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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on April 23, 2010, 12:27:32 PM
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Song titles go in quotes.
Album titles go in italics.
To do it any other way is wrong.
Please adjust your posting accordingly. TIA. :biggrin:
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Technically, you're right. But I usually forget the quotes for song titles.
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The Queen's not reading my posts, so I don't see what difference it makes.
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Band Name - Song Title
is the correct order.
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Band Name - Song Title
is the correct order.
:tup
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For example:
Bad Company - "Bad Company" - Bad Company
Any questions will result in pointing and laughing.
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Band Name - Song Title
is the correct order.
:tup
This and...For example:
Bad Company - "Bad Company" - Bad Company
Any questions will result in pointing and laughing.
This
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What are you, my mom! :P :D
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Band Name - Song Title
is the correct order.
:tup
This. Screw italics and such. I'd rather nag on people who writes it like
Song Title - Band Name
it always, always throws me way off, even if I've heard of the band before. Brain not comprehendo!
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Home - Dream Theater
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Oh, you people...
(and no Volk, that was not directed at you :P)
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:lol
Imo the quotes for song titles are unnecessary. It doesn't look too good and usually just writing starting each word with a capital is enough. And a text with plenty of song titles, each one with quotes, looks terrible.
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Oh, you people...
(and no Volk, that was not directed at you :P)
(https://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q452/raul_comer/Morgan_freeman_KFC.gif)
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I thought, at least here, it was
Band Name - Song Name - Album Name.
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I'm with Veronica. :heart
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What are the rules for capitalization? Are you supposed to capitalize the first letter of everything or are you suppose to leave works like "the", "a" or "and" lower case? I see it done both ways so I've never known which is correct.
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Band Name - Song Title
is the correct order.
:tup
This. Screw italics and such. I'd rather nag on people who writes it like
Song Title - Band Name
it always, always throws me way off, even if I've heard of the band before. Brain not comprehendo!
+1
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What are the rules for capitalization? Are you supposed to capitalize the first letter of everything or are you suppose to leave works like "the", "a" or "and" lower case? I see it done both ways so I've never known which is correct.
I believe the correct way is not capitalizing words like "the" but I do it anyway 'cause I feel dirty otherwise.
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What are the rules for capitalization? Are you supposed to capitalize the first letter of everything or are you suppose to leave works like "the", "a" or "and" lower case? I see it done both ways so I've never known which is correct.
In my library on the PC, 99% of words are capitalised, otherwise everything will look uneven. A good example of that would be the ...And Justice For All album.
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What's purple and standing in my kitchen?
My bitch and I'll paint her any color I like
So, I'll write band name, album, and song however the hell I want.
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I didn't have diarrhea before coming into this thread but now I do. I don't think there's any connection but I'll never know for sure.
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What's purple and standing in my kitchen?
My bitch and I'll paint her any color I like
So, I'll write band name, album, and song however the hell I want.
You've persuaded me :lol
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What are the rules for capitalization? Are you supposed to capitalize the first letter of everything or are you suppose to leave works like "the", "a" or "and" lower case? I see it done both ways so I've never known which is correct.
I believe the correct way is not capitalizing words like "the" but I do it anyway 'cause I feel dirty otherwise.
The one and ONLY place where "the", "a", "for", "from", "and", "as", "an", "but", "nor", and/or "or" has to be capitalize is if it's at the beginning of the title. ("is", "are" and "be" should be capitalize regardless where they are in the title)
Example:
"From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness" = correct
"From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness" =/= correct
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And why?
I as a German never got this. Is there an "official" rule?
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And why?
I as a German never got this. Is there an "official" rule?
Yes, what I wrote is basically the rule.
Rule:
Always capitalize the first and last words of titles of publications regardless of their parts of speech. Capitalize other words within titles, including the short verb forms Is, Are, and Be.
Exception: Do not capitalize little words within titles such as a, an, the, but, as, if, and, or, nor, or prepositions, regardless of their length.
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I thought, at least here, it was
Band Name - Song Name - Album Name.
Really guys, there is something of a truth here. I just don't know where it's from.
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Oh, you people...
(and no Volk, that was not directed at you :P)
(https://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q452/raul_comer/Morgan_freeman_KFC.gif)
mmm, chicken
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Oh, you people...
(and no Volk, that was not directed at you :P)
(https://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q452/raul_comer/Morgan_freeman_KFC.gif)
mmm, chicken
Funny that I had KFC tonight...
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Oh, you people...
(and no Volk, that was not directed at you :P)
(https://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q452/raul_comer/Morgan_freeman_KFC.gif)
mmm, chicken
Funny that I had KFC tonight...
