Allmusic Mess Ups

My suggestion: Start your own comprehensive music database. AMG has gotten complacent due to lack of competition.

Is Amazon's track listing ever incorrect?

I would say, though, that their failing to correct these errors is of relatively minor importance.

Uh dude, he just wanted to make a correction,it's not as though he criticizes Allmusic for messing up. So he should just leave it?

Others are talking about it but it's suprising how long it's taking to get the WikiMusic site up and running. Until then AMG's probably best we have despite it's faults.

Worked so far!

Somewhere here there's a thread about someone uncovering one of these, an Aretha Franklin album that implausibly included "Jet Boy Jet Girl" as one of the tracks. I've no idea what the thread title is, however.

Once again, ILM has broken my heart with the phantom of unlikely cover versions that never have been and never could be.

From the Twisted Sister biography:

"For his part, Snider remained in the camera eye, however, appearing before a Senate committee later that year (along with such rock & roll luminaries as Frank Zappa and Bob Denver) to testify against the Parents Music Resource Center's demands for music censorship legislation."

lol

People mixing up John Denver and Bob Dylan make me irrationally angry.

Damn mistagged mp3s

Such rock'n'roll luminaries as Frank Zappa and Denver, The Last Dinosaur...

he's my friend

and a whole lot more

From this review of Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You":

Led Zeppelin often placed their own names on works that can easily be attributed, at least in part, to other songwriters. Thus you have "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You," which on the album is credited as "traditional, arranged by Jimmy Page" when it was in fact written by Anne Bredon (aka Annie Briggs).

WTF? Anne Bredon and Anne Briggs are not the same person!

Stephen Thomas Erlewine's review of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's 'Universal' album, which reads thus:

Universal is a rote collection of synth-pop and dance-pop from OMD, demonstrating only a fraction of the sophisticated craft that made its predecessor Liberator enjoyable, and none of the adventurous spirit of their '80s records.

It must be said, first of all, that 'Universal' is far from one of my favourite OMD albums. In fact, I find it quite a patchy album overall, even if it does have a couple of solid moments on it. One thing is certainly isn't, though, is a collection of 'dance-pop', and neither could I call it a 'synth-pop' record either. If anything, 'Universal' for the most part seems to be based on standard 'rock band' instrumentation, rather like their 'Crush' album. It certainly doesn't sound anything like 'Liberator', which to me is comfortably the worst OMD album, is far more standard 'dance-pop' than 'Universal', and contains no saving graces at all. The production values are noticeably higher on 'Universal' also.

The only thing that makes sense to me about the review is that the record has "none of the adventurous spirit of their '80s records", which is very true. It's very much a "mainstream" album in the Britpop mould. However, while I'm usually not one to spout things like "are you listening to the same album as me!?" whenever someone dislikes something that I do, in this case I am left wondering if Erlewine did actually listen to the record.

Led Zeppelin often placed their own names on works that can easily be attributed, at least in part, to other songwriters. Thus you have "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You," which on the album is credited as "traditional, arranged by Jimmy Page" when it was in fact written by Anne Bredon (aka Annie Briggs).

WTF? Anne Bredon and Anne Briggs are not the same person!

― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Friday, November 4, 2011 8:25 PM (50 minutes ago)

Yeah that is some serious wtfness... Anne Briggs "wrote" "Black Water Side" which Page borrowed heavily from Briggs' ex-lover Bert Jansch's arrangement, that song is old as dirt though.

Correct. Actually, Page borrowed heavily from Jansch's style in general during Zep's acoustic/folky moments IMO.

As far as I'm aware, Anne Briggs had nothing to do with "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" though.

This track listing for Tim Hardin's 1966 debut album shows his oft-covered "Reason to Believe" as having been co-written by Bruce Springsteen. I don't think so......