Talk:Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
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[edit] Ampersand?
Is there any reason why this article uses an ampersand in the title and not the word "and" ? It seems that in all their albums, the word "and" is used without the &. Dylan 21:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
- Hm. This also seems to bea good argument that the page should be at Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. However, it seems that User:TUF-KAT made the move, and that editor tends to make good decisions. I'd like to get input from User:TUF-KAT before making the change. Jkelly 22:00, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
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- For consistency's sake, I habitually move bands with titles like this to this format -- it's just nice to have a standard, and I don't even remember why the ampersand and lower-case "the" became standard to begin with. This band's kind of an unusual case because "Me First" is not a person's name (like as in Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers or Richard Hell & the Voidoids), so move it if it seems more correct. Tuf-Kat 22:17, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
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- I'm somewhat baffled by this. Shouldn't the articles remain under the name of the band? There's a difference between "&" and "and" in names, and a given band might want to spell their name one way or the other. mkehrt 20:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
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- "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes" gets almost ten times more Google hits than "Me First & the Gimme Gimmes". EdGl 21:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Incorrectly Crediting MFATGG
I have noticed that just about any punk cover of a non-punk song gets credited to MFATGG somewhere on the net, whether it be file sharing networks or even wikipedia - see page for a-ha's "Take on Me" (I can't remember MFATGG doing this song - think it was MXPX). What do you reckon about having a list of song's incorrectly credited to MFATGG on wikipedia? Just a suggestion.
- I don't think a list of inaccuracies from other sources is really relevant information for an encyclopaedia - it might be useful to someone who uses file sharing software, but it doesn't seem like the kind of information that should be here. We should concentrate on the songs they did, rather than the songs they didn't perform/record. I suppose you could mention that as a cover band people often wrongly assume that they performed tracks that were in fact performed by other artists, but I wouldn't list them. Rather I would seek out the erroneous information in Wikipedia such as with the A-ha track you specify, and correct it. Gram 10:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proper Attribution for Take On Me
Incidentally, the Punk version of Take On Me frequently attributed to MFATGG is probably the Reel Big Fish punk cover featured on the "Basketball" soundtrack. HCAndrew 4:46, 5 December 2006
Both MXPX and Reel Big Fish have done covers of Take On Me. MXPX did it on an album called "On the Cover"
