Talk:Fool in the Rain

Led Zeppelin, a UK band, famously, did not release UK singles
"In 1980, it was their final song to ever make the pop singles charts, reaching #21."

Um.... where? I mean, I could guess.... TheMadBaron 06:58, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I've looked at about 8 top 10-100 lists for 1980 and none even have Led Zeppelin on them. If it is removed, it's on the album article too. --Ortzinator 21:27, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

According to the Inductee timeline from the Rock Hall of Fame, the song indeed charted at #21. -albrozdude 19:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

LATIN ROCK ?!!!?!!!
I won't make the change myself, yet, but how the hell does this tune qualify as "Latin Rock?" If I'm not mistaken, Latin Rock is performed by Spanish folk (Los Lobos, for example). "Fool In The Rain" barely even sounds Latin! The category of this tune should be changed to simply "Rock," but I'll leave that to discussion first. Its style is that of a rock shuffle, as would be interpreted from the drumming. Jaco66 04:35, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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Genesis "version"
The bit about "Misunderstanding" needs a source I think. In his interview on the SACD of Genesis's "Duke" album, Collins talks about using Toto's "Hold the Line" as a basis for the song, not this one. To be honest, I can't see much of a connection myself to Fool in the Rain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cal42 (talk • contribs) 10:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

The connection is entirely lyrical, not musical. Vonbontee (talk) 15:23, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Surely you're joking!
As of 5 Oct 2008, the article on Richard Feynman (6th paragraph under "Personal Life") claims that he was a session musician on this song in 1979 (which conflicts with the late 1978 recording date given here). It's not mentioned in this article and a couple of quick Googles don't show anything. Anybody got a citation for this? 70.185.218.79 (talk) 08:22, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've found this and this, but neither sounds like a reliable source. I think the definitive answer could be found in the booklet of the album, where I expect whoever played percussions on this song to be credited. I am pointing out this discussion to Talk:In Through the Out Door and elsewhere, in the hope that someone who owns the album checks this out. -- Army1987 – Deeds, not words. 20:03, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * As the guy who wrote the first linked article, the Kittysneezes/Classic Feynman review -- I can clarify that I'm not a Reliable Source; in fact, MY source on that was this very same Wikipedia article! - Rev. Syung Myung Me (talk) 04:46, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Latin rock
Time to reopen an old discussion. A lot of non-Latin rockers do Latin rock music. There's no reason why it shouldn't say Latin Rock. FMAFan1990 (talk) 22:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

"Heavily studio-based"
I think the two sentences after the one regarding the song being "heavily studio-based" is false. John Paul Jones can play piano and bass at the same time. He uses foot bass pedals to achieve that. It is also possible that Jimmy Page could use his double-neck Gibson to play twelve-string and a solo in the song. I believe it would be best to remove those sentences. --Snkcube (talk) 16:38, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Drums recorded seperately?
Hey all,

I know there are several takes of John Bonham's master drum tracks floating around the net, but not all of them necessarily indicate that they were used.

For example, the assertion that Bonham recorded the breakdown the breakdown separately goes against one of the takes I found that shows the drum track in its entirety and it seems pretty continuous (no cut) to me. I found it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14GYov0EdyQ. I also noticed that that assertion about separate takes isn't cited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.207.65 (talk) 02:00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

There's a fairly obvious blip where the second tape comes in during the song. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.21.132.190 (talk) 23:44, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Genre warring
Seems to be a lot of genre warring in the revision history, which makes a tough job for the disambiguators. Can someone please double-check the current genre field and apply a reference to it? Thanks! :) -- WikHead (talk) 00:08, 19 June 2012 (UTC)


 * The genre is currently listed as Rock, proposed changes need to be referenced and consensus reached. FlatOut 11:19, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Meter
Time signature-wise, the article is calling it as 4/4 "in the main parts." Sounds more like 12/8 to me. It's at least an eight-count with triplets, to finish out the phrase. O0drogue0o (talk) 14:28, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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