Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Spiderland

Spiderland

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 27, 2014 by Bencherlite^Talk 20:38, 17 March 2014‎ (UTC)

Spiderland is the second and final studio album by American rock band Slint (lead singer Brian McMahan pictured). It was released on March 27, 1991, through Touch and Go Records. Featuring dramatically alternating dynamics and vocals ranging from spoken word to shouting, the album contains narrative lyrics that emphasize alienation. Spiderland was Slint's first release on Touch and Go, and the group's last record. The title originated from McMahan's younger brother, who thought that the record sounded "spidery". Although Spiderland was not widely recognized on its initial release, it eventually sold more than 50,000 copies and became a landmark album in underground music after Slint broke up. Its popularity increased in part after the appearance of the track "Good Morning, Captain" on the soundtrack to the 1995 film Kids. The album has been highly influential on the styles of many bands in the post-rock and math rock genres, including Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and has been named a favorite of several indie rock musicians. In 2007, Slint reunited for a tour consisting of performances of Spiderland in its entirety. (Full article...)

3 points at the moment, with 2 for being featured since 2007, and 1 for being date relevant. Not sure about the other criteria though. Minima© (talk) 13:06, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

• Support. Well sourced music album article. Though hopefully we won't offend readers with arachnophobia. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 18:56, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Comment add this image of the band?—indopug (talk) 09:35, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

@Crisco 1492:, what do you think of this image licensing-wise? It's not used in the album or band article at the moment but can no doubt be added if it's OK. Bencherlite^Talk 18:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

• Not a particularly nice image at 100px, but the license seems okay. Even though the link is pretty much dead, we can usually trust Flickr Reviewer Bot. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:54, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

• Different image added, blurb bumped up to 1,144 characters. Bencherlite^Talk 11:44, 13 March 2014 (UTC)