Talk:(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding

Best known version

Having worked a few years in music retail as well as being a decades long music geek, I'd never heard the Curtis Stigers version of this longtime favorite let alone heard of Mr. Stigers. What is the basis for the claim that his version is the best known recording of the popular Elvis Costello tune, penned by Nick Lowe? Is it based on the sales from the Bodyguard Soundtrack, which itself is best known for the cover of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You? Or is there some other reference on sales or chart position of Mr. Stigers' recording? Or could it be that his recording is best known in many parts of the world while Mr. Costello's is mainly the best known version in UK and USA? This claim needs a reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.101.207.99 (talk) 08:36, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Curtis Stiger's version appears on the album The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album, which sold 44 million copies worldwide and has kept Nick Lowe in comfort for the past 18 years. I know that EC is regarded as some kind of god and his version is superior but I doubt if his entire catalogue has sold as much as that. yorkshiresky (talk) 13:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's pretty irrelevant. The Bodyguard soundtrack did indeed sell a zillion copies; but it was a various artists album, and you've provided no evidence that Stigers' version has any purchase in people's minds -- the article refers to the "best-known" version, after all. How did Stigers' version do as a single? The Costello/Attractions song was a hit single in several countries. Has the Stigers version ever been played on the radio anywhere? Does it show up to this day on music video channels? If you were to randomly pick 1000 people and ask them about this song, what version would they be most likely to recall? --Funkapus (talk) 18:59, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's a pop version with a young people standing behind mikes doing actions on Top of the Pops which comes to my mind for the eponymous line. I don't know who the group were. I think I can call to mind the Stigers and costello versions. Not hard to imagine even if i couldn't Kathybramley (talk) 01:13, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Date of Costello's Version

What year was Costello's version recorded and/or released? As there's no article for the Nick Lowe single on which it was first released, this information is missing from Wikipedia. Not a major issue - it's just a little bit of information that users may well come to this article to find. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.154.153 (talk) 17:24, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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A Colbert Christmas

Someone add this version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB5r6HeOA-8 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.233.67 (talk) 18:39, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Another version:

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, 2009: Under the covers. Vol. 2 (deluxe edition) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.77.128 (talk) 09:00, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Table inadequate

Have the table list all versions of the song, period. Presently it comprises only a subset, starting in a year (1987) that is meaningless with respect to the topic. Identifying all the versions before that year requires mentally isolating facts embedded in the main text. Why apples for pre-1987, oranges thereafter?

Moreover, when you say the table is a list of covers, aren't all performances of the song after its 1974 first release covers?

Jimlue (talk) 19:18, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]