Talk:Low (band)/Archive 1

Archive 1

Lyrical content

You really should give sources for your commentary on the songs, esp. the Joseph Smith one. Badagnani 20:51, 31 December 2005 (UTC) -Changed the Joseph Smith reference from "murder" to more neutral "death" and redirected the link from the disambiguation page about Smith to the article on the LDS founder Smith's death. 12.223.204.210 05:34, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Lyrical References

I took out the section on "Duluth..." The section was nothing but speculation, filled with "might be" "possibly" "could be" etc. Please see words to avoid if you'd like to rewrite the section; as is it was horrible speculation. Teke ^(talk) 14:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello? What about their "Commercial Success"???

Low has a song that is getting decent airplay this year, "If I Could Just Make It Stop" (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rAdzJ1U0RU ) how does this not get mentioned in this article??? Why ignore something that is important to this band, this song is the difference between people knowing about the band or continuing to be an obscure musical entity. It's kind of like writing about a band that's a one-hit wonder, and you fail to mention their hit song (& yes, Low deserves more respect and reverence than a band that's a one hit wonder, this is just an analogy)V Schauf (talk) 04:38, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Zen Identity

I can't find any mention of Sparhawk's alleged former band "Zen Identity" on chairkickers.com, allmusic.com or Google in general.

Is there a source for it? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:49, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I also can't find any online sources for Zen Identity (the Duluth News Tribune online only goes back to 1995). However, I can attest to the existence of Zen Identity and Al's involvement in the band during the early 1990s. I was involved in the Duluth music scene at the time and saw several Zen Identity shows. The sound was more straightforward rock and bears little resemblence to Low, with the exception that Al used an open guitar tuning similar to the one he employs with Low. I might be able to dig up a show program from a Duluth East High School battle of the bands in 1992. I'm sorry that I can't offer more concrete information, but want to note that the information is correct. Melmack13 (talk) 02:15, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, i am assuming good faith and changing it from "dubious" to "citation needed". Thanks for the quick answer. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:24, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I am from the Duluth area and have had conversations with Alan about the band. I also have a copy of a radio station promotional vinyl (released by by Thirsty Ear Communications, Inc. entitled "Snickers New Music Search 1989-1990, Presented By Campus Voice, Semi-Finalists") which features a Zen Identity track. Alan confirmed, in person, that this was the first recording with the band that featured his guitar work. Hope this helps. Longwaytothebank (talk) 04:49, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Here is a youtube interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e_KF4jITLk) with Alan Sparhawk. The very first question addresses Zen Identity. 98.243.145.131 (talk) 21:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

gfdhgfdh

Just for the sake of discussion - this article is a little formulaic, don't you think? Here's a band that is synonymous with a relatively obscure genre - 'slowcore' - and in the first section there's already sentences dedicated to the denouncement of the term by the band. This is unnecessary, universal, bordering on stereotypical, and most of all simply bad form. It's an opinion - albeit that of the the band itself - which detracts from the factual content of the article. E.G., say I just heard about shoegaze music and found My Bloody Valentine on Wikipedia. I think it would be more important to grasp the concept that separated this band from its contemporaries than to know off the bat that their music would be later be dubbed "shoegaze", and that they had nothing to do with the invention of the term. This applies to any seminal band of any genre. This tidbit should be relegated to the end of the article, if not omitted entirely.

67.161.44.87 (talk) 05:20, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Name Confusion

May be worth mentioning that there is another "Low".

"Low" is also the name used by Grant Boult and Brian Nash (formerly of Frankie Goes To Hollywood) for their single "Tearing my Soul Apart" - and also for their unreleased follow up album. Musofan2012 (talk) 09:17, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Albini

Article said Albini "proved surprisingly sympathetic to capturing the band's strengths." Anyone familiar with Albini's aesthetics would understand that capturing a band as it is regardless of his own personal tastes is precisely what Albini has looked to do throught his career. I'm going to remove the word "surprisingly."

70.147.5.172 (talk) 16:46, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Good move...too right! Snoop God (talk) 18:01, 10 June 2010 (UTC)