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Thread started 12/20/07 10:11pm

SirPsycho

liner notes UPDATED: (maybe i used the wrong word)

does anyone know of a website that contains liner notes to every album ever released?
[Edited 12/21/07 19:21pm]
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Reply #1 posted 12/20/07 11:43pm

FuNkeNsteiN

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I'd like to find a site like that too lol
Haven't seen or heard of one though confused
It is not known why FuNkeNsteiN capitalizes his name as he does, though some speculate sunlight deficiency caused by the most pimpified white guy afro in Nordic history.

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Reply #2 posted 12/21/07 12:12am

guitarslinger4
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I miss liner notes. It was cool opening up D'Angelo's "Voodoo" album and seeing liner notes. I guess most artists don't have a thought in their head worth writing down these days.
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Reply #3 posted 12/21/07 1:10am

novabrkr

Are they really necessary? I mean at all?
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Reply #4 posted 12/21/07 1:20am

FarrahMoan

novabrkr said:

Are they really necessary? I mean at all?


You must be having a bad day. I see it in your posts. comfort
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Reply #5 posted 12/21/07 1:45am

Harlepolis

lol

Anyway, other than David Nathan's site(Soul Music) that has liner notes from Rhino's compilation/remastered album releases, I can't think of any.

I'm sure there are,,or at least in the works. It woulda been cool to have such a site.
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Reply #6 posted 12/21/07 2:07am

novabrkr

Well, yes I am having a bad day (or still recovering from very bad one from a week ago, this being the season for christmas parties and everything confused ). Why thank you for noticing, but this has nothing to do with it.

I was mainly referring here to what for instance Miles Davis felt about them, and why he wanted to get rid of the whole thing in the 60s. And so did a lot of other jazz musicians as well. I'd rather see much more written about the albums for instance on the internet (even on the artists' own webpages these days), but having some sort of "listening instructions" printed on the actual album is sort of unnecessary in my opinion. Especially if there's a lot of information about things that are mostly relevant during that specific time period - often the tone and the approach of commentaries on any cultural products might seem completely irrelevant, if not even completely nonsensical, to listeners of future generations. Commentaries, reviews and such tend to get dated a lot more effectively than the actual music itself.
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Reply #7 posted 12/21/07 7:20pm

SirPsycho

actually i meant like "who played what" and that sort of thing...(maybe liner notes is the wrong phrase)...like for instance, i know there's a site some where that tells you what song has sampled another song, but isn't there a site where you can type a song or album name and find out who played guitar on "track 3" or piano on"track 7"?
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Reply #8 posted 12/21/07 8:07pm

novabrkr

Oh.

I just checked it out from various intenet sources (including the mighty Wikipedia), and the word "liner notes" are apparently also used these days for the production data and personnel information as well. Don't know, that's a bit odd to me personally - I've never seen them being referred as "liner notes" at least in technical terms for CD pressings. Maybe I'm just lagging a few decades behind. But you apparently weren't using the wrong word either.

But yeah, I guess a site where you could check out the contirbutions of session musicians to, at least, some classic albums could be cool indeed.
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Reply #9 posted 12/21/07 8:17pm

Cinnie

track by track liner notes that describe the gestation of a recording can be fun to read and never get old. though they can also be quite boring and take away some of the mystique.
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Reply #10 posted 12/22/07 1:51am

Harlepolis

In that case, its...

Allmusic.com

While not track by track, it shows you who played in the album as a whole.
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Reply #11 posted 12/22/07 8:27pm

SirPsycho

Harlepolis said:

In that case, its...

Allmusic.com

While not track by track, it shows you who played in the album as a whole.


thanks!
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Reply #12 posted 12/23/07 7:54am

Lammastide

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Is someone trying to flesh out their illegally downloaded music library!?!no no no!






confused








...If you find such a site, let me know. redface
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μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #13 posted 12/23/07 8:53am

novabrkr

lol

You can always pretend to be from a country where downloading music is not illegal.
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Reply #14 posted 12/24/07 9:36am

SirPsycho

Lammastide said:

Is someone trying to flesh out their illegally downloaded music library!?!no no no!






confused








...If you find such a site, let me know. redface


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