Talk:The Good, the Bad & the Queen (album)

message: Is there any specific reason this article is called "The Good, the bad and the Queen", as opposed to "The Good, the Bad & the Queen"? The album has an ampersand on its front. zanzer7 13:23, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't look like it. I've changed it. - Green Tentacle 18:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Album name ampersand 

message: The NME have reported that the single is called "Herculean" with the artwork being shown on page 7 of this weeks editionXljesus 16:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herculean 

message: I think the article should mention he is from The Verve rather than Blur as everywere else this is what they mention. --Jimmyjrg 05:39, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simon Tong - Blur or Verve? 

message: Can we get a cited blurb on there about the origin of the band's name/album? I know there is something out there. Steveprutz 17:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Band Name Origin

message: The album is called "the good, the bad and the queen" - the band has no name - I've seen it mentioned by Albarn in a few places - a quick google shows this - http://www.stereogum.com/archives/004410.html (I saw it in one of the papers but I forget which one).
--Fredrick day 19:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your stereogum link turns up this-
"If you've heard Damon Albarn do a radio interview, you know his M.O.: be as contrary as possible, demean every question, throw the interviewer off her game. And ya know what? He's fookin' great at it. This time Damon and Paul Simonon chat with Minnesota Public Radio's Steve Seel, who tries his best to chat about The Good, The Bad & The Queen. Only, it's not called The Good, The Bad & The Queen. In fact, it's not even a band! A sample exchange:"
In particular, focus on this sentence- "throw the interviewer off her game. And ya know what? He's fookin' great at it."
On the band's official site, click the link that says "The Official UK Albums Chart"
It'll say: "Now Damon Albarn is fronting "The Good, The Bad and the Queen" whose self titled debut album enters the chart at number two.."
Do you really think the Official UK Album Chart Company would have gotten this wrong? And add to that that nowhere on the website does it contradict that report, not even on the forums.
On single releases, where usually the single and artist name appear, we get the name "Kingdom of Doom" over "The Good, the Bad, and the Queen"
Somehow I don't think that the rules changed this time around and that we got the single name and the album name.
Face it, Albarn was joking, and you fell for it.ErleGrey 21:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

text: If the band is "unnamed", then why do the singles (see images) clearly have "The Good, the Bad & the Queen" printed underneath the title of the song?  This seems kind of silly to me - this shuffling around of articles can only cause confusion. - eo 01:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Because whatever the band wants to do - the music industry and it's infrastructure is not geared up for an unnamed band - how do you catology it, how does it appear on ordering systems?  how do the public know that this single is off that album they heard good things about, if it's just the title of the track on the from? etc etc,  You might think it's silly but the BAND clearly state that they as an entity do not have a name and are directly quoted as saying that - I have added 3 sources to show that, I could add at least 6 or 7 more that say the same thing. All we do at wikipedia is presents the facts as they are - nothing more, nothing less. --Fredrick day 10:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree with Fredrick day. Having an untitled band floating around is a massive risk for any record label. Every point you make is a good one. And also, the name 'The Good, The Bad and the Queen' appears on their singles. I think that this is their official band name, and the whole 'untitled band' thing is for publicity. fadedx 03:12, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article is wrong 

message: OK - I've added 3 references - all of which are direct interviews with members of the band where they talk about not having a name. If people want more reference I can supply them - some of which will be the offline references to stuff like this - http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3396/3bf5.png (scroll down and read the left column). I'm not sure of the procedure but shouldn't this be "The Good, The Bad and the Queen (album)"? --Fredrick day 20:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to say that the daily record interview is slightly contradicting. Yes it states that "we don’t have a name for the band. It’s an album." but it also states "The Good, The Bad and the Queen is “self titled”.", surely a many people will presume a self-titled record is an album by a band of the same name. The confusion reigns further when all of the singles released from the album have the album name (which is supposedly not the bands name) on them, as well as NME referring to the band as The Good, The Bad and the Queen link. (They're also referred to by the album name by on-line retailers Amazon HMV and Play.com, which will be a large reason for the public to presume this is their name). I'm not denying the band don't have have a name but maybe the article should make reference to the fact that the band are at least referred to by some sections of the media as well as some members of the public as the album name? Chappy  TC 20:25, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry I've just read the previous heated discussion about the band name, quite glad I left this here as a suggestion now rather than made the edit to the page myself.  Anyway I do this that the article should say something like "by an unnamed band, referred to by many however as The Good, The Bad and the Queen". I get why on-line retailers and NME are referring to the band the way they are but I just feel if this little bit were added to the article then it would help to clarify things for readers. Chappy  TC 20:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change?  

message: Several e-mails have gone into people signed into the gorilaz.com mail recipient box. This included information and a link concerning "The Good, The Bad and the Queen". Also, along with "Clint Eastwood" and "Dirty Harry", the album is a clear reference to a western/Clint Eastwood film. Could this be the next Gorillaz album? GABO
* No, it is not a Gorillaz album.  It is merely sung and written by the same real-life singer, the same real-life guitarist and same real-life producer.  It has already been released, and as such would have a proper artist name already known if it were so. 203.87.119.103 12:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New Gorillaz album?

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message: Does anybody else think the band deserves its own page? Right now we have information about the band and the album all on one page, but I think this could cause problems when they release a new album. Worthlessboy1420 23:51, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band's Own Page 

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message: Anyone else notice how much the title track resembles Red Weather from The Duke Spirit's album Cuts Across the Land? Figure someone will be interested ;-)
--Dan|(talk) 18:55, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rip off? 

message: Well written and interesting. Good.
I think the article would benefit from identifying the former bands of the members. What I find frustrating is that the article seems to assume knowledge of UK indie music. Why is it a supergroup? Who is Damon Albarn? Paul Simonon? Tony Allen? Simon Tong? I knew Damon, but I had to click 3 more links to find out the others. As an international wiki, anyone outside the UK will have no idea who these people are. The article should explain to anyone assuming no prior knowledge. Mention and link to the Clash, the Verve, Blur etc as well. 
After all, this is meant to be an encyclopaedia. It's not an article in NME, and space isn't an issue. Identifying the history of the members and explaining why it was considered a "supergroup" is surely relevant to the article.
On another note - I only noticed who produced the album was here when I returned to it and looked at the top right side panel. I was expecting to find this at the bottom under the list of personnel. On my first visit I had to click other links to be certain that Danger Mouse had done it.
Hope that didn't sound too much of a complaint. 
Mister Greywolf (talk) 20:11, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article is incomplete 

message: Live from SoHo (The Good, the Bad and the Queen EP) doesn't seem to meet WP:NALBUMS. Boleyn (talk) 20:46, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Live from SoHo (The Good, the Bad and the Queen EP)]] merge proposal 

message: With the news that TGTBTQ is officially the name of the band, and that they're releasing a new album (link), I think we need to restructure this so that The Good, the Bad & the Queen directs to the artist page, and the album page is The Good, the Bad & the Queen (album) along with new album Merrie Land.VampireKilla (talk) 17:08, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that there should be an artist page created. Basil the Bat Lord (talk) 01:47, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

text: agree too - will save confusion Jpmaytum (talk) 16:13, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band name and Second album