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So, according to the all-music guide Kevin Bacon from the Bacon Brothers is in the Comsat Angels, and Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull is in Slipstream. Has anyone else come across any funny mistakes with the people who have the same names?

― A Nairn, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some bastard who's been dead for 40-odd years apparently sang on my album :(

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I fucking you summoned people from beyond the grave to get your special powers.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I fucking you summoned? What the hell? My brain ran off in anger. 'Figured' you summoned.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Heheheh.. I figured it was unlikely to be some sort of "i fuck your sunshine" sort of outburst..

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry to shift the thread a little, but has anyone tried looking up the B-52's on AMG? It is surprisingly difficult.

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I fucking you summoned" is the funniest thing I've read since GBV being a "god thing" yesterday. Thanks, Ned.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I apparently dropped out of school in Scotland in 1987 to form a chamber jazz-rock / hard rock band with fellow members of Tokyo's University of Meiji. ('Reference points include Magma, Univers Zero and Henry Cow, but Happy Family stakes out its own turf with its stunning, sometimes furious, intensity.')

Golly, I knew I was eclectic, but that's stretching it.

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Furthermore, on my album with this band of Tokyoites I renamed myself, according to the All Music Guide, Louis Nye. It was, despite our baroque / prog jazz tendencies a comedy album, and managed to get released in the 1960s, despite the fact that the group that made it formed in 1987. Curioser and curioser.

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Following my return to university and graduation, I then became Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins, penning such 80s hits as 'Doctor, Doctor'.

I am not making this up!

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My time travelling adventures continue when, according to AMG, my 1992 album 'Voyager' is influenced not by Yukio Mishima but by Yukio Miya, the drummer in a Japanese rock band whose only release came in 1999.

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The album I wrote in 1993 for Japanese singer nOrikO (link to a number of Norikos, none of which is nOrikO) was, apparently, a rap album released in 2000 by the group Shyne.

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

By 1994 I am once again Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins. I marry both Shazna Currie and Shaznay Lewis, a 'rock' artist in girlband All Saints.

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

However, I don't stay faithful long. On the following line, still one half of appalling 80s sell outs The Thompson Twins, I am already courting Chuck Nessa of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, who has apparently been transformed into the daughter of a Bangladeshi restauranteur.

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There are three more ludicrous links before the end of the bio proper. I haven't even begun to guage the madness of the album review links, except that by 1999, when I become an 'audio portraitist', there is a helpful link to articles on audio pancakes, audio paradoxes and audio pirates.

All I would ask, Ned and other AMGers, is that these links on no account be corrected. Ever. They are so much more interesting than the truth. I didn't know I'd done all that, but I'm so glad I did. I was the missing link between the Thompson Twins and the Art Ensemble of Chicago! Truly, one life is not enough.

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go to the entry on Ida, and click on Three Shades of Dirty. Boy, Dan, Sandy, and I were dead sexy back then.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, pretty foxy for three chicks making what AMG calls 'Sadcore' -- music 'by and for the depressed', and defined by the perimeter adjectives 'reflective, gentle, autumnal, literate'.

By the way, what is the entry for Electric Sound of Jim? What band is he in? (Pardon my ignorance...)

― Momus, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ive worked with Tom Schick, Sean Lennon, Miho Hatori, Timo Ellis, Josh Roseman, John Medeski, Yuka Honda, Olu Dara apparently!!

― chaki, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus, we are clearly having a laugh with you.

I swear I've corrected the Kevin Bacons at least three times. At least it's only a songwriting credit that is incorrect.

Typing "The B-52s" or "The B-52's" will take you directly to the B- 52s. There are some band names that throw our program for a loop.

It's especially interesting when we get something like an inflammatory email from someone who has gone uncredited as a tape op on a late-period Quarterflash record, or when we are accused of being racist for crediting Bill Laswell for the birth of rap music (???).

― Andy K, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It has just dawned on me that I should explain the hyperlinks. I'll use Nick/Alannah/Momus as an example.

As you probably know, there are hyperlinks for each name, whether in part (Currie) or in whole (Nick Currie). If someone has not physically linked the name "Currie" to the exact name in the database that the bio or review is referring to, clicking the name on the site will perform the same duty as a search. Often, clicking a hyperlink that has not been linked to the fullest extent will merely take you to the first result of that search. So that's how the name "Currie" in the bio for the Happy Family takes you to Alannah Currie.

This also explains why clicking "Kevin Bacon" in the Comsat Angels bio takes you to the Footloose star and not the bassist. A link has not been directly set, so clicking it takes you to the first Kevin Bacon in our database.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The disadvantage of the AMG -- everyone everywhere ever demands credit! ;-)

All I would ask, Ned and other AMGers, is that these links on no account be corrected. Ever.

Hey, I ain't saying a word.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Electric Sound of Jim is Tugboat, who released a lovely album which Ned reviewed for AMG despite my getting approval to do so. DAMN HIS EYES!

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chuck Nessa wasn't in Art Ensemble of Chicago. He was a former employee of Delmark and Jazz Record Mart, who started his own label (wittily titled Nessa) which released a fair amount of Art Ensemble material.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I fucking you summoned people from beyond the grave to get your special powers.

ANTI-MAHIR!

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

despite my getting approval to do so

How odd! Because I asked and they said okay...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned vs. Sean: AMG freelancer FITE!!!

― Andy K, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I guess we were double-booked because of the non-db nature of the review. I guess I COULD have submitted mine anyhow and let them duke it out behind the scenes, but I'll defer to the Ned in this case.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No worries -- 'twas not intentional, etc. Andy just wants to cause dissension and sedition.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I'm not complaining either way :)

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chuck Nessa! I spent an evening in his basement back in 1986. I still have the pictures somewhere, hundreds of them. Old jazz record covers. I'd never seen so many in one room, and for one, delicious night, they were my slaves. Nope, he didn't say anything about being in the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

― Curt, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emusic has this problem too in a less extreme fashion. A search for X will bring up both the Austrailan and American X's, and a search for Big Star will bring up both Alex Chilton's band and some dub (I think) artist. (With no indication that they are two different artist, I should say.)

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wayne/Jayne County & his Backstreet Boys... 'nuff said.

― mr. sparkle, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think there should be a Momus song about the lives he's lived through AMG.

― Mr Noodles, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...
r there anybody's name is Bethy Henry Henry cause mine is and everyone calls me that even my teachers at school and when i met gavin henson he called me Bethy 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Bethan Hannah Therasa Henry, Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's not an AMG thing but one of the newspapers I wrote for a million years ago made a mistake when previewing a Big Audio Dynamite show by saying that Mick Jones was in Foreigner.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Heh heh...that sounds like the same newspaper that claimed that Loverboy's Paul Dean was formerly a member of X-Ray Spex!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 12 May 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

hey ned did you review that album i sent you?

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 12 May 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)


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