Re: Moulin Rouge and featured artists

> I'd prefer using http://musicbrainz.org/doc/SoundtrackStyle . Even if it is
> an inofficial and stalled guideline, this would make the mess a little less
> messy
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Brian Schweitzer
> <brian.brianschweitzer@...> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Andrew John Hughes
>> <gnu_andrew@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've just been looking at the two Moulin Rouge soundtrack releases:
>>>
>>> http://musicbrainz.org/release/9fce131b-381e-4588-844d-d113db2e3d76.html
>>> http://musicbrainz.org/album/4088668e-a85f-4891-823e-f8badecf514c.html
>>>
>>> Without going into the mess that seems to have been created by
>>> duplicating the discs (they were released separately, and then as a
>>> package, which seems to have caused some confusion), there seems to be
>>> some strangeness going on with the artist attributions as well.
>>>
>>> On the releases themselves, there are no featured artists.  Tracks are
>>> attributed to one or more performers, which gets a bit crazy in some
>>> cases (Spectacular Spectacular on Moulin Rouge 2 has eight
>>> collaborating artists).  When these releases were added, they seem to
>>> have been arbitrarily attributed to whoever occurs first in the list
>>> (Nicole Kidman in most cases) and the rest listed as featured artist.
>>> Is there some guideline for doing this?  In a number of cases it is
>>> clearly incorrect; 'Elephant Love Medley' and 'Come What May' are both
>>> duets and shouldn't be attributed solely to Nicole Kidman (especially
>>> on the latter, as Ewan McGregor is the dominant performer).
>>>
>>> How should this be corrected? Should we create appropriate track
>>> artists (this will result in some awful pseudo-artists)?  Or is there
>>> a better solution?
>>
>> I wouldn't worry too much about trying to avoid creating such workaround
>> artists, if indeed the situation supports it, given that NGS, with "multiple
>> artists on the same track/release" support, is coming in the around 3 to 4
>> months.
>>
>> Brian
>>
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