Talk:The Future Sound of London

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Added Earthbeat to the list of albums. It was released by Jumpin & Pumpin in 1992, shortly after the release of Accelerator. Although it's marketed as being a compilation album by "various artists", it's basically a compilation of all of FSOL's older work under their multitude of pseudonyms. It was also released on a double LP.

Oddly enough, myself and a couple of friends had a similar concept album released by Jumpin & Pumpin a few years later. It was called Trance Trippin and appears to be by various artists, but the whole thing was our own work. J&P screwed up the credits on the inlay though, giving credit to some people who had no creative input on the album. We never really did any other commercial stuff, but did release a lot of white labels and things containing a lot more experiemtental stuff. --Sonance 07:13, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Did accelerator got re-released in CD form in 1999? Don't know if it's that important--vininim 10:42, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] POV

There were a couple of POV sentences I removed, but this article still suffers from an overabundance of weasel terms. This is only made worse as it doesn't have any references so the "critics" that are referred to (e.g.) can't even be investigated. siafu 13:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Naming

Shouldn't this article be named The Future Sound of London? That's the name used on albums and single covers, on the net etc... Oskar Liljeblad 21:01, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I removed 3 External Links the other day. Two of the links have already been reposted. Recently i have been browsing a lot of music related articles and have increasingly noticed the prescence of Disclogs and other more "shop like" external links on the varioius pages. For example, on this article (fsol), the external link to AMG provides no more information than is already contained in the article, and the site is blatantly a commerical, shop like website. This is obvioiusly link spam, i i would simply removed these type of links. Also, the disclogs link simply provides a massive list of releases by fsol. Now, although this information is very interesting, i don't agree disclogs should be permited to litter every music related article on wikipedia with links to thier site. At this point i know that disclogs has a very complete and informative discography, and if i am really interested i will go to their website. But i do not need links to their site in order to remeber this. IMHO, websites that blatantly spread hundreds of links to thier websties wherever they can should not be permited to do this. NoMass 23:28, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I readded the AMG link because I and many others on this site consider it a useful and reliable resource, in the same manner that imdb is for film. To my knowledge, no one connected with AMG has ever added those links (I certainly am not). Even if there is no additional factual information at AMG than is found in this article, the critical reviews on that site are typically substantial and often quoted. In fact, our standard infobox for album articles contains a link to these reviews (see Within the Realm of a Dying Sun for an example). There are furthermore pictures of the band at AMG that this article lacks. If you have a problem with AMG links in Wikipedia, I suggest you discuss it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music or Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums to advocate for a project-wide change, rather than unilaterally removing them from random articles only. In the meantime, I am going to restore the link, because I believe AMG links are supported by community consensus. Please do not remove it unless you change that consensus. Postdlf 14:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

AMG and Discogs are both explicitly mentioned at Wikipedia:Notability (music)#Resources. Note also that "no more information than is already provided in the article" is not a reason for removing external links, because the external links provide Verifiability. -- Xtifr _tälk 18:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I just had to add this...the "rumours of mental illness" thing is just bugging me. According to their myspace page (there are three of them ???) one of the band members suffered ill health from leaking mercury fillings...and then recovered when a kind doctor REMOVED THEM. Hence the "hiatus" and "rumours" of mental illness. The text that says this no longer appears on the myspace pages but should be confirmed...as this "rumours" thing can be damaging. Anyway, someone edit this when there is confirmation (an interview?). DJBarney

[edit] New stuff

I will add more new pages for new albums and singles et cetera also will add some .ogg samples soon. Right now im working on Jesper Kyd and have been working alot on Elliot Goldenthal. :) ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 18:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

EDIT: Just went through all the singles and albums and added reflists and external links sections and added them to wikiprojects and assigned the relevent class and importance to each one now im gonna start adding info and refs proper to clean them up a bit. ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 20:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject?

This article and its subsequent album and single articles could make up an impressive bunch of articles, I think we should have some kind of Wikiproject for FSOL. Ive already done my bit and will continue but its a bit much trying to do almost all the big stuff myself, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. P.S. Im going to create an FSOL template soon also. ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 03:43, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

EDIT; Also people, if we are going to add new releases to the releases bit on the page PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put them in exact chronological order of release! Please, in the interest of the chronology at the bottom of every single and album page, thank you...ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 06:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Note to self (and anyone else who would like to help)...

Add section about their inspired independance from the mainstream, their own record labels, studios, licensing and generally managing all that stuff on there own. Definately worth commiting a few decent size paragraphs to.

Also finish off getting album articles to at least "start" status and then get to work on all those bloody singles! :)

P.S Really guys please check talk sections before making edits and ALWAYS provide proof ie references, even if you dont know hwo to put refs in an article just stick them in the talk page and we can see it. thanks ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 19:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC)