Talk:Moontan

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Influenced by Alice Cooper?

Why does this LP, except for the track Radar Love, sound so very much like early Alice Cooper? Is the title of track 5 a reference to Alice? I think they sound just like Vince Furnier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.173.34.235 (talk) 03:11, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Different tracks on different CD releases of Moontan

Can someone please explain why the track listing on one of the CD releases of this album is substantially different? i.e.

• 1. Candy's Goin' Bad
• 2. Are You Receiving Me
• 3. Suzy Lunacy (Mental Rock)
• 4. Radar Love
• 5. Just Like Vince Taylor
• 6. Vanilla Queen

Thegn 20:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

It appears to me that the Dutch version, with the topless woman cover, has those six tracks while the US version (golden earring cover) has the five listed on the Wiki page. Crazydiamond1to9 05:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

• The US version therefore consists of the same five tracks as the original LP released in the UK. (That LP also had the turquoise woman on the front and back.) I just don't understand why the record companies have messed up this five-track masterpiece by removing 'Big Tree...'. For some of us, this is little short of sacrilege! Thegn 07:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

If anything, the US version was probably morphed into what it was thanks to a record company. I don't know about you but I never thought Radar Love was a great way to begin an album. Sure, it's an excellent song and made for an excellent single but it just isn't one of those songs you'd want to start off an album. Feel free to disagree with me but Candy's Going Bad sounds like it was meant to start the album off. Not only that but IMO, the song The Vanilla Queen makes for a much better ending than Are You Receiving Me. Another reason why I feel German edition is the version that wasn't messed with is because a shorter version of the song Big Tree, Blue Sea was already on self titled album. The record company probably just looked at the songs Suzy Lunacy (Mental Rock) and Just Like Vince Taylor, realized they were the weakest songs on the album, and decided they wanted Big Tree, Blue Sea to replace it. -W.A.C. (9/29/2008 2:23 PM PST)

My CD has the same track listing as above, maybe this is the order that should be on the page because it is the original listing. Jthm guitarist (talk) 08:01, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Both my "European cover" and "US cover" LP's have the same 5-track list claimed as the "UK" version on the main page. The US-cover is from the early 80s for sure (Hardly an "early pressing".) The "nude" cover i picked up in a us used record store - I surmised they used that cover for early US versions, but I suppose it could have been imported. (It does say printed in USA on the cover) I'm quite sure my very early (c.1987) US CD is the same as well, can't find it at the moment though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.56.162.185 (talk) 15:59, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

RE: Black Sabbath info in intro

honestly, why is that paragraph there? It's totally irrelevant and not even cited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.91.28.104 (talk) 14:49, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

agree, its not even notable enough to be mentioned on the "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" page it sure doesnt belong here. If someone really wants this in the article it should go in a triva section or something.

According to Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath, while recording their fifth album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Tony Iommi suffered from writer's block and was not able to produce any riffs, which had been the main body of the band's songs. After listening to the Moontan album, Iommi had an epiphany and wrote a riff that ended up being the main riff of title song "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".

Gjxj (talk) 12:58, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Monroe lyrics at end

Everybody knows it's "Well in simple English I'm" and "What's your name Honey?", but in between them there's a half-speed snippet of something that (speeded up to normal time) sounds a bit like "I'm so busy" (or is it "bluesy"? The word actually comes out sounding like "blizzy") that I can find no reference to anywhere on the net.

I've listened to that few seconds over and over and I can't find mention anywhere of what this comes from. I can't track it down. Anyone out there who can? --Matt Westwood 23:28, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

The title

Why is it called Moontan?

In the lyrics?

Inspired by Tintarella di luna?

MBG02 (talk) 23:58, 27 August 2022 (UTC)