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in the description themselves, in which case it would be deleted since it's original research. If you MUST include it then indicate where the quote comes from as was done earlier in the article. But really, what is the point? If you're not familiar with
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Can we delete the clearly non-encyclopedic descriptions such as the one that appears in the write-up for the Stop Making Sense version? (The drum machine "fires" machine gun riffs that causes Byrne to stagger "like Jean Paul
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Someone keeps adding this back in. The comment being deleted doesn't belong, it's a flowery description made by someone (a reviewer) that has no indication that that is what David Byrne was going for. If Byrne described it as such than fine, but since he didn't it's no different than someone writing
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I rather value this page as a unique page. A lot of songs less notable than this one have their own pages - and this is one of
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Chicken." The song is notable because (1) it broke Talking Heads, (2) for a potential murder song it is disturbingly danceable, and (3) if you ask a random person to name a Talking Heads song, this would be it. It needs a song or single box, and decent writing explain the
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The crime was initially unsolved, until the owner of the gun shop contacted authorities to tell them that a woman who had purchased a gun from the shop had returned it saying she decided not to keep it … she was from the same town as Conway (Barrington) and the gun was the same caliber used in the
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Perhaps to inspire someone to write the article properly. I'm not much of a writer myself, more of an research librarian. I would venture to do it myself except that I encountered the song in 1979 when I bought 77, More Songs and a bunch of other "New Wave" records all at once and don't consider
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I could go either way on this--keep the article and expand it, or fold it back into the
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to violence that he'd thought he was prepared for." ) Or at least credit it within the text? In the absence of that it just sounds like an over-flowery description that smacks of original research (which, being one writer's description based on nothing in particular, it essentially is).
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bursts", the machine continues with the standard rhythm, just with added volume on the "cymbal crash" (an "arena rock" sort of effect, as opposed to the movie's very-Latin-African feel). The "restored" version of the soundtrack uses the same drum pattern as found in the movie.
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Story is true ... Barbara Conway was from
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Can anyone check whether or not this is a true story? It has something of the feel of an urban legend, but I suppose it could be true. It doesn't seem to be on Google anywhere that isn't derived from IMDB or WP, and that seems like kind of a bad sign.
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Allegedly, the woman who shot Conway became aware of her husband’s affair and bought a .38 revolver from a gun shop in North
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You make a good argument for improving the article--but not for a merge. You could make an argument, actually, that "Psycho Killer" is more notable than
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If anyone feels like Psycho Killer should definitely be an article, they should remove the delete tag--otherwise it'll automatically get deleted.
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