I'd have gotten Popeye's. Miss them so much since I moved :sadpanda:
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Oh, you people...
(and no Volk, that was not directed at you :P)
(https://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q452/raul_comer/Morgan_freeman_KFC.gif)
mmm, chicken
Funny that I had KFC tonight...
:lol
I actually used to like KFC a lot more, but now when I eat it I just feel terrible and it doesn't taste good enough to be worth it. Still :heart biscuits though...
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I actually used to like KFC a lot more, but now when I eat it I just feel terrible and it doesn't taste good enough to be worth it. Still :heart biscuits though...
I used to get mashed potatoes as both of my sides when I'd get a combo there and break up the biscuit into pieces about the size of a quarter and mix it all together. Try it some time and thank me later.
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That sounds amazing...
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I'd have gotten Popeye's. Miss them so much since I moved :sadpanda:
I'm Black dude. I dont care who fries the chicken, as long as it can fill my heart with goodness.
Note: Heart disease is the number one killer of African-Americans in urban America.
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I'd have gotten Popeye's. Miss them so much since I moved :sadpanda:
I'm Black dude. I dont care who fries the chicken, as long as it can fill my heart with goodness.
Note: Heart disease is the number one killer of African-Americans in urban America.
:rollin :rollin :rollin
Anyway, Kev is right, and I've always done it that way.
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Technically, you're right. But I usually forget the quotes for song titles.
Yeah, I used to not do that it that way either, and really, that is very forgivable. :p :lol
However, every time I read the Rush Contents Under Pressure book, I want to strangle the author. He put all of the song titles in italics (WRONG) and merely bolded the album titles (WRONG). :censored :censored :censored
What are the rules for capitalization? Are you supposed to capitalize the first letter of everything or are you suppose to leave works like "the", "a" or "and" lower case? I see it done both ways so I've never known which is correct.
Those should be lower case, unless they are the first or last word of a song or album title.
And prepositions are interesting in that they should be lower case if they are four letters or less EXCEPT if part of a two-word phrase. To explain that, "Carry On" is a two-word phrase, so "on" would be capitalized in "Carry On Wayward Son." Make sense?
This site helps explain it: https://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/caps.html
Ultimately, I am too much of a spelling and grammar nazi :lol, and I am sure I make a few mistakes here and there, but I always try not to. ;)
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Ultimately, I am too much of a spelling and grammar nazi :lol, and I am sure I make a few mistakes here and there, but I always try not to. ;)
You don't need a comma after the word "Nazi." You should also capitalize the N. :police:
:-*
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Ultimately, I am too much of a spelling and grammar nazi :lol, and I am sure I make a few mistakes here and there, but I always try not to. ;)
You don't need a comma after the word "Nazi." You should also capitalize the N. :police:
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:facepalm: See what I mean?! Those damn commas get me sometimes. :lol
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:lol
But Kev, using the Rush book you mentioned as an example (which I've never read): even if it's not "correct" according the standards you're used to, the point is being able to distinguish one from another. So using bold and italics serves the same purpose and is equally effective IMO (if it's used consistently throughout the book).
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I always do it like this
Band - Album - "Song"
And I usually capitalize every word of a title, I like it like that. :)
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Who's to say we're not actually supposed to be using the colon instead of the dash?
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Even though I'm an English Education grad student, I really take a pragmatic approach with stuff like this. The main point to me is distinguishing between different titles and names so that they do not run together. So if I am writing a post along the lines of "Dream Theater's 'Caught In A Web' is a great song," the quotes serve mainly to prohibit this: "Dream Theater's Caught In A Web is a great song" -- which is annoying because all of a sudden I'm thinking, "How did Dream Theater get caught in this web... oh, the song... man I feel dumb now."
Whereas if I'm posting in the "What Are You Listening To" thread, the above problem does not result if I just write:
Dream Theater - Caught In A Web
I would also be interested to know if these matters are treated consistently across style guidelines such as MLA and APA. Because if there are discrepancies between those two (or others), then all of a sudden we have a problem saying any one way is "the way."
Anyway, grammar is determined much more by usage and societal expectation than by any set of "rules" out there somewhere. Do you need to use proper grammar and style in your essay application to Harvard? Sure. Does it matter whether or not you italicize an album title on an internet music forum? Probably not quite as much. Not that I don't always proofread my posts before I submit them -- of that I am guilty. And while I'm pretty sure that "--" is not the greatest grammatical formulation, I stand by its usefulness.
holla back...
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:tup :tup