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[edit] Music-related articles in need of help

[edit] Unknown music genre

I am looking of a definition of a music/song genre, a kind of "urban musical folklore". Its distinctive feature is that it is related with a specific modern profession or occupation. (I say "modern", to distinguish the most obvious example of "cowboy songs" of country music). These songs usually target a particular professional audience, heavyly loaded with professional slang and humor.

Some examples:

  • Les Horribles Cernettes, "the one and only High Energy Rock Band" from CERN.
  • Filk music
  • The one I am particularty interested and trying to look up. In late 1960s or early 1970s, IBM released an LP full of parodies of pop songs with context related to computers. I remember two of them:

The latter one goes something like,

I've bought a terminal
The day I lost my gal
... etc.
Now I have girls galore
I my new mem'ry core
I put them on disk file
To store them for a while... etc.
Refrain:
Memory d'amour,
Put the core to the printer
Or to the display
Please without delay.

I'd very much like to see two things: the article about the genre and the info about this IBM music. Surprisingly, I cannot find its traces in the internet. mikka (t) 20:25, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Technical help needed

Would someone with a background in technical music writing please take a look at Talk:Dixie (song)? The source I used to write most of the main "Dixie (song)" article gives a quite technical description of the song, which flies right over my head. I've bulleted the points he makes on the talk page in the hopes that someone who understands his terminology will translate into common English and determine whether any of it deserves inclusion in the main article. Thanks! BrianSmithson 15:57, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Peer comments on Tool (band)

Hi folks, I would like to ask you a favor: I have been working on the Tool article for almost a year now and would like to pass it on to Peer review pretty soon. Before doing so, I would be interested in any qualified comments by co-editors who have already written good or featured articles in the same field. Like I said, any comments are welcome. Of course, if anyone is interested for my comments in exchange, I'd be more then glad to help out. Best wishes. --Johnnyw 19:33, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

That's a pretty... complete... article there. I haven't had a chance to go through the whole thing yet, but my initial reaction is that the intro is way too big and rather messy to read. It's one of the dangers of good citations, I'd be willing to bet. I'd move to have the intro cut down to the basics and move the important citations to the body of the article in some fashion, but that's an initial reaction; I'll give it a proper read later. Xinit 23:43, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In need of some assisatnce - Lists

I am almost finished fixing the naming conventions on the List of songs about drugs page, and have found similar musical lists which need fixing in the same way and don't think I can do it on my own as I may go crazy. If anyone would like to help me then I'd be very thankful. I'm asking this here because people involved in this WikiProject will be more likely to know how to make the needed changes. Here's the pages I have in mind so far (and what needs to be done):

Done. Took two seconds to change the italics to quotes, and a few more seconds to check the diff. Λυδαcιτγ 21:17, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Done. This one took a lot longer because of the varying formats. Λυδαcιτγ 23:16, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
  • List of songs over fifteen minutes in length (removal of excessive linking - a lot of entries link to the band name, even though they are in a section which the name links there already)
Done. Λυδαcιτγ 19:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Done. Λυδαcιτγ 04:43, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Done. The articles pertaining to it could use some work, its not very through. CraigP 02:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Done. Λυδαcιτγ 16:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
  • List of songs about Omaha, Nebraska (quote marks, and perhaps changing around of the artist and song name)
Done. Didn't change around the names, though - I can if it makes sense. Λυδαcιτγ 16:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Done. Λυδαcιτγ 23:39, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Done. CraigP 02:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Done. Λυδαcιτγ 02:51, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I also need a second opinion on the List of songs about drugs article about changing all the — marks to "by". Aa you can see, it's a lot of work to be done and I'm sure there are more lists that also need work. I severly doubt I can do this alone. Tartan 16:26, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Do you have Firefox? If so, use User:Cacycle/editor - it'll save you a ton of time. I'll get started on the simple search-and-replace stuff. Λυδαcιτγ 21:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't. I'm not even sure what that is (the Cacyle thing)... *laughs nervously* Tartan 21:04, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Replied on your talk page. Λυδαcιτγ 21:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

All done! Praise User:Cacycle/editor. Λυδαcιτγ 19:51, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

  • claps* Thanks very much! I haven't been around much to edit over the summer holidays here... it's a very lazy time for me. Tartan 13:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pink Fairies

needs NPOVing. JesseW 02:06, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

done MarkBuckles 02:49, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Schreck ensemble

not clear what needs doing. Is it good enough already? JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Was in terrible shape. Did a big overhaul. MarkBuckles 10:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sanguma

rewrite JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

done MarkBuckles 02:49, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Little Roger and the Goosebumps

unformatted JesseW 02:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Completed MarkBuckles 02:54, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Crisis (band) vs. Crisis (British band)

According to the disambiguation page, the article Crisis (band) should cope with the US heavy metal group, but actually, both Crisis (band) and Crisis (British band) speak of that British punk rock group... Can somebody help? -- 20:58, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Fixed! Check it all over if you like (had to sort out the disambig page as well as the 2 articles) and make any modifications you think are needed. Madder 00:45, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
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