p2p song/artist mislabeling: a crime against humanity

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Apparently someone thinks that "Jesus Christ Pose" is by Savage Garden. HELP HELP HELP HELP

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 June 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I vote yes.
I downloaded a track that was supposed to be a rare siouxsie track. It wasn't even close. What was worse, the song (by WHOEVER it is) is really good. I'm tempted to look for more by this artist............and can't.

Also, just a few reminders for all those "mp3-loving nipple lumps" out there who label your mp3s by guessing, here's a few hints:

Not all new wave synthpop 'choons are by Depeche Mode or Duran Duran. Not all whiny singers are Robert Smith.

Biz Markie is NOT Tupac Shakur, and neither is the Geto Boyz.

Thank you.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

[Some how I doubt that Hello Kitty would aprove]

― hmm, Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I remember an interview with RDJ where he expressed amusement at the number of tracks attributed to him on file sharing networks. Couldn't tell you where it was from though, anyone remember?

― Xii (Xii), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

RDJ?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Never mind. (I suspect you mean Richard D James.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

These suck.
I once got "I'll stop the world and melt with you" by the Cure, and "Losing my Edge" with an ID tag labeling it "Vivea" by Arial M.
And yeah, of course any and every kind of computer music is said to be made by Aphex Twin.

― Dan I., Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

annoying as they are, I think spoofed file titles are the funniest thing EVER, it's like having Domino's deliver to somebody's house

which admittedly is juvenile and I never actually did myself, only laughed disbelievingly at my friends' tales of having done so

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

The weird thing is, there are so many people out there that think that "Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay" was by Marvin Gaye, and everytime I see it, I think "OMG! Marvin covering Otis! This is gonna rule!".

I must have downloaded that about four times now, and I still never learn.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

the thing is, it's only through p2p track mislabeling that I'll ever be able to hear the Geto Boys do "Parents Just Don't Understand"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

misattributed songs in Napster, AudioGalaxy, etc.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

You know that 80's synthpop version of "Puttin' On The Ritz", by that German guy called Taco? You'd be amazed at the amount of people who think that They Might Be Giants did that. These same people also tend to have an supposed TMBG song called something like "I Am Are Retarded".

Also I once downloaded what was supposed to be a Boredoms song that I'd never heard of before - it was called "Dead Cat", and I thought it would be some extremely early demo or something - it turned out to be a Macc Lads song with 15 seconds of vaguely Eye-style screaming at the start. (In retrospect, the somewhat prosaic title should have given it away - if it really was by the Boredoms it would have been called "Dead Cat Is Rule Of Doms And Bore" or something.)

I have fallen for the old "mistitle an mp3 for big laffs" thing too - once was when I was trying to download Britney Spears' "Oops I Did It Again" I ended up downloading a very odd song by someone calling himself "Monkeon" - a tinny electric guitar and drum machine affair that at first deeply annoyed me when I realised I'd been had but later I saw the funny side. (Does anyone know who that was by, btw? I think it was mentioned briefly ages ago who did this but I have long forgotten.)

There was a brief article on the whole mp3 mistitling farrago in a recent issue of Word, in fact, by David Quantick - "My all-time favourite is one I still haven't been able to download: "David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Nine Inch Nails", doing Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb. I mean, when did this recording take place? Might it not have made the papers?"

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

http://imgur.com/Xlo2AcH

That "Up Jumped the Devil" arrangement that Nick Cave played on with Wooden Joe Nichols back in '45.

― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link

trying again with this Spotify screenshot

http://i.imgur.com/Xlo2AcH.png

― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link

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