Talk:Yank Crime

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Drive Like Jehu, as well as all bands related to Rick Froberg and John Reis, was a band that went out of its way to ensure its music was released on vinyl. Thus, information about its release on vinyl absolutely warrants inclusion on an encyclopedic source.

As applied to Yank Crime, the vinyl version was released with a drastically altered song order. This changes the aesthetic of the album. Recall that many judge an album as more than a collection of songs, but as an artistic, singular item. While this is most common in non-punk idioms and genres, please note that Husker Du even recorded songs in the studio in the proper order for their final release: they knew how they wanted the album to flow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.232.55 (talk) 04:52, 15 June 2011 (UTC)


 * First, that the information about the vinyl release "absolutely warrants inclusion" is entirely a matter of your own opinion. Many, many, many albums are released in multiple formats (vinyl, cassette, CD, and now digital). It only warrants mention if there's something special to say about one format in relation to the others. For most of Froberg and Reis' discographies, there isn't much to say because the vinyl and CD editions have no differences apart from the side A/side B split and maybe colored vinyl releases (which are only of interest to collectors). There's no blanket guideline saying that every album released on vinyl has to discuss the vinyl in some special way. Now, I will grant that Yank Crime is a case where the vinyl does warrant mention, because as you say the track order is different and the fact that it was split up between a 12" and a 7" (which I believe was to preserve both the track order and level of fidelity they wanted) is unusual in comparison to most LP releases. That said, we need some reliable sources that discuss the differences between the CD & vinyl versions as well as how they affect the album's aesthetic. That's really the content that we need here. Do you know of any sources that discuss the differences and their meaning/impact? If you do, I'd be happy to incorporate them into the article. --IllaZilla (talk) 06:36, 15 June 2011 (UTC)