Category talk:Book soundtracks

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this title is ridiculous, where does a book has its "soundtrack", I don't own any of those books that have a soundtrack... This category can't have been established by a native (english) speaker.(E-Kartoffel (talk) 11:08, 29 June 2010 (UTC))
 * Okay If you think it should be renamed, post to WP:CFD. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:39, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I will clean out all the items not in this category. if few or none are left, i will CFD it. Category:Music based on novels is better for most of these, i will recategorize when possible.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:38, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Category:Book soundtracks
Is it correct to add the category book soundtracks to albums that are not of this type? These albums are not even directly-related to its sources of creation or inspiration (i.e. Mastodon's Leviathan is not a [companion release] soundtrack to Herman Melville's book Moby-Dick). I have seen users adding the aforementioned category on I, Lucifer (Real Tuesday Weld album), Leviathan (album) and Greenslade.--Malconfort (talk) 23:01, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's correct at all. An album may be inspired by a book, but that doesn't make it a soundtrack to it. At the top of my head, I can think of two recent rock albums that are supposed to be companions to books, and those are the two Sixx A.M. albums, which were released contemporaneously or nearly the same time as the books. The band has released statement saying the albums are essentially soundtracks, and there are secondary sources to support it (the first album is even called The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack). These two albums should be categorized as book soundtracks (they currently aren't). On the other hand, concept albums based on mythological tales, or role playing games (Traveller (Slough Feg album)), or comic book characters (The Dark Saga) aren't "soundtracks". Looking at the category, I see albums that have been tagged more as a form of original research than as anything verifiable or even remotely true. I think the category could also use an infobox or at least a sentence at the top explaining how and when it should be used. Now, are audio books "book soundtracks"? That should be defined as well. –  Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 02:12, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that albums should not be tagged as such if they are merely inspired by a book. There should be an uncontested source which blatantly states that the albums are soundtracks to one or more books. Backtable Speak to meconcerning my deeds. 03:27, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There are also the sub-categories, 1984 music and Cthulu Mythos music. Those subcategories are fine in and of themselves, but they should not be categorized, even generally, in book soundtracks, I don't think. Perhaps a new category should be created (unless one exists; I haven't looked) in regards to "Music inspired by books" and "Music inspired by mythology", and then those would themselves be grouped to some ultimate category. –  Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 09:32, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * If such categories are to exist, then I would definitely be fine with that. Such categories can be a nice way of identifying album content and concepts. Backtable Speak to meconcerning my deeds. 22:23, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, right off the bat, I !vote that audio books are not considered soundtracks, since our own article defines it as an "album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show". So I propose a notice box at the top of the category that will look similar to this:


 * Any suggestions on what else it should say or how else it should be written? –  Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 23:05, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

I added the notice since there were no voices against it. I'll go through and uncategorize articles and maybe try to figure out a tree for the mythos categories—I listen to albums that are based on country-specific mythologies as well that aren't currently categorized as such, so it could be a mini-project. –  Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 00:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)