Talk:Man Machine Poem
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Deleted sentence in lede paragraph[edit]
Yesterday, I added a sentence to the first paragraph to provide additional information regarding the album's title, my addition being the section between the two ***:
the album is named after a track which appeared on the band's previous album Now for Plan A, ***but its lead track is called "Man" and its closing one "Machine", so there is some relationship between the album's title and contents.***
This was helpfully reversed by someone who claimed it was original research. Now, I know what original research is, but to me this falls more under WP:BLUE. In any case, I'm not one to get into an edit war, but my justification for putting this additional bit of information is that there are other famous albums named after a track that appears on another of the band's albums (e.g. Aural Sculpture by the Stranglers, named after the final track on Feline, or World Shut Your Mouth by Julian Cope, which preceded its titular song by a few years, as it only appeared on Saint Julian. The interesting thing I wanted to succinctly point out is that there is in fact internal justification for the title, given the names of the two bookend tracks. I thought this information would be useful for someone not intimately familiar with the album, and I plan to restore it at some point unless I get dissuaded by a reasoned argument. Thank you. --Xuxl (talk) 19:27, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
- There are several possible explanations explaining the words in the three song titles and the album title.
- Note, however: It's obvious that "Summer of '69" is about the summer of 1969. (Though 23 years after the song came out, Adams clarified that the song had nothing to do with 1969, when he was 9.) It's obvious that Fahrenheit 451 is about censorship. (It isn't.) James Blunt was hanging out in a bar in "1973", the year before he was born? "Closing Time" is clearly about closing time, but actually is discussing a premature birth. Music is littered with facts that are as wrong as they are obvious.
- Some variation tying the one to three of the song titles and the album title together is likely true. We have no source discussing it. - SummerPhDv2.0 20:24, 19 August 2017 (UTC)