@ enitharmon: WOW! Did you see Memphis Slim live? I'm jealous! ![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_up_emoticon_3268.png "[thumb up]"){kind=small}
Must have been the concert highlight of your life.
@ The rest: Meanwhile I also have an announcement to make:
I've just finished an entire clean-up of all the 500 and counting albums in our index, while bluesnofann did the double-check and extra cleanup afterwards. It took us a whopping two months but we've managed to revise all the articles according to the site's rules: the same spelling and typography everywhere, at least 15 tropes and 15 crosswicks in each article, enough information about the album and all tropes explained within the context of the record.
Apart from that we've also added tracklists, images, personnel lists for the bands,... if these weren't already there. In some cases we've also rewritten some of the info on the pages and put them on the appropriate decade and genre indexes.
And if that weren't enough I've also been crosswicking in other articles to the albums that have been created to make more tropers aware of our albums index.
It was exhausting, but at least it's done now. If everybody now makes sure that new articles added live up to these standards then the albums index will remain the joy it is now for everybody... 
Well, I'm off to some rest now. As Ringo Starr would say:
''Good night, everybody. Everybody, everywhere...''
edited 2nd Mar '15 12:46:28 AM by Patachou
Still just awesome like that
Patachou, how much free time DO you have?
(The effort is very much appreciated, though.)
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
What Odd said. Nice work.
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Holy crap man, where did you find the time?
By doing one artist a day with the smaller catalogues and doing one album a day with the bigger catalogues you easily get everything done in time. 
Some of the oldest entries had the most stuff to be altered and some of those albums are so obscure that I really had to search to find out more about them.
Aside from minor clean-ups, I've been largely unable to do much around here these days due to studies. But I finally got Nashville Skyline up yesterday!
Great addition, bluesno1fann
Since its been a month since my last roundup of new albums, let's see which ones have been added recently:
- Another Monty Python Record by Monty Python
- Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
- Attila by Attila (one of the "worst albums of all time", according to many. Thanks to Mr. Matt for adding this treasure...
![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]")
)
- Barcelona by Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé (our first partly Spanish entry!)
- The Beach Boys' Christmas Album by The Beach Boys
- The Bends by Radiohead
- Buena Vista Social Club by The Buena Vista Social Club & Ry Cooder (our first Cuban album!)
- The Black Rider by Tom Waits
- Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
- Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka by Brian Jones and the Master Musicians of Jajouka (our first Moroccan album!)
- Brothers by The Black Keys
- Dance Mania Vol 1 by Tito Puente
- Electric Arguments by the Fireman
- Elvis (NBC TV Special) by Elvis Presley
- For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music
- Franks Wild Years by Tom Waits
- From Elvis in Memphis by Elvis Presley
- Fur and Gold by Bat For Lashes
- Good as I Been to You by Bob Dylan
- Gorillaz by Gorillaz
- Guero by Beck
- Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
- Having Fun with Elvis on Stage by Elvis Presley (horrible, horrible, horrible
![[tdown]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_down_emoticon_3571.png "[thumb down]")
)
- Homework by Daft Punk
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly
- I, Robot by The Alan Parsons Project
- I Started Out as a Child by Bill Cosby
- It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest by The Fugs
- Kick Out the Jams by ´Mc5
- Lady in Satin by Billie Holiday
- Lick My Decals Off, Baby by Captain Beefheart
- The Love Club by Lorde
- Love It to Death by Alice Cooper
- The Man from Utopia by Frank Zappa
- Monty Python Live at Drury Lane by Monty Python
- The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief by Monty Python.
- Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album by Monty Python
- Mule Variations by Tom Waits
- Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan
- Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan
- Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
- Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards by Tom Waits
- Oxygène by Jean Michel Jarre
- Planet Waves by Bob Dylan & The Band
- Prince by Prince
- Roots by Sepultura (our first Brazilian album!)
- Screamadelica by Primal Scream
- Seventeen Seconds by The Cure
- Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch by Frank Zappa
- Slow Train Coming by Bob Dylan
- Songs of the Humpback Whale by Roger Payne, Katie Payne and Frank Watlington (possibly one of the WEIRDEST albums ever released
)
- Space Oddity by David Bowie
- Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey
- Them or Us by Frank Zappa
- Thingfish by Frank Zappa
- To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey
- Toppatakkeja Ja Toledon Terästä
by YUP (our first Finnish entry)
- Uh Huh Her by PJ Harvey
- You Are What You Is by Frank Zappa
With many thanks to Trust Ben, creatordest, bluesno1fann, Mr Matt, Night Spectre, Stuffed Ninja, Tongu and myself for these additions.
