Talk:Way of the World (Cheap Trick song)

Extraneous material

Some of the material that has been added to the article is extraneous and possibly misleading. Particularly problematic is the statement about this single release attempting to recapture the success of "I Want You to Want Me," which peaked at #29 in the UK. This has at least 3 problems:

1. The chart performance of "I Want You to Want Me" is irrelevant to this song. That belongs in the "I Want You to Want Me" article.
2. Including the "I Want You to Want Me" chart performance confuses this article. This song peaked at #73. Including the chart performance of other songs confuses the performance of this song.
3. There is no reference for the statement that there was any particular attempt to recapture the success of "I Want You to Want Me" with this single. The reference only supports the chart performance of "I Want You to Want Me." Surely any single released between "I Want You to Want Me" and "The Flame" was hoping to recapture the success of "I Want You to Want Me," but unless there was a particular effort to do so with this release, with a source, that should not be added.

Other extraneous material is less problematic, but should also be pruned at least. Examples are the other albums produced by Tom Werman - irrelevant to this song - and the excessive producer information about "Oh Candy." I would suggest that the "Oh Candy" material be expanded and moved to a separate section in the article (e.g., "Heaven Tonight" within the "Dream Police" article) just covering that song, again to reduce confusion. Rlendog (talk) 15:00, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Release date

Was the single not released in late 1979, the vinyl itself states "1979" as does Discogs. Link: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1888267 Ajsmith141 (talk) 15:46, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

The song's copyright is from 1979, since that is when it was originally released on Dream Police, just like "Oh Candy"'s copyright is 1977. [Official Charts] has it as February 2, 1980, and this book (and Rock Stars Encyclopdia) claims that it peaked at #73 in February 1980, which would be pretty hard for a single that was released in 1979 and spent just 2 weeks on the chart. I am pretty sure that Hayes' book also states that it was released as a single in 1980, but I don't have it on me right now; I'll have to re-check tonight. Rlendog (talk) 16:37, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

I looked up the Hayes book, and it claims the release was in 1980, albeit early January rather than early February. Could be some confusion with an early February release, since I suspect that Official Charts is a better source, especially since it gives an exact date while Hayes generalizes a bit saying "In England, Epic persevered by releasing another single from the latest single at the beginning of January..." Rlendog (talk) 01:56, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Early January sounds likely as February 2, 1980 was the date of the singles' appearance on the UK chart. Ajsmith141 (talk) 09:56, 16 March 2012 (UTC)