Talk:Ain't No Sunshine

message: I am preposing this be merged with the Just as I am Album. And a redirect twards the Album. --Bonojohn 19:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well than it needs to be improved. --Bonojohn 19:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Yea, but right now it's an harmless stub, I'll expand later on Jaranda wat's sup 19:43, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I am glad you placed the expand box Jaranda its better than the merge I preposed --Bonojohn 07:30, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: Seems that any discussion of this song would be incomplete without at least a passing reference to it being the only song, in any genre or decade, in which the vocalist repeats the words "I know" 26 times -- at least on the recording Bill Withers made popular.  Who else has sung it, and has s/he also included that? Does anyone know if alternate takes exist w/o that? What was the point of that being part of the song, anyway?
Typofixer76 03:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In Will Young's version, he sings "I know" 26 times. — AnemoneProjectors (talk) 16:01, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "I know" x 26 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:AintNoSunshine45.JPG

message: ""Ain't no sunshine" is one of the few songs that is still a major hit on UK radio stations."
what does that mean?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.46.116.110 (talk) 04:51, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK radio 

message: I never saw the show, but apparently a character on "All That" would sing that song, after which she'd say "Bacon good". The character was some old grandma or something. Played by Britney Spears' younger sister, Jamie Lynn. Not sure if any of that is true, if it is, prolly makes sense to include a reference in the "pop culture uses" section here. 199.214.26.82 (talk) 23:52, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "All That" repeated use? 

message: Despite the template reminding folks to reference their edits, the list is now way too long. Not sure how to fairly include/exclude items, so I suggest a future List of cover versions of Ain't No Sunshine. Meanwhile, am removing redlinks.--Technopat (talk) 08:44, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Talking about the cover versions list, it definitely needs some sorting, alphabetically. The way it looks now is just, well, messy. Like people randomly threw names at it. :-) BTW, the Michael Jackson version is actually a Jackson Five version. It's featured on the album "The Very Best of Michael Jackson with the Jackson Five". --78.34.40.33 (talk) 09:58, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, why on earth is DMX given his own cover section? Is this cover more important than the other covers?--121.45.190.187 (talk) 11:27, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: DMX section now filed under "Use in pop culture", details moved to DMX (rapper); --78.52.143.228 (talk) 15:43, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Was this song really recorded by Elvis Costello? All I see on the internet is the Lighthouse Family versions atributed to him.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.91.28.232 (talk) 21:38, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, there's no such record by Elvis Costello, the version for the Notting Hill Soundtrack was recorded by Lighthouse Family. --78.52.134.191 (talk) 22:26, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cover versions 

message: We've recently had an edit war over including the following sentence in the article. 
"Withers was still working at a factory that made toilet seats for Boeing 747s when he recorded the song."
I'm bringing it here for wider discussion in hopes of gaining consensus. To begin with, the reference on that particular fact didn't mention the toilet seats. It seems unsourced without a proper reference, although I'm certainly not saying it didn't happen.
Furthermore, this seems extremely trivial to me. One of the edits adding it even referred to it as "trifling,"  so it doesn't seem this adds anything to the article other than trivia. 
As I've said, I don't see this is anything other than trivia, but I'm certably willing to listen to opposing views. Any thoughts? Dayewalker (talk) 22:03, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As the editor who originally removed the item, the reason I did so was that even if were true, and there isn't really any reason to doubt it, a) it wasn't sourced/referenced; b) I don't think it adds anything to the article, that is, in my opinion it's trivia, and c) the article mentions a living person and Wikipedia is especially careful about contentious content. Any of those three reasons would justify removing it, but if consensus says otherwise... sigh!--Technopat (talk) 22:48, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Toddy1, I appreciate you finding that quote in the reference, don't know how I missed it. I stand corrected on the source. However, the question of relevance still stands. Just because it's mentioned in a short blurb in Rolling Stone doesn't necessarily make it notable or signifiant information about the song. It's still seems very trivial to discuss what the songwriter was doing before he wrote the song on the actual page for the song. Dayewalker (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe it is the key to understanding the song.  Perhaps that is why it is the first sentence of the Rolling Stone blurb.--Toddy1 (talk) 06:53, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't "see" that bit in the reference, either - my mind must have just glossed over it as too trivial. So do you really think that Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, and with a whole set of guidelines, aims, etc. different from those of a commercial music publication, should do the same as Rolling Stone and stick it in the first sentence of its blurb article? OK, so the toilet seats are referenced. But still trivial.--Technopat (talk) 08:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You both need to step back, stop WP:WIKIHOUNDING other editors and quit your POV pushing.  Radiopathy •talk•   02:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You need to provide evidence for such baseless accusations, or retract them.— Dædαlus Contribs 04:10, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  On toilets and trivia 

message: I've never edited an article, and am not going to start now, but I find the list of all Michael Jackson's singles at the end of the article very out of place. Similarly, I don't know why the sidebar has Michael Jackson's single displayed over all the other covers. I suggest that they both be removed. 69.173.108.129 (talk) 22:32, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like things have improve.  However perhaps a mention should be made of who has covered the song?  Including Mr Jackson's cover on his Got to Be There album.  Jonpatterns (talk) 14:54, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Jackson? 

message: Is there any evidence for that? Because I really doubt that!...
--92.224.58.111 (talk) 10:10, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Could be a mixed up with Sun is Shining ? Jonpatterns (talk) 14:57, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bob Marley covered this song? 

message: on the 2013 acoustic album Unblackened by the heavy metal band Black Label Society, which is the band featuring Zakk Wylde formerly the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, they covered this song, it's on the second disc of the 2 disc acoustic album. --Boutitbenza 69 9 (talk) 07:13, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society also covered this song 

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