Talk:1972 in music/Archive 1

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Planning on doing this for every year, and for all genres of music, or should this be 1972 in rock music? -- Zoe

Wull, I think it should be done for every year. If it becomes necessary, we could divide the page up into genres, although I don't really like doing that. I wouldn't be capable of doing anything for more than 75 years ag or so. I think if people contribute a little about the styles or innovations found on a particular album in a little write up on this page, eventually there would be a great sort of map detailing the evolution of the music. Wanna help? :) - Tubby


 * I like this idea, but I have a concern--most readers won't click on a piped link to 1972 because they assume it's about the year (I saw it because I watch Ziggy Stardust and saw your change of the link). Maybe it should be made explicit, as in "David Bowie released Ziggy Stardust in 1972 (see 1972 in music)". Tokerboy 08:47 Dec 21, 2002 (UTC)


 * Hmm... yeah I see what you mean. As it stands now, the year links are pretty much useless; hence, the year in music idea. It would probably be a good idea to make the link to the new thing more explicit. I redirected a bunch of random music links to 1972, but they will probably go unnoticed...

- Tubby

Eventually I suppose, if and when the xx in music links become standard, they can replace the other unnamed links. But until then I guess they should be mentioned explicitly. - Tubby

OK, so there's a lot of "#1 hits" listed here now - what country were they number one in? I assume the US, we should probably say so. But then I suppose we can also include UK #1s? And Swedish #1s? Hmm, possibly a tad troublesome. Not suggesting anything here, just thinking aloud (more thinking aloud from me at Talk:1973 in music). --Camembert
 * The site I took most of them from wasn't entirely clear, but did specifically mention they were #1 hits--I think it included British and American, and several charts, not just Billboard. Tokerboy

Oh yeah, just in case you folks haven't already, everyone should check out WikiProject Albums and give it a look. The two things should work together. - Tubby

additional information on the list
I don't think that a list of albums released is the most suitable place for including additional information for each item. It will soon cease to be intelligible if everyone adds on their opinions to each and every album released. Surely the internal links to the article page should suffice.83.191.67.22 23:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

separating genres
Surely that went out at the beginning of the last century? By way of example, where should we put an album such as the great Island Records Bumper Album containing tracks from several groups, and covering a wide range of groups from the 70s? How about future recordings of unplugged versions of heavy metal tracks? What I'm getting at is that there's no limit to the variations - as Ellington said many years ago - It's all music.83.191.67.22 23:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

albums released - alphabetical order
Dear 60s and 70s music fans out there in wikiland (or is that wikispace?)

For want of an easier way of doing things, and following a question raised on this talk page, I am in the process of putting the albums released sections of the 60s and 70s in music pages into alphabetical order.

Whilst I realise this may not be the best or most popular way of listing stuff, I reached the conclusion that other than going directly to an artist's article page, it was probably the most efficient/effective way to find that album that we want to check up on and compare it to its contemporaries. By way of example, if we were to put the following album in artist name order:


 * Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 - Jackson 5

we would [probably] have to include it twice on the same list: once under each of the named artists, whereas if we list it alphabetically there's no possible confusion(?).

I'd appreciate some feedback on this, and in the hope that y'all agree with me (as you can imagine this is taking up quite a bit of my wikitime), I'm posting this note on all the relevant discussion pages. Please bear in mind I am only suggesting this for the albums released sections and NOT for any other kind of list. Thanx. 83.180.133.119 23:20, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

New section
Hey Wknight94, you asked about consensus for the xxxx(year) in Music to xxxx(year) in American and British Music page moves. Did you check my edit comments? In there I state that Wikipedia itself had posted a "consensus" that the title was too generic, too global, and if a global title was used it should represent music globally. American and British Pop muic is what was and is on those pages, so that is why they were moved. Please undo the revert. I contribute only occasionally and do not want my contributions undone just because someone didn't understand the Wikipedia Globalization "please globalize" tag that used to be on the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lookskywatcher (talk • contribs) 17:44, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * You are free to add more global music on these pages. Renaming them was overkill.   Wknight94  talk  18:22, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

"Drowning In The Sea Of Love" by Joe Simon
It appears to me that every reference that I find for "Drowning In The Sea Of Love" by Joe Simon gives the release date as 1972, except for Wikipedia, which lists it as one of the "Biggest hit singles" of 1971. Unless someone can find documentation otherwise, I believe that this song was released in 1972, and was one of the biggest hit singles of 1972. Any comments from anyone? Yanq (talk) 08:48, 18 June 2010 (UTC)