Talk:Superstition (song)

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This is causing a serious downer on my health and so I am reluctantly for the present obeying the demand that I do not edit these two articles I started in response to a request for them on the 'requests' page. I have requested that userJgm go to a mediation complaint with me to stop this discrimination against me on the wikipedia.WikiUser 18:40, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * User was banned for a year as of February 26, 2006. -Ashley Pomeroy 20:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Lacking the most important information
I'm not an authority on this subject, so I'm not going to edit the article, but the fact that Jeff Beck is represented only as a footnote makes the article (stub) almost deceptive. My understanding of "Superstition" is that it was written for Jeff Beck, but he declined to record it initially, so Stevie went ahead and recorded it himself. However, I read somewhere recently that Beck had planned to record it and Stevie changed his mind about "giving it" to him, which ticked Beck off. --Whit 00:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

i wouldn't call this "the most important information". the truth is stevie wrote it, stevie performed it, it became a hit for stevie, a classic for stevie, and beck's version sucks (and i love him).--Progjunky (talk) 09:34, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Stevie wonder-superstition single.jpg
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BetacommandBot 07:56, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Reverted good faith edit
Have reverted the following as unreferenced: In the cover of the Beck Bogert & Appice album, it contradicts the above statement, saying "B,B & A actually recorded 'Superstition' before Wonder decided to release it himself." If you can reference it, please re-paste it (modifying the syntax a bit). --Technopat (talk) 21:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Internet leak of studio masters
The studio masters for this song leaked on the internet way before Guitar Hero 5 was even announced. How did that happen? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.193.112.148 (talk) 02:20, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Chuck Mangione?
Can anyone verify that it was indeed Chuck Mangione accompanying Stevie on Sesame Street? From the YouTube video I've seen, it appears to look more like Steve Madaio 64.47.91.34 (talk) 18:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Controversy?
The controversy part, that's a troll joke right? No one's actually seeing more than an idiom ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_writing_on_the_wall ) in this? 87.198.18.48 (talk) 09:40, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Key
why can't you list the key this song is in? it's E flat

Who wrote it?
The label say Wonder. . AllMusic says Wonder. . An editor is insistent on adding Jeff Beck. No verifying sources. Nothing other than it was written for Beck. So Wonder or Wonder and Beck?--Egghead06 (talk) 17:17, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

This version did not appear in the collection, "Songs from the Street: 35 Years in Music"
This version did not appear in the collection, "Songs from the Street: 35 Years in Music," nor do the citations say that. Stevie's only track on that album is "123 Sesame Street."

Critical comment
Regarding the studio version,one thing I'll say is that even though the bassline was a little late on the first rhythm change, the song is memorable for the 19-beat drum solo that commences it.

Needs clean-up
The "writing and recording" and "other versions" sections contradict one another in terms of the song's history. Given that the "other versions" version cites sources, unlike the "writing and recording" session, that version ought to take precedence. Spanghew2fs (talk) 21:12, 8 March 2024 (UTC)