Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Featured Albums Project

The Featured Albums Project is an attempt to identify the album articles which are closest to being ready for featured states, and working together to help get them to that state. Feel free to add articles on albums which you feel are among the very best on Wikipedia. You may also add notes to explain what should be fixed or added to each article.

Participants: Tuf-Kat

When this project began, there were no featured albums. Since the foundation of the Featured Albums Project in October of 2004, the following albums have become featured:

Currently nominated
In approximate order of most ready to least

Future candidates

 * Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
 * Needs albumbox
 * Not sure what's needed - well fleshed out though
 * This is a strong candidate, more jazz representation needed.
 * The Who - Tommy
 * Needs albumbox
 * As its a rock opera, how about we tell the story as to how far its gotten per track? Redwolf24 22:57, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The Who - Who's Next
 * Needs albumbox
 * Albumbox needs more reviews
 * How many are we looking for? Eyeball kid 22:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * List more edtions of the album, like the other Who albums
 * The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
 * Needs length and more reviews in infobox
 * Pink Floyd - The Wall
 * Copyedit, albumbox
 * Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
 * Copyedit, move track listing to bottom
 * Albumbox needs more reviews and other fields
 * The Beatles - Abbey Road
 * Reads a bit fan-ish
 * The Beatles - The Beatles (album)
 * First sentence needs attribution
 * Should be moved to most common name, The White Album
 * Albumbox could use more reviews
 * Should not be moved to most common name. The Beatles is the name and it should be kept there.
 * The Beatles - Beatles for Sale
 * Likely more content available
 * Albumbox needs more reviews
 * Wasn't the conclusion to only put record lengths for the release in the original country?
 * The Who - Quadrophenia
 * Needs albumbox
 * Needs track listing
 * Albumbox needs more reviews
 * List more editions of the album, like the other Who albums
 * The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
 * album title is bolded (likely a self-link) several times
 * Needs more reviews in albumbox
 * The Beatles - Help!
 * Copy-edit needed
 * More reviews in albumbox
 * De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
 * Needs albumbox
 * The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
 * Needs more reviews in albumbox
 * Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread
 * Needs albumbox
 * Clean-up, probably more content to be had
 * The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
 * Needs more reviews in albumbox
 * The Beatles - Rubber Soul
 * There's probably more to say
 * Writing is in places bad (e.g. pointing out George Martin's keyboard work in the first paragraph)
 * Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
 * Needs references for the sales stuff
 * Needs more reviews in albumbox
 * Formatting needs work
 * Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
 * Needs albumbox
 * The Who - The Who Sell Out
 * Lots of technical info, but not much else
 * why so much bolding?
 * Needs albumbox
 * Albumbox
 * The Who - My Generation
 * Lots of technical info, but not much else
 * why so much bolding?
 * Needs albumbox
 * The Who - A Quick One
 * Lots of technical info, but not much else
 * why so much bolding?
 * Needs albumbox
 * Albumbox needs more reviews
 * Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
 * More reviews in albumbox
 * More content likely available
 * Formatting
 * Nirvana - Bleach
 * More content could be added
 * Nirvana - In Utero
 * More content could be added
 * Outkast - Aquemini
 * Some formatting, needs a good editor
 * Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
 * Clean-up impact section
 * More reviews in albumbox
 * The Beatles - Let It Be
 * A lot of people think this is their worst album, but this article doesn't really show that or explain why
 * See Talk:Let It Be (album). Can't please everybody I guess :) --kingboyk 01:52, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
 * Integrate quote, general formatting issues
 * The Clash - London Calling
 * There's likely more to be said
 * Needs more reviews in albumbox
 * Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
 * Big copy-edit, clean-up, some of the language is verbose and wordy
 * Needs albumbox
 * Should perhaps get some quotes from those who decried the album
 * David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
 * Infobox needs recorded date
 * A photo of Bowie as Ziggy would be nice
 * Needs a good copyedit
 * Ziggy needs to be placed in the broader context of Bowie's career, and the field of glam rock
 * Clean up the influences section
 * Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again
 * Stupid commercial album, should have more on commercial sales
 * More reviews needed
 * Recording details for albumbox
 * Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
 * More reviews in albumbox
 * More content likely available
 * Pink Floyd - Meddle
 * Formatting, more reviews in albumbox
 * Nirvana - Nevermind
 * Needs more substantial content
 * Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
 * Some good content, but format needs updating
 * The Beatles - The Beatles 1
 * Is likely as good as it can get, but may not be good enough to be featured
 * Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
 * what's there is good, but it needs more -- very influential album
 * Albumbox needs more reviews
 * Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
 * Needs albumbox
 * Likely more to say about one of the most famous bootleg albums ever
 * The Beatles - Please Please Me
 * Formatting needs to be majorly cleaned up
 * Yes - The Yes Album
 * Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
 * Coming along, needs more content
 * More reviews in albumbox
 * The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
 * Albumbox needs more reviews
 * Needs direct citation, reference (i.e. link, ref section with isbn, date of publication, etc) for "Mark Lewison's definitive book on the Beatles' recording sessions" and for "The Times critic Kenneth Tynan"
 * Oppose It just doesn't seem very well written at the moment. Don't mean to be harsh, but the language needs a lot of improvement. Immediate observations are:


