Talk:Congratulations (album)

Lady Dada's Nightmare was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 13 September 2010 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Congratulations (album). The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Rob Fitzpatrick (2011-10-27). "When bands fall off cliffs". The Guardian. In October 2007, when MGMT arrived with their debut album, Oracular Spectacular, they made enough of an impact to sell half a million copies in the UK alone. Their Wikipedia page trumpets that the band's follow-up, 2010's Congratulations, sold 66,000 copies in its first week ('the best sales week ever for the group').

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Until the album is distributed through the market, or until a source can be presented that is not a torrent site, or where the time lengths of the song can be shown, refrain from adding any time lengths to this article. Amongst doing so, your edit will immediately be reverted.--F-22 Raptör^{Aces High♠} 23:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Professional reviews[edit]

We all know that there are going to be lots of reviews for this album and that some of them will be unavoidably omitted for this article (10 is the maximum). The only reference we have for the Mojo, Q Magazine and Uncut reviews is a link from Any Decent Music (http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/1662/Congratulations.aspx) which does not provide sufficient info such as editor, page and issue of the magazine.

I have gathered a bunch of other reviews which are available online and could replace those three if nobody is able to provide the required info. BBC Music: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fqcg

The Fly: http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/reviews/album-reviews/7418/album-review:-mgmt

About.com: http://altmusic.about.com/od/reviews/fr/mgmt-congratulations.htm

The Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/mgmt--congratulations-20100401-rh92.html

Please add any official reviews you find online here so that we can decide on which of them to include in the article. --Spacealigned (talk) 14:27, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here is Allmusic review: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfrxzrsldte I think it must be included. Ferrumoff (talk) 13:15, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Allmusic, as much as I loathe them, their review is rather an important one. Should we consider replacing Q for Allmusic then based on the argument stated above?--F-22 Raptör^{Aces High♠} 13:21, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Released on the 12th April[edit]

Perhaps only in the UK, the album was released yesterday, not today. There were adverts in NME stating the release as the 12th, and it was available in high street shops from the 12th.

Source?--F-22 Raptör^{Aces High♠} 17:47, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's normal for new albums to be released in the UK on a Monday (the 12th was a Monday). Tuesday seems more normal in the US. 82.43.158.82 (talk) 12:26, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lady Dada's Nightmare[edit]

Someone created an article for this song, which I redirected here because I don't think it makes any sense to have an article for a song that wasn't a single. The text of the article is below if anyone wants to incorporate it here.Prezbo (talk) 20:29, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lady Dada's Nightmare is the eighth track from American psychedelic rock band MGMT's sophomore album Congratulations. It is unique in being the only instrumental track so far released by the band and also for its awkward major to minor chord changes, instrumentation altered by studio effects and its horror-themed screaming sounds which come in about halfway through the piece. The title of the track was inspired by musician Lady Gaga after MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden developed a new found appreciation for her creative music videos and propensity to expose the avant-garde to the mainstream media.

Same with Someone's Missing.Prezbo (talk) 20:32, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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