Talk:Porcupine (album)

GA Review

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I chose to review this article. Comments coming soon. REZTER ^TALK ø 17:46, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

• The fair-use rational on the cover art should be replaces with {{album cover fur}}

Done

• The fair-use rational on the music samples should be replaced with {{Non-free use rationale}}

Done

• All dates should be formatted as Month, day and year. Example: January 23 1998 ([[January 23]] [[1998]])

All dates are formatted per MOS:SYL

• "It was these sessions that produced the band's next single, "The Cutter", which was released in January 1983 and went on to become the band's first Top 10 hit." Reference?

References added

• "After Echo & the Bunnymen had finished recording Porcupine they played a free show in early November 1982 for 20,000 people at Sefton Park in Liverpool. Following this, WEA asked for three music videos and album art for the new album" Reference?

For which part? Neither are contentious, but I can add one for either or one for both.

• "On 27 January 1982 Echo & the Bunnymen recorded their fourth session for British disc jockey John Peel's radio show on BBC Radio 1. Of these tracks, *"Smack in the Middle" was renamed and became "Higher Hell" on the album, while "Taking Advantage" was renamed "The Back of Love" and became the band's third single which was also included on the album.[3] Two other album tracks – "Clay" and "My White Devil" – were first played during the band's April 1982 tour of Scotland.[7]"

That whole paragraph should be moved to "Background and recording" with maybe some rewording to work with the other information.

Done

• The "Music and lyrical content" needs a lot of work. That section should talk about what the musical and lyrical content are.

Some examples include:

• • New things they introduced that was absent in previous recordings (for example extended guitar solos or influences from a certain genre)
  • What the band were aiming to create (you can talk about what they changed when they were told to re-record the album)
  • What they DID create like talk about the musical style including the genres and the like.
  • Talk about the lyrical content, what the vocalist is talking about, is he using direct references to things? Using metaphors?

Of course this all needs to be sourced.

Renamed to "Musical content" as that's all I have access to.

• Ref 1 NME should be wiki-linked.

Done

• Allmusic should only be wiki-linked in the first ref, so it needs to be un-linked in ref 17.

Done --JD554 (talk) 09:50, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Please contact me when you need more input. REZTER ^TALK ø 18:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

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