Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fill Your Head with Rock (sampler)

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The result was keep. Courcelles 00:20, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fill Your Head with Rock (sampler)

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Non-notable comp per WP:MUSIC, without even an assertion that this sampler is special. Google shows nothing exciting. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:18, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note PROD was denied. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:19, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. — I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 05:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. — I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 05:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It was me who removed the PROD. My memory tells me that this was a significant album at the time, widely circulated, and gained UK awareness of artists as diverse as Flock, Moondog and Skin Alley. Checking the sources I see that it represented a significant push by CBS to grab the high ground as the leading "contemporary" label in the UK, & launch the double album format. Then, given it's success there, the campaign continued on an international basis. I've added a few facts to the article. I do believe the previous 'notes' could be considered cruft, and you'll note that I am not similarly defending the later samplers. Wwwhatsup (talk) 06:02, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I cannot be the only person for whom this was the defining album of my childhood, introducing me, for a limited expenditure, to a broad church of rock music. This was a far more significant album than many of the full albums from which samples were taken. I arrived here searching for the precise information that I found when I arrived. I doubt that this information is available elsewhere - certainly not as completely and sympathetically presented. Please do not delete. Theblackbadger (talk) 07:35, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. While "G-d! I remember this from when I was...young" falls into the Arguments to avoid in deleton discussions category, I would have said this particular one was notable in the field of samplers, by virtue of the Billboard reference.Elen of the Roads (talk) 14:50, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I've edited The Rock Machine Turns You On to give some (referenced) indication of the notability of this series to the development and awareness of rock music in the UK, and will do my best to find additional refs to support it. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:41, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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