User:KrazyKiwi

KrazyKiwi

I am me. I guess that was obvious. This is a foetal page - I guess that was obvious too. I'll put real stuff on it when (if) I am convinced the evil wiki fairies aren't going to eat the darn page. Don't laugh, it's happened before.

Bands I am especially interested in fixing the discographies of (and keeping fixed)

• The Angels (AKA Angel City)
• Letzte Instanz
• Sissel / Sissel Kyrkebø
• KMFDM
• Dragon
• The Chieftains
• Tomas Ledin
• Ulf Lundell

Useful Musical Resources

Swedish

• http://www.doloresrecordings.com/katalog.htm (Dolores Records katalog, home to among others Håkan Hellström, Alf, Caesars, Broder Daniel, I'm from Barcelona) Notable for being very complete, albeit with some misspellings, and some corrections where they managed to label their own CD's with the wrong catalog number. Useful starting point, stuff from here probably needs confirmation from other sources.)
• http://www.emi.se/genre_svenskt.aspx (EMI Sweden - they distribute a lot of other labels (like, Dolores above), as well as having their own roster. Pretty complete discographies, but light on details (sometimes the release dates disagree with sublabel's info, they tend to have all the albums and singles listed, but for instance, no track times or catalog numbers) Again, good starting point, look for confirmation elsewhere before relying on the details.)
• http://www.mariann.se/ (Mariann Gramafon, the infamous Bert Karlsson's label. Decently complete catalog on the site, but very light on details. However, they have a big roster of swedish artists, and usually have a link to their home pages if nothing else. Also they do lots of compilations, under various brands)
• http://www.absolute.nu/ (Absolute Music, until recently a compilation house, but they seem to be releasing or at least distributing some new releases since the start of 2006. In any case, this is the canonical source for the Swedish release of "Absolute ...." where ... is just about anything you can think of.)
• EVA Records (In Sweden, part of Absolute Music). This was originally a joint venture from EMI, Virgin and BMG (in some other countries, Ariola), licensing music from all three for the purposes of compilations. Over the years the parent labels have changed, Virgin and EMI merged, Sony and BMG, and Warners is now involved, but they license music from other labels too. There have been related companies in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, and perhaps most succesfully in Belgium. Where I've been entering these, I've used Absolute Music/EVA Records to distinguish the Swedish versions. Norway's is called EVA Records ANS. Unfortunately, the only one with a complete catalogue online is the Swedish version (at absolute.nu), and I would be very interested to get hold of such a thing for the other countries.

About Languages & Countries & Why my edits appear to be all over the place

I am from New Zealand, although I haven't lived there for a long time. I did grow up there in the halcyon days of kiwi rock, and I grew up in in a family heavily involved in the music scene (my mother is a musician, so are several cousins, your average "Best of Kiwi rock" album has at least a half dozen of them on - it's their eternal disappointment that none of us in my generation were all that interested :). Suffice it to say, I am very familiar with exceedingly obscure Australian and Kiwi music of the 70's and 80's, and my plan is to get to work on all those great and largely unknown outside oceania bands of my childhood. I also have an enormous vinyl collection from those days, and a nearly as enormous CD collection, but it's packed in boxes in my grandmother's house in NZ, so it's not that easy for me to add them, unfortunately.

Among other places I've lived in Switzerland for quite a while (Basel, to be specific, great city), and I've spent a good deal of time since then working with German folk. So I have a fondness for weird German language bands (especially but not exclusively industrial), and know enough german to spot grievous errors in spelling and pick out impossible grammar constructions, but not enough to see the subtle ones, and I never did learn the gender stuff. Also, when I attempt to speak german, I send real germans into fits of laughter, thanks to the swiss accent.

Since then I've lived in Sweden for many years, my husband is Swedish, and I am quite fluent. I also adore Swedish Music, and having grown up immersed in the Kiwi music scene, I made a point of immersing myself equally much in the Swedish scene since I've been here. So I've grown quite a collection of Swedish stuff to get around to fixing up here. Mostly "classic" rock and power pop stuff, folks like Tomas Ledin and Ulf Lundell. My step-father-in-law has an even more enormous than you could believe collection of 60's through 80's vinyls too, all in Swedish, and I've been adding and/or cleaning up a bunch of those over time.

KK's little guide to bug triage

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