Talk:Tame Impala

Sundown Syndrome

According to Modular Recordings which is Tame Impala's record label "Sundown Syndrome" is a single. Check the website . The iTunes release does include a remix by Canyons as well as a cover of "Remember Me" by Blue Boy however this does not make it an EP. Dan arndt (talk) 09:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm told that their album was delayed due to the recording studio going on holiday (lol?), can anyone find a source for this? kiac. (talk-contrib) 12:08, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

are they a 3 or 4 piece band? is the fourth person officially a member?

regards,

Chris x.

References

Members

are they 3 or 4 people? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.89.52.102 (talk) 05:43, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedia, I didn't know where to place this suggestion but I thought the discussion board would be appropriate. I (and every Tame Impala fan that there is) would very much like to learn more about its members. I do not understand why there is not a page for them when there is a page for uninteresting people who haven't done much besides making my ears barf with their terrible music. Tame Impala are good musicians, probably one of the best acts this century. I think they're interesting enough people to deserve a Wikipedia page, but I can not be sure of that since there is no information about them on the most supposedly informative site on the internet, now can I? Please fix this. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.246.42.170 (talk) 12:15, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

I don't know if you'll read this, but I created a page for Kevin Parker if you want to go and take a look. :) TameImpalaFan (talk) 12:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Actually, the way it's phrased in the appropriate section, it seems this band consists of three drummers only. Am I wrong? "The Dee Dee Dums consisted of Parker (drums - that's number one) and Luke Epstein (guitar). (...) In October 2006 Epstein was replaced by drummer Sam Devenport (meaning, the only guitarist was substituted by drummer number two), Epstein going on to play with Sugarpuss. (...) In late 2007 the band renamed to Tame Impala unveiling another new drummer (ok, that's three drummers and no one else in the band) and replacing the two-guitar attack for the more traditional guitar/bass/drums format (what? how? who are they?)." - 187.20.64.233 (talk) 07:04, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Influences

I don't see much point in listing 30 bands as influences without any further explanation. 84.198.246.199 (talk) 01:29, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Dungen is a significant influence to the band both in the writing process as well as musically, as is well documented by Kevin. It may be an important artist to list as in influence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.119.73.166 (talk) 17:42, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Beatles?

I've noticed that their new LP sounds a lot like the Beatles, despite the fact that they aren't listed as an influence on them. Anybody else notice this? --AlbertWesker411 (talk) 01:58, 8 October 2012 (UTC)AlbertWesker411

What do you mean? There is no section about their influences on this page, so why would it be listed? They have been cited as an influence before, but not as huge of an influence as everyone thinks. Kevin Parker (the main guy that writes and records the music) has said that people tend to hear The Beatles because of his voice sounding a little like John Lennon. He said that while he is certainly influenced by them, he is more influenced by other bands. Hope this clears it up for you. --TameImpalaFan (talk) 01:06, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Tours

I was going to add some tour dates for the Lonerism UK/European tour. I'm not sure what section to put them in - any suggestions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karst (talk • contribs) 15:20, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Tour dates don't belong on a Wikipedia page. People can go to their website (www.tameimpala.com) to find tour dates. TameImpalaFan (talk) 06:50, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Side projects

Do they really merit a mention in the associated acts list? These are obviously just one-off events and there are no releases or tours associated with it. I'd be tempted to remove them and insert a sentence towards the end of the article noting these concerts. Opinions please? Karst (talk) 11:46, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Live members

I propose that there be made a distinction between Kevin Parker and the live touring members of the band. He writes AND records all of the music himself; the other members only perform live with him. --Bathes (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't believe that would be necessary, it is clearly stated in the band members section that Parker "plays all instruments on almost all recordings", the key word being "almost", as there have been occasions that other musicians contributed to studio recordings. The same thing is also mentioned many times throughout the whole article. Alex (TangerineFloyd) (talk) 11:45, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm not buying their story about the band name.

Whilst it's twee--from a PR point of view--that their official line as regurgitated in this article is:

The band name "Tame Impala" is a reference to the impala, a medium-sized antelope and the tension between wild and civilized tendencies.[7]

I submit that this is absolutely bollocks, and the comparative to Bill & Ted's garage band Wyld Stallyns is absolutely impossible to avoid drawing. Tame, wild. Impala, stallions. That can't be a coincidence, and given the prevalence of B&TEA/BJ's saturation of popular culture I am astounded every time I hear this band's name mentioned that there is zero comment on the internet for something that I think is so blatantly obvious. I get that it's probably a tongue in cheek in-not-so-in-joke that they may not be able to straight up say to avoid getting sued but Fall Out Boy at least had the decency to point out that yes, clearly their name is a nod to The Simpsons.

