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Discography-December 2013

Rejuvenating the discography!

Thanks to any and everyone who took the time to add the missing album cover images.  They are almost filled up, and I have contacted Brian to let him know.  I will leave the link and instructions here in case someone who reads this would like to add the remaining images.

This is what the discography looks like now:
http://albumist.org/customize/en/the_legendary_pink_dots

..and click here for easy to follow instructions for uploading images to the discography via Musicbrainz.  It would be great to see this discography up and running again.  And thanks again to those who helped.

To read the back story of this effort in the previous article, click here.

 

In the meantime…

I made a Chronological Discography that you can see here.

Sincerely,
Camille

How to upload images to Musicbrainz

Preliminary:

Please check the LPD discography overview page to see which album covers still need images.

Scan or find an image of the album cover you wish to add. Currently only JPEG, PNG and GIF files are allowed. The larger the image the better. If you find a satisfactory image from the web, please get the web address of where it came from so as to enter it later. Drag or store that image onto your computer desktop or folder of your choice.

NOW…

step 1. Go to http://musicbrainz.org. In the yellow bar in the upper right of the page, create an account or log in.

step 2. Once you have created an account and verified your email address (which can be done very quickly when you click on the link they send to your email) and are logged in, type “The Legendary Pink Dots” in the search bar, located in the purple field in the upper right, with the tab next to it set to “artist”, and then click “search”.

step 3. Click on the top most result that says the band’s name and has a score of 100.

step 4. A page with their many album releases shows up as a list. Click on the album title that you want to add an image for. Another page comes up with the name of that album by itself. Click on that title too.

step 5. You should be looking at a page that has the title of the album at the top of that page. Underneath which are various tabs, and underneath that, the track list. To add cover art, click on the “cover art” tab which is the 2nd from the right.

step 6. On the page that comes up, click on the grey “add cover art” button.

step 7. Click the “choose file” button to select the image from your computer. Under “type”, select “front”, unless you wish to add images from other parts of the album such as the back or liner notes, which you can also do. If you got the image from the web, they recommend including the link in the edit notes box. It’s not required though. When ready, click the “enter edit” grey box, then wait. It takes several seconds for the image to load. When it does, the cover art will show up as a large thumbnail in a light orange box. It is done. You can see the image as 250px, 500px or original, and you can edit or remove the image.

step 8. Go back to http://albumist.org/customize/en/the_legendary_pink_dots and click the refresh button. The album cover you just added on Musicbrainz should now be visible here!

AND THAT’S IT!  THANKS FOR YOUR HELPING OUT!!

 

If, however, my instructions are lacking, here is an other link with instructions on how to upload images:

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_Cover_Art
–And if you scroll down to the bottom, there are other how-tos to help you.

 

Discography November 2013

Let’s rejuvenate the discography here!

We have a discography that was formed in 2008 by the contributions of many fans who uploaded album cover images and added track titles through Freebase. Freebase is an open database of the world’s information, and the discography was generated from it using a program called “Albumist” created by technology blogger “Hostile Fork”. Please go here for a more comprehensive explanation by Lisette.

At some point, Freebase disabled the uploading of images across the entire site. I suppose, having been acquired by Google, it has to be more careful about image copyright. When this happened, the discography lost most of the images, although the text data still remains. In addition, I suppose some outdated coding also made the discography stop showing up on LPD.org.

This is what the discography looks like now:

http://albumist.org/customize/en/the_legendary_pink_dots

To get around this, internet archive and music database “MusicBrainz”, which has links to Freebase, are seeking to provide this album cover service, but as of yet, it does not have many LPD cover images. They need to be uploaded (again). In addition, some of the more recent releases need corrections to the album titles.

Web developer Brian, who created the original discography for this site, has graciously agreed to do the technical work to make it visible here again, but only on the condition that the community demonstrates interest by uploading at least 15 album covers through MusicBrainz. When you do so, it will show up on the albumist page. He needs to see interest from the community in having this discography up and running again before he is willing to invest his time. For those willing, he recommends uploading larger, higher res images whenever possible.

Click here for easy to follow instructions for uploading images.
It would be great to see this discography up and running again. Hopefully, there is interest here. 

In the meantime…

www.brainwashed.com/lpd also has a comprehensive discography that is currently in the process of being brought up-to-date.

…and then there’s Wikipedia.

Listen

If you love something that you’ve heard by the Legendary Pink Dots, please support them by buying their music.

Bandcamp

The Legendary Pink Dots’ Bandcamp page is their streaming music portal! This is where they often release new material as well as most of their back catalogue (including previously obscure material), live show recordings, session recordings, releases by The Tear Garden and solo works by Edward Ka-Spel and The Silverman.

Not sure where to start?

This is a new section in which we will post a short list of about 10 or so songs recommended by seasoned fans.  This list will change monthly to reflect the diversity of Legendary Pink Dots output and listeners’ tastes.