With Space Oddity as the latest addition this brings our total score to:
American: 325 (consisting of Tori Amos (1 album), Louis Armstrong (1), Attila (1), The Band (2 (1 with Bob Dylan), but also mostly Canadian), Band of Gypsys (1), Beach Boys (14), Beastie Boys (2), Big Black (1), Big Brother & The Holding Company (1), Black Keys (1), Blue Oyster Cult (2), Garth Brooks (1), James Brown (2), Jeff Buckley (2), The Byrds (1), Captain Beefheart (8, though one with Frank Zappa), Wendy Carlos (1), Ray Charles (1), Gilby Clarke (1), Ornette Coleman (1), John Coltrane (4), Alice Cooper (1), Bill Cosby (1), Creedence Clearwater Revival (1), Bing Crosby (1), Dick Dale (1), Miles Davis (4), The Dead Kennedys (1), Delaney & Friends (2), Devo (2), Eric Dolphy (1), The Doors (3), Dream Theater (1), Bob Dylan (16), Eels (1), Exploding Hearts (1), Fireaxe (1), Firesign Theatre (1), Fleetwood Mac (1, part American and part British), Forgive Durden (1), Stan Freberg (2), The Fugees (1), The Fugs (3), Marvin Gaye (1), Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (1), The Grateful Dead (2), Al Green (2) Green Day (2), Arlo Guthrie (1), Woody Guthrie (1), Guns 'N' Roses (3), Herbie Hancock (2), Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa (1), Jimi Hendrix (3), Lauryn Hill (1), Hole (1), Billie Holiday (1), Iron Butterfly (1), Michael Jackson (6), Jefferson Airplane (3), Robert Johnson (1), Daniel Johnston (2), Paul Kanter (1), Carole King (1), Kiss (5), Kendrick Lamar (1), Betty Lavette (1), Linkin Park (2), Little Richard (1), Madonna (9), Marilyn Manson (5), Don McLean (1), Mc5 (1), MGMT (1), Charles Mingus (1), Thelonious Monk (1), Modest Mouse (1), My Chemical Romance (2), Nine Inch Nails (2), Nirvana (5), NWA (1), Dolly Parton (1), Pepe De Luxe (1), The Pixies (1), Iggy Pop (2), Elvis Presley (5), Prince (2), Public Enemy (2), REM (1), Queensryche (1), Ramones (5), Red House Painters (1), Tito Puente (1), Otis Redding (1), Lou Reed (3), The Residents (3), Marty Robbins (1), Run DMC (3), Todd Rundgren (1), Savatage (5), Schoolly D (2), Gil Scott-Heron (1), Paul Simon (1), Simon & Garfunkel (1), Frank Sinatra (4), Sly & The Family Stone (1), Brendon Small (1), Smashing Pumpkins (3), Jimmy Smith (1), Patti Smith (1), The Sparks (1), Regina Spektor (1, who was born in Russia), Stagehands (1), The Stooges (3), Donna Summer (2), Sun Ra (1), Talking Heads (5), Television (1), They Might Be Giants (2), 30 Seconds To Mars (1), Christopher Tin (1), Trans Siberian Orchestra (1), A Tribe Called Quest (1), TV On The Radio (1), The Velvet Underground (5, on their first two albums the Welshman John Cale played along), Tom Waits (13), Muddy Waters (1),, Weezer (1), Kanye West (1), White Stripes (1), Hank Williams (1), Tony Williams (1), Brian Wilson (1), Dennis Wilson (1), Stevie Wonder (3), Frank Zappa (40)
Australian: 5: AC/DC (3), Nick Cave (1), Martin Pearson (1)
Belgian: 4: dEUS (4)
Brazilian: 1: Sepultura (1)
British: 195: Adam And the Ants (3), Adam Ant (4), Alan Parsons Project (1), Syd Barrett (2), Bat For Lashes (1) The Beatles (15), Beck (1) Black Sabbath (1), David Bowie (12), Eric Clapton (1), The Clash (2), Joe Cocker (2), Elvis Costello (3) Cream (1), The Cure (1), Deep Purple (3), Derek & The Dominoes (1), Dire Straits (1), Duran Duran (1), Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1), Brian Eno (3), Fairport Convention (1), The Fireman (1), Fleetwood Mac (2, part American and part British), Peter Gabriel (1), Genesis (1), Gorillaz (2), Ellie Goulding (1), George Harrison (1), PJ Harvey (3) Iron Maiden (3), Jethro Tull (1), Brian Jones (1), Elton John (1), Joy Division (2), Judas Priest (1), King Crimson (1), The Kinks (3), Led Zeppelin (6), Christopher Lee (1), John Lennon (6), Madness (3), Brian May (1), Paul McCartney (2), John McLaughlin (1), Freddie Mercury (1), MIA (2), Monty Python (4), Motorhead (1), New Order (1), Mike Oldfield (1), Pink Floyd (15), The Police (2, though they have an American drummer), Portishead (1), The Pretty Things (1), Primal Scream (1), The Prodigy (1), Queen (4), Radiohead (6), The Rolling Stones (22), Roxy Music (1), Sex Pistols (1), Small Faces (1), Stone Roses (1), Underworld (1), Jeff Wayne (1), Andrew Lloyd Webber (2), The Who (6), Amy Winehouse (2), XTC (1) The Yardbirds (5), The Zombies (2)
Canadian: 11 : Arcade Fire (1), The Band (2, also American), Leonard Cohen (4), Joni Mitchell (2), Alanis Morissette (1), Rush (1), Neil Young (1)
Cuban: 1: Buena Vista Social Club (1)
Danish: 1: King Diamond (1)
Dutch: 1: Doe Maar (1)
Filipino: 1: Eraserheads (1)
Finnish: 1: YUP (1)
French: 4': Daft Punk (2), St. Germain (1), Jean Michel Jarre (1)
German: 4: Kraftwerk (3), Nico (1, with the Velvet Underground)
Iceland: 5: Bjork (5)
Irish: 1: U2 (1)
