Talk:I Ran (So Far Away)

This article was proposed for deletion; the result was to keep. See Votes for deletion/I Ran (So Far Away) for a record of the votes. Thanks. Postdlf 07:05, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Song's meaning
Has it even been confirmed that this song is about what the article says. Some argue that it's about alien abduction, and some that it's about modern music videos. MooCow 03:54, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I vaguely remember (it's been 25 years) Casey Kasem explaining that the songwriter thought he saw a UFO while he was inebriated (or some such), and wrote a song about it. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:53, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

2022
You got quotable sources to back that? KhlavKhalash (talk) 18:37, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Covers
Maybe there should be a section for covers? It was also covered by Tori Amos on a recent series of live performances that she released.

The song has also been covered by Perth band Jebediah. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.121.203.43 (talk) 11:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Darude featuring Blake Lewis cover
any information on this, since it's been released for dance radio, november? Impasse 19:17, 8 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Impasse (talk • contribs)

Fair to say?
Is it really fair to say that being promoted on MTV make it become number one? That seems a bit biased. Edenane (talk) 03:39, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Rework the Lead?
The lead suggests that the name of the song is "I Ran (So Far Away)" and was also released as "I Ran". This seems misleading. In fact the song was released almost exclusively (on three different albums) as "I Ran". In fact in the discographies I found only one release (see the image link at http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=3004541) which was a rare 45 release. I propose the lead read to reflect this context. I'll be bold and make the change, but please feel free to revert and discuss here.-- Canad iandy  talk  03:49, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

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Chord progression
The article says: 'With a chord progression of A-G-A-G in the verses and F-G-A in the choruses, the song is written in the key of A minor.'

'A' signifies an A major chord. So this quote says that the chord progression went A major, G major, A major, etc. This seems wrong; the chords in the song that are built on A seem all to be Am (minor) or A5 chords (not explicitly minor or major). I'm not going to pay to access the sheet music cited to support the quoted sentence, but on the sample page we only see Am and A5, no A major chords. If the A-chords were major, it would be odd to simply assert that the key was A minor--it would presumably be either A major or ambiguous. So the quoted chord progression very likely needs to be corrected to Am-G-Am-G (verse) F-G-Am (chorus). I won't make the correction myself because I don't have the sheet music; it's *possible* that it supports the quoted chord progression, and I have no respectable source to support my proposed correction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.203.229.14 (talk) 02:45, 1 February 2018 (UTC)


 * interestingly, the echoed guitar stabs *are* major, creating tension against the Am melody. Pgilman (talk) 02:02, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

New wave
This is not new wave. New wave is Devo or Talking Heads. The Mo-Ja&#39;al (talk) 00:29, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Challenging edits that removed valid links to cited page
I'm challenging two edits by User:Synthwave.94 which make no sense: this edit on 31 October 2020 and this edit on 22 November 2020. Both of these edits are removing valid URLs. The first one went directly to the cited page, 142, and the second one led to a fair use display of the quoted paragraph from the cited page, 142. If User:Synthwave.94 is located in a country for which the current copyright owner (probably VNU or CMP as successor in interest to Miller Freeman Publishing) has not authorized fair use of the cited work (most countries have not developed the kind of advanced copyright law necessary to support fair use), that is no reason to remove URLs which are perfectly functional for users in the United States, the country of the cited book's original publication. --Coolcaesar (talk) 19:17, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Seeing no objections, I went ahead and restored the URL. --Coolcaesar (talk) 13:59, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Did Rock the Casbah contribute to the widespread confusion over the subject matter of this song?
One thing I want to add to the article, but I can't because it's probably original research, is that I'm guessing this song was confused with Iran because of the larger trend of Middle East-themed rock songs in the Second British Invasion, most notably Rock the Casbah. Both songs got massive airplay on American radio stations during the 1980s, sometimes right after each other. I'm identifying this issue now so that if anyone knows of a source for this, they can add it to the article. Coolcaesar (talk) 20:22, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Iran
Should we mention the Iranian crisis in the legacy section? 2600:100C:A217:230B:E4E8:CBB7:30DF:5070 (talk) 05:59, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * It's already linked from the Dave Thompson quote. That's enough. --Coolcaesar (talk) 03:07, 25 September 2023 (UTC)