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Why does Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album cover show someone spontaneously combusting?
It looks like the Wikipedia article for the Wish You Were Here album has a section on the reasoning behind the cover art. Some excerpts:
The concept behind "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a ...
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Why does Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album cover show someone spontaneously combusting?
The album artwork has four images, two on the cover and two on the inner sleeve. Each of the pictures references one of the four elements:
Fire
Earth
Air
Water.
I don't think it goes any deeper ...
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Too much similar music nowadays
There are really 3 separate answers to this question:
It "all sounds the same" is a common complaint for unfamiliar
genres. When you first hear a style of music you are unfamiliar
with, all you ...
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One-colour album cover with nothing else that one colour (no writings, no shades)?
Depends on the edition, but Prince's Black Album has typically been released with a fully black cover and just a sticker. It peaked at 47 on December 10th, 1994.
Another all-black one is the This is ...
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What was the first "band xxx performs album yyy in its entirety" type of event?
From my preliminary research, which includes a Quora question, a RateYourMusic list, and a couple of other references, it seems like it may have been The Who, who played their classic double album ...
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What are the nights in the Eric Clapton's 24 nights album?
From Wikipedia:
The album is a "best of" from the 42 concerts Eric Clapton did at the
Royal Albert Hall in those two years. Clapton set a record by playing
a run of 24 nights at the London ...
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Why does Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album cover show someone spontaneously combusting?
This isn't a definitive answer, but the album's lyrical content suggests existential themes of reaching out for some kind of genuine human connection within contexts that are dehumanized, ...
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One-colour album cover with nothing else that one colour (no writings, no shades)?
If the "Explicit Lyrics" sticker doesn't count, then Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 album has a completely black cover.
According to Wikipedia:
[the album] ...
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Albums for classical songs played by electric guitar?
Uli Jon Roth is your man.
In his album Metamorphosis of Vivaldi's Four Seasons
he plays his version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Also there is his album Prologue to the symphonic legends
in which he ...
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What is the role of an A&R credit in an album?
From Wikipedia:
Artists and repertoire (colloquially abbreviated to A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the ...
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What's the difference between a record and an album?
My understanding is that a 'record' could refer to any recording that was pressed onto a vinyl disc. It could mean a single song, or a collection. The capacity of the discs changed as the technology ...
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Shortest album in length?
I believe that Elvis Presley's "It Happened at the World's Fair" held this record officially for some years. According to Wikipedia, it is 21:21 in total, somewhat longer than Billy Bragg ...
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Too much similar music nowadays
I think part of the problem with "pop music" in the "chart sense" or "x factor" sense is the production process.
Everyone "sounds" the same. There's not a lot of sonic diversity.
The same digital ...
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Is it implied that a publisher also holds the copyright of a song?
The above means the copyright is held by EMI Blackwood Music and Dam Rich Music.
The owner of copyright differs depending on the contract. The copyright holder is not always the same as the ...
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What was the first "band xxx performs album yyy in its entirety" type of event?
Reasoning: It's a great way of re-selling an old artist 'back from the wilderness' but with nothing new on offer.
Who first: I bet that's going to be harder to nail down - there's been a huge ...
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Track listing for "Britain Rocks" CD
I don't have the tracklist of the compilation you mention, but following @Elements in Space answer I've made a research on Discogs, the self-defined "largest online music database", for all ...
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1953 Loretta Young Decca Records The Littlest Angel
The front sleeve says NORKIN, what does that mean?
Sam Norkin (1917-2011), was an artist who created over 4000 published drawings.
Sam Norkin was also hired to create many record covers over the ...
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Does the artist name need to be on an album cover?
Does the artist['s] name need to be on an album cover?
No.
Is there a rule that governs this?
Sure. Some form of some name should be on the cover or spine or people won't know what they're buying; ...
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Why do artists not release backing tracks, instrumentals, and acapellas in their singles?
Actually, in jamaican reggae music, they do release the instrumental!
Tradition, in jamaican reggae music, is mainly backing bands (e.g. Roots Radics, Sly & Robbie, The Skatalites, The ...
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Albums for classical songs played by electric guitar?
For Vivaldi's "Four seasons", try albums by At Vance:
No Escape, featuring "Summer"
Only Human, - featuring "Spring"
Ride The Sky, featuring "Summer" (another version)
There are other classical ...
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Too much similar music nowadays
If we do a formal analysis of early rock music we would most likely find that most of them follow rather closely an especific aesthetic framework, that is, most of them make use of the same elements ...
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Does anyone know of any bagpipe albums I could buy that have just 2 or 3 bagpipes performing together?
A search for "Bagpipe duo" found
Scottish Duo Hamish Moore and Dick Lee recorded two albums, available on Greentrax, in the early 1990s.
Branschke Armstrong Duo, "Antithesis"
A ...
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Shortest album in length?
I think the definition of "full length" is quite malleable, anyway, but it appears to be somewhere around 28 minutes.
A quick search came up with this source of the shortest 10 albums:
The ...
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Classification of albums as LPs and Playlists
Album is sort of a loose concept right now, but the problem you're probably noticing is that these allocations to categories are done via AI, which have different initial algorithms. How they "...
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How to know which year a LP was pressed?
On Discogs you can see all the releases by catalog number (which should be on the outside of the sleeve), and see who is offering these for sale. Depending on the version, people are asking $50 - $...
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Are there any formal measures of an albums' "efficiency" in the music industry?
This isn't definitive, but too much for just a comment.
You could qualify it by the number of singles that became hits… though that would fail on bands such as Zeppelin.
You could also consider 'songs ...
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Sgt. Pepper's Album Cover: Paul's Uniform matches the Blue Sky
Your rigorous internet search turned up nothing on this, which leads me to fear there is nothing to be found—perhaps because the colours don't really match. I've shown this here by pulling down pieces ...
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HS3 (Harry Styles) Album
I know about this PopBuzz article, but this was written 1 month ago...
"Harry has just wrapped the US leg of Fine Line's tour and fans think that he's dropping hints that a new era is upon us&...
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Release date of Renaissance's Ashes Are Burning?
According to its Wikipedia page, it's October 10th of 1973, but it's unclear where this information comes from.
This page on Genius gives the same information, but that could have been plucked from ...
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