Talk:Back to Black

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YesY All the start class criteria
YesY A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details
YesY At least one section of prose (excluding the lead section)
NoN A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs
YesY A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians
YesY Categorisation at least by artist and year
YesY A casual reader should learn something about the album. Andrzejbanas (talk) 04:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] UK credit list

I'd say a list of who played every instrument on every song is needed as this is supposed to be an encyclopedic entry (so with as much detail as possible). It's information, not a review. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.49.218 (talk) 17:58, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] who?

too bad there is no information about who wrote what?! 62.167.38.128 05:14, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK credit list

I removed this long list, it was completely unnecessary. Sue Wallace (talk) 23:22, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I see this has been re-instated, can you explain why this long list is needed for this article? I can't see that this is the norm. other artists albums listing everyone and their dog. Please see Wikipedia:Embedded list. If no reason can be given why this long list is needed I will remove again. Sue Wallace (talk) 23:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
For the Wiki Albums I have looked at they give a track listing and a Personnel Section for the entire album not a credit listing for each single Edkollin (talk) 01:23, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's over the top, it could also be classed as fancruft, ie, no-one else would be interested in that info except an obsessed fan, I might take it up with an admin, I don't want to get into an edit war with an eleven year old. Sue Wallace (talk) 02:34, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
the Personnel section is a good idea, but it should indeed be album-wide. It can be condensed from its current state. The "(British version)" should also be removed from the title, as it implies that maybe on other versions the songs are played by different musicians. tomasz. 22:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Per Wikipedia convention

Per Wikipedia convention I moved this article from Back to Black (album) to Back to Black. See Master of Puppets and Master of Puppets (song). --Plantron (talk) 16:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tears Dry on Their Own vs Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Does anybody know for certain what the relationship is between Tears Dry on Their Own and Ain't No Mountain High Enough? Sample or interpolation? Part or whole? --VinceBowdren (talk) 14:38, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Me & Mr Jones

I removed a whole paragraph of unsourced stuff about the song Me & Mr Jones because it infringed the living-person-biography guidelines at WP:LIVING. --VinceBowdren (talk) 14:49, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

And I removed it again after 99.248.52.5 (talk) reinserted it. Same reason still applies:

Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material — whether negative, positive, or just questionable — about living persons should be removed immediately and without discussion from Wikipedia articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space.

(from WP:LIVING). --VinceBowdren (talk) 09:17, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

This re-release does not deserve its own page and should be merged with the original release 'Back To Black', similar to all 3 re-releases of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' which has been condensed into one article. Someone please do this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reqluce (talk • contribs) 18:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Distorted

Does anyone else think this sounds distorted? Does the reissue fix this problem, because I can't listen to it as it is. AJUK Talk!! 10:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portugal

Was there any special reason for this album to be released in Portugal first (and by 20 days!)? 81.84.102.102 (talk) 17:42, 1 June 2008 (UTC)