Talk:Death from Above 1979

Reunion
DFA has recently been confirmed to play Coachella, the band is back, the article needs to reflect this. We need to keep an eye out on the new for more info, sources to cite.

I think we're off to a good start. Can we get more information in the discussion page? The news is way fresh but there has to be more out there.

separate pages
I think we should create separate pages for JFK and Seb, since they both work on different projets as well as DFA, but right now typing their name in automatically links you to the DFA page. --81.243.234.31 16:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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416/905
Re "Toronto based": the Mississauga News identifies them as a Mississauga band... Samaritan 16:57, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

BS. They're from the Beaches.

Lightning Bolt jibe
The source is NME, BTW.

IndigoJones 12:15, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Death From Above 1979
The 1979 cult movie Apocalypse Now character Kilgore's chopper is spraypainted with "Death From Above"... Big Hat 22:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed; this is what i always assumed the 1979 meant... 137.222.214.63 (talk) 17:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Is it not a Smashing Pumpkins reference? They have two songs, "Death From Above" and "1979". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.225.186.99 (talk) 14:27, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

'from' capitalization
I guess this is a trivial matter, but for the sake of correctness, I think the 'from' in the article's main page should have the F in upper case. If you look on their MySpace page in the About section, they have the F in their name capitalized.

Prepositions in titles are usually never capitalized. - CMK 02:31, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Quite right, but there are several occurrences in the article itself where it has the word capitalized. Seeing as how that's the way the band does it, why not change the article title? I'd just like to reiterate that it is a trivial matter, so it's no big deal to me.

Prepositions are never capitalized, unless they're longer than four letters. That means basically only "about" and "under" are capitalized. I'm going to go through and fix the article and links to reflect the lowercase "from". Evan Reyes 20:52, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Date for Conan O'Brien performance
Anyone? (Pwnage8 03:05, 24 March 2007 (UTC))

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Coke question
I was just wondering if the rumors that the reason that the covers of their albums all have their faces with elephant trunks is for "Snorting up more cocaine" is true. I don't have references but i was hoping for someone to find some on that subject

The short answer is Wallace Dodd Ford. --Endlessdan 15:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Wasn't it because they wanted their music to sound like "elepahnts were music in their living room" or something of that nature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.168.208.20 (talk) 19:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

For those who care
--Endlessdan 15:20, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You aren't allowed to have userboxes with copyrighted pictures in them, I don't think.--P4k 18:36, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Name
Is it simply a coincidence that "Death from Above" was the name of Cpt. Kilgore's crew in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now? Fazels2 (talk) 20:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

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Renamed band back to Death From Above 1979 again in 2020
Since the band has gone by Death From Above 1979 since 2020, should this page be renamed and have Death From Above (band) redirect there? While on the topic of names, they often are abbreviated to DFA 1979, perhaps this should be included in the aliases? Terran Scribe (talk) 03:01, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Per WP:NATURAL there's no reason to use a name requiring parenthetical disambiguation when a relatively frequently-used unambiguous name also exists. This seems like a case where that would apply. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:15, 11 August 2023 (UTC)