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I typed in Carole King and got Augustyn Bloch. I typed in The Byrds I got Julia Bowkun. What the hell? Am I crazy, confirm/deny.

― Steev (Steev), Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

it's for the best.

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

haha, this is fun. I typed in "Beach Boys" and got "Bishop of Boneventinus". Sonny Rollins gives you Ross Bauer. Bela Bartok turns up Zequinha de Abreu.

But Led Zeppelin still takes you to Led Zeppelin. The center will hold.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

Type in "All Music Guide" and you'll get Pitchfork.

― Reggie, Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

type in "god" and you'll get "rolf harris."

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

Haha. Closest matches for "Chuck Jackson":

László Berki
Minsk Chamber Orchestra
Silvia Piccollo
Dave Grinsted
Edgar Lustgarten
Sergio Assad

etc.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

Gladys Knight -> Bocskor
Elvis Presley -> Hans Erich Apostel

― W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 12 November 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

It's AMGs way of saying "Booooooring! Here...try something NEW instead."

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

AMG has been hacked by conservatory nerds.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

Top result for Beatles is Marcel Bitsch (years active: 1948-1949). Marcel Bitsch!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

any relation to donut?

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

Metallica goes to Metallica.

But nothing else (seems to work)Matters.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Kate Bush is Guillaume Bouzignac
Pink Floyd = Stanley Weiner

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

jimi hendrix = "leo r. stanley"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

jack nitzsche = "sorry, id not found" :-(

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if Marissa Marchant has an entry in AMG.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

http://southsidecallbox.com/ilx/amg.bmp

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

Jack Lemmon!!!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

and bruce cockburn!

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

i don't know who anton wilhelm florentin von zuccalmaglio is, but i want his name.

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Jamie Cullum = Fiona Wight

Which can only be an improvement.

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

this is Ragget's doing, i tell you...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

or Raggett's, even.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Free Design => Ross Tompkins

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Weirdly, I put my girlfriend's name and got nothing but names similar to hers.

Additional names that seem to be working: TLC, Queens of the Stone Age, the Primitive Radio Gods, Hootie and the Blowfish. Longer names seem to work better.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

John Lithgow = Aaliyah?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

this is Raggett's doing, i tell you...

My Bloody valentine works fine.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

So does Depeche Mode. I think we basically have a smoking gun.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Stereolab = Valentin Dretzel
James Brown = George Botsford
Johnny Cash = Baroque Festival Orchestra
Spizzenergi = Spizzenergi

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Saturday, 12 November 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - Milt Buckner

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 12 November 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan - Elfrida Andrée.

How will mojo and uncut survive with these name changes!

New Order, Joy Division and Smashing Pumpkins are all fine.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 12 November 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Slayer = John Bavicchi
Anthrax = Anthrax
Can = Giampaolo Bracali
Sun Ra = Chevy (NWOBHM also-rans)

Finally AMG is interesting again! But for how long?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 12 November 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Silver Jews = Walter Damrosch
Kraftwerk = Léon Boëllmann

(Malkmus and SFA were fine)

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 12 November 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

I will grudgingly note here that AMG doesn't seem to crash my web browser anymore.

Congratulations I guess *slow handclap*.

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I fucking hate AMG.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Bette Midler -> the low-bandwidth logon screen

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

i'm worried i'm going to get an email from ashton kutcher saying that i've been punk'd nwo that i've typed in primal scream and was redirected to a page on the crickets

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Sammy Davis Jr. >> Thorkil Vesth

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Four Tops >> J.G. Heinrich Bachofen

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Kanye West >> Slovneski Madrigalists

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Amusing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Top match for Ned Raggett -> Bruce Gilbert
Top match for Bruce Gilbert -> The Residents

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Momus = fine
Napalm Death = fine
Chick Corea = Clifford Vaughan
Big Bopper = Hugh Martin
Wire = Hyman Bress
Radiohead = takes you to the "forgot password?" login page, which is somehow apropos

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I realized this when I searched for "Human League" and got Orazio Benevoli (1656).

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Al Green gets Francesco Barsanti. But the Sic Fucks gets the Sic Fucks.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah = The Don't Quit Your Day Job Players

Bwahahahahaa

― joseph "j-cot" cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Brewer & Shipley >> Dimitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

R.E.M. = Chequered Past

― joseph cotten is a new england schoolmarm (joseph cotten), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

"Prince Buster was one of the most important Franco-Flemish composers of the pre-Renaissance era."

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Charles Manson = Babylon A.D.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Brewer & Shipley >> Dimitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky

Yes, but Dimitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky = Prince Consort Albert!

Have they been taken over by the Society For Creative Anachronism?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

James Gang = Oscar Berti

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

This is actually a humbling experience for ILM, inasmuch as nobody here seems to be able to recognize even a quarter of these names.

― joseph "cotton-eye joe" cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Frank Proto = The Bollock Brothers

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I can't stop!

Fiona Apple is the featured artist on their front page...

...but search for her and you get one Martin Kohl...

...a search for whom yields Martin Peerson, (b. 1572 in Lambs, Cambridgeshire, England, d. 1651 in London).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

R.E.M. = Chequered Past

-- joseph cotten is a new england schoolmarm (josephcotte...), November 12th, 2005. (later)

this one is completely brilliant

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Burt Bacharach=Material

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

NWA=Clamor Heinrich Abel

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Jefferson Airplane -> William Bexfield, a purveyor of choral music in 1800s England, who died at 29.

Cass McCombs -> Orfeo Catala
Orfeo Catala -> Kenneth Meek
Kenneth Meek -> Eric Ansell
Eric Ansell -> Brigitte Lavoie
Brigitte Lavoie -> Svante Leonard Sjoberg
Svante Leonard Sjoberg -> Guillaume Bouzignac
Guillaume Bouzignac -> some misrendered logout page

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 12 November 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

good. i thought some sort of preset or cookie of mine got screwed up.
"okkerville river" still takes you to "okkervil River" like it should. hmm.

― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 12 November 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

This is actually a humbling experience for ILM, inasmuch as nobody here seems to be able to recognize even a quarter of these names.
-- joseph "cotton-eye joe" cotten (josephcotte...), November 12th, 2005.

OTM

― cdwill, Saturday, 12 November 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

The Index is busted and is currently being re-built.

― L, Saturday, 12 November 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

> I fucking hate AMG.
> - Sick Mouthy (sickmouth...), November 12th, 2005.

Geez M Crow.

AMG is a free website that provides the most complete and extensive music coverage of any website out there (possibly any type of resource out there). And it is FREE!

Sure they bungle a couple tech issues now and again, but for the most part the site runs correctly and is well worth the money I've paid to use it.

I remember when they did their clumsy relaunch, I read that someone wanted to 'stab the people at AMG with a rusty screwdriver'...Christ people...It's one thing to chuckle at some goofy search gaffes, but it's another thing to want to stab people with household tools or say you 'fucking hate' them.

If the actions of a music information service are rising this much bile in you, you may need to get out more.

― Not a Hayta, Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

everything seems to work fine right now

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Confirmed.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 14 November 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

I am now possessed by the bizarre thought that when I visit AMG, I will see myriad copies of the famous image of The Man In The Shadeshifting Tie.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 14 November 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

You gotta help me, doc, everybody's turned Raggett.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 14 November 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

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