Talk:Paradise Theatre (album)

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Name[edit]

The name of this article was changed. Amazon.com has it listed differently ... --evrik ^(talk) 15:56, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(For the record) The official Styx website shows the album as Paradise Theatre (not Theater). CuriousEric 17:36, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I know this comment is nearly 4 years old, but I'm look at the site right now, and it definitely says "Theater" and so does my compact disc copy on the spine. Hg3300 (talk) 02:33, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's both. Front cover says "Theatre", back cover says "Theater": [1] --Mika1h (talk) 16:40, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What does the spine say? I think that's the definitive answer because that's the side you'll see when it's stored properly.Hg3300 (talk) 00:51, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Musical Segue[edit]

"Vinyl releases and initial CD pressings of the album had the musical segue between "Half-Penny, Two-Penny" and "A.D. 1958" indexed as the intro to "A.D. 1958". Subsequent pressings of the CD had the segue indexed as the fade to "Half-Penny, Two-Penny" instead."

Okay...what does that mean in plain English??? And just for reference, my copy of Paradise Theater has correctly timed "Half-Penny, Two Penny" to 5:58 and "A.D. 1958" to 1:07. Listening to the music it just makes more sense this way. (On an LP it just plain doesn't matter in the slightest because the tracks aren't separated like they are on a CD) Hg3300 (talk) 06:35, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well they're not really "separated" on the CD either, it's just that there's an index marker indicating where one ends and the other begins. The earlier pressings had this marker at the point where "A.D. 1958" begins, which is before "Half-Penny, Two-Penny" has fully faded out. The later pressings placed the marker at the very end of "Halfpenny", which is after "1958" has already begun to fade in. So one of those two tracks gains a few seconds, which the other loses.Vonbontee (talk) 17:36, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That sort of clears it up for me. Judging by the musical style of each track, the change was definitely the correct decision. I'm not sure what you mean by "1958" has already begun to fade in, because I don't hear it until the end of "Halfpenny." And the difference is more than a "few seconds" (the original index was placed immediately after the last lyric in "Halfpenny")Hg3300 (talk) 17:02, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Release Date[edit]

It would be better to cite a U.S. American source for the release date of an album by a band from the U.S.A--and not cite the U.K. based BPI. Or at least qualify the published date as the the British release date. And--in any case--to cite the release date from the main body of the article and not from the inofobox, because the infoboxes do not show up consistently/reliably on mobile devices.alainsane (talk) 00:01, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]