Talk:When the Levee Breaks
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[edit] Banned from radio?
What radio stations in your area, if any have banned this song from airplay due to Hurricane Katrina? CoolKatt number 99999
- I doubt its been banned as such but a dj playing it at the moment would be seen to be displaying very poor taste and judgement, not to mention a total lack of respect. I guess a dj looking to get the sack might give it a spin but otherwise you won't be hearing it for a while much like Tsunami by the Manic Street Preachers. --LiamE 02:22, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
- Well it looks like I was wrong on that count! --LiamE 11:57, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Harmonica
The article in saying Page "recorded" the harmonica part suggest he played it. I don't know for sure but as an educated guess Plant played it. If someone can confirm that perhaps the line should be changed to Page "mixed" the harmonica part or similar. --LiamE 02:22, 3 September 2005 (UTC) I'm pretty sure John Paul Jones plays harmonica for Led Zeppelin
I can confirm for you that Robert Plant played the harmonica on that, and all Led Zeppelin songs. He actually made a mention to that very fact at a recent concert, telling the audience how it was the best harmonica line he wrote, before playing the song
[edit] memorable finale..? for some
Saying ""When the Levee Breaks" makes for a memorable finale.", is not very encyclopedia-worthy. It is a subjective judgment. This whole sentance should probably be taken out as it is really unnecessary. (or it could be replaced by some objective evidence)
[edit] sampled?
Coldplays "In My Place" should not be under Songs That Have Sampled "When The Levee Breaks"
- I agree, I removed it. That whole list bugs me, each song needs citation. The only one I can vouch for is "Rhymin and Stealin" Alcuin 15:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- The history shows that Coldplay was added after the rest of the list. The rest apparently comes from here. I dispute most of the songs I'm familiar with. While "Tall Cool One," for example, does in fact sample several Zep songs (Black Dog, The Ocean, Custard Pie, etc) at the end, the 'Going Down' vocal sample sounds freshly recorded, not sampled to me. "Battle without Honor" does have a similarly menacing beat as "Levee", but to me the timbre of the beat is different. "Never let me down again" by Depeche Mode sounds like a drum machine to me, though perhaps an individual note was sampled. Anyway, I wanna see individual citations for each song, or else it should go. Alcuin 15:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Possible cover reference?
"In 2004 an alternate version leaked to the bootleg community that had essentially the same instrumentation but a different vocal from Robert Plant with alternative lyrics and some verses out of order" could be refering to the cover of the song released in 2004 by A Perfect Circle, in which some verses are out of order and Maynard James Keenan provides vocals. Shouldn't it be listed so?
- Talking about covers, I found it kinda incoherent to have the first half of cover versions listed in one sentence and the covers in the later half getting an own paragraph each. I've written it all as a list now as I think it's more concise and consequent. If you disagree, just revert it. Anyway, I couldn't find the song on the Ice Age 2: The Meltdown soundtrack's track list, but I guess the song Dam Breaks could be the song referred to in the article. Can anyone confirm this and add it to the article? Promonex 12:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
