Talk:Strange Weirdos

simplistic filters don't improve this article (or my mood)
I removed reference 2:

"&lt;ref&gt;&#91;&#104;ttp://concordmusicgroup.com/news/ CONCORD RECORDS TO RELEASE SOUNDTRACK TO UNIVERSAL PICTURES’ UPCOMING COMEDY KNOCKED UP&#93;, &#91;&#91;Concord Music Group&#93;&#93;&lt;/ref&gt;"

The URL -- <&#104;ttp://concordmusicgroup.com/news/> -- is a page that changes regularly. It no longer includes album release date reference. It doesn't appear as if the Concord Music Group makes a permanent link to old press releases available.

I found a blog.myspace.com URL -- <&#104;ttp://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&FriendID=91132617&blogMonth=3&blogDay=27&blogYear=2007> that, so far as I can gather, having read articles based on the press release posted elsewhere, presents an essentially equivalent version of the press release that was once at .

Moreover, the 'FriendID' value in the above URL is the Concord Music Group's own MySpace ID. So it doesn't present an identity-theft issue for anyone, whilst simultaneously getting past the 'you have to be logged in to see this' problem with most URLs in the myspace.com namespace.

Nonetheless, since the blog.myspace.com namespace is listed on  I can't save the page with this URL included.

I spent an hour searching the concordmusicgroup.com site and noting the basic syntax they use for press releases, all to establish my confidence in the above statement regarding old press releases being eventually removed. I then spent further time both finding this reference and establishing the meaning and value of the FriendsID token in the blogs.myspace.com URL.

All to have it blocked by an over-enthusiastic, overly-simplistic filter.

Which rather defeats the purpose of volunteering time in the first place. (And, please, don't suggest all I have to do is "request whitelisting on the Spam whitelist talk page." Two hours of my time gone on a fruitless bit of research is enough. Suggesting the fix is to commit more of my time isn't a good way to improve my mood.)


 * &mdash; bforte (t/c).

references and/or external links
When a site is invoked in the case of the first, is it really necessary to invoke it again in the following section immediately following? Pseudo Intellectual (talk) 13:17, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Confusion re Songwriting Credits
I'm not disputing the credits as they appear now. But I'm holding the disc in my hand and it explicitly says "Songs and score written and produced by Loudon Wainwright III and Joe Henry" with no "except for..." Anyone have any idea how to reconcile the Peter Blegvad or Mose Allison credit with that unambiguous blanket statement printed on the disc? I'm baffled. Lafong (talk) 18:00, 19 October 2016 (UTC)