Talk:Radar Love

message: Reading through the lyrics, it seems as though the song could be about a man committing suicide to meet his dead wife.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.98.90.38 (talk) 20:05, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Alternate Meaning of the Song

message: This ain't no article, it's a review!
Lyrically, "Radar Love" is a tale of late-night driving and ESP; the real attraction is the non-stop parade of musical invention, from the aforementioned intro and drum solo to the twin guitar responses to each vocal line in the last verse to the cascading synthesizers that crash the tune to a close.
Mmm, povvy povness!
--63.25.112.122 02:12, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed; some might counter that the real attraction is that it isn't audible at this particular moment. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 14:04, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's been almost two years since the original comment, and over one year since my own. I'm removing the sentence in question. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 19:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mmm, povvy povness! 

message: Why does this have the White Lion info at the bottom? Since this page is refering to the original and not the WL cover, shouldn't it be Golden Earring info, if any at all? 75.67.203.246 (talk) 18:19, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: White Lion

message: I moved most of the Trivia section into the new Radar Love#Notable Song Appearances section.  I thought that the dated list format seems a bit more "encyclopedic," and solves the problem of the deprecated trivia.  The remainder went into a couple of other sections.  Comments are welcome on my talk page. --Eliyahu S Talk 20:18, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia Breakup 

message: Why is there a White Lion info box on this title's page? If at all, should it not be Golden Earring's band line-up at the time of the song's recording and possibly more about the album it appeared on together with follow-up single (if that existed), predecessing and successing albums and some such? Also see comment above. If noone cares to explain the box's purpose I will probably remove it without substitution anytime. Regards, --93.196.247.76 (talk) 16:48, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ??White Lion?? yet again 

message: How could this song have been 'covered' by Jimi Hendrix?? Is there a version prior to Golden Earring's?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.119.96 (talk) 05:21, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hendrix Cover? 

message: Now I know that the article has been covered by every rock band on the planet, and every pack of stray dogs in greater cities seems to howl it at night. Quite interesting. If one could find now what this is all about? If that one:
:Lyrically, "Radar Love" is a tale of late-night driving and ESP; the real attraction is the non-stop parade of musical invention, from the aforementioned intro and drum solo to the twin guitar responses to each vocal line in the last verse to the cascading synthesizers that crash the tune to a close.
...had any sourcing, it would be a hell lot of improvement to the article that mentions about everything you got to know about the song rather than what it's about musically and lyrically. Did Golden Earring say something about that, or did they leave the interpretation to the listener (or cover band) - which would in itself be something to write about?
This here is a husk.--93.222.208.30 (talk) 23:14, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subject 

message: I support the box for White Lion because their version charted. In my opinion the article is about the song itself, not just Golden Earring's original recording.
Given that, however, I have a question. In all of the trivia appearances, which used the Golden Earring version vs. the White Lion vs other cover versions? Ukrpickaxe (talk) 17:25, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia - which cover? also, support White Lion "box" 

message: This song was also used as part of the soundtrack for the Ninth Inning of Ken Burns' Baseball.  It was part of the background music underneath the segment Some Kind of a Game, which concerns the 1975 Cincinnati Reds-Boston Red Sox World Series.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.100.37.212 (talk) 16:53, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ken Burns' Baseball 

message: :
Can three or five notes make a movement?  How about "four separated phrases"? —Tamfang (talk) 13:21, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  what's a movement? 

message: The cited source (footnote 6) does, at the time I'm typing this, state that the song's lyricist (Barry Hay) says the driver died. However, that's just what Hay says the lyrics say. That's NOT what the lyrics say. The driver is passing a long line of slower-moving cars, while taking care not to speed (the lyrics say as much), and as he passes each car (or maybe as he passes only the last car) he says "One more radar-lover gone", which could mean "I passed another one" or "I'm another radar lover going past them". There is nothing in the song that gives the SLIGHTEST indication that an accident has occurred or that the narrator has died. Not the SLIGHTEST. Authors lie about what their works mean all the time. People would ask Picasso "Did your painting mean THIS?" and he'd say "Oh yeah, it did". I read a lot of The Beatles discussing their own writing of their own songs. Nothing matches up. But an English word really means what it means and "gone" means "dead" only if there's enough context IN THE SONG (not in the opinion of the lyricist) for "gone" to mean "dead".2600:1700:6759:B000:B82F:221B:764C:4BB3 (talk) 07:16, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Reading stuff into the lyrics that's just not there