Talk:Back to the Future (soundtrack)

High pitch
Anyone else notice a very high pitched noise on the Overture track? -- blm07 02:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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Van Halen Song
Am I to take it that no one knows the name of the Van Halen song? Sarujo (talk) 05:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Nice long time for a response.... The EVH song is an untitled composition .  I suppose the interesting part (to a VH fan) is that it was not written specifically for BTTF, but was originally included in the 1984 film The Wild Life (which co-starred Lea Thompson).  Also, The Wild Life was scored by EVH between the VH albums 1984 and 5150, so if you listen to 5150, a lot of what you are hearing are riffs and such he took from his scoring sessions.  DFS (talk) 03:08, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

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Requested move 21 July 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. Andrewa (talk) 21:06, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Back to the Future (soundtrack) → Back to the Future: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack – Article title should match album title The k nine 2 (talk) 18:46, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:14, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:16, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Is this an uncontroversial technical request? previously moved the page to its current location in April. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:59, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
 * A now blocked editor (User:Sudipto Surjo) was making a number of similar moves without discussion. This article had been at the current title since December 2017. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 18:10, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Not sure why the page was moved to the current title, since there is no edit summary and no mention of it in the talk page. Other film soundtrack articles also follow the same format of using the full soundtrack album title, e.g. Back to the Future Part III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture.The k nine 2 (talk) 21:15, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
 * There are also other film soundtrack articles that follow the parenthetical disambiguation: Interstellar (soundtrack), Star Wars (soundtrack), and Soul (soundtrack).  Bait30   Talk 2 me pls? 03:31, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I was not aware of other soundtrack albums using the same parenthetical format.The k nine 2 (talk) 05:16, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment: WP:NCALBUM says Use either "(soundtrack)" or the full name of a soundtrack for soundtrack albums. WP:NATDAB says that natural disambiguation is preferred to parenthetical: Using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title. I don't feel like looking up whether reliable sources use the full name enough for it to be a good NATDAB.  Bait30   Talk 2 me pls? 03:27, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. I often wonder why soundtrack albums use a descriptive name with a disambiguation instead of the actual name of the album. "Back to the Future" isn't the name of the album. We use full names in every other place, and soundtracks shouldn't be any different. Gonnym (talk) 11:16, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Again, there are many examples where the opposite is true. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, NASA, Marat/Sade, and Dr. Strangelove are all shortened versions of the actual name.  Bait30   Talk 2 me pls? 12:30, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * so? Gonnym (talk) 19:55, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * You said "We use full names in every other place" and I was just providing examples where that's not the case. But like El Millo said, my examples weren't as relevant because they have no need of disambiguation.  Bait30   Talk 2 me pls? 16:11, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Those examples aren't valid because the shortened versions don't require disambiguation. The valid examples are all soundtrack articles that do use the disambiguation instead of the full title of the album. —El Millo (talk) 20:17, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment: my concerns were purely procedural, as it was listed at technical requests despite the page having been moved to its present location from the new intended location a few months ago. I have not formed an opinion on the substantive matter. Sdrqaz (talk) 15:03, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. Also, this article contains much more info about the soundtrack of the film itself as well the soundtrack album, plus there's a whole section on the album release of just the score. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 18:03, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose – Most soundtrack articles follow this format. The proposed natural disambiguation also has to be a common name if it is to be used. —El Millo (talk) 18:22, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment – I've put up a notice at WT:FILM for input, as the consensus here may set a precedent for other similar cases. —El Millo (talk) 20:27, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I don't see any benefit at all in taking 6 words to say what can be said with 1. (also: wp:commonname) I honestly have never understood the need to fix things that aren't broken. — Ched (talk) 22:37, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose most readers/people would consider any soundtrack to be "Film Name's soundtrack" and probably aren't very aware of it being called "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Score"/"Music from..." etc. So in that sense, "[Film name] (soundtrack)" seems to be the proper titling. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 20:22, 23 July 2021 (UTC)