Talk:Ace of Spades (Motörhead album)/Archive 1

Archive 1

Restructure and some new details

Rejigged the article and changed some content:

• removed "In a Cingular commercial, "The Ace of Spades" is sung by a guy in bar who has no signal for his cellphone." – if this is significant, I guess it should be on the "Ace of Spades (song)" article.
• removed "The date of the song is actually queeried between the year 1980 and the year 1981." – This statement is vague (which song?), but I'm certain that what it is trying to say is incorrect – the album was released in 1980.
• changed "one of the best metal albums by any band, ever, period" – removed the "period" from the end, there's no need to spell out punctuation, and in England a period is known as a full stop.

Drwhawkfan (talk) 12:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Genre

Allmusic review of album puts this as "Pop/Rock" in their "genre" with Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, British Metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal as the "style". Christgau says "Punks have never bought his leather jacket and indie connections because Lemmy Kilmister's grizzled-biker-born-to-rock is metal without the heavy--no preening solos or blow-dried bullshit." Metal without the heavy and connected to punk, not easy to sum up in the info box. Any discussion of the genre should be first in the body of the article and then summarised in the infobox, I have reset it to Pop/Rock as the overall summary, based on the allmusic source.--Alf ^melmac 08:30, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I have reverted the article based on the reasoning above. I would point out that the main Motorhead article refers to the band as a rock band in the first sentence. In this article the band is identified as a heavy metal band in the first sentence. For consistency shouldn't all the Motorhead album pages match the main band article? Aussie Ausborn (talk) 13:08, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

For god's sake everyone, Motörhead is and has always been heavy metal! This record included! Can't anyone hear that on it?! (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:45, 9 May 2009 (UTC).

While I wouldn't disagree that 'they are heavy metal' - what sources say this record is heavy metal - the sources used in the article give genre as Pop/Rock per the first comment in this thread. Can you provide a reliable cite to say otherwise.--Alf ^melmac 12:57, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

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Start Y A reasonably complete infobox Y A lead section giving an overview of the album Y A track listing Y Reference to at least primary personnel by name (must specify performers on the current album; a band navbox is insufficient) Y Categorisation at least by artist and year C Y All the start class criteria Y A reasonably complete infobox, including cover art Y At least one section of prose (in addition to the lead section) Y A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs Y A "personnel" section listing performers, including guest musicians. B Y All the C class criteria Y A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details Y A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians N No obvious issues with sourcing, including the use of blatantly improper sources. Y No significant issues exist to hamper readability, although it may not rigorously follow WP:MOS Lacks citation in Tour section. Andrzejbanas (talk) 22:31, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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