AMG LOL: if only this was true

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Consulting All Music Guide on Aretha Franklin's Young, Gifted & Black, I discovered an unexpected bonus track:

1 Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby) 3:42
2 Day Dreaming Franklin 3:13
3 Young, Gifted and Black 3:34
4 All the King's Horses Franklin 3:56
5 A Brand New Me Bell, Butler, Gamble 4:26
6 April Fools Bacharach, David 3:29
7 I've Been Loving You Too Long Traditional 3:36
8 First Snow in Kokomo Franklin 4:04
9 The Long and Winding Road Lennon, McCartney 3:38
10 Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) Bell, Hart 3:42
11 Border Song (Holy Moses) John, Taupin 3:19
12 Jet Boy, Jet Girl [mix] Franklin

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

does AMG put random mistakes in its database on purpose, like i assume any similar commercial database would?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

To what end, other than the funny?

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

to make it easy to prove when a competitor steals the database.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly.

I hate to claim credit, but I think they were inspired by my Plastic (Bertrand) Russell thread over on ILE.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

:( this is like finding out that santa claus is your step-dad.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry briania, there is no $4nt4 C14u$.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I looked into this a little more and I got many pages of google hits, presumably because the AMG database is propagated to various places. When you follow the link through AMG (although I was looking at a cached page) you see a page entitled "Jet Boy Jet Girl" but it is about the song "Rock Steady." I am starting to feel a little nostalgic about that parallel world that the portal has now shut on.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I, too, followed the link down the rabbit-hole, and wound up back in a world where the Queen of Soul knows not of good Captain Sensible. More's the pity.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate to claim credit, but I think they were inspired by my Plastic (Bertrand) Russell thread over on ILE.

I know you're not being serious, but in case anyone was curious about this subject, mapmakers have been putting fake streets on maps for years, to catch cartography thieves at rival companies.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

How could I possibly have been serious? But thanks for the info.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would I want to buy a map from someone who was putting fake streets on them?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My guess is they add one block streets in the middle of some place where there is just a solid building, so it probably wouldn't hurt the unsuspecting navigator. No doubt KK or fcc will fill us in.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken is correct. You can read more about this in William Poundstone's books Big Secrets, either volume 2 or 3-- I don't remember.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

as for putting fake streets on music discographies, it's a bit weird to make up a song on a major album by a major artist. i used to work at a music database where one of our jobs was to add fake songs or credits on a certain number of albums every month (while removing the fake songs and credits from the previous month, so nothing stayed in there permanently). but we put them on relatively obscure albums, or on relatively obscure parts of the credits of more popular albums. the idea was that customers wouldn't see the mistakes but we could find 'em easily ourselves if someone tried to copy or steal the database.

the strangest thing about the AMG aretha thing is that if you go to her discography page and put your mouse over the album title, "jet boy jet girl" comes up as one of AMG's two "track picks" for that album. they're really pushing that one, and it's making me actually want to hear it!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

it's making me actually want to hear it!
And fcc makes three. I think we got an epidemic on our hands.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

someone should forward this thread to aretha or her label as a hint for her next cd.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Duet with George Michael.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

produced by the pet shop boys.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I wanna hear the Dusty version!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Aretha would have totally owned this song, especially if it had come out on YG&B in 1972.

― dad a, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

loool

― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

I remember when Mogwai's "Happy Songs For Happy People" record was apparently co-written by Jedi Mind Tricks!

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

So would Aretha have done the 'blood' lyric or the 'him' lyric?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

I've seen the glitch with all the songs credited to Jedi Mind Tricks on other albums before.

― some dude, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

...and would she sing the "head" lyric or the "hell" lyric?

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

penetrate/generate

I wonder why the alternate version, like that version might have been OK for radio play, as if...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

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