Talk:D'yer Mak'er

Backing Vocals

Has there ever been any mention of the backing vocals in this song? I'm referring to the repeating "su-kah" in the background during the verses. I assume it's also Plant, but it's a recurring theme in quite a lot of reggae and early ska so I'm wondering if it's worth noting in the article when talking about being a reggae tribute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.59.95 (talk) 22:39, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Credit

is this really "one of the few Zeppelin songs where all 4 members share the composer credit?"

what about: whole lotta love
the lemon song
heartbreaker
rock and roll
when the levee breaks
the ocean
in my time of dying
boogie with stu
royal orleans
hey hey what can i do

Interview audio clip

Hi, I just uploaded a shortened version of the audio clip available on the FM/94.9 website. The clip was licensed by the author under the GFDL. Enjoy... Spicyjack 00:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC) (Link is broken)

Every Breath You Take

By coincidence, the middle lyric of "D'yer Mak'er" coincides with the first few phrases of the Sting song "Every Breath You Take".

Both reggae style songs contain the lyric "Every breath you take, every move you make".

Perhaps Sting subconciously recalled those phrases from "D'yer Mak'er."

Perhaps both Sting and Robert Plant heard those brief phrases elsewhere.

64.121.8.18 04:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC)Michael Kidwell

Fury

The Beginning to Fury in the Slaughter House[[1]] 's When I'm dead and gone is identical to the beginning of the drum thing on this song. I found this amazing they didn't sue Fury, probaly cuz they were german

Cover versions

Are there more famous ones apart from Crow's? Happily ever after 10:26, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Expansion on critical acclaim

This song has elements that move me to suggest that someone research the recent critical acclaim it has received in order to promote it to the level of other essential Led Zeppelin compositions like "Kashmir" and "Whole Lotta Love". There is the cryptic title which, stated and absolutely true, also confounded all but the quickest wits here in the US with regard to punctuation and pronunciation. Bron-Yr-Aur and the fourth album title are other examples of this facet of the Led Zeppelin mystique. There is the “ahead of the curve” reggae structure and influence. There is also the direct reference and subtle reversion element when the song is compared to the earlier, “Rock and Roll”. And finally there is the recording itself, which is brilliantly engineered. I don't have the resources or the authority to go about finding the accolades that I suspect are out there, but having heard this song as an early teenager when it was released and then hearing it in 2008, I can add to the chorus of praise for "D'yer Mak'er". Sswonk (talk) 17:47, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Covers and translations section

Every mention of a translation in this section has been removed, but no explanation is given. If there was some standard that these contributions failed to meet, another option would have been to improve them, or at least explain the problem so that someone else may correct it.

If on the other hand, every mention of a translation is simply removed categorically, "and translations", should not be in the section's title. Downstrike (talk) 09:42, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Category/songwriter edits

WP:SONGS#Categories shows the procedure for adding categories. The only mention of genre is in #5, which states: "Category:<Artist name> songs" should be placed into ... one or more subcategories of Category:Songs by genre." Nowhere does it say that the song itself should be placed in a genre category. Therefore, Category:Reggae rock was removed.

Template:Infobox single#Parameters gives instructions for infobox fields. Under "Writer" it says: "This field allows display of the song's writer(s). Separate multiple values using Flatlist." Therefore, the songwriters were listed using flatlist.

If there is a problem with following these procedures, take it up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs or Template talk:Infobox single, not here. —Ojorojo (talk) 23:48, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation

The representation of the pronunciation for the song title may be wrong. The page is currently giving us how you would say it using Received Pronunciation. But it seems to me much more likely that the band was trying to highlight the linguistic phenomenon known as intrusive-r, though the band members were probably not trained in Linguistics or Phonetics. Intrusive-r is when non-rhotic dialects (of which British English is one) adds an r-sound in places where an r-sound never existed in the first place. It's a naïve overgeneralisation of linking-r, which is where an r-sound is inserted in certain linguistic environments where the r-sound existed historically before it was dropped through linguistic change. "Jamaica" doesn't have an r-sound in it, not even historically. But someone from England might add r-sounds here (intrusive-r), as did Margaret Thatcher when she added an r-sound to "Law and Order" (hence, the nickname "Laura Norder"). In the end, I think the band was trying to encourage us to pronounce intrusive-r's in D'Yer Mak'er. Otherwise, why add the written r's? I'm new here, so I don't know how to change this in the original. But the r-sound I'm referring to shows up a the upside-down r in the International Phonetic Alphabet. PatoBolger (talk) 09:37, 14 October 2022 (UTC)