Talk:Empire Burlesque/Archive 1

Archive 1

POV

"one of his most consistent and balanced albums"?! The article shouldn't side with one side or the other in the debate over this album's merits.66.213.21.15 8 July 2005 19:23 (UTC)

Repetition

This article could use some editing for compression. Several of the paragraphs seem to repeat each other, probably because done independently. By avoiding wholesale editing of what others have written, we now have a sprawling article. Could, for example, the parallel song-by-song commentaries be brought together into one account? --Ccoll 05:59, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Organization

If we're going to keep separate paragraphs for an account of the recording sessions and for track-by-track commentary, should the track-by-track commentary come first? Seems off-putting to find the page and immediately dive into a pre-history of the album. And does the recording sessions paragraph cover too much? The heading reads "Recording sessions" but then the narrative begins way before the sessions, before the previous tour. There's also what I would consider trivia, about songs given to other bands and covers recorded and never released. If these notes are meant to give thorough coverage of Dylan's time if one reads each album's page in sequence, that's fine, but otherwise they are not very illuminating about the album in question. --Ccoll 06:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I dunno, I think the narrative begins when Dylan started writing for this album so it gives an idea of how the album was originally conceived. Maybe they should rename it "writing and recording Empire Burlesque" instead of just "recording sessions"

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This page is a mess. The recording dates in the body don't match those in the upper right hand box. The discussion of Dylan himself doing most of the production work is contradicted by Howard Sounes' Dylan bio "Down the Highway". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.51.122.18 (talk) 14:35, 21 December 2010 (UTC)