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possible homage by weezer

does anyone think the harmonics might sound the same as those in Weezer's Freak Me Out?, and that Weezer might've been making an homage, or using a sample? 104.33.114.195 (talk) 04:32, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Indiscriminate information

The In popular culture section has been tagged since March for cleanup, but that has not been done, so I have moved it here rather than removing it completely. It can sometimes be difficult to judge when information is indiscriminate per MOS:CULTURALREFS (and as mocked in this cartoon), and when it is encyclopaedic and useful. The best way to judge if information is worthwhile is when an independent reliable source mentions it, particularly as part of an explanatory discussion of the topic rather than as part of a trivia list. If the reference is in an article on another topic (such as the Muppets) then the more appropriate place for such information would likely to be in an article on that topic. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 09:05, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In popular culture

The Muppet Show episode 221 partly rewrote the song to be an anti-hunting song. The song is performed by forest animal Muppets, who are periodically interrupted by rampaging human game hunter Muppets.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kurp|first=Josh|title=Ten Skits That Prove 'The Muppet Show' Was For Adults More Than Kids|url=http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2011/11/ten-skits-that-prove-the-muppet-show-was-for-adults-more-than-kids/#ixzz2jElPSds2|publisher=Warming Glow|accessdate=30 October 2013}}</ref>

Other uses of "For What It's Worth" include:

Movies
- Lord of War, Coming Home, Make Me Psychic, Forrest Gump, UnReal, Where the Day Takes You, Tropic Thunder, and American Pastoral
Theatre
- Oh, Hello on Broadway with Nick Kroll and John Mulaney (2016)
Sampling
- Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men, in "Wishes" on the Kazaam soundtrack.
- tobyMac, in "What's Going Down" on Momentum.
- Sly, in "Grass"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrpsII_wWSw&t=8m38s |title=Chinese Man - 10 Years Mix by High Ku |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=2014-10-07 |accessdate=2016-09-30}}</ref>
- Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want (Soul Assassin's Remix) feat. B-Real of Cypress Hill
Commercials
- Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July
- Miller Beer
- Although Buffalo Springfield member Neil Young never allows his work to be used for commercials, he did not write this song. He has publicly criticised those who do use the song commercially, however, in his song "This Note's for You."
- The Sixties
TV shows
- The West Wing's special episode, Season 3
- HBO original series The Brink, "I'll Never Be Batman," season 1

Requested move 11 August 2017

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: The pages were not moved as per consensus. A new request can always be filed in future if the situation arises, and a rename/move is required.. —usernamekiran(talk) 03:10, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

– While I can see why this could be considered a primary topic and will agree that this has been a very notable song for the last fifty years, "For What It's Worth" is not the complete title of this song. "(Stop, Hey What's That Sound)" is also part of the official name, even seen on the single cover as seen in the infobox. 68.199.254.223 (talk) 01:33, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral for now, but oppose move from For What It's Worth (disambiguation) → For What It's Worth. If this move happens, For What It's Worth should redirect to the new page. EvertonFC13^(talk2me) 01:55, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose note [1], which refers to the song simply as "For What It's Worth". Power~enwiki (talk) 02:27, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Strongly oppose. Though the original single label has 'Stop, Hey What's That Sound' in parentheses, this is the only place that does. It does not appear on any album covers or labels where it appears by Buffalo Springfield or CSNY. I've not seen it on the cover or label of any cover versions. If the song appears on a top-10 or top-500 list of some type, the parenthetical title is not there. Further, I think the opening paragraph should be re-written to make 'For What It's Worth' the title and mentioning 'Stop Hey What's That Sound' as an alternate. Bob Caldwell CSL (talk) 14:58, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME plus if a 1966 song is still getting over 90% over page views and similar % of book mentions it for once genuinely satisfies both criteria of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Probably one of the few non-Beatles/Stones/etc songs squatting on the baseline on en.wp which actually is in the right place. Leave as is. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:00, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Orphaned references in For What It's Worth

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of For What It's Worth's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "AM":

From Buffalo Springfield: Unterberger, Richie. Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger at AllMusic. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
From Cassidy Live!: Thompson, Dave. "'Cassidy Live! > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 28, 2013.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 07:21, 20 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"One Hit Wonder"

Except they aren't. They had 3 more songs in the top 50 in Canada. 2001:56A:FA85:3800:1942:851:EC8F:AF66 (talk) 04:57, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And one before those at #75 and another after at #86. AMCKen (talk) 07:12, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And a slightly different 5 in the top 100 in the USA. AMCKen (talk) 03:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Photos of the Sunset Strip curfew riots

In case you decide to work on this page more, Ojorojo, I thought you ought to know that I found a bunch of PD images of the curfew riots. They were all in the November 18, 1966, issue of the Los Angeles Free Press, conveniently found here on the Internet Archive. I created a new Commons category of the images, found here. Tkbrett (✉) 00:20, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Tkbrett: Interesting photos. A couple show "Lou Blackburn Photo" and one "Irv Glaser Photo". Priore uses photos by "George Rodrigues" and "Julian Wasser" in the 2007 edition. He lists several sources for quotes in the chapter, but doesn't include Freep. I wonder if the later edition includes more ("There's Battle Lines Being Drawn" is pp. 240–259 with photos in the 2007 ed.)

I started to work on the article, but got distracted by the riot story and the City of LA vs LA County. A small part of the Strip where Pandora's Box was located is in LA and the rest was county (different players involved) and most writers seem to mix them up. I might try to focus on the music, but don't know when I'll get to it.

—Ojorojo (talk) 16:37, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]