Talk:That We Can Play

Close Paraphrasing and Original Work
I just completed a pretty substantial overhaul of the text for close paraphrasing. Hopefully, this is an improvement. I took out some sources--links to the Band's blog--that linked to text that read like original work rather than having a reliance on secondary sources. Additional changes and updates are welcome, as long as the references are to secondary sources and the content is paraphrased and written neutrally. Seems like an interesting EP and musical group. SojoQ (talk) 12:26, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

"Songs" section has unencyclopedic text that reads like a review
Here's some pre-FA-nomination feedback. The "Songs" section contains language that reads like a review. Examples: "The freestyle drums are like a blunderbuss, the guitar synths wail,"; "the third track and, purportedly, the release's strongest,"; "The amazing result,".

Also, '"cheesy orchestra hits" of "epic proportions."' needs a reference.

I think that the Reception section would be a better fit for well-sourced versions of these descriptions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:57, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice! I've already done a little bit of editing and added some quotes so I can make this section less like a review, and also remove a couple of bizarre descriptions probably not necessary to the main article, which help the article follow the rule that it "stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail". I know there might be a bit more to do, especially since a user who was fixing the close-paraphrasing issues that were previously in this article, while I do thank him for that, cause some of the references and information to be in the wrong place and add some opinion'd descriptions. 和DITOR  E tails 18:22, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Not Power Pop
"The writing, recording and mixing of That We Can Play is rooted in 1980s power pop... using vintage synthesizers and sequencers to recapture the sound and style of 1980s power pop." These statements as they currently stand are totally inaccurate. I can see that it is sourced from this language used in the 11/3/2010 FACT article: "Games’ reference is squarely the peak-budget, studio-housed, team-built power-pop that defined the music industry as a devouring, ivory-towered monstrosity more than ever before." In this context, the author is clearly using the term "power-pop" to refer to the polished synthesizer and drum machine driven music of the era, not the British Invasion worshipping guitar rock that is commonly referred to as "Power Pop" (Big Star, Cheap Trick, The Smithereens etc.) Linking directly to the Power pop subgenre from this wiki is misleading at best and completely ignorant at worst, at the very least the links to the Power pop wiki should be disabled. A more accurate list of influences on this Games EP might include: synth pop, soft rock, jazz fusion or new age music. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.116.198.131 (talk) 22:22, 22 June 2017 (UTC)