Talk:Bad Moon Rising

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i just deleted someone's own take on the song, see "as for me.." in the previous version. are you kidding, "as for me..." this site isnt opinionated you douchebag

This page is irrelevant. unless someone adds significant information I vote it should be deleted.

I disagree. There are lots of articles about songs on Wikipedia and this one has at least 4 or 5 individually interesting and meaningful points in it. Furthermore, the page List of songs about politicians references this page, saying that the song "Bad Moon Rising" is about or references Richard Nixon. This article, however, says nothing about the reference to Nixon or, indeed, the meaning of the song. I would change it myself, but I don't know anything about a reference to Nixon nor the intended meaning of the song. If someone knows, they should really add it.

"This article, however, says nothing about the reference to Nixon or, indeed, the meaning of the song. I would change it myself, but I don't know anything about a reference to Nixon nor the intended meaning of the song. If someone knows, they should really add it." I'm with you about adding the background to the page! However, I heard it was a reference to nuclear holocaust, should the Cold War suddenly become hot-- but that was just hearsay on the oldies radio; I don't know for sure, either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.71.108.10 (talk) 01:41, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Cover versions and other pointless lists

90 percent of this article was a long list of bands that have recorded versions, movies that have included it in the soundtrack, pop-culture references - most without references, and virtually all without any particular point. So I've thrown out most of them (I chicked out about the pop-culture stuff, which can probably all the tossed), reducing them to statements that the songs has been recorded/used often. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 17:44, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

"90 percent of this article was a long list of bands that have recorded versions …" which is just why I came to this page, to try to find the name of a band whose version I remembered, but whose name I'd fortgotten. Except you'd deleted all that information. Thanks. Mate. Because that information isn't in one place anywhere else. You need to remember two things when editing Wikipedia - (1) what to you might be boring to someone else might be just what they are looking for (2) if it's not to be found anywhere else on the net, leave it in. Zythophile (talk) 18:09, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

In general, that is not the consensus among wikipedians, who don't want other information buried until long, long, long lists of trivia. Perhaps that's the wrong approach, but it's gotten to be habit. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:38, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

While this is an opinion, I came to this site to locate a covered version as many other songs seems to have covered version on their articles. It can be a table towards the bottom but it is still there for people to read.

Such discussions becomes "ugly" where people have one train of thought and then they pontificate this over others citing "wiki sites and rules" when they go against the spirit where "the elites" post according to belief and passive aggressively bullies those without the "wiki knowledge" but a sense of "fairplay" out.

Unfortunately there seems to be no standard or formula to conduct articles as to what is classified as useful information and what is useless and in my opinion I do side with Zythophile. Throttler (talk) 04:31, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

One man's trivia is another man's sought-for information. Zythophile (talk) 22:28, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Hassie

Why is Bad Moon Rising referred to as "Hassie" in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Will in devon (talk • contribs) 15:24, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

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Requested move 13 April 2018

The following is a closed 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: consensus to move the pages at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 01:15, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

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• Bad Moon Rising (song) → Bad Moon Rising
• Bad Moon Rising → Bad Moon Rising (disambiguation)

– Clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for a frequently covered and iconic song. Doubles its closest competitor in page views. Long-term significance as indicated by Google Books: 3,090 hits for the song; 1,320 results for the Sonic Youth album; 318 results for the band Ribbet32 (talk) 02:51, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

• Support, per nom. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:15, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
• Support. The song gets 57 percent of relevant pageviews. Nine Zulu queens (talk) 04:57, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose 57% of page views is not PrimaryTopic material. We'd expect to see 66 or 70%. The other subjects include various TV episodes no doubt named with an eye to the 1969 song, but 1969 is before most readers were born and they probably don't want to be forced to something they aren't looking for. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:13, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
• Support With respect to historical significance, as the namesake._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 06:41, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
• Support - That phrase was non-existent before the song and I do believe every item on the DAB page is named after it as a result. -- Netoholic @ 07:07, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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