[mb-users] "and" vs. "&"

[Archie Binnie]

ATB is an artist, as is Faithless. At some point an ATB track and a
Faithless track have been mixed by a third party.

Most of the time the Artist is then called "ATB vs. Faithless", and the
track is a conglomeration of the two original tracks titles (e.g. "smells
like teen booty" is a mix of Nirvana and Destiny's Child).

I have a track, "Daft Punk vs. Prince - Kiss Tha Funk", which is a mix of
"The Funk" by Daft Punk, and "Kiss" by Prince. The mixer is unknown. Tracks
like this are commonly released on white labels, and sometimes have no
listed artist.

Another example is "Skee-Lo vs. Eye of The Tiger - I Wish (Soulwax Bootleg
Mix)". Using one reading of the current style guidelines this should be
"Soulwax - Skee-Lo vs. Eye of The Tiger", and we lose the track's true
title.

The problem is that there are two fields (artist and title), but up to four
bits of data (original artist 1 and 2, mixer, track title) being squeezed in
to them.

Another use of the "vs." is in battle competitions, for example the track
"DJ Rob Swift vs. Rahzel - Battle". The track itself has no title, and as
I've said before about colaborations, neither artist can be primary in this
case.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Cafferkey" <caffer at cs.ucc.ie>
To: <musicbrainz-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [mb-users] "and" vs. "&"


> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:06:13PM +0100, Archie Binnie wrote:
> > Just a minor question.... I know the way the vote went and all, but why
are
> > we allowed to use "vs." to link two artists (who generally aren't
> > collaborating, they're simply being mixed together), but not "&"? I know
> > using "&" creates a whole load of new artists, but then so does "vs.".
>
> Looking again at guideline no. 5, I wonder does it contradict its own
> example? Is there a track called ATB? I'm pretty sure the intention was
> that "vs." should be used like "feat.":  in the track name and not in the
> artist name.
>
> Regards,
> Neil Cafferkey
>
>
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