Talk:Mercedes Benz (song)

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Is there a hyphen in this song's name?

On the back of the original Pearl LP (which I own and have just looked at), this song is listed as "Mercedes Benz". Similarly, in Joel Whitburn's reference book Album Cuts 1955-2001, the song's name is listed without the hyphen, and Whitburn is usually a stickler for this sort of thing. Unless someone has a good source with a hyphen, I recommend that we remove the hyphen. (I'm only talking about the name of the song, of course; this has nothing to do with how the car manufacturer spells the car's name.) Eric-Albert 15:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the page to what I believe to be the correct name, and fixed most of the links to it. Eric-Albert 23:16, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

why did someone screw this article up?

It was fine in the beginning. I'm thinking about reverting. It looks messy. PrinceCharming 22:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A few good reasons to remove the "Jeppe opera" from the list of covers: There are 41 releases of this song according to http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:978117~T00G and I count the number of covering artists to 30. The Jeppe opera isn't even listed at allmusic as being released as a record so either it isn't recorded or it's not wide spread - can it really even be counted as a cover version then? I also note that the person who created the Jeppe opera page at wikipedia (Scottandrewhutchins) is the same person who added the information here on Jeppe.

I will not remove it though, I will just cut the information down to 1 line instead of 3, I think that's more than enough. Anyone with an interest in this opera could follow the internal link. DavidGGG 18:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This song is often misheard

as "Mercy dispense" or something, especially from German listeners who don't realize how "Mercedes-Benz" could be pronounced by Americans. [1] [2] There is even a christian rock group "Mercy Dispense" in Austria. [3] --84.115.129.76 (talk) 12:27, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Was This Song Always Going to Be A Capella?

Janis Joplin died in the middle of the Pearl recording sessions. "Buried Alive in the Blues" is an instrumental because she died before a vocal track could be recorded. Is it possible that "Mercedes Benz" was an accidental a capella piece? (I would be accidentally a capella, if the vocal was originally recorded with the intention of adding backing tracks later.) It is interesting that a version with backing tracks actually was posthumously made and released 30-plus years after the fact for a compilation. Timothy Horrigan (talk) 05:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting speculation, but there's no real way to find out, is there. DS (talk) 22:27, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Button, button, who's got the real list of writers?

Who's right? This article says the song was written by Janis Joplin with the poets Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth, but according to metrolyrics.com, the writers were "Renner, Ruth Maria / Schlippenbach, Vincent Graf Von / Conen, David / Bugnon, Jerome". There is no overlap whatever between the two lists; no one is on both lists. How did this happen??? --Hccrle (talk) 20:30, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Metrolyrics is not a reliable source. BMK (talk) 22:03, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]