Talk:Out of Time (album)

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There seem to be several inaccuracies on this page. For example, "Near Wild Heaven" WAS a single in the UK. Also, "Radio Song" is described as a "megaselling hit", although it didn't chart in the US and only reached #28 in the UK.

Acegikmo1 20:23, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I noticed that too, i just tried a cleanup effort last time I looked at this page, the state before was appalling. --Aaron Hill 23:55, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] NPOV alert

Known for its eclectic nature, Out of Time's critical standing has lessened in later years, and is generally seen as being unbalanced and inconsistent by some reviewers.

I always thought it was unbalanced and inconsistent. It's not clear to me from what point of view the statement is coming from.Fantailfan 16:36, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing reviews

Please do not remove professional reviews that are deemed acceptable by WikiProject Album standards. --Fantailfan 22:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Song-by-song credits

I don't like this. Not at all. I'm trying to find out why this would be more useful than a straight track listing. I would like to revert it but am kind of tired of doing snap reverts without a reason. Unfortunately, I cannot contact the user who made the changes, because its an IP address. I'll give it a few days. --Fantailfan 17:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Reverted song-by-song credits but used info to indicate bandmembers' instrumental contributions when not general.--Fantailfan 22:13, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electric Octave Guitar?

Is there really such instrument? I always assumed Peter Buck played electric mandolin in addition to his acoustic one. I don't actually own the album so I have no idea if this is correct.24.91.251.238 21:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

On the credits for OOT/LMR It sez "Bill—drums, percussion; Peter—mandolin, electric octave guitar; Mike—Bass, vocals, keyboards strings & arrangement; Michael—vocals; Peter Holspapple—acoustic guitar
This could re-parsed as "mandolin electric octave, guitar" They were out of time after all and may have futzed up the credits.
The collector's edition LMR has no credits. Fantailfan 01:38, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop the revert wars!

Hey! Between the two of you, you have edited over 10,000 pages; I have edited over 3500. As a disinterested observer, I am citing the unofficial "way too much time on our hands" doctrine: Let's compromise!
a) Dudesleeper is correct on the dating. The reason for this is very simple: for many years now release dates have standardized on Tuesdays in America and Mondays in other places. The difference of a single day is not worth this craziness.

  • Proposed: We can use (as as has been the case elsewhere) one date with the UK release date and the second with the US one. You can even use cute little flag icons for them. (b) There are no explicit guidelines on how to incorporate an album article in a discography.
  • Proposed: We add a second discography using this format, with the albums discography taking top spot, the chronological one the second:
| Misc         = {{Extra chronology 2
  | Artist     = 
  | Type       = 
  | Last album = 
  | This album = 
  | Next album = 
  }}

Discuss, please. -- Fantailfan (talk) 20:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)