Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music releases featuring a vocoder


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The result was withdrawn, pending proposed changes. Wickethewok 21:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

List of music releases featuring a vocoder
This is a potentially huge list that would encompass pretty much every eurodance song and thousands of other songs. While this list would be more limited and feasible, say, 15-20 years ago, the prevalence of vocoders in modern music makes this on par with List of songs featuring guitar or at least List of songs featuring cowbells, which was deleted less than a month ago. Wickethewok 19:37, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep. Unlike guitar or cowbell, most people outside the electronic music scene are unfamiliar with the sound of a vocoder and frequently mistake it for other voice-based electronic instruments like talk boxes and Autotune. My suggestion for making it maintainable would be to limit it to charting singles, so for example, O Superman and Hide and Seek would be listed but "Nightflight to Venus" by Boney M (and most "eurodance" songs) wouldn't make the cut. Raindog469 20:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep. In American music, the vocoder is far from prevalent. Putting stricter criteria in place would effectively limit the list to charting singles (not excluding eurodance songs, etc.) List is potentially useful, encyclopedia-worthy, and feasible in my eyes. --EndlessVince 02:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Trim. Seems worthy of keeping, but it does have a potential to become very large, we need some basic criteria to keep this smaller (Basically, Keep per EndlessVince). Shadow1  (talk) 19:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


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