Talk:Radio Wars

Blitz Magazine

The Blitz magazine reference that was here was discovered to be a mistake. It was not recognized on their best albums list. That was merely the issue number that contained the album's review. Mattchewbaca (meow) 00:21, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Event Projection

It is a good thing current ref #32, Event Projection, was archived when it was, because it has since died. A lesson to be learned. Mattchewbaca (meow) 00:55, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Newly re-published Event Projection. Mattchewbaca (meow) 22:54, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Album of the Year

Current ref number 65, Complete Music Ratings of 2009, the original, for some reason has cut out 45 albums from their list of albums of the year. I checked it about a month ago and there was even more cut out, around 70 or 80. I don't know what's going on with it, but Radio Wars is currently number 251 out of 278. The archived copy captured it before this happened when Radio Wars was number 268 out of 323. Since this is more comprehensive than its present state, it makes sense that this is how the album should be represented in the article. If at a later date there is a greater amount of albums displayed making for a more inclusive list then it would probably be beneficial to capture it at that time and update this article with the new numbers. Mattchewbaca (meow) 03:03, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Release history

It has been made aware that Radio Wars was released in several other European countries, but exactly when and where is unestablished. Here is the album from Amazon Germany, which states that the release date was 27 February 2009. Backup. That doesn't seem right, so to include it in the article as such would be undoubtedly erroneous. More often than not, I'm guessing six times out of ten, those release dates listed on Amazon are wrong. Without additional proof of evidence to support any other release dates, this is unfortunately how the release schedule will remain. Mattchewbaca (meow) 01:17, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Ok, Radio Wars was released in Europe through Play It Again Sam. The band was actually signed to the record label in certain countries there, which can be verified here. Though, in France, if I am understanding this correctly, the album was distributed under the Independiente label by PIAS Entertainment Group, which licenses and distributes products for film and record companies. This can be verified here and here. Also note that it gave the French release date as 9 March. However, it is extremely difficult if not impossible for someone like me to identify release dates in each individual European country, as PIAS and its respective territorial sites did not or does not discern such information. The newly added ref and a search of the Cat. & EAN numbers shows consensus as 13 March for the release date. So, seeing how France is a European country, and not wanting to create confusion, and myself not being sure of what is right and what is not, 13 March is how it shall read. Mattchewbaca (meow) 22:38, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm seriously having doubts that this is correct. Yes, PIAS Holland listed them as an artist that was signed to the label, and Hung Medien and Media Control gave Cat. & EAN no's, which most likely one of those sites bit from the other, but a search of the numbers doesn't produce any site hits other than from Hung Medien. It's hard to believe that the numbers would be made up, but you would expect a numbers search to yield some sites where you could purchase the album from. I'll leave it tho. Mattchewbaca (meow) 23:36, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Let me just reiterate. There's no question that Howling Bells had a relationship with PIAS, whether it was their album being licensed and distributed by PIAS Entertainment Group or them being signed with Play It Again Sam. The issue is whether or not a CD was actually pressed under Play It Again Sam and released with the numbers above. Mattchewbaca (meow) 23:55, 14 October 2011 (UTC)