternative rock is pretty sufficient for describing this song--bear in mind working in funk was a trend in alt-rock right before grunge hit the mainstream. WesleyDodds (talk) 09:37, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough.  I guess the only thing that bugs me (slightly) is that it fits into the funk half of the Chili Peppers’ catalogue, and since the other half is usually described as alternative rock, it seems slightly misleading to someone who might be familiar with the band’s styles but not with the song.  But I suppose in a more broad perspective it's accurate enough, and excess genres can get pretty stupid easily.Onomatopoeiaieopotamono (talk) 23:48, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

text: It doesn't change the fact that it's a funk rock song though. I mean, Under the Bridge is an alternative rock song, but not this. Kokoro20 (talk) 10:06, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Genre

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 14:59, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, so based on the two main primary topic criteria, you either think last month was anomalous and this song doesn't usually get more views than other topics combined, or that this song doesn't have more enduring notability than the others. Is that correct? --BDD (talk) 17:38, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
Two people hardly constitute a consensus. I feel the audiences who listen to country and those who listen to the Red Hot Chili peppers are so different that a disambig would make more sense. Oldag07 (talk) 06:11, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move 2

message: * :Give It Away → 
* :Give It Away (disambiguation) → 
– Two days and (I got that wrong sorry) two votes is hardly enough time to state that a consensus was made (especially if the discussion took place on this page).  I can understand if the move decision was unanimous, but it wasn't.  While there are clearly move page hits for the RHCP version of the song, iTunes popularity charts show them pretty neck and neck.  I can assume the overlap between the subcultures listening to these is small.  A disambig page the term "Give It Away" makes more sense. Oldag07 (talk) 06:26, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: How is primary topic determined in your opinion? --BDD (talk) 17:19, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Traffic is part of what determines primary topic. From that guideline: "if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term." Apple Inc. isn't moved to Apple because of the second part of that: "substantially greater enduring notability and educational value than any other topic associated with that term." Neither of these songs is particularly educational, but given that the George Strait song is 20 years younger and still less likely to be searched, we have a clear answer. --BDD (talk) 17:19, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I think the disambiguation page is educational.  I haven't heard of any of these songs until I stumbled across this page.  Oldag07 (talk) 17:32, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, all of Wikipedia is education in that sense. I think that clause is more about scholarly or intellectual topics. This was part of the rationale for moving Life on Mars (planet) to Life on Mars, formerly a dab page with several fictional works by that name. --BDD (talk) 17:41, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

text: Open thoughts. The problem with "primarytopic" for song articles, especially for a title as generic as "Give It Away," is that a new song with the same title could become more famous than anything we are thinking about. If we qualify with the artists' name it avoids continual requested move debates,helps ensures links are pointing in the right direction, makes searching for particular songs logical. It will also help to protect the RHCP article in the future. For me it remains a win-win situation. --Richhoncho (talk) 03:03, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be absolutely against the spirit of WP:RM. See Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Conflicts of interest. Please wait for an administrator or another qualified editor to close the discussion. RM is backlogged, but process is important. --BDD (talk) 18:56, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move 3

message: Hi, I'm translating this article into Spanish. I need to know where the Bibliography is, since I cannot verify sources just called "Apter" or "Kiedis". Could you please add it to the article somewhere? I have the intention to turn the Spanish article into a GA. Regards, мιѕѕ мαηzαηα (let's talk) 04:18, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: Just like to point at that RHCP sampled Onyx's song "Atak of Da Bal-Hedz" http://www.whosampled.com/sample/72991/Onyx-Atak-of-Da-Bal-Hedz-Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers-Give-It-Away/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.239.181.138 (talk) 00:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sampling - Onyx  

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