Talk:All I Need (Radiohead song)

Boards of Canada sample

This is worth noting, isn't it? 216.185.84.246 13:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

If someone can find a reliable source that confirms this song actually samples Boards of Canada then that would be good, if its just a theory then probably not worth putting in here. Thelsdj 00:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

'Sampling' is not appropriate term for this issue. And yes, in my opinion, bass lines of 'All I Need' by Radiohead and 'Roygbiv' by Boards of Canada do sound similar. Although, I doesn't seem that actual audio data from 'Roygvib' was resampled. Evaldas.s 23:52, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion

I'm in two minds about this article. To my mind, the song itself fails Wikipedia:NSONG#Songs. It hasn't received enough media coverage outside the context of the album it comes from. Anything useful that's written about the song in this article should be in the In Rainbows article.

On the other hand, I concede that the music video received decent media coverage. Is this grounds enough to create an entire article for the song? Could this information be added to the In Rainbows article instead?

I would appreciate input from other editors, but I have a feeling not many will chip in. If we don't get much input into the issue, I'll nominate the article for deletion to find a consensus one way or another.

At the very least, it's wrong to say this song was a single. It wasn't: it was never made available for sale. It just got played on the radio. Popcornduff (talk)

Thanks for starting the discussion. I very much see your point regarding articles for songs requiring third-party coverage outside of album reviews and the like to satisfy notability criteria (something which I've argued in AFD discussions in the past). When I made the article, I was operating under the assumption that the coverage of the music video and its acclaim/awards was sizable enough to justify creation of an article. I had thought about including the information to the In Rainbows article, but in the end I decided that putting all of that might be seen as giving undue weight towards "All I Need" compared to the rest of the album. As for its single listing; several WP:SONGS discussions (including this and this, among others) which I've encountered in the past have concluded that certain songs, if they're officially serviced for radio airplay (which is distinct from just being played on the radio) by their respective record labels, complete with an "impact date", may be classified as singles (there are also multiple examples of songs only released to radio which are nonetheless classified as singles in their respective articles). Nonetheless, I can understand the concerns about notability being raised and I'm willing to accept whatever consensus the discussion reaches. Cheers, Holiday56 (talk) 13:53, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

I understand your rationale. At this point I genuinely don't know if the article should stand or not. I feel the music video stuff is notable but it's kind of weird that, in creating the article because of the music video, you then have to spend most of the article talking about the song, even though the song is (strangely) not the notable bit.

I've had a look at the discussions you've linked about singles, but I can't find any obvious conclusions in them, and they're really, really hard to follow. (How I wish Wikipedia debates were summarised somewhere.) Was a conclusion actually reached? I fully admit that my dismissal of this song as a single was based on my own assumptions, so if it turns out that Wikipedia does formally consider songs being released to radio as singles, then cool. Uh... do we? Popcornduff (talk) 14:05, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

I think you might be right in that the song is not especially notable outside the context of the album. Nonetheless, we have a considerable amount of well-sourced encyclopedic content to offer. Frankly, I see room for expansion, at least with the "Critical reception" section. You may have to borrow from full album reviews to get what you want, but this track I believe stood out among others. I don't think a single has to be shipped to stores either, there are what some consider promotional singles, such as Muzzle (song), released solely for airplay. I think I would have to !vote for inclusion on a dedicated article. WP:NSONGS is only a guideline, there are always exceptions. If we feel the notable music video is the make or break condition for inclusion, perhaps after a more broader consensus we could modify WP:NSONGS to reflect this criterion. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:03, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

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