 * 1. 'The album also launching what we know today as the Classic Rock radio format.' The sentence doesn't make sense. Do we know it as the Classic Rock radio format, or do just some Americans? (I've never heard of the term.) Why did this album launch that format and not other bands of the era?
 * Removed.
 * 2.'is often called' Weasel words, who does the calling?
 * That's credited in the intro to Rolling Stone, and that is all that is need for the first paragraph. Others are mentioned elsewhere, such as in the section entitled "critical reception" and in the infobox.
 * Perhaps just quote Rolling Stone if the other critics aren't going to be named there.
 * There's no nice terse quotable phrase from the review that says it, unfortunately. It's really not necessary for the first paragraph.  The goal of the intro is to get the most important facts across, and one of the most important facts is that Sgt. Pepper's is more critically acclaimed than most any other album, with Rolling Stone being given as an example.  I don't think there's any need for a quote there -- if someone wants to know the details, there's a link to the review just a few inches down in the infobox.
 * 3. 'is sometimes described' These are weasel words.
 * Removed.
 * 4.'titular song' What's wrong with 'title song'?
 * I think of a "title song" as applying specifically to the titular song of a movie or musical, not a song with the same title as the album it was released on. In any case, "titular song" is perfectly acceptable English.
 * Acceptable, but unusual. Titular in that sense is listed in dictionaries as the fourth meaning of the word. May be better to describe it as the "first" song anyway. "First" imparts information, "titular" or "title" are tautologous (anyone can see that a song called "Sgt Pepper" is the same as the album title:) )
 * The most precise word would be eponymous, I think, but that's a bit obscure for the intro. Reworded a bit: One song, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", appears twice in slightly modified forms at the beginning and end, giving an overall theme to the album.
 * 5. ', in slightly modified forms,' Don't need commas around this phrase.
 * Reworded.
 * 6.'In addition, several songs are cross-faded into one another, or joined by sound effects and unusual transitional elements.' Unclear sentence. What does 'cross-faded' mean? What are 'unusual transitional elements'? Why 'several songs' (I thought it was the whole A side and the whole B side)?
 * Reworded, may be more clear now. I'm not sure which songs are cross-faded, but I don't think there's any pattern to it.  Don't have a copy to check right now.
 * 7.'The duplication of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was produced to create the illusion that the recording was a concert performance by the resident band of the aforementioned club, which was Paul McCartney's original idea for the record.' Unnecessary complicated sentence. No need for long words like 'duplication' and 'aforementioned'. 'Reprise' would be better than 'duplication', 'by a resident band' would be better than 'by the resident band of the aforementioned club'.
 * Second part reworded. First part not touched -- though long, duplication is a frequently used and commonly understood word.  Reprise is shorter but less commonly used, and I think, less commonly understood.  In addition, I believe a song can only be reprised if it is identical both times, though I could be wrong.
 * Could go with "repeated" (with rephrasing). The song is identified as "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" on the sleeve. And you're wrong, it doesn't have to be identical, it can be a shortened (and slightly modified) version of the original.
 * Changed to Repeating the first song at the end of the entire album helped establish the illusion that the recording
 * 8.'The Beatles had grown tired of touring and had quit the road in late 1966, burned out after the dramas of the "Bigger than Jesus" controversy (with its resultant deaths threats and record burnings in the United States, due to the widespread disapproval of this message from the Beatles) and the tumultuous tour of the Philippines which saw them virtually frog-marched out of the country at gunpoint.' Very long sentence of little relevance to the album.
 * Long sentence shorted, but of great relevance. It explains why they retired from touring during recording, and the importance of this is the point of the next paragraph.
 * 9. 'an effectively unlimited period'; 'virtually unlimited access' Don't know who used a thesaurus (badly) on this article, but it doesn't have many synonyms for 'unlimited'.
 * Reworded.
 * 10.Still slightly unsure on this one, but changed enough for me to remove it. 'one of their greatest strengths as a recording unit was drummer Ringo Starr, who was highly creative, stylistically adaptable and extremely reliable, rarely needing more than one take. In fact, in their entire recorded archive, there are fewer than twenty major takes that break down because of a mistake by Ringo.' Do we need a puff piece for Ringo?
 * Toned down somewhat. I don't see the problem with it.  The paragraph says that the Beatles were efficient in the studio, then mentions an author who pointed specifically to Ringo as being especially efficient.  This seems appropriate to me, but I have removed the bit about Ringo only failing a take twenty times in their career, as that should be in his article, not here.
 * 11.'By the time they came to record the album, The Beatles' musical interests and abilities...' I didn't realise that 'musical interests and abilities' could record albums.
 * The entire sentence was By the time they came to record the album, The Beatles' musical interests and abilities had grown enormously from their simple pop beginnings. Its been re-worded slightly, but your interpretation is mistaken -- the verb is clearly "had grown", not "record".
 * You miss my point. The subject of "came to record" in the opening clause is "musical interests and abilities". :)
 * I'm afraid I still miss it. In any case, I changed it to By the time The Beatles recorded the album, their musical interests had grown from....  Is this less confusing?


 * I'll stop here. I'm afraid it's just too poorly written at the moment.
 * Do you want me to read on now?
 * If you like, though if no one else votes, there will be no point as the article can't get featured.

jguk 18:39, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * John Lennon - ''Imagine
 * Albumbox needs place where recorded
 * Could use more information


 * The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore


 * Fear Factory - Transgression
 * Albumbox needs art cover, recording date and location, length and likely more reviews
 * Could use more information
 * Needs complete credits


 * Mastodon - Leviathan
 * Albumbox needs more reviews
 * Could use more information


 * The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
 * Albumbox needs to be converted
 * Albumbox needs recording date and location
 * Albumbox may need more reviews, with rating directly on it.


 * Marvin Gaye - What's Going On


 * The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime