Template talk:Frank Zappa

message: THIS is much better formatted than the current revision, which looks like crap. Two editors keep reverting to a disorganized revision despite it being COMPLETELY UNREADABLE. Please change it back to THIS revision. --WTF (talk) 17:15, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There has been a long discussion about this at Talk:Frank Zappa, in which, as far as I can see, all users have disagreed with you that the current version is unreadable. So do I. If you can find a valid source on Zappa's discography that makes a distinction between studio and live albums, I will happily support your version of the template. Wikipedia editors making a decision on which albums are to be considered primarily studio albums and which are to considered primarily live albums constitutes original research in my eyes, regardless of whether it's supposedly "easier to read" (which I don't think it is). --Mystery Roach (talk) 18:24, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

text: Is there? Is Läther a compilation? Is Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute a compilation? If you want to make a distinction between unique albums and compilations, you must draw a line for how much previously released content an album may have before it's a compilation. I don't think it's possible to draw such a line without generating controversy. --Mystery Roach (talk) 20:02, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Läther is not a compilation, it is an album assembled by Zappa in the '70s that was later reedited into four smaller albums. Meanwhile, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute directly IS a compilation, as it's a reissue of previously released material assembled after Zappa's death. --WTF (talk) 00:16, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  In that case, the four smaller albums would constitute compilations. And FZPTMOFZ contains three tracks that were previously released, but also four tracks that weren't. --Mystery Roach (talk) 09:45, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

text: In my opinion, there is a line that separates what constitutes a compilation and what constitutes an official album. There always has. That line is the official discography. If the material collected doesn't appear there, it shouldn't be listed as an album. If it is listed there, it should be given space as a regular album. If anyone has a source that overrules the official discography, they're willing to point it out. Friginator (talk) 01:45, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Friginator, that's wrong. Several items in the "official discography" are, in fact, compilations but aren't noted as such. Zappa's compilations include Mothermania, Strictly Commercial, Have I Offended Someone?, Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute, Joe's XMASage, etc. --WTF (talk) 00:16, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Strictly Commercial is not part of the official discography. All the other albums you listed contains previously unreleased material. Anyway, I wouldn't actually make the distinction between "official albums" and "compilations", I would make it between "official albums" and "non-official albums". This removes the burden for Wikipedia to decide what can be classified as a compilation. --Mystery Roach (talk) 09:45, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFC 

message: The talk pages of those articles probably aren't too well surveilled, and until we have the wikiproject, I guess album related questions will have to be placed here. Shouldn't the articles about the two volumes be merged? They're on one double CD these days. There are not separate articles for the different volumes of Joe's Garage either. FunkMonk (talk) 22:27, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the problem here is that the two volumes were released years apart, unlike the volumes of SUNPYG and Joe's Garage, but per se I think merging the two would make for a more informative article. --Mystery Roach (talk) 10:38, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  London Symphony Orchestra volumes