Jamaica: 10 : Bob Marley (8), Peter Tosh (1), Max Romeo (1)
Japanese: 3 Yoko Ono (3, with John Lennon)
Mexican: 2: Carlos Santana (2)
Moroccan: 1: Master Musicians of Jajouka (1)
New Zealand: 2: Lorde (2)
Nigeria: 1: Babatunde Olantunji (1)
Norwegian: 1: The Kovenant (1)
Russian: 1: Regina Spektor (1, though she did move to New York later in life)
Spanish: 1: Montserrat Caballé (1, with the British pop musician Freddie Mercury)
Swedish: 1: Roxette (1)
Non-human 1: The album "Songs of the Humpback Whale" (1)
I've also looked at how many albums we have represented per decade:
1920s: 1!
1930s: 1!
1940s: 2!
1950s: 14!
1960s: 120!
1970s: 184!
1980s: 102!
1990s: 74!
2000s: 50!
2010s: 15!
And regarding female artists, we have about 45 albums by female solo artists: Lorde (2), Yoko Ono (3, in collaboration with John Lennon), Björk (5), Nico (1, in collaboration with The Velvet Underground who also had a female drummer by the way), Joni Mitchell (2), Alanis Morrissette (1), Amy Winehouse (2), Ellie Goulding (1), Donna Summer (2), Regina Spektor (1) Patti Smith (1), Dolly Parton (1), MIA (2), Madonna (9), Betty Lavette (1), Carole King (1), Hole (1), Lauryn Hill (1), Beth Hart (1), Bat For Lashes (1), PJ Harvey (3), Montserrat Caballé (1), Billie Holiday (1) and Tori Amos (1).
A lot of our bands do in fact have female musicians too and/or a female lead singer who is the face of the band: Big Brother & The Holding Company, The Fugees, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Pixies, Portishead,... And we even have one transsexual with Wendy Carlos.
edited 25th Mar '15 7:39:38 PM by Patachou
Hi, Taking It On The Otherside here. As my name very clearly implies, I'm a HUGE Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, and I'm thinking of adding two of the most famous Chili Peppers albums, Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Californication, this weekend.
However, I've run into a problem with the latter. There's a TV series called Californication also, which is completely unassociated with this album note . Is there any way for me to add Californication without it linking to the pages associated with the TV series?
Thanks to anyone who responds!
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There are unrelated Emergency! and Emergency! pages so I don't really understand the question?
@ Mr Matt - Looking at each Emergency page, I see that in the list of pages on the top of the site, there's a link from the album Emergency! to the TV series Emergency!, and vice-versa. While this is fine - the pages don't necessarily conflict with one another, and any user can distinguish between them - the Red Hot Chili Peppers are expressly against associating their album Californication with the TV series Californication. They even sued Tom Kapinos, the creator of the show.
In keeping with the wishes of the band (as ridiculous as they may be, in my sound opinion), I kinda don't want the TV series to link with the album, and vice-versa. I understand how TV Tropes works and get that this may not be an option, but I just wonder if this is possible, that's all.
edited 26th Mar '15 7:44:09 PM by TakingItOnTheOtherside
Hi, glad to hear someone wants to add some Red Hot Chili Peppers classics
"Bloodsugarsexmagik" and "Californication" have been on our wish lists to add to our albums index for a long time.
One way to avoid the association would be to write the title down like this: Californication Album for instance. Then, with aid of the Tools you can ask to Customize Wikiword afterwards, thus making the title Californication (Album).
I don't think there is any better method that can be used. But at least we would indeed have the advantage that the tropes that apply to the album "Californication" don't get crammed up with those of that TV series.
edited 27th Mar '15 5:34:48 AM by Patachou
Still just awesome like that
Eh, that would just make it confusing for people looking for the album who wouldn't find it by going to Music.Californication.
edited 27th Mar '15 12:16:24 PM by Odd1
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
You could do what I did and disambiguate the work with the year it was published, like what I did with Led Zeppelin's first album.
simple as
I disambiguated it like Mr Lavisher Moot. Thank you guys! Here are the links:
I also put in a redirect link so that people typing in Music/{{Californ!cation}} (without the exclamation point, of course) could be redirected to the album page.
edited 27th Mar '15 1:40:15 PM by TakingItOnTheOtherside
Kind of new to this whole albums thing, but I've added my personal favourite album of all time, Together Alone by Crowded House to the wiki. I hope no-one minds, since a lot of the album entries are suggested here first, and I just sort of barged in.
