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Should I put up a tours section. It could list upcoming and previous tour with the name of the tour and the countries it covered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.36.77 ( talk) 23:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Who do they use for female vocals? e.g. "she has a girlfriend now" Graldensblud 20:05, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
The last sentence of the introductory paragraph seems POV (In the elitist "That's not real ska" sense), as the band itself, its fans, and many others identify it as a ska or ska-punk band. Thoughts? — Casey J. Morris 11:17, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
I think it seems a little POV.
I'd consider them ska-punk, they have all the attributes you'd associate with the genre. plus riding on the coat-tails of 90's ska popularity - they've been around since before the peak, and even so that peak wasn't exactly huge. Not really worth trying to ride on the coat-tails of anyway. :P
Choice of langage
should the word fucking be with spirtiral adviser
Live at House Of Blues DVD Added a DVD section in discography, included "Live at the House of Blues" and "Our Live Album is Better..." Would be great if we could get an article on "Live at the House Of Blues" for further information on the DVD.
Update Got the link in for the House of Blues taping
How bout a pic? I'd put one up, but I couldn't say with confidence whether it was current given all the line up changes.
Lineup Aaron Barrett, Scott Klopfenstein, Tyler Jones, Carlos De La Garza, Dan Regan, Matt Wong
There is no reference to this 'greatest hits' compilation. Why? Is this the album they hate? Mightymouseman ( talk) 21:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
You're All In This Together is the DVD.
Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album is the two disk cd.
Trust me, I own two copies of the DVD (one personally given by the band) and one copy of the cd set.
stop changing it.
-thanks (any questions, email to ajgoff@gmail.com, and include Reel Big Fish in your subject line)
Until today, I thought this band and Phish were one in the same.
The cover songs section was messy as Hell, I overhauled it with links galore and exactly where each song appeared. I'm aware that a couple more exist ("Rock It With I" on Cheer Up! for example, which I have forgotten who originally performed) so if anyone can help out that'd be just cracking. I left off the Rave Master theme "Rave-o-lution" (as it is an original song as far as I can tell, not a cover) although I feel that it should be mentioned elsewhere in the article.
MartyHol 4th January 2007 03:55 (GMT)
can you really consider some of the ones listed other band MEMBER projects? some of them involve the whole band, such as BASEketball and the one about the anime.
"It is a common misconception that Reel Big Fish have recorded a ska-punk version of the song Hotel California by The Eagles. The song in question is actually performed by the band SkaDaddyZ."
It's a common misconception by most people with only a half-arsed interest in third wave ska that pretty much every single cover found on Limewire, Morpheus, Kazaa, et al is recorded by either Reel Big Fish or Less Than Jake. Lyric sites confirm these misconceptions quite adequately, and I don't think this article would benefit from a list of songs that "People believe to have been recorded by Reel Big Fish, when in all actuality it very obviously hasn't." Seriously. I don't understand how people can mistake Aaron Barrett's voice.
Regardless, the cover songs section clearly states that it is a list of "...all known cover songs officially recorded by Reel Big Fish." This should nullify the need for a list of songs that aren't recordings of Reel Big Fish. Yeah?
MartyHol 27th May 2007 13:29 (GMT)
What about songs covered live? They performed the first verse and chorus of Enter Sandman by Metallica last night in Bournemouth, UK, with Scott singing. Earlier in the show they also played the riff of Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin, but that was only momentarily.
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What was RBF's relation to Jive, and Jive's relation to Mojo (if any)? The first time Jive even comes up in the article is the sentence saying that they dropped RBF. 71.82.214.160 05:42, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Someone recently removed a section about Reel Big Fish's first three album being a sort of trilogy of the struggles of being a band, saying it was OR. While I fully agree that that was the correct action, I don't think it's OR. Can anyone find a reference for this information? I think it was on RBF's about section of their website, but I'm not sure. Darkage7 15:23, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey everyone, awesome work with all the RBF compilations, covers, etc! Do you think we should make a separate discography article? We've definitely got enough material. The section would contain the Discography, Multiple Titled Songs, and Cover songs. In the main article we would keep the Studio albums and probably the Live one too. Michael 134.84.96.142 00:46, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Please speak out here [1]. Lots of people are listing this site as a source for various articles, but time and time again it gives invalid information. Hoponpop69 18:15, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
A larger conversation on this has opened up here. [2] Please weigh in to make sure wikipedia does not get filled with false information. Hoponpop69 03:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm 100% certain that the 1994 demo is not titled "Return of the Mullet". It's actually self-titled (i.e. "Reel Big Fish") I own a copy of this demo tape, and there is no mention of "Return of the Mullet" anywhere on the tape or on the liner notes. I'm just interested if there is a contrart source to this, becaus as far as I know, it's self-titled.
