Talk:Radio Free Europe (song)

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I don't know who put the tag but I agree. The song doesn't need an article for each release. For example, see Fell in Love With a Girl. Frédérick Lacasse (talk · contribs) 21:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:04, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the interests of accuracy, Radio Free Europe (which I have been playing since my teens) does not end on the 'tonic chord' (which would be E) but on the IV or subdominant. I see that this has been sourced, but if so the source got it wrong. It's also not so wildly unusual for an REM song to end on the subdominant - off the top of my head, from the Murmur album alone both 'Pilgrimage' and 'Moral Kiosk' end on the subdominant. (At the risk of being over-pedantic, Moral Kiosk strictly speaking ends on the relative subdominant.) In any case, I have cut the line about the song ending on the tonic. Lexo (talk) 10:46, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Koavf (talk · contribs) for maintaining the genre tag against misguided attempts to call this song punk rock. No credible source could call it punk. Jangle pop, maybe, by association with Mitch Easter. Lwarrenwiki (talk) 14:32, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Lwarrenwiki: This is really straightforward and we need sources rather than genre warring. If any source said that this was a punk song, this might be a different story. None of them do. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:57, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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