Can any band fanboys/girls out there clarify how someone can have a name so incidentally identical to an already existing comedic fictional band name yet somehow claim it's just some woowoo metaphorical allegory for contemporary society and their love of deer-like-critters? I mean c'mon. Wild fucking stallions. Tame fucking impalas. It's not rocket science. Tame Impala = Wild Stallions tribute band. You know it, I know it, let's just accept it and move on. :P Nah, seriously though, have they ever commented on it being an obvious nod to B&T? 121.211.56.55 (talk) 10:39, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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Psychedelic Rock

Would it be appropriate to call them a Psychedelic Rock Band, as per their description in the 3 album pages?

(5.151.166.237 (talk) 15:22, 9 February 2016 (UTC))

Yes absolutely NuttMerg (talk) 06:12, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Biases and reliable sources

This article would benefit from up to date and more reliable sourcing. The information under musical stylings seems biased and based mostly on opinion. There is a lot of mention of artists in areas where it doesn't seem necessary. They aren't listed as influences, just as playing or being in attendance of dates with Tame Impala. VeygonKeesh (talk) 05:59, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Moving the awards section

They could do with their own article at this stage? Karst (talk) 20:44, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Broken Reference - Technical Issue

Just found TA, and ... wow. I think I have a new musical obsession.

Anyway, I mostly do grammatical / style / clarity edits, and in the "Musical style" section (currently 3rd paragraph), there is an archived link (from archive.is):

"Undercover TV interview". Undercover TV. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012

Source is apparently a video of an interview. However, archive.is does not archive video. I was about to add the old "citation needed", but to be thorough, checked the ref, and while the hosting page is archived, the video is not. This is a technical limitation of archiving, one that is probably pretty widespread... If I could do this I would, but I am new to this band (literally just heard of them), so if someone could fix this broken ref, I would appreciate it.

Also, just for my own sake, when linkrot completely degrades a reference like this, what is protocol? Obviously there is "Citation needed", with the alternative being to remove the information completely. Angryredplanet (talk) 18:04, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Musical Style section

It’s all interesting, but it’s just toooooo looooong, with far too many long quotes included. There needs to be a lot of editing down, of trimming. Good luck! Boscaswell talk 21:01, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Is It True

So... Whos gonna make the Is It True page? 695LM (talk) 13:03, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Not a band

Hi there everyone,

The consensus on this article is that Tame Impala is not a band, right? Kevin Parker has stated in numerous interviews that Tame Impala is a project, and that is how this article describes Tame Impala, too.

I've had issues with the editor Binksternet, who is reverting a lot of my edits to Tame Impala related pages in which I corrected references to the project as a band, to match this page's consensus. 219.88.180.48 (talk) 05:17, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Sources that describe Tame Impala as not being a band https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/kevin-parker-doesnt-consider-tame-impala-to-be-a-band/ https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/kevin-parker-says-he-outright-lied-to-his-first-record-label-that-tame-impala-was-a-band-2656097 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/kevin-parker-tame-impala-is-not-a-band/R2GMCXE3KKPLLDC3FSOR6XKQIQ/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQZ6lAd2NS0

Your ToneDeaf TheBrag source casually calls Tame Impala a band, along with Dungen ("the two bands".)

Your NME piece says Parker falsely signed Tame Impala as a band, which means they are legally a band. Parker says he was playing live with his band even before they recorded their first album.

The definition of Tame Impala as a band comes from WP:SECONDARY sources such as AllMusic ("Starting off their career as psychedelic explorers, the Australian band Tame Impala spent a decade subverting expectations") and Pitchfork ("Tame Impala have gone from a beloved psychedelic project to one of the biggest rock bands in the world.") Stereogum said that the album Lonerism was "the band’s hotly anticipated follow up" to Innerspeaker.

The band's origin story is interesting, certainly, but the musicians have become a band by playing their songs on tour. Even when SMH printed Parker's words "The music sounds like a band, which I guess has always been the source of confusion for people... For all intents and purposes, I am a solo artist", the newspaper didn't agree by writing it as a fact in the newspaper's voice. Other sources call Parker the band's frontman (The AU Review, Complex, ToneDeaf, NME, GQ and more) which is not how they would describe a solo act. Far Out describes Tame Impala as a band led by Parker. The Times says they are a band, Parker's band. There are a ton of sources such as these ones defining Tame Impala as a band.

Clearly the issue does not have one simple answer. Our goal is to describe the issue for the reader, in all its complexity. But the action of going through all of Wikipedia to remove "band" is tendentious. Let's not go there. Binksternet (talk) 13:27, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

help

uhhhh hey dudes so i accidentally removed some references under the "Early Career" section and literally have no idea what to do. if anyone one of you wikipedians could please help me with that, it would be much appreciated. thankssssss Ded Meem (talk) 18:22, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

and sorry for any inconvenience Ded Meem (talk) 18:22, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

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