Talk:Radio Ga Ga

Space Opera anthem?

This song should be the anthem for the Space opera era (20s to 40's) of Science Fiction. Apart from Metropolis it mentions Orson Welles' Version of War of the Worlds (Performed by the Mercury Theatre!), it was released in Orwell's dystopian year of 1984, the video has children in Gas masks, echoing the future Doctor Who storyThe Empty Child, and Queen has done the soundtrack for the recent Flash Gordon movie (and there is a rocketship from the film seen in the video). (AndrewAnorak 18:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC))

Citation needed. None of the books and films you mention are space opera ... except Flash Gordon, which as far as I can tell has nothing to do with this song. JöG (talk) 20:19, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Genre

Not entirely pop! I'd say pop rock, so that is what I will change it to. Forgot to sign my name. 74.100.0.150 13:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

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"Caca"

Fact tag added. Someone please add a reference to cover the rumor statement (or the rest of the section for that matter).

Peter ^Isotalo 22:45, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

That's true, nobody knows the true meaning. --Asdre45 (talk) 01:49, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

New additions

No additions can be made to the box unless they are discussed and agreed on here. 142.166.245.111 (talk) 11:19, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

The song is electronic rock

I've listened to the song and is trully electronic song, there's only rock mentioned on genres section --82.139.5.13 (talk) 19:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

A fragment from article: ""The inspiration for this song came when Roger Taylor heard his son utter the words "radio ca-ca" while listening to a bad song on the radio while they were in Los Angeles. After hearing the phrase, Taylor began writing the song when he locked himself in a room with a Roland Jupiter 8 and a drum machine"". Roland Jupiter 8 is synthesizer, and he used the synthesizer. Synthesizer and drum machine are both common instruments in electronic rock as well as New Wave. --82.139.5.13 (talk) 19:49, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

This can't be said enough: The articles should call the song what reliable sources call it. Find a rock encyclopedia or similar and see what it says. Any analysis based on the type of instruments used to write it is pure original research of the worst kind.Sjö (talk) 04:44, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

But calling the song just rock shows musical ignorance. For example, someone wrote in Marilyn Manson talkpage that labelling Manson as metal shows musical ignorance, but it was explained that Manson is alternative metal band.--82.139.5.13 (talk) 16:43, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Cebu version licensed?

The external links contain a link to the viral video "Radio Ga Ga performed by Prisoners in the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitational Centre" on YouTube. Unless this use of the song is transformative enough to be fair use (I don't think it is), or the detention centre licensed the song for this purpose (more possible), it falls under WP:ELNEVER since the upload is a copyright violation. Can anyone verify whether Cebu acquired rights to the track that permit their performance and YouTube upload? If not, please remove it. Dcoetzee 12:40, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Pop rock and arena rock together

Both "Pop rock" and "arena rock" are treated the same way by "Uncensored On the Record". That's why they should be kept together instead of cherrypicking "pop rock" and ignoring "stadium rock" (that I already saw, just like arena rock, in several infoboxes before editing this article). Synthwave.94 (talk) 19:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I don't understand your concern about "cherrypicking" from the reference, but surely we can find another source that has called the song "pop rock" that we can use. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 20:00, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

When I say "cherrypicking", I mean you can't mention pop rock without mentionning stadium rock too, because it is mentionned on the same sentence of the review and in the same context, that is to say as a genre and not as an influence for example. On another hand, I'm afraid "Uncensored On the Record" is the only reliable source I found to confirm Radio Ga Ga is a pop rock song. Synthwave.94 (talk) 20:40, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I disagree that the source provided supports stadium/arena rock as a genre. If you have a look at allmusic's list of arena rock songs, then look at songs/artists/albums on the list, they are invariably listed as pop rock genre, in the style of arena rock. Flat Out let's discuss it 03:06, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Allmusic calls "style" what is commonly refered as "genre" or "subgenre". Definitive genres like hard rock, glam rock or even Southern rock are listed as "style" (see the bottom of the page), which is of course incorrect. The same mistake has been made with "arena rock" and we should refer to what "Uncensored On the Record" says, not what other sources say. Synthwave.94 (talk) 09:11, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Uncensored on the record, IMO does not support stadium rock as a genre, it supports pop rock as a genre. Flat Out let's discuss it 09:37, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

I created a new section ("Composition") where I mentionned "stadium rock". It's the simplest solution I found to solve the problem. Synthwave.94 (talk) 17:25, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

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took the intro from Can't you feel it (1982)

https://www.discogs.com/it/Time-Cant-You-Feel-It/release/337044 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudYUyNTDVE — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.241.192.208 (talk) 23:09, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Here is another version of Time - Can't you feel it on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgp3HJhORDQ . In the comments to the YouTube video, somebody has a theory as to how Queen may have heard the song. Here is the quote from the YouTube comments for that video:

"A legend tells Metropolitan how Freddy Mercury has become aware of the song Feel It Can'you of Time. In London early 80s were fashionable the Private Party only for Gay. Many times the participants of these parties brought their favorite records to make them play by the DJs. An Italian friend of mine who lived in London led to the mix each night of Time, his story describes how people had fun and different events organized, the audience was Freddy Mercury. Surely after two years in 1984 some reminiscences brought him inspiration for Hit Radio Ga Ga?" Ae-a (talk) 17:59, 26 April 2018 (UTC)