Okay, I did some investigating, and well, I found this cool band called
The Black Maria. They have a webpage at [url=http://www.
theblackmaria.com]THEblackmaria.com, and well, I did a search on here, for
The Black Maria, and this OTHER band, called
Black Maria showed up too, with like 82 fans, and well, who knows, that might be a tad outdated even, so it makes me wonder, how many USERS have
The Black Maria in their profile, mistagged, as this no name, no picture, band called
Black Maria?
hahah, and another variation, there's also
Black Maria, The, with 21 fans.
I know how music and tagging is, everyone thinks THEIR way of tagging is > (greater/better) than someone elses version of tagging, but with a site like last.fm, for the data to be neatly organized and such, you got to come together and form a common ground.
So in conclusion, if you have listened to the artist known as
The Black Maria, but have them in your profile as
Black Maria, The, or
Black Maria, you should use the Profile + Tag Editor to remove these wrongfully tagged bands to make the data consistent.
Sure, you will lose those listens, but there's nothing stopping you from re-listening to the tracks again, after you tag them properly as
The Black Maria using the musicbrainz.org tagger, or any other available tagger.
Fans of
The Black Maria, I urge you to spread the word, amongst the users, fans, and neighbors you see that have this band mislabeled as
Black Maria, The, or
Black Maria.
EDIT:
Ok, some clarification. I got word back from
pr7, that the
Black Maria he listens to is actually "a French band "Black Maria" (from Perpigan)", so that's all fine and dandy. But yea, apparantly there are some others out there.
As a comparison,
Black Maria charts:
1 Betrayal 25
2 Resist 18
2 To Have Loved 18
4 Sirens 11
5 The Memento 10
5 The Distance From the Bottom 10
7 Organs 9
7 The Lines We Cross 9
9 Mirrors and Cameras 8
9 Ash 8
11 Our Commitment's A Sickness 7
11 Rats in the Prison 7
13 Veto 6
14 Suria 5
15 Resist (english) 4
16 Náo Devo Nada 2
17 Lady Cop 1
17 GGA 1
17 Pain Button 1
17 Head On Collision 1
17 Dirt Knap 1
17 Zero 1
17 A Sickness 1
17 The Memento (Album Version) 1
17 Betrayal (Album Version) 1
17 vamos aureliano 1
17 Kiss For Every Disaster 1
17 Hanya Kau 1
and,
The Black Maria charts:
1 Betrayal 2217
2 The Memento 1485
3 Organs 1217
4 The Lines We Cross 1102
5 Mirrors and Cameras 1071
6 The Distance From the Bottom 1064
7 To Have Loved 983
8 Ash 929
9 Sirens 914
10 Rats in the Prison 864
11 Our Commitments a Sickness 792
12 Our Commitment's a Sickness 597
13 Memento 560
14 Something About Her 201
15 A Kiss For Every Disaster 175
16 Siren 96
17 Momento 71
18 Our Commitment To A Sickness 46
19 The world is sick of heros 34
20 Resist 33
21 Our Committment's A Sickness 30
22 The Black Maria - The Lines We Cross 21
23 Betrayel 19
24 Rats In The Poison 14
25 The Distance Form The Bottom 13
26 Track-02 11
26 Veto 11
26 The Momento 11
29 The Embrace Remains 10
30 the world is sick of heroes 9
31 New Song 8
31 Distance From The Bottom 8
33 the black maria - siren 7
34 the_black_maria-our_commitments_a_sickness 6
35 the_black_maria-memento 5
35 01 The Black Maria - The Lines We Cr 5
35 the black maria - ash 5
35 our_commitments_a_sickness 5
35 The Black Maria - A Kiss For Every Disaster 5
40 Our Commitment 4
41 01 01 The Black Maria - The Lines We 3
41 The Lines We 3
41 Our Commitments 3
41 Commitments A Sickness 3
41 Yellow House 3
41 Tranquilo, Colorido e com Brilho 3
41 Betrayl 3
41 The Black Maria - betrayal 3
41 The Black Maria - The World Is Sick Of Heros 3
