Talk:Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)

Namechecks

Hi all,

I added some others, I have no clue about "Nat Gerardi etc." section, as to who they are or who was being referenced. Go ahead and correct any bum references, musical, musical instrument companies (Yamaha and Fuji/Hoshino Gakki), record labels and otherwise. Can you tell I listened to this song ad nauseum for thirty-three years? Jaguara 01:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

ARGH! Sorry about that, DocFarmer! I meant to change back "B. Bumble and the Stingers" (the B was repeated by Joey Levine in this song). Instead of just changing "BB Bumble and the Stingers" back to B. Bumble and the Stingers, I brainlessly saved an earlier page, losing your Jack the Ripper/Lord Sutch contributions in the process. I reverted the revert. I go directly to WP jail. Jaguara 01:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure that "War" is intended only as a reference to the musical group War? War_(band) and not to the 1970 anti-Vietnam war song War_(Edwin_Starr_song)? Perhaps it's actually a dual reference; both were influential in the early '70's. Ileanadu (talk) 08:03, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

By the way, one of the album covers [1] has the first part of the lyrics with an arrow indicating that the lyrics are continued on the back cover or inside. Is this the extended version? Ileanadu (talk) 08:03, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Might want to check out the comments of Norman Dolph: [2] Ileanadu (talk) 08:42, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't seem like a stub to me.

I do wonder if it was spliced together or all in a single "take"?

It sounds like a splice roughly 2/3 of the way through to me, but that might just be my imagination.

Even one verse is pretty impressive when you think about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.103.133 (talk) 04:21, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

A lot of record companies are mentioned too. Grassynoel (talk) 10:22, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

The word "salutations" in the song is certainly a reference to Vito And The Salutations, whose cover of "Unchained Melody" was a pretty big hit... But I have no idea how to add it to the list. Cf https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Vito_%26_the_Salutations  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.127.222 (talk) 21:31, 24 July 2022 (UTC) 

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"Noddy Holder" or "I behold her?"

Most online lyrics say "I behold her", which strikes me as more likely given Slade's lack of US chart success in the early 1970s. MFlet1 (talk) 21:27, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

"Osmond Brothers" or "Ides of March"?

People on YouTube (one of the versions that includes the lyrics) are convinced that the reference is to the Ides of March, who recorded "Vehicle" -- which seems likely since Donny Osmond is covered separately in a previous verse. Link would be https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/The_Ides_of_March_(band).Ajericn (talk) 03:49, 2 July 2022 (UTC)