Talk:Seatbelts (band)

new york section
I never knew this until today, but: some of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack tunes were recorded by some american musicans from New York. Most notably, "Odd Ones." These musicians should be properly credited on the seatbelts wiki, I think. Although, I'm not sure if "The Seatbelts" somehow excluded the NY musicians, if "The Seatbelts" were strictly the entourage hired by Yoko Kanno in Japan. In any case, the wiki says the seatbelts did all the soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop, but the members listing doesn't list the New York musicians. http://www.jazzmess.com has all the information. Part of the reason I never knew that there were NY/american musicians doing some of the soundtrack work is that... The Seatbelts wiki didn't mention them.128.119.233.91 05:10, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Discography section
Like most bands on wikipedia, The Seatbelts diserve a discography section. I added one, and I am currently in the middle of giving each album it's own page. For continuitie's sake, I moved Ask DNA back into a seperate page, but it shouldn't be a problem any more, given that every album has it's own page. OnionRingOfDoom 02:47, 13 December 2005 (UTC)OnionRingOfDoom

Tim Jensen?
Does anyone have any info on Tim Jensen, besides the fact that he writes the lyrics for most of Yoko Kanno's vocal songs? I can't seem to find ANYTHING on google, besides liner notes and credits attributed to him. I have a feeling that Tim Jensen is a psudonym... OnionRingOfDoom 15:32, 13 December 2005 (UTC)OnionRingOfDoom

---Tim Jensen is not a psudonym, he's a real person. He's notibly voice in the opening theme to cowboy bebop, the one that ends with "3...2...1 let's jam"

BAND SCORE

 * "COWBOY BEBOP BAND SCORE Three,Two,One,Let's Jam!"
 * (ISBN 4-89601-413-8)MOVIC
 * Tank!/Rush/SPACE LION/Cats on Mars/MEMORY/THE REAL FOLK BLUES

--6286f (talk) 15:03, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * "BAND SCORE COWBOY BEBOP BEST SCORE"
 * (ISBN 978-4-7732-2929-5)k.m.p.
 * Tank!/Rush/SPACE LION/PIANO BLACK/RAIN/Cats on Mars/BLUE/CALL ME CALL ME/Ask DNA/No reply/Gotta Knock a little harder/THE REAL FOLK BLUES




 * "PIANO SCORE COWBOY BEBOP"
 * (ISBN 978-4-7732-2920-2)k.m.p.
 * Tank!(Piano Solo)/WALTZ for ZIZI(Piano Solo)/PIANO BLACK(Piano Solo)/PIANO BLACK(Piano Duet)/RAIN(Piano&Vocal)/MEMORY(Piano Solo)/Piano Bar I(Piano Solo)/THE REAL FOLK BLUES(Piano&Vocal)/Cats on Mars(Piano Solo)/Green Bird(Piano Solo)/ELM(Piano&Vocal)/The EGG and YOU(Piano Solo)/BLUE(Piano&Vocal)/CALL ME CALL ME(Piano&Vocal)/FLYING TEAPOT(Piano&Vocal)/No reply(Piano&Vocal)/Dijurido(Piano&Vocal)/Gotta Knock a little harder(Piano&Vocal)

 --9601U (talk) 06:38, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Fiction/real life
I think we need to split the band info and discography into fictional and real life parts. In the Bebop universe, Seatbelts was a band produced by "Y.K." and which was very popular in the Solar System from 2040s to 2070s. As far as I know, the band is not actually mentioned in the series but only in the OST booklets.

Information sources:

Liner notes from OST 1

MC talk on Music for Freelance

Discography in the Cowboy Bebop Tank!The!Best! liner notes

Real life: concert infos? Earth Girls are Easy tour? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.200.0.253 (talk) 00:08, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Band name is simply Seatbelts, not The Seatbelts
This seems to be a long standing error. The band name is Seatbelts, without the "The" nominator. This is shown on the band's official website and just the transliteration of the Japanese kana: シートベルツ (Shītoberutsu). If their name were The Seatbelts, the kana would have read ザ　シートベルツ (Za Shītoberutsu). Additionally, in the live recordings Future Blues DVD, guest vocalist Mai Yamane introduced the band as "Seatbelts" in English (I can provide proof, but it'd be a copyright infringement to upload the video).

Usually there is confusion over whether to call the band "Yoko Kanno/Seatbelts", "Yoko Kanno and Seatbelts" "Seatbelts feat. Yoko Kanno" etc, but never whether the band has the "The" nominator.

Correcting this will require hanging the title of the article, and presumably the URL? I'm not so confident in how to go about these changes - I'll leave this discussion open to others before I try making changes myself.

Miksemerts (talk) 08:33, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed and will do. –Quiddity (talk) 04:15, 14 December 2012 (UTC)