Talk:Scratch My Back

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What is it? 195.195.236.65 (talk) 12:11, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Two petals embracing...kissing. One personifies the writer, the other the interpreter. I Love You Porky (talk) 22:57, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have you read that somewhere, or is it your own personal interpretation? If you can indicate a reliable source we can add it to the article. – IbLeo ^(talk) 15:18, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, this was just my interpretation. I Love You Porky (talk) 15:37, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Not bad though, you almost convinced me :-) – IbLeo ^(talk) 18:01, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Release date(s) for Mainland Europe

Currently the article says that the album was released on 15 February ib Mainland Europe. However, living in France I pre-ordered the album on Play.com (situated on Jersey) and it was shipped to me on 12 February. At the same time, CapitalLetterBeginning says in this edit summary that it was released on 12 February in Germany, a statement backed up by Musicline.de here which is our reliable source for chart positions per WP:GOODCHARTS. So I suspect more and more that it was actually released on 12 February, at least in some European countries. However I would like some input before changing the article, as well as other reliable sources. Can someone help with more information? – IbLeo ^(talk) 05:46, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Play.com tends to send out pre-ordered items ahead of the release date where possible – as do a lot of online retailers – so that they might be received on, or by, the official release date. The UK release date was 15 February; see, for example, HMV or amazon.co.uk. The French release was also the 15th, at least according to amazon.fr. In the UK, albums/singles are almost always released on Mondays, whereas in Germany it appears to be Fridays. There may be other countries in Europe in which it was released on the 12th, but even if Germany is the only one, it's a significant enough exception to not give a single release date for "Europe" or "Mainland Europe". –CapitalLetterBeginning (talk) 13:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your clarification about online retailers shipping a few days before the official release date. I have to add that it took the CD 11(!) days to reach me—one have to think that the postman swam/walked all the way from Jersey to France! So I certainly couldn't listen to it before the 15 February. I agree that Germany is a significant exception—one of the biggest markets in Europe. I tend to think that Musicline.de is reliable enough to use as source, except if you have a better one...? – IbLeo ^(talk) 16:32, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I have added the 12 February 2010 as release date for Germany, citing musicline.de as source – IbLeo ^(talk) 20:25, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Genre?

One things that doesn't sit right with me is that the infobox lists the genre of the album as Rock, even though there's no citation for this, and it's an album that features no rock intrumentation, or similar qualities. Is that really appropriate, then? Or at leat, could we get a source for it? Calgary (talk) 23:13, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Symphonic rock is just about the best way of pigeonholing it. I removed the experimental link, as the arrangements are pretty pedestrian, as good as they are. Vitashaomi (talk) 09:53, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]