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I'm done with school so I'm back to contributing somewhat. Already plugged one in tonight, but now I've stuff to do. I'm probably gonna put up All Over The Place next and then Tyra Hammond's recent EP, but does anyone have To Pimp A Butterfly yet who wants to put that up?
Hey, I created a Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time index right here. It isn't perfect; there are a few false positives here and there, especially if an album shares the name of an artist, or vice-versa. Also, blue links may link to disambiguation pages, so keep that in mind while browsing it.
Hope this helps or motivates anyone to add an album!
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I was actually gonna put up a pair of cover albums yesterday but I realized the crosswicking was going to look like absolute crap. But I'm gonna do a couple today I think.
Hi, everybody, thanks for your additions the past month.
Let's do our monthly check-up and see what records have been added recently:
- Alice by Tom Waits
- All Over the Place by The Bangles
- American Life by Madonna
- Ayreon by Arjen Anthony Lucassen
- Backatown by Trombone Shorty
- The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan
- The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life by Frank Zappa
- Blood Money by Tom Waits
- Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Born to Die by Lana Del Rey
- Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Computer World by Kraftwerk
- Confrontation by Bob Marley
- Dinosaur Planet by M.J. Hibbett
- Disintegration by The Cure
- Dookie by Green Day
- Dry by P.J. Harvey
- Easter by Patti Smith
- Forever Changes by Love
- Franz Ferdinand (2004) by Franz Ferdinand
- Give It Up by Bonnie Raitt
- Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell
- Hero by Eddie DeGarmo and Bob Farrell
- The Howlin' Wolf Album by Howlin' Wolf
- Is This Desire? by P.J. Harvey
- Kaya by Bob Marley
- Klaus Nomi by Klaus Nomi
- Läther by Frank Zappa
- Live in Japan by Sarah Vaughan
- Lost in the New Real by Arjen Anthony Lucassen
- Master of Puppets by Metallica
- Moanin' in the Moonlight by Howlin' Wolf
- Murder Ballads by Nick Cave
- Music by Madonna
- Paid in Full by Eric B. & Rakim
- Play by Moby
- Radio Ethiopia by Patti Smith
- Rid of Me by P.J. Harvey
- Ringo by Ringo Starr (about time Ringo got his own entry!)
- Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown by Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown.
- Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites by Sesame Street
- Simple Man by Klaus Nomi
- Something Else by the Kinks by The Kinks
- Songs by Tom Lehrer by Tom Lehrer
- Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Starmania by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon
- Tinseltown Rebellion by Frank Zappa
- Together Alone by Crowded House (our first (partially) New Zealandian entry)
- Toxicity by System Of A Down
- Wave by Patti Smith
- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys
- White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
- Wonderwall Music by George Harrison (our first (partially) Indian entry)
Thanks to Trust Ben, bluesno1fann, creatordest, Leaforator, Taking It On The Other Side, stuffedninja and Mr Matt, and myself for their contributions.
With Rid of Me as the latest addition this brings our total score to:
American: 357 (consisting of Tori Amos (1 album), Louis Armstrong (1), Attila (1), The Band (2 (1 with Bob Dylan), but also mostly Canadian), Band of Gypsys (1), Bangles (1), Beach Boys (14), Beastie Boys (2), Big Black (1), Big Brother & The Holding Company (1), Black Keys (1), Blue Oyster Cult (2), Garth Brooks (1), James Brown (2), Jeff Buckley (2), The Byrds (1), Captain Beefheart (8, though one with Frank Zappa), Wendy Carlos (1), Ray Charles (1), Gilby Clarke (1), Ornette Coleman (1), John Coltrane (4), Alice Cooper (1), Bill Cosby (1), Creedence Clearwater Revival (1), Bing Crosby (1), Dick Dale (1), Miles Davis (4), The Dead Kennedys (1), Eddie DeGarmo and Bob Farrell (1), Lana Del Rey (1), Delaney & Friends (2), Devo (2), Eric Dolphy (1), The Doors (3), Dream Theater (1), Bob Dylan (17), Eric B. & Rakim (1), Eels (1), Exploding Hearts (1), Fireaxe (1), Firesign Theatre (1), Fleetwood Mac (1, part American and part British), Forgive Durden (1), Stan Freberg (2), The Fugees (1), The Fugs (3), Marvin Gaye (1), Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (1), The Grateful Dead (2), Al Green (2) Green Day (3), Arlo Guthrie (1), Woody Guthrie (1), Guns 'N' Roses (3), Herbie Hancock (2), Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa (1), Jimi Hendrix (3), Lauryn Hill (1), Hole (1), Billie Holiday (1), Howlin' Wolf (2), Iron Butterfly (1), Michael Jackson (6), Jefferson Airplane (3), Robert Johnson (1), Daniel Johnston (2), Paul Kanter (1), Carole King (1), Kiss (5), Kendrick Lamar (1), Betty Lavette (1), Tom Lehrer (1), Linkin Park (2), Little Richard (1), Madonna (11), Marilyn Manson (5), Don McLean (1), Mc5 (1), MGMT (1), Metallica (2), Charles Mingus (1), Anaïs Mitchell (1), Moby (1), Thelonious Monk (1), Modest Mouse (1), My Chemical Romance (2), Nine Inch Nails (2), Nirvana (5), NWA (1), Dolly Parton (1), The Pixies (1), Iggy Pop (2), Elvis Presley (5), Prince (2), Public Enemy (2), REM (1), Queensryche (1), Ramones (5), Red House Painters (1), Tito Puente (1), Otis Redding (1), Red Hot Chili Peppers (3), Lou Reed (3), The Residents (3), Marty Robbins (1), Run DMC (3), Todd Rundgren (1), Savatage (5), Sesame Street (1), Schoolly D (2), Gil Scott-Heron (1), Paul Simon (1), Simon & Garfunkel (1), Frank Sinatra (4), Sly & The Family Stone (1), Brendon Small (1), Smashing Pumpkins (3), Jimmy Smith (1), Patti Smith (4), The Sparks (1), Regina Spektor (1, who was born in Russia), Stagehands (1), The Stooges (3), Donna Summer (2), Sun Ra (1), System Of A Down (1) Talking Heads (5), Television (1), They Might Be Giants (2), 30 Seconds To Mars (1), Christopher Tin (1), Trans Siberian Orchestra (1), A Tribe Called Quest (1), Trombone Shorty (1), TV On The Radio (1), Sarah Vaughan (2) The Velvet Underground (5, on their first two albums the Welshman John Cale played along), Tom Waits (15), Muddy Waters (1),, Weezer (1), Kanye West (1), White Stripes (2), Hank Williams (1), Tony Williams (1), Brian Wilson (1), Dennis Wilson (1), Stevie Wonder (3), Frank Zappa (43)
Australian: 7: AC/DC (3), Nick Cave (2), Martin Pearson (1), Crowded House (1, part New Zealand)
Belgian: 4: dEUS (4)
Brazilian: 1: Sepultura (1)
British: 204: Adam And the Ants (3), Adam Ant (4), Arctic Monkeys (1), Alan Parsons Project (1), Syd Barrett (2), Bat For Lashes (1) The Beatles (15), Beck (1) Black Sabbath (1), David Bowie (12), Eric Clapton (1), The Clash (2), Joe Cocker (2), Elvis Costello (3) Cream (1), The Cure (2), Deep Purple (3), Derek & The Dominoes (1), Dire Straits (1), Duran Duran (1), Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1), Brian Eno (3), Fairport Convention (1), The Fireman (1), Fleetwood Mac (2, part American and part British), Franz Ferdinand (1), Peter Gabriel (1), Genesis (1), Gorillaz (2), Ellie Goulding (1), George Harrison (2), PJ Harvey (6), MJ Hibbet (1), Iron Maiden (3), Jethro Tull (1), Brian Jones (1), Elton John (1), Joy Division (2), Judas Priest (1), King Crimson (1), The Kinks (4), Led Zeppelin (6), Christopher Lee (1), John Lennon (6), Madness (3), Brian May (1), Paul McCartney (2), John McLaughlin (1), Freddie Mercury (1), MIA (2), Monty Python (4), Motorhead (1), New Order (1), Mike Oldfield (1), Pink Floyd (15), The Police (2, though they have an American drummer), Portishead (1), The Pretty Things (1), Primal Scream (1), The Prodigy (1), Queen (4), Radiohead (6), The Rolling Stones (22), Roxy Music (1), Sex Pistols (1), Small Faces (1), Ringo Starr (1), Stone Roses (1), Underworld (1), Jeff Wayne (1), Andrew Lloyd Webber (2), The Who (6), Amy Winehouse (2), XTC (1) The Yardbirds (5), The Zombies (2)
Canadian: 11 : Arcade Fire (1), The Band (2, also American), Leonard Cohen (4), Joni Mitchell (2), Alanis Morissette (1), Rush (1), Neil Young (1)
Cuban: 1: Buena Vista Social Club (1)
Danish: 1: King Diamond (1)
Dutch: 3: Doe Maar (1), Arjen Anthony Lucassen (2)
Filipino: 1: Eraserheads (1)
Finnish: 2: YUP (1), Pepe De Luxe (1)
French: 5': Daft Punk (2), St. Germain (1), Jean Michel Jarre (1), Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon (1)
German: 6: Kraftwerk (4), Nico (1, with the Velvet Underground), Klaus Nomi (2)
Iceland: 5: Bjork (5)
Indian: 1: George Harrison (1, made by a Brit, but predominantly Indian music)
Irish: 1: U2 (1)
Jamaica: 12 : Bob Marley (10), Peter Tosh (1), Max Romeo (1)
Japanese: 3 Yoko Ono (3, with John Lennon)
Mexican: 2: Carlos Santana (2)
Moroccan: 1: Master Musicians of Jajouka (1)
New Zealand: 3: Lorde (2), Crowded House (1, part New Zealand)
Nigeria: 1: Babatunde Olantunji (1)
Norwegian: 1: The Kovenant (1)
Russian: 1: Regina Spektor (1, though she did move to New York later in life)
Spanish: 1: Montserrat Caballé (1, with the British pop musician Freddie Mercury)
Swedish: 1: Roxette (1)
Non-human 1: The album "Songs of the Humpback Whale" (1)
I've also looked at how many albums we have represented per decade:
1920s: 1!
