Talk:Selected Ambient Works Volume II

Selected Ambient Works Volume II is currently a Music good article nominee. Nominated by Beachweak (talk) at 21:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

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Date	Process	Result
April 4, 2024	Peer review	Not reviewed
April 20, 2024	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Expanded Edition

Should the 2024 expanded edition re-issue have its own section? Right now there's just a bit of info under "Legacy and influence". I feel as though there's enough new about it to warrant an entirely different section dedicated to it (the new tracks, the promo, the (currently upcoming) listening parties, the singles released on streaming, etc). Beachweak (talk) 12:49, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled song names in track listing

I feel like the track listing should be reverted back to when it had the fan-chosen nicknames for the tracks instead of how it is now with every track being listed as "untitled". Unless I'm wrong they seemed to be the WP:COMMONNAME for the song titles (I know the policy is for article names and not track listings but still: if any one of the songs from the Selected Ambient Works II article had its own article it would probably use its fan-popularized name, like what has already happened with Stone in Focus).

I also think readers would find it more useful to have each track have a different name for less confusion, because for example the 20th untitled track on the vinyl release and the CD version are not the same. You couldn't say SAW II's 20th untitled song without various people interpreting it differently. You could also argue that if every song without an official name should be untitled, the song called Blue Calx should be untitled too; it was not given a name on SAW II, it was only given a name on a separate compilation album. Squidb4ll (talk) 23:12, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As pointed out by LunaEclipse in this edit, those are only fan titles. In an encyclopaedia we ought to indicate how the work is named "officially" i.e. by the artist. In this case the tracks do not have word titles, so we should indicate as much. The fan titles are included, as they should be - given how widely they are used - but we should not give the impression these are the original titles of each piece. The inclusion of the fan titles eliminates the potential confusion you are concerned about. Cambial — foliar❧ 23:31, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my god, I'm so blind-- I didn't see the fan titles right next to all the songs saying "untitled". I'm actually an idiot. All of my complaints are invalid, you can ignore what I said. Thanks for pointing it out to me Squidb4ll (talk) 01:17, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Track listing

Is there a better way to present the tracklist? Right now the original 1990s vinyl and CD pressings are present in the tracklist, but now the Expanded Edition exists and includes all songs on all formats. Maybe update the track lists to use the Expanded Edition tracklist and note that the original pressings have missing tracks? Or vice versa? Beachweak (talk) 09:08, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just added a footnote about the expanded edition and put the years beside each release. Any improvements let me know Beachweak (talk) 09:38, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Nominator: Beachweak (talk · contribs) 21:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: TappyTurtle (talk · contribs) 17:03, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'll be reviewing this article soon. TappyTurtle [talk | contribs] 17:03, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TappyTurtle, are you still planning to review this? czar 16:53, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Stone in Focus into Selected Ambient Works Volume II

The sourcing in this song article pertains more to the album re-release. Everything there is to say here can be adequately covered within the re-release's section of the existing album article. czar 15:04, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge. I think the Expanded Edition and Track listing sections already cover the track's release history, and we could merge the rest of the article into Reception and Composition quite easily. Beachweak (talk) 15:12, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]