In addition, the liner notes also list, under additional musicians:
various screams, "ohs, and "ahs": Ed Kampwurth, Shauna Gearhart, Monica Bumatay (I don't know if this is relevant or not, but it seemed worthwhile to mention.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.7.195.225 ( talk) 04:35, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Reel Big Fish in popular culture
Moving here for potential discussion:
Most of these are uncited and trivial. How do the other regular editors feel? Wisdom89 ( T / C) 07:57, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
References
Reel Big Fish aren't really a punk band are they? They don't seem angry enough and they've never struck me as being anti-establishment or particularly rebellious. They seem like they just want to have fun and entertain people. When I listen to their music, I get the impression they want the people who listen to it to enjoy it. They don't seem like they want to shock people who disagree with them, and isn't that what punk's all about? Ash Loomis ( talk) 00:55, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Reel Big Fish has announced via their MySpace and website that they'll be touring the US in January '09, and Europe later in the year. Someone add this onto the article...but make it more 'official' sounding? -- ZacLOL ( talk) 22:31, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
http://blog[DOT]myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=11034452&blogID=442487573
Its the only way they can give press releases. So there ya go. 68.96.90.83 ( talk) 00:07, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Anyone? if not then we need to at least state that he inst so someone like me doesn't ask again lol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.84.134.213 ( talk) 05:29, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
There needs to be a founding members article on Reel Big Fish —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.179.156.166 ( talk) 17:41, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Regarding the recent edits claiming that Klopfenstein has left the band: They are all based on this news post from The Aquabats, saying "We were even there for Scott from RBF's last show in PERTH!!" This is being interpreted by editors to mean that Klopfenstein has left RBF, but the source doesn't actually say that. None of the band's news outlets (Myspace, Facebook, Twitter) mention him leaving the band as of this writing, in fact their Myspace & Twitter still list him as a member. Until either the band announces something or a third-party source confirms it, claiming that Klopfenstein's left the band based on the 1 sentence in the Aquabats' news post is pure speculation. It is quite possible that it was simply his last show of the tour; as sometimes band members aren't able to do all legs of a tour (ie. when they need to go home to be with family). Sometimes members only do part of a tour, or the band uses substitutes (when I saw them on Warped Tour this past summer, for example, they had a substitute drummer filling in for Steen, who wasn't able to do the tour). RBF have tours lined up for the US, UK, & Europe starting in January; one would think that a longtime member like Klopfenstein quitting the band would merit some sort of announcement on the band's part, but there's been none. If a source comes up that specifically confirms that he's left the band, fine, but basing this claim on 1 sentence in the Aquabats' news post that isn't clear is speculation. Wikipedia isn't the news, we don't have to be "first on the scene" in reporting gossip that pops up on the internets. We can wait for better sources to appear before we start making these claims. -- IllaZilla ( talk) 18:48, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
I will not revert these changes again, as I don't want this to turn into an edit-war, but I respectfully ask that we simply wait for a better, more informative source to be available to support these claims. -- IllaZilla ( talk) 18:54, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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I removed a clause from the lede that claimed RBF are "best known for" Sell Out, because I don't think that's accurate. On Last.fm, Beer is their most popular song of all time (as of me writing this on 20th Feb 2020): see here. Also, the page for Beer claims that Beer is "the band's most downloaded song". I haven't checked the citation for that because apparently it's from Reel Big Fish's live DVD, which I don't have. In any case, Sell Out can't really be called the song they're "best known for" if a different song (Beer) is, by some metrics, their most popular. I think the reality is that they probably have three songs they're best known for (Beer, Sell Out, Take on Me). You could possibly mention in the lede instead that Sell Out is their best-charting song, but is that really needed in the lede? I think that would only be relevant in the lede if the band were a one-hit wonder, but I don't think that's the case for RBF. A lot of people like a lot of their songs. Do others agree with me on this? CyclingFan1234 ( talk) 19:28, 20 February 2020 (UTC)