Legendary Pink Dots songs recommended by Jeff

October 2015

1. Golden Dawn from the album Asylum

2. Waiting For The Cloud from the album Any Day Now

3. The Grain Kings from the album The Maria Dimension

4. Kingdom Of The Flies from the album Malachai

5. Crumbs on The Carpet from the album 9 Lives To Wonder

6. On High from the album Hallway Of The Gods

7. Slaapliedje from the album Nemesis Online

8. Condition Green from the album A Perfect Mystery

9. The Brightest Star from the album All The Kings Men

10. Cloud 6 from the album Code Noir

 

Click here for more recommended song lists

Recommended solo and other projects

Members of the Legendary Pink Dots have also worked on numerous solo albums and projects involving other musicians. Here we would like to acquaint you with some of their other work. Here is a list of songs and pieces by current and former Dots members.

Recommended by Dominic
LPD’s solo projects, then and now – Ten great soundscapes/instrumentals

1. Trapped in Amber, from the 2009 album Trapped in Amber (Edward Ka-Spel)

2. Spring, from the 2014 album Finisterre (The Silverman, aka Phil Knight)

3. Surfing the Volcano, from the 2013 album Fire Island (Edward Ka-Spel)

4. Dream of the Raintree parts 1 & 2, from the 2007 album Autumn in Umbria (Patrick Q. Wright, LPD’s ex-violinist/multi-instrumentalist)

5. Delayed Chemistry, from the 2002 album So Close, Yet So Far Out (Martijn de Kleer, LPD’s guitarist – 1992 to early 2000s)

6. Lost in Leipzig, from the 2015 EP Mirage Utopia (Stret Majest Alarme, aka Barry Gray, guitarist through most of the 80s)

7. Patterns on the Wall, from the 2011 album A Pleasure Cruise Through 9 Dimensions (Edward Ka-Spel)

8. Looping ’72, from the 2013 album One Last Pose Before the Ruin (Edward Ka-Spel)

9. Note of Longing/Dawn’s Underwater Light/State of Union, from the 2011 album State of the Union (The Silverman)

10. Requiem Settings 1, 2 & 3, from the 2002 album Requiem Settings album (The Silverman)

 

 Other fine internet music sources:

Myspace

Please visit The Legendary Pink Dots’ Myspace page where there are a great many tracks that you can listen to.

Last.FM

Listen to The Dots with Last.FM online radio!

 

 Performances and Appearances

A Ripple on the Richter Scale

This newly released (Jan. 2015) recording is based on a improvised session made in November 2008, recorded in Chile, involving Edward, Phil and Barry Gray of LPD and Un Festin Sagital.

 

Dots In Bonn, July 1983

Posted on April Illife White’s Bandcamp page

DNA Lounge, San Francisco

Here is a recording of a live show from October 13, 2013 with opening act Big City Orchestra. There is a brief interview with The Silverman at about 1:59:45, and The Legendary Pink Dots begin their set around 2:19:10. The full length of this track is 4:54:52.

In studio performance and interview at WFMU

Appearance on WFMU’s Brian Turner show, from November 2nd, 2010. This set includes a very beautiful and different arrangement of one of their very early songs, Choke, track 5.

  1. Exceptional Buddhist 5:28
  2. Russian Roulet 6:44
  3. Hauptbanhof 8:50
  4. Soft Toy 4:38
  5. Choke 8:05
  6. Interview 5:23
  7. God and Machines 8:27

 

Archived Radio Specials

CHUO.FM’s From One Extreme to Another presents:

The Edward Ka-Spel music special in three parts, hosted by Gilbert Lachance

Part One:

Part Two:

Part Three:

 

Live at the DNA Lounge – parts 1&2

Live at the DNA Lounge
San Francisco, CA
October 13, 2013

Edward Ka-Spel the Silverman and guitarist Erik Drost perform songs from the new ‘Pink Dots’ album “The Gethsemane Option” as well as a batch of choice cuts from their stuffed meat locker of zounds stored up since 1980…(part 1 of 4). shakily shot in high-deafness by ure’s truly…

Part 1

Edward Ka-Spel the Silverman and guitarist Erik Drost celebrate the 33rd year of the Legendary ‘Pink Dots by performing a plethora of pain-filled prose with pirouetttes at the DNA “Lounge”.(part 2 of 4). shakily shot in high-deafness by ure’s truly…

Part 2

Posted by Ure Thrall
 Oct 15, 2013

About legendarypinkdots.org-oct 2013

Update- October 2013

Lisette, who put a great deal of work into creating and maintaining this site over the years, because of her increasingly busy schedule, has needed to pass the tasks of upkeep onto someone else.  She asked me, and I was very glad to do it.  So, over the course of some months, I have been gradually learning how to make the various updates and postings here.

I have some ideas about making some changes to this site.  I see a slightly different way of organizing and presenting the vast body of Dots related material.  Areas of information need to be filled out more, such as the band’s history and the list of former band members.  We need to revamp the discography which stopped being visable when Albumist changed its rules about having photos of album covers.  More on that soon.  I can’t do all this research on my own.

I would like for this site to continue to have community involvement.  My wish is to have help keeping this site up-to-date, and that the information on this site continue to be interesting, useful and easy to navigate for the seasoned fans as well as the new fans and the curious.  As I go along making adjustments to this site, I will be crowd sourcing for contributions.  I would appreciate your input, your feedback and suggestions.  You can contact me at lpd(dot)website(at)yahoo(dot)com. Thank you much.

Sincerely,

Camille