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I stuck in a copy of Pearl Jam's "Ten" and it asked me whether it was "Ten" or "Gish by the Smashing Pumpkins. Is this a mistake on the part of a compiler or do these two albums just happen to have the same track-lengths?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Gracenote is yr slightly trendy uncle.

It's an easy mistake.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Happened to me the other day with Johnny Cash's American IV - in fact, I think the alternate might have been Gish! Programming error?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Why are you guys so ashamed of liking Gish? Just admit it, dude.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Flavour-Of-The-Month-Hipster-Name-Drop-Influence List:
1.Joy Division
2.Bruce Springsteen
2.Gish
All part of the master plan guys.

― ablzerothreezero (ablzerothreezero), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i woke up in an alternate unvierse where 'gish' was a hipster reference point.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

there is no worse band than smashing pumpkins.

ok maybe pearl jam.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

The answer to that question is always "Toad The Wet Sprocket"

― Radio Free Albemuth (DocMartensBoots), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Better get used to it

― ablzerothreezero (ablzerothreezero), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Re-ripping a few albums tonight, got some really, REALLY weird results in iTunes (which I think uses Gracenote)- on Kaos & Sal P's Collectors Series mix, someone entered Map of Africa's "Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys" as "Blackskin Blue Eyed Nigger" (!) and the artist Fist of Facts as "Ass Full With Fists" (!!). Someone has issues.

Second was Michael England's "MEAM" album on Skam- none of the tracks have titles, but someone decided to give them som, all taken from David Foster Wallace's Broom of the System, like "Norman Bombardini" and "Feed the Leg." Fucking weird.

― Telephone thing, Monday, 16 July 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

'ass full with fists' would be an excellent name for a beardo-style band, you must admit.

― haitch, Monday, 16 July 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

True, true. I'm just trying to figure out what kind of person buys a disco mix CD and has a problem with black and/or gay folks. Possibly neither and our unknown Gracenote contributor is just an asshole.

― Telephone thing, Monday, 16 July 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

'ass full with fists'

oh for the days of changeable usernames

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 July 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

i think my copy of selected ambient works II is tagged with all those alternate titles ('cliffs', 'rhubarb' etc) - how official are those?

― haitch, Monday, 16 July 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

unofficial, but fairly well-established

― bernard snowy, Monday, 16 July 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://xltronic.com/nostalgia/aphextwin.nu/v4/learn/98491895499398.shtml

― abanana, Monday, 16 July 2007 03:00 (eighteen years ago)

i'm ripping my entire CD collection to my computer and gracenote is being really sassy. so many jazz CDs only have japanese entries.

― poortheatre, Monday, 16 July 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

i think my copy of selected ambient works II is tagged with all those alternate titles ('cliffs', 'rhubarb' etc) - how official are those?

Aha, THATS why my copy came out like that when I burned it to mp3.

― Trayce, Monday, 16 July 2007 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

Mind you I dont use Gracenote. I use freedb with CDex. So I'unno.

― Trayce, Monday, 16 July 2007 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

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