[mb-style] RFC: new AR 'Artist X wrote the liner notes for release Y'

[Lauri Watts]

On 9/14/06, Mangled <viapanda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/9/8, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com>:
> > Actually, liner notes _at_ a URL may be worth thinking about. I can
> > think of some artists official discographies that provide a full
> > reproduction of the text of the liner notes.  It would be nice to be
> > able to link to them.
>
> mm... well...
> Even if they are reproduced *at* url, they are still "written by
> artist X", so this might complicate things a bit...
>
> Frankly, I would prefer to keep it simple, and in the (probably very
> rare) case where an url has a copy of the LN, simply mention it in the
> release annotation rather than having an AR...

Not so rare, I've noticed quite a trend lately of artists doing this,
I could probably do 50 albums without thinking about it.  I know far
more artists with liner notes online than I do with LiveJournals, for
instance. It may be a genre thing though; The particular ones I can
think of would fall into the "pop or rock artists who have been around
since the 70's and are really into this whole web thing" genre.  If
there were one.  I don't see it very often in the electronica artists
I monitor (but even there, I can think of a couple.)

However, that's all beside the point, I was thinking as an additional
URL type, rather than as an option of the "has liner notes" AR.

-- 
Lauri Watts