1930s: 1!
1940s: 2!
1950s: 18!
1960s: 124!
1970s: 192!
1980s: 113!
1990s: 85!
2000s: 60!
2010s: 20!
And regarding female artists, we have about 59 albums by female solo artists: Lorde (2), Yoko Ono (3, in collaboration with John Lennon), Björk (5), Nico (1, in collaboration with The Velvet Underground who also had a female drummer by the way), Joni Mitchell (2), Alanis Morrissette (1), Amy Winehouse (2), Ellie Goulding (1), Donna Summer (2), Regina Spektor (1) Patti Smith (4), Dolly Parton (1), MIA (2), Madonna (11), Betty Lavette (1), Carole King (1), Hole (1), Lauryn Hill (1), Beth Hart (1), Bat For Lashes (1), PJ Harvey (6), Montserrat Caballé (1), Billie Holiday (1), Bangles (1), Bonnie Raitt (1), Sarah Vaughan (2), Lana Del Rey (1), Anaïs Mitchell (1) and Tori Amos (1).
A lot of our bands do in fact have female musicians too and/or a female lead singer who is the face of the band: Big Brother & The Holding Company, The Fugees, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Pixies, Portishead,... And we even have one transsexual with Wendy Carlos.
edited 4th Sep '15 7:08:59 PM by Patachou
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So that was fun.
edited 6th May '15 4:06:42 PM by MrMatt
A year after starting this thread I'm quite proud to announce that we managed to cross the magical number of 700 albums in a year time!
A standing ovation for everybody who contributed to making this happen!! ![[awesome]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minis/award_star_gold_3.png "[awesome]"){kind=small}
So which albums have been added since our last check-up in April?
- Abba by Abba
- Abba (The Album) by Abba
- Achtung Baby by U2
- After Hours by Sarah Vaughan
- All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2
- Arrival by Abba
- Bad As Me by Tom Waits
- Blood by This Mortal Coil
- Bluejeans & Moonbeams by Captain Beefheart
- Body Count (Album) by Body Count
- Broadway the Hard Way by Frank Zappa
- Civilization Phaze III by Frank Zappa
- Colour by Numbers by Culture Club
- Counterparts by Rush
- Dead Beat by Rufus Rx
- Does Humor Belong in Music? by Frank Zappa
- Don't Worry About Me by Joey Ramone
- Doolittle by The Pixies
- The Eminem Show by Eminem
- Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow
- Exile In Guy Ville by Liz Phair
- The Great Adventures of Slick Rick by Slick Rick
- Hospice by The Antlers
- Insomniac by Green Day
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
- John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan
- The Joshua Tree by U2
- Kermit Unpigged by The Muppets
- Life After Death by The Notorious B.I.G.
- Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
- Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
- Make a Jazz Noise Here by Frank Zappa
- The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem
- Me Against the World by Tupac Shakur
- Mezmerize/Hypnotize by System of a Down
- Mezzanine by Massive Attack
- Muppet Beach Party by The Muppets
- Music for Children by John Zorn
- Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
- nimrod. by Green Day
- Odelay by Beck
- One Nation Under a Groove by Funkadelic
- Parallel Lines by Blondie
- Play by Moby
- Power Windows by Rush
- Radio by John Zorn
- Rattle and Hum by U2
- Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G.
- Ring Ring by Abba
- A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay
- Secret Treaties by Blue Öyster Cult
- The Simpsons Sing the Blues by The Simpsons
- Sid Sings by Sid Vicious
- Since I Left You by The Avalanches
- The Slim Shady LP by Eminem
- Space Is The Place by Sun Ra
- Spiderland by Slint
- Spillane by John Zorn
- Stay Awake by various artists
- Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... by Tupac Shakur
- Super Trouper by Abba
- 21 by Adele
- 2PacalypseNow by Tupac Shakur
- Unconditionally Guaranteed by Captain Beefheart
- Vapor Trails by Rush
- Voulez-Vous by Abba
- Waterloo by Abba
- Warning: by Green Day
- White Chalk by PJ Harvey
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
Special thanks to Afro Thunder, AgProv, beergood, Ben Mitchell 90, Camassia, fruitstripegum, Hossmeister, Hugpocalypse, Music/Kitchen90, Mr Matt, Stuffed Ninja, Taking It On The Other Side, Trust Ben, Twilicorn, Vic George 2011 and myself, of course, for adding all these new records.
