Talk:Joy Electric

message: I was only able to bring the history up to about 2001. After that, I stopped paying attention to the band. The article is pretty heavy on the technicalities (equipment, synthes) and in trying to interpret why and how Joy Electric progressed. I'm afraid my version may be a little too one-sided, though. Also, I think the article would look a whole lot better with some images throughout. I'm not too good at adding those. Anyone want to step up? Also, other members (Jeff Cloud, etc.) really never did much. Joy Electric was more or less always a one-man operation. Cloud was more of a manager than anything. davidbarnhart
I hope someone else is able to finish this? We've stopped at 1999, but he's released 12 items and lost one band member since. RobMientjes 17:25, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
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message: Ive added  Template (View Here) to each album, EP, and single, and formatted stuff a bit. 
Many alums need track lists at the least.
Also, a section called ==Band Members== on the main article would be useful. suggested format:
:==Band Members==
:*Ronnie Martin - (Year - Present)
:*Person 1 - (Year - Year) Insturments
:*Person 2 - (Year - Year) Insturments
:*Person 3 - (Year - Year) Insturments
Dan, the CowMan 08:36, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: There seems to be some confusion about when Ronnie switched to only analog synthesizers both on-line and in written sources. In the introductory essay in the liner notes of "The Art and Craft of Popular Music" Chris M. Short says Ronnie switched to exclusive use of analog synthesizers with "We Are the Music Makers". In his notes to the same album, Ronnie says decided to use analog synthesizers exclusively from Robot Rock on. He also says "Music Makers" was the album where he decided to use only one synthesizer, jetissoning drum machines, samplers, and other synthesizers. The article itself says that Ronnie created "Music Makers" on a Roland JD-990. The article on this synthesizer says it is a digital synthesizer designed to reproduce many analog sounds. 
This strikes me as the correct answer. If anyone should know, I assume it's Ronnie and the distinction about the synthesizer he used to make "Music Makers" seems to explain why others have glossed it incorrectly. I think the article should be edited accordingly, but I'm looking for some feedback, wondering if anyone else has some other sources that'll shed light on this.
Genesiswinter (talk) 21:39, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: The album showcased a wide range of feelings, spanning to familiar exuberant territory all the way into new, darker directions. Not since "We Are The Music Makers" did an album contain so many minor keys.
I've been listening to this album on iTunes. Only a few of the songs sound "dark" at all or have minor keys: "Disco for a Ride", "I Sing Electric", & "Synthesized I Want You Synthesized". Do we really need that quote, then? Ianthegecko 23:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: Perhaps I'm just reading it the wrong way, but the following bit in the main article confuses me: "Of all his albums, Martin consistently cites [We Are the Music Makers] as his least favorite. But that should not deter listeners. Indeed, the songs are quickly monotonous - a consequence of Martin's inexperience at this new "purist" model."
The sentence "but that should not deter listeners" seems to me like it is about to say why the album is still good in spite of the musician's opinion, or some sort of redeeming statement. But immediately following, the article says "indeed, the songs are quickly monotonous...," which seems simply to say why exactly Ronnie doesn't like it (or why other listeners wouldn't). There seems to be a conflict of ideas here. Moving "but th[is] should not deter listeners" to after the "quickly monotonous" sentence, and before the sentence about the good songs would seem more logical to me. Or just remove that statement completely and use "however,..." —PrintHorizon 18:57, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On second thought, is this section supposed to read: "Ronnie doesn't like it etc., but listeners should not write the album off based on that alone: the songs really aren't that great etc."—or something like that? This would seem to make more sense than how I originally interpreted it. Regardless, I think this section could stand a small rewrite. —PrintHorizon 19:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
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