Talk:Laughing Stock

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All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen ^Talk 21:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Genre

These two albums are mainly art-rock. Argue against it if you want, but present convincing arguments.Revan ltrl (talk) 16:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Review

AbsolutePunk.net: (93%) link

Subtracted this, as it can't be considered a professional review, even if it may be useful. Can't find another review by this writer on this or any other website. Sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kooosh (talk • contribs) 09:05, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Credits

I don't see any song-writing credits in the album's liner notes. While it seems safe to assume the songs were written by Hollis & Friese-Greene as with Spirit of Eden, [1] states only "After the Flood" was cowritten and the rest are by Hollis alone. Can anyone find another source out there?
Ulmanor (talk) 22:14, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BMI Records confirms "Ascension Day" as being by Hollis/Friese-Greene. Inexplicably, none of the other five songs are listed there.--Martin IIIa (talk) 23:05, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On Discogs some pictures of the vinyls show "All compositions Mark Hollis & Tim Friese-Greene". [2] 74.105.20.197 (talk) 22:33, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ALBUMS Quality Assessment

I see this had been rated as B-class since 2007. I've reassessed it as Start class, since it's a long way from B. Thanks. — sparklism ^hey! 21:30, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Laughing Stock/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Article requirements:

Y All the start class criteria
Y A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details
Y At least one section of prose (excluding the lead section)
Y A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs
Y A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians
Y Categorisation at least by artist and year
Y A casual reader should learn something about the album.

Andrzejbanas (talk) 08:08, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 08:10, 28 March 2010 (UTC). Substituted at 21:42, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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4-second fragment on US version

A previous version of the article used a discussion forum (here) as a source, to support that the extra "four-second fragment" was available on the US version but not the UK version. This will need a more reliable source, but I included the forum link here in case it helps editors track down more relevant sources. Ackatsis (talk) 22:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That forum is discussing the change that I made here - more than once - over 10 years ago. Two or more people on that forum mention it being on the US CD. And as the one who made the note (and subsequent correction) here, I can tell you the same. But I guess in the land of Wikipedia, that's still not good enough. Oh well. Shucky darn.

Wrong Link

The text "Variophon" links to the Russian synthesizer Variaphone when it should link to the German synthesizer Variophon, which are quite different. Rick — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.164.20.240 (talk) 11:14, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed move: Laughing Stock (album) → Laughing Stock

I've proposed moving this article to Laughing Stock, as the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC with that title. Accordingly, I've also requested moving the current disambiguation page, Laughing stock, to Laughing stock (disambiguation). See Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests#Uncontroversial technical requests. I think this is a sensible move, since Talk Talk's Laughing Stock is the only thing with that title that has its own article, and the other things listed at the disambiguation page—all songs—are not as notable as this album. —BLZ · talk 05:10, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

After the Flood Variophon solo

There's a good quote by Friese-Greene about it in this article: https://reverb.com/news/a-quiet-genius-mark-hollis-and-talk-talks-experimental-masterpieces

I don't want to mess with the structure of this article too much, so I hope somebody else can find a sensible spot to work that in. Since this part has often been mistaken for a guitar solo, I think it would be a good addition. Jules TH 16 (talk) 08:19, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]