With Mezmerize/Hypnotize' as the latest entry, this brings our total score to...
American: 438 (consisting of Tori Amos (1 album), The Antlers (1), Louis Armstrong (1), Attila (1), The Band (2 (1 with Bob Dylan), but also mostly Canadian), Band of Gypsys (1), Bangles (1), Beach Boys (14), Beastie Boys (2), Big Black (1), Big Brother & The Holding Company (1), Boards of Canada (1), Body Count (1), Black Keys (1), Blondie (1), Blue Oyster Cult (3), Garth Brooks (1), James Brown (2), Jeff Buckley (2), The Byrds (1), Captain Beefheart (10, though one with Frank Zappa), Wendy Carlos (1), Ray Charles (1), Gilby Clarke (1), Ornette Coleman (1), John Coltrane (4), Alice Cooper (1), Bill Cosby (1), Creedence Clearwater Revival (1), Bing Crosby (1), Dick Dale (1), Miles Davis (4), The Dead Kennedys (1), Eddie DeGarmo and Bob Farrell (1), Lana Del Rey (1), Delaney & Friends (2), Devo (2), DJ Shadow (1), Eric Dolphy (1), The Doors (3), Dream Theater (1), Bob Dylan (18), Eric B. & Rakim (1), Eels (1), Eminem (3x), Exploding Hearts (1), Fireaxe (1), Firesign Theatre (1), Fleetwood Mac (1, part American and part British), Forgive Durden (1), Stan Freberg (2), The Fugees (1), The Fugs (3), Funkadelic (2), Marvin Gaye (1), Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (1), The Grateful Dead (2), Al Green (2) Green Day (6), Arlo Guthrie (1), Woody Guthrie (1), Guns 'N' Roses (3), Herbie Hancock (2), Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa (1), Jimi Hendrix (3), Lauryn Hill (1), Hole (1), Billie Holiday (1), Howlin' Wolf (2), Iron Butterfly (1), Michael Jackson (6), Jefferson Airplane (3), Robert Johnson (1), Daniel Johnston (2), Paul Kanter (1), Carole King (1), Kiss (5), Kendrick Lamar (1), Betty Lavette (1), Tom Lehrer (1), Linkin Park (2), Little Richard (1), Madonna (11), Marilyn Manson (5), Don McLean (1), Mc5 (1), MGMT (1), Metallica (2), Charles Mingus (1), Anaïs Mitchell (1), Moby (1), Thelonious Monk (1), Modest Mouse (1), The Muppets (2x), My Chemical Romance (2), Nine Inch Nails (2), Neutral Milk Hotel (1), Nirvana (5), Notorious B.I.G. (2), NWA (1), Dolly Parton (1), Liz Phair (1), The Pixies (2), Iggy Pop (2), Elvis Presley (5), Prince (2), Public Enemy (2), REM (1), Queensryche (1), Joey Ramone (1), Ramones (5), Red House Painters (1), Tito Puente (1), Otis Redding (1), Red Hot Chili Peppers (3), Lou Reed (3), The Residents (3), Marty Robbins (1), Rusus RX (1), Run DMC (3), Todd Rundgren (1), Savatage (5), Sesame Street (1), Schoolly D (2), Gil Scott-Heron (1), Tupac Shakur (3), Paul Simon (1), Simon & Garfunkel (1), The Simpsons (1), Frank Sinatra (4), Slint (1), Sly & The Family Stone (1), Brendon Small (1), Smashing Pumpkins (3), Jimmy Smith (1), Patti Smith (4), The Sparks (1), Regina Spektor (1, who was born in Russia), Stagehands (1), The Stooges (3), Donna Summer (2), Sun Ra (2), System Of A Down (2) Talking Heads (5), Television (1), They Might Be Giants (2), 30 Seconds To Mars (1), Christopher Tin (1), Trans Siberian Orchestra (1), A Tribe Called Quest (1), Trombone Shorty (1), TV On The Radio (1), Sarah Vaughan (3) The Velvet Underground (5, on their first two albums the Welshman John Cale played along), Tom Waits (16), Muddy Waters (1),, Weezer (1), Kanye West (1), White Stripes (2), Wilco (1), Hank Williams (1), Tony Williams (1), Brian Wilson (1), Dennis Wilson (1), Stevie Wonder (3), Frank Zappa (46), John Zorn (3x)
Australian: 8: AC/DC (3), The Avalanches (1), Nick Cave (2), Martin Pearson (1), Crowded House (1, part New Zealand)
Belgian: 4: dEUS (4)
Brazilian: 1: Sepultura (1)
