Talk:The Blackouts

Notability

I've done a major rewrite of the article, and assert notability under WP:MUSIC #6, as the group included two independently notable members, Paul Barker and Bill Rieflin. Next on my agenda is digging out the booklet from Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years and see what it has to say about the band -- Foetusized (talk) 03:49, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

For future use: [1] -- Foetusized (talk) 19:04, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Not to be confused with...

There are multiple bands, labels, albums and songs who can be confused with this; see Blackout (disambiguation). The most obvious is another band called "The Blackouts", from Illinois. Their lineup is Steve Ucherek - guitar/vocals, Joe Prokop - guitars, Mark Schroder - drums, Pat Olsen - bass. They have two albums on Lucid Records, Everyday Is a Sunday Evening (2002) and Living in Blue (2004), and may have put something else out on another minor label after Lucid. To prevent further confusion, they apparently changed the band name to Living in Blue, and I don't know anything about them after that. Normally one wouldn't care, but they are actually easily confusable with the older band, because the later band intentionally employs a highly retro, post-punk sound, records on "punky" low-budget equipment, and makes heavy use of a saxophone, so they actually sounds fairly similar in theory (though not in practice) to the original band, of whom they were allegedly unaware. That is, one would already have to know what both bands sound like to tell them apart. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 11:16, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

There was an article for the other The Blackouts under their later name Living in Blue, but it was removed from Wikipedia for lack of notability -- Foetusized (talk) 21:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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