Talk:Yellow Ledbetter

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I don't think this article is a stub. This article perfectly describes the song. The 3CD set South America Peal Jam tells this tale, with long Yellow Ledbetter outro's and and intro's, each CD ending with Yellow Ledbetter.

Peace Out.

• I agree. After making significant additions to this article, both as my thethinredline
  moniker and as an anonymous user if i couldn't be bothered to sign in, i've removed the stub status of this song. Considering it includes all the hallmarks of a well written article.Thethinredline 10:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply
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I agree, this article looks like its of good article quality, I think someone should put up a peer review to see if anything is holding it back, and if other hold the same opinon. An article on a song should not be long, though it could do, perhaps, with an image. Njd.1892 19:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An IP user (12.28.69.211) posted a lengthy top to bottom analysis of the lyrics that were not backed up by any written sources here. This is incompatible with the No Original Research policy of wikipedia. Thethinredline 21:00, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When was this song released? 2006? 1996? 1946? Article is seriously missing the "when" of the who/what/when/why/how concept. -Rolypolyman 15:03, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article lists the release date as August of 1992, however, the article states Yellow Ledbetter is a B-side to Jeremy, which according to its article, was released on 27 September 1992 ^[1]. CltNC830 (talk) 14:09, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vacuums don’t make sound (a very astute observation by me :)) . Unless there is some widely accepted idea of what a vacuum sounds like if it created sound, the wording at under the musical structure heading should be changed. I am not aware of what a vacuum sounds like, though I am not a fan of pearl jam (yet). I would imagine pink Floyds sound is what comes across from the word vacuum.

Nitpicking, I know, but isn’t that what I’m here for? Njd.1892 19:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Vacuum sound statements in modern music is normally a statement about how vacuum based amplifiers have a "warmer" sound than solid state amplifiers do. They, by default, have a little more bottom end and the tones are less muddy.[reply]

The term is NOT correctly used in this article. TheCyndicate-com (talk) 06:45, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure they're talking about a vacuum cleaner, commonly shortened to just vacuum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.7.82.228 (talk) 04:20, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As the lyrics are a central theme of this topic, why not mention/link to the "Misheard Lyrics" Version of the song on YouTube? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.228.214.85 (talk) 12:24, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Soundtrack

I just heard this song at the end of the last episode of "Super Pumped" on Prime Video. Champaign (talk) 07:44, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The song "While We Cry" on the Kenny Wayne Shepherd album Ledbetter Heights sounds almost note for note of Yellow Ledbetter. Anyone else find this true?F.Caswell (talk) 22:18, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Both of these songs are remarkably similar to Jimi Hendrix' "Little Wing", which makes sense since both McCready and Shepherd (along with anyone else who has ever picked up a guitar since 1970) are Hendrix fans.

Shepherd claims to have written the song completely independently of anyone else, long before his first commercial album. He says it's based on "Wind Cries Mary", though the song is clearly derivative of Little Wing. I don't have a link to the original reference but this was in a 1996 chat session w/ Shepherd at the House of Blues. McCready also claims to have written the song independently of anyone else, during a Ten jam session, based on something he heard. Given this timeline, "YL" would have been released before "WWC" but both would have been written around the same time.

Rabid fanbois of both bands enjoy making baseless claims that one "stole" the other's song, or even "licensed" the other's song, but the simplest explanation is that both of them just heard Little Wing and were inspired to write a very similar riff. Kutulu (talk) 23:28, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the song is a I V IV progression, not I VI IV as the article currently says.--Spongessuck (talk) 16:27, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the lyrics are hard to decipher but I think it makes more sense to assume he says, "a boxer or a bag" and not, "a box or a bag", as the former actually sort of means something. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.17.133 (talk) 03:15, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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