On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davito...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/5/25 Stephen <tungolcra...@gmail.com> >> >> I have a question that hasn't been addressed so far: sometimes a cover >> will introduce a specific innovation (could be an extra verse, >> dropping a verse, specific flourishes, restructuring, whatever) into a >> song, and later covers will reproduce that innovation. So those later >> covers aren't covers of the original, but specifically covers of that >> other cover. Is there a way to record this information in either the >> old, current regime or the new proposed one? >> >> I agree that most of the time covers should link to the original, but >> some covers actually are covers of specific later versions. I'm not >> sure how best that might be handled though. Maybe just in annotations >> or something, because it strikes me that the ontological way of >> allowing some covers to generate new works and other covers to not do >> so would likely become a contentious mess. > > > Also, couldn't it happen that a cover takes it's ideas from two distinct > covers ? Even more messy :-)
a couple examples, off the top of my head: Cover of a cover: a few Metallica tribute cd's include performances of "Am I Evil" and "Blitzkrieg", neither of which is an original Metallica tune. example: http://musicbrainz.org/release/487c7cd5-37f5-4b6c-8cd9-a1446d069828 Cover of two songs at once: A Perfect Circle combined Ozzy's "Diary of a Madman" and The Cure's "Lovesong" into one tune. We have a few instances of this in MB, mostly (i'm assuming) on bootlegs: http://musicbrainz.org/artist/078a9376-3c04-4280-b7d7-b20e158f345d/recordings?page=3 -- --dj empirical-- http://djempirical.com || http://www.flickr.com/photos/dj_empirical/ || http://twitter.com/djempirical || http://www.facebook.com/pages/DJ-Empirical/497598105223 podcast: wearenotdelicious.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
