Talk:When the Levee Breaks

message: According to official sources (i.e., ASCAP, the National Music Publisher's Association, CD sleeves, etc.) Led Zeppelin's version was written by Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Minnie.  Please do not vandalize the page because you feel in your heart that someone else wrote the song. ScottSwan 03:59, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing credit for Led Zeppelin version 

message: What radio stations in your area, if any have banned this song from airplay due to Hurricane Katrina? CoolKatt number 99999
:I doubt its been banned as such but a dj playing it at the moment would be seen to be displaying very poor taste and judgement, not to mention a total lack of respect. I guess a dj looking to get the sack might give it a spin but otherwise you won't be hearing it for a while much like Tsunami by the Manic Street Preachers. --LiamE 02:22, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it looks like I was wrong on that count! --LiamE 11:57, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Banned from radio?

message: The article in saying Page "recorded" the harmonica part suggest he played it. I don't know for sure but as an educated guess Plant played it. If someone can confirm that perhaps the line should be changed to Page "mixed" the harmonica part or similar. --LiamE 02:22, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harmonica 

message: I have heard that Page used an alternative tuning to record this song. I won't put that into the article becasue I cannot confirm that at this time and I don't know what the actual tuning was.
edit by other wiki member:
the tuning for page's slide guitar was open F (C F C F A C)
although many incorrectly use  (FCFFAC) when playing the song, it does sound good lower 
page used several tunings for this song including guitar tracks in standard tuning , all merged together on top of one another 
source is jimmy page himself  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.48.41.172 (talk) 17:25, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative Tuning for Page's Guitar 

message: I do not believe that Bjork's "army of me" Samples the song. Although the drumbeats are similar, they are distinctly different in their use of hi-hats. This claim also does not appear to be cited —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.43.227.18 (talk) 01:55, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bjork? sampled? 

message: "In 2004 an alternate version leaked to the bootleg community that had essentially the same instrumentation but a different vocal from Robert Plant with alternative lyrics and some verses out of order" could be refering to the cover of the song released in 2004 by A Perfect Circle, in which some verses are out of order and Maynard James Keenan provides vocals. Shouldn't it be listed so?
:Talking about covers, I found it kinda incoherent to have the first half of cover versions listed in one sentence and the covers in the later half getting an own paragraph each. I've written it all as a list now as I think it's more concise and consequent. If you disagree, just revert it. Anyway, I couldn't find the song on the Ice Age 2: The Meltdown soundtrack's track list, but I guess the song Dam Breaks could be the song referred to in the article. Can anyone confirm this and add it to the article? Promonex 12:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible cover reference? 

message: The entire section is unsourced and largely personal interpretation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.116.95 (talk) 14:37, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact it is entirely personal interpretation; even if the song's meaning seems self-apparent from reading the lyrics, it still needs to be sourced from somewhere else, perhaps the books listed in the references section. There's also Songfacts.com, which repeats similar information, but the problem with Songfacts is that it's made out of user submissions, just like Wikipedia, and is therefore unsound. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:58, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural Meaning 

message: Any band that does a version of this song will undoubtedly be influenced by and perhaps reacting against or responding to the Led Zeppelin version, but should we assume that any given band's "Levee" is a cover of the Zeppelin version and not of the Kansas Joe / Memphis Minnie original? It would be in the shadow of Led Zeppelin, of course, but a band may well feel that they're "plugging into" the original. Thoughts? (I haven't got any specific examples in mind.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tzetzes (talk • contribs) 15:22, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Covers