Talk:Ethyl Meatplow

Notability
In my opinion, this band fails WP:MUSIC, since their only claim towards notability is that they released one album; WP:MUSIC requires at least two.

Actually, it seems that the article has been deleted due to lack of notability before, and then re-created. --B. Wolterding 15:36, 1 July 2007 (UTC)


 * How about the fact that member(s) later went to form band(s) that are otherwise notable (criterion 6)? Does that apply? --mcld 21:34, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, maybe, although that would rather warrant a merger/redirect to Geraldine Fibbers. --B. Wolterding 21:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Either way is fine with me. --mcld 09:14, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * This may have been a regional thing but they got quite a bit of airplay on LA and San Diego alternative and college radio when the album was released. In addition, at least one of their videos got some rotation on MTV's 120 Minutes. Maybe just have the one entry for both EM and GF. As for the "must have at least one album"... that is just patently arbitrary and I have no problem with that dumb guideline being ignored. Jackbox1971 01:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Definitely not a regional thing. Songs from this album (esp. the "Ripened Peach" single) received heavy radio play in Chicago (on the commercial alternative station).--Theodore Kloba 13:42, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Merging with Geraldine Fibbers wouldn't be completely accurate as John Napier had been recording and performing under the pseudonym of Ethyl Meatplow before the band was founded (with Fourwaycross and Here Eat This). Also, Carla Bozulich is the only common member between EM and GF, and the groups each have a unique style and setup. I think both articles just need a lot more work but they should stay separate (and I agree with the others above - the band got heavy airplay, exposure on Beavis & Butthead and Daria, and still have a following today... if one album was the notability standard then the Sex Pistols and Blind Faith would fail as well. Of course this is a three-year old discussion so this probably isn't much of an issue now. Trobik (talk) 18:18, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

They did appear on Beavis and Butthead Andy Christ 10:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


 * This band received a large amount of press coverage around the release of Happy Days. Unfortunately, most music magazines don't have archives from the early '90s online. Let me see if I can find more refs at the local library, I'm fairly confident that most of the major music periodicals at the time reviewed their album. --Muchness 15:07, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Wee Wee's death
Source: http://pitchfork.com/news/48548-rip-ethyl-meatplows-john-napier/ Marcusbacus (talk) 03:58, 12 November 2012 (UTC)