Talk:Moog records

The annotated VfD

There is no source provided. The term seems to be a neologism. I know these type of albums exsist; I own a number of these so-called "Moog records", but nothing I've ever read about Moog's history mentions this genre. The closest genre into which these albums might fall would be early electronic music of the 60s.

Moog records(moog is pronounced like "vogue") were a fad genre of records released in the mid 1960's to late 1970's. The records often had "Moog" in the title, ie. "Country Moog Classics," "Exotic Moog with Martin Denny," etc.

This is a true statement, though unverifiable. WP:V: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. This means that we only publish material that is verifiable with reference to reliable, published sources." There are no sources on "Moog records"...it would be cool if there were, but there just aren't any.

The boundaries of the genre are easily and frequently disputed, but liberally speaking it also includes records that used a variety of other synthesizer manufacturers and even some organs(such as later Lowery Organs, which had pitchbends) as well.

The sentence above screams original research to me. ("easily and frequently disputed" without giving any mention of by whom)

Moog records most often featured arrangements of pop songs and standards using the Moog synthesizer in the most dramatic and flamboyant way possible. When listening to these records, the zeal for the new instrument is obvious in the instrumentation and arranging.

Weasel terms.

Moog records are now valued highly by collectors and have experienced a resurgence in popularity with the growing popularity and availability of electronic music during the late 1990's. The best quality recordings of the genre were from already experienced conductors, players and engineers, like Enoch Light, Hugo Montenegro, Walter Sear, and Dick Hyman. While a good portion of the records featured impressive musicianship, another portion featured less than adequate editting and arranging. This fact, of course, only increases the cult status of records like "Moog Beatles" and "Country Moog Classics."

More weasel words, scattered with opinions (presumably of the author). The author then goes on to list (his favorite) artists. This article obviously came from a well-meaning but misguided enthusiast and, as such, it's little more than nonsense fancruft.

-- Krash (Talk) 14:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Sources

Google search for "Moog records".[1] Most of the 700 occurances come from various discussion boards, blogs, and a goodly number of personal musical reviews/introspections. These are the best that I could find out of the first 200 results. But none of them really seem to satisfy WP:RS:

• "Moog records now have their own collectors' subcategory filed under exotica or lounge." [2] (last paragraph)
• "With every new invention comes the fallout, and this came in the form of the "Moog Records" of the late '60s."[3] (third paragraph down)
• In the Moog [4]

And, on a whim, "Moog albums" lands only 450 results.[5]

Also, search for "Moog records" at http://www.vintagesynth.com/ and http://www.synthmuseum.com/. Nothing. And no mention at Encyclopedia of Electronic Music. I just can't find anything that would make me believe that this is anything other than a neologism. -- Krash (Talk) 15:44, 20 February 2006 (UTC)