Albums worthy of receiving their own TV Tropes article?

Well, there's more to Iceland than Björk, and I'm a big fan of her music.

I've been busy with work and various classes lately. I feel a bit guilty over abandoning the pages I was going to write up, but I think the index is getting a lot better about branching away from metal and classic rock lately. I think this is probably a good thing, though I can't put a finger on why?

Presumably because there is more in life than just rock, pop and metal alone. Good music isn't restricted to the most well known genres, musicians and albums only. It's always interesting to learn about new or more obscure works. Especially when you can help people discover stuff that appeals to their taste or broadens their cultural luggage. :) In the same way I'm also happy whenever records from non-American or non-British musicians are featured. And when very old records are brought back under attention.

So, I started making a page for Make it Sweet! (one of the soundtrack albums for the game Um Jammer Lammy). Obviously since it's a semi-obscure game and the album is even less known^note Honestly, the only knowledge I expect people to have of this is that they might know one of the songs from it being used as the credits song of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Movie, I don't expect a ton of people to be knowledgeable enough to contribute to the article, but I'll drop the sandbox page I created for it here anyway in the hope that people could at least look it over, fix mistakes I might have made, and (potentially) contribute stuff to it if they do have any insight on the topic: Sandbox.Make It Sweet

Here's a stream of the album on YouTube if you're curious or want to contribute but don't know much about it, and here's the articles on the album from both Wikipedia and the PaRappa the Rapper wikia.

I'm gonna transfer the page to the Music namespace in like a day or two.

edited 12th Oct '15 12:55:46 AM by Odd1

I have a question. I decided that my first contribution to albums would be Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys, a landmark of Power Metal. But here's thing: it's a semi-two-parter. By that I mean, Keeper Pt.1 was released in '87 and Keeper Pt.2 in '88 (the band wanted to release a double-album from the get-go, but the Record company wouldn't let them). So do I make separate pages for each part or one page for both. (As far as I, as well as many others, am concerned, it's one big album split into two.)

Well, there are movie pages which feature a movie and its sequel together in the summary and movie pages with each separate movie and respective sequel. So, basically, do what it feels best for your case.

Also, if you feel there are many tropes and you want to put both albums on the same page, it's best to make two folders, one for each album, after you have written the description/summary.

I did one page for both with the Use Your Illusion albums, that worked alright. I'd say go with that.

There's got to be a couple of Jethro Tull albums that warrant their own page. There's already an Aqualung one, but how about Thick As a Brick or A Passion Play?

Hits and Exit Wounds by Alabama 3, so many tropes on that album (mostly because it's a compilation/remix album of some of their most trope heavy songs)

It's been a while since the last post, and I don't know if OP is even still around, but progress certainly has still been going on at this front. Did a share of this myself, helping complete the Genesis and Queen discographies, putting in the Yes albums up to 90125 (might still continue on this at some point), Breakfast in America and Deja Vu (I wasn't even aware this thread or the OP's list existed when I created it) and so on. Some other acts (like The Beach Boys and most recently System of a Down for example) by now have their complete discographies with their own page.

As for other resources that I place in Summary.Music (aside from personal preference and the various music publication lists that have been posted here), I also factor in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, high-ranking albums on Rate Your Music and the 2015 /mu/ssentials list. By now, of the essential fifteen, only The Money Store and American Football don't have their own page.^note For the uninitiated, the other thirteen are In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Kid A, Loveless, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Remain in Light, Spiderland, In the Court of the Crimson King, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Trout Mask Replica, Soundtracks for the Blind, Pet Sounds and The Velvet Underground & Nico

Pages I would like to see down the line (Might even personally get to it myself):

• The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card
• Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
• The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
• Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
• The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Edited by GrafVonTirol on Apr 16th 2023 at 4:57:45 AM

I notice the most recent album by The Rolling Stones still doesn't have a page.

The Microphones as a whole really need a page, and if they do, Mount Eerie (the album, not Phil Elverum's alias) should get a page too.

Expanding the Albums Index is one of my main wiki projects (along with cleanup/maintenance on K-pop pages, though I've been slowing down with that since shifting my focus back to metal). I only just found out what the summary pages were supposed to be (I thought it was just a collection of work-page red links people found) and now find them useful enough to add more links myself.

Edited by AnotherOnlinePersona on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:03:17 AM

Honestly I think Jonathan Coulton - Solid State deserves an article. Not only is it a concept album with an overarching story, but it also has a tie-in graphic novel that expands on many of the details.