Talk:CCS (band)

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It's "Cosmic Consciousness Society" isnt it?

I thought the version used between 1997 and 2003 was a remix of the Led Zepellin recording. Grant 14:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

No Sorry, wrong on both counts. It is Collective Consciousness Society and it was CCS's version used on TOTP. I played bass on several CCS recording between 1971 -72. Alexis would breeze into the Speakeasy Club in the early hours and gather whatever musicians he needed for the following day with a cheery "Just turn up at the studio by 10am tomorrow". We all got paid standard Musician's Union session rates which was about £20 an hour if I remember correctly, and most of us rarely got credited on the record sleeve. Happy days though 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 19:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't the article mention that CCS were essentially a big band plus a rock rhythm section and singers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.20.9.34 (talk) 12:07, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved to CCS (band). (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 17:19, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Collective Consciousness Society → C.C.S. – I do not believe that the name of the band as shown in chart listings, record sleeves and labels etc was ever anything other than C.C.S. That set of initials may have been derived from "Collective Consciousness Society", but that appears to be the reason behind the name of the band, not the name itself. C.C.S. with the full stops, which is the way it was presented on record labels (unfortunately, the two eponymous albums both went without full stops on their album covers, and they might need moving in due time) does not seem to need disambiguation: redirects will be needed. Kevin McE (talk) 13:10, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose the proposed title as ambiguous; see CCS. C.C.S. (band) or CCS (band) could be a possibility, although I'd like to see reliable sources to confirm which punctuation to use. 162 etc. (talk) 14:47, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have any source demonstrating that the current three word title was ever used as the name of the band, as opposed to the inspiration of the name? If the name of the band is (per record labels and chart listings) C.C.S. (with full stops), and there is no other article so named, why is that ambiguous? Kevin McE (talk) 17:59, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Could you explain why you have today changed C.C.S. from being a redirect to this page into a redirect to the CCS disambiguation? Is there evidence that any of those are commonly known by initials with full stops? And given that this is in progress, would you not have thought it appropriate to do that as a RM, with expectation of it being contentious? Kevin McE (talk) 18:07, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * As the RM proposer, the onus is on you to provide reliable sources justifying the proposed title. The proposal mentions record labels as justification; these are not an independent source, see WP:IS.  No links have been provided to the chart listings that could confirm the name "C.C.S."  Also, the proposal acknowledges that some material used the spelling "CCS", so I don't really buy the WP:SMALLDETAILS argument for this one.


 * As for the retargeting of C.C.S., I believe that is ambiguous and that the disambiguation page is a better target. There are a number of TLAs listed at CCS that could also be referred to as C.C.S.  Feel free to take it to WP:RMT if you disagree. 162 etc. (talk) 19:10, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * So you have no source for the name you are defending?
 * The stated purpose of WP:IS is to " fairly portray the subject, without undue attention to the subject's own views": we are not talking opinions or building up a mystique: this is a simple factual matter of the intended presentation of the name. And the record company would be the most reliable source for that.
 * C.C.S. as artists for Whole Lotta Love;and here
 * Official charts company list them as C.C.S.
 * Record sales site, another, and another.
 * It is possible to find references to the band as CCS (without full stops): that is precisely why I would suggest that the official presentation of the name should be taken as definitive. I find no reference suggesting that the main name of the band was ever Collective Consciousness Society. Kevin McE (talk) 21:30, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not opposing this move because I believe "Collective Consciousness Society" is accurate; I'm opposing it because I believe that "C.C.S." is ambiguous. As I mentioned before, I would consider supporting C.C.S. (band) or CCS (band), if the discussion determines that "Collective Consciousness Society" is not the common name. 162 etc. (talk) 23:16, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * None of the entities listed at the CCS disambiguation page suggest that C.C.S. (with full stops) is a form of reference used for any of them: no-one had thought that C.C.S. needed to point to the disabiguation page rather than the band. Of course, a hatnote to that disambiguation page would be appropriate when/if this move is made.  Kevin McE (talk) 00:42, 26 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Move to CCS (band). I agree with 162, and longstanding convention, that the presence or absence of dots in an abbreviation is an insufficient distinction to satisfy WP:SMALLDETAILS. It seems that the abbreviation is more common than the fully spelled out name though, so seems good to move to that title. Can't see huge evidence that C.C.S. is more common than CCS, but if the evidence is there then C.C.S. (band) would work as well. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:23, 26 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Oppose The band is known as both "Collective Consciousness Society" and "CCS" (often without periods, e.g. here). For such usage see, for example, here, here and here.  Both CCS and C.C.S. are ambiguous, and the band is not likely to be considered a primary topic at the disambiguation page. --Bejnar (talk) 19:58, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Two of your references are to non-English language sources, the other uses the words in a headline but consistently uses only the initials in the text. We may have an issue here of an informed author and a less specialised sub-editor. Kevin McE (talk) 11:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Move to CCS (band). Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music ed. Donald Clarke in both first (1989) and second (1998) editions under Korner, Alexis have (and I quote) ". . . large group CCS (Collective Consciousness Society) promoted by Mickie Most . . ."  Doug butler (talk) 01:18, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
 * P.S. I find that Clarke's 1998 edition of the Encyclopedia is now free on line here. It's wide-ranging and authoritative. Doug butler (talk) 02:37, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Move to CCS (band) per Doug butler & Amakuru. Havelock Jones (talk) 13:02, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy enough with the counter-proposed CCS (band): I still believe that the evidence of album covers and record labels should tip us in favour of the version with full stops in which case the disambiguator would seem unnecessary (and was considered unnecessary for more than 10 years until after this discussion was started), but if it helps nudge us to a decision I would accept CCS (band). Frankly, anything other than the three words that were only ever used as an explanation of what the name meant: that is like calling the band behind I'm not in Love as Ten Cubic Centimetres, or  that Food for Thought was a hit for Unemployment Benefit Forty.  Kevin McE (talk) 18:11, 19 September 2021 (UTC)