British: 214: Adam And the Ants (3), Adam Ant (4), Adele (1), Arctic Monkeys (1), Alan Parsons Project (1), Syd Barrett (2), Bat For Lashes (1) The Beatles (15), Beck (2) Black Sabbath (1), David Bowie (12), Eric Clapton (1), The Clash (2), Joe Cocker (2), Coldplay (1), Elvis Costello (3) Cream (1), Culture Club (1), The Cure (2), Deep Purple (3), Derek & The Dominoes (1), Dire Straits (1), Duran Duran (1), Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1), Brian Eno (3), Fairport Convention (1), The Fireman (1), Fleetwood Mac (2, part American and part British), Franz Ferdinand (1), Peter Gabriel (1), Genesis (1), Gorillaz (2), Ellie Goulding (1), George Harrison (2), PJ Harvey (7), MJ Hibbet (1), Iron Maiden (3), Jethro Tull (1), Brian Jones (1), Elton John (1), Joy Division (2), Judas Priest (1), King Crimson (1), The Kinks (4), Led Zeppelin (6), Christopher Lee (1), John Lennon (6), Madness (3), Massive Attack (1), Brian May (1), Paul McCartney (2), John McLaughlin (1), Freddie Mercury (1), MIA (2), Monty Python (4), Motorhead (1), My Bloody Valentine (1), New Order (1), Mike Oldfield (1), Pink Floyd (15), The Police (2, though they have an American drummer), Portishead (1), The Pretty Things (1), Primal Scream (1), The Prodigy (1), Queen (4), Radiohead (6), The Rolling Stones (22), Roxy Music (1), Sex Pistols (1), Slick Rick (1), Small Faces (1), Ringo Starr (1), Stone Roses (1), This Mortal Coil (1), Underworld (1), Sid Vicious (1), Jeff Wayne (1), Andrew Lloyd Webber (2), The Who (6), Amy Winehouse (2), XTC (1) The Yardbirds (5), The Zombies (2)
Canadian: 14 : Arcade Fire (1), The Band (2, also American), Leonard Cohen (4), Joni Mitchell (2), Alanis Morissette (1), Rush (4), Neil Young (1)
Cuban: 1: Buena Vista Social Club (1)
Danish: 1: King Diamond (1)
Dutch: 3: Doe Maar (1), Arjen Anthony Lucassen (2)
Filipino: 1: Eraserheads (1)
Finnish: 2: YUP (1), Pepe De Luxe (1)
French: 5': Daft Punk (2), St. Germain (1), Jean Michel Jarre (1), Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon (1)
German: 6: Kraftwerk (4), Nico (1, with the Velvet Underground), Klaus Nomi (2)
Iceland: 5: Bjork (5)
Indian: 1: George Harrison (1, made by a Brit, but predominantly Indian music)
Irish: 6: My Bloody Valentine (1), U2 (5)
Jamaica: 12 : Bob Marley (10), Peter Tosh (1), Max Romeo (1)
Japanese: 3 Yoko Ono (3, with John Lennon)
Mexican: 2: Carlos Santana (2)
Moroccan: 1: Master Musicians of Jajouka (1)
New Zealand: 3: Lorde (2), Crowded House (1, part New Zealand)
Nigeria: 1: Babatunde Olantunji (1)
Norwegian: 1: The Kovenant (1)
Russian: 1: Regina Spektor (1, though she did move to New York later in life)
Spanish: 1: Montserrat Caballé (1, with the British pop musician Freddie Mercury)
Swedish: 8: Roxette (1), Abba (7)
Various artists: 1 ("Stay Awake")
Non-human 1: The album "Songs of the Humpback Whale" (1)
I've also looked at how many albums we have represented per decade:
1920s: 1!
1930s: 1!
1940s: 2!
1950s: 18!
1960s: 126!
1970s: 204!
1980s: 124!
1990s: 113!
2000s: 71!
2010s: 22!
edited 4th Sep '15 8:09:21 PM by Patachou
Still just awesome like that
I'm legitimately impressed how diverse of a lineup we have.
And people doubted that we'd ever have that many album articles...
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
And there's still a lot of work to do. We need more Brazilian, German and/or Icelandic albums.
Icelandic albums...Bjork? EDIT: oh, nvm, she got em.
edited 5th Sep '15 7:51:13 AM by sgtpendulum
http://www.last.fm/user/sgtpendulum Yo, check out what I'm listening, it'll be heat, brah :^)
Happy to leave Peter Green to you, @bluesno1fann! You have more energy than me and I have a to-do list that takes me else where. If I've read this thread correctly, you are the same age I was when Then Play On first came out, and also when I was taken to see Memphis Slim at Chateauvallon in France for a birthday present and was bowled over by him. Appreciating an older generation's music is great but you can't beat being there when it happened ;)