[mb-users] Prince Ital Joe and Mark Mark - United

[Alexander Kiel]

Chris B wrote:
> 2008/2/27 Alexander Kiel <alexanderkiel at gmx.net>:
>   
>> Kuno Woudt wrote:
>>  > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:06:42PM +0100, Alexander Kiel wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> Hi List,
>>  >>
>>  >> can please someone vote my release add though?
>>  >>
>>  >> http://musicbrainz.org/release/fa362c25-aa77-448f-af27-23f0190160c3.html
>>  >>
>>  >> Its based on the CD I have here and submitted as Disc ID.
>>  >>
>>  >> The problem (or odd thing) why I writing this here is, that I found
>>  >> another entry of this release under Prince Ital Joe:
>>  >>
>>  >> http://musicbrainz.org/release/8f523e30-42c8-43b7-a73a-1ac537d3a98b.html
>>  >>
>>  >> I don't found it before my release add, because I only looked under
>>  >> Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark. For all what I know I'm right to file it
>>  >> under Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark as United and not under Prince Ital
>>  >> Joe as United (feat. Marky Mark). It was a collaboration of both
>>  >> equally. Look at the covers at Discogs.
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > All the covers at discogs have
>>  >
>>  >   Prince Ital Joe feat. Marky Mark
>>  >
>>  > So the existing entry seems fine.
>>  >
>>  > -- kuno / warp.
>>  >
>>  Hmmm. The question is: Is Prince Ital Joe & Mark Mark a group with two
>>  members or are all the release under Prince Ital Joe only  featuring
>>  Marky Mark? I would vote for the first.
>>
>>  In fact I did not add the artist Prince Ital Joe & Mark Mark. dechief
>>  did this [1] in 2007.
>>
>>  Discogs has a artist page of both [2].
>>     
>
> nope, discogs have an ANV for "Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark", which is
> analogous to our concept of 'aliases'.
>   
But they have a page 
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Prince+Ital+Joe+Feat.+Marky+Mark where you 
can read:

    "*Members:*Joe Paquette 
<http://www.discogs.com/artist/Joe+Paquette>, Mark Wahlberg 
<http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mark+Wahlberg>"
>   
>>  So I'm open for all possibilities. But for me they are like a group who
>>  had releases over a long time together. Thats not a short term project
>>  where one features into.
>>     
>
> but it's not an equal collaboration, otherwise it would always (or at
> least, mostly) be billed as "Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark" whereas
> here one artist is getting *featured*, so this comes under
> FeaturingArtistStyle
>   
Is it possible that the "band name" is just misleading? Can we discuss this?

I bought the single "United" personally in 1994. For me they were always 
a thing like a band, group or act. But I'm not the biggest music expert 
on earth. So a try to ask someone who should know the "act" later this 
evening. So please hold on - I'm away for some hours from now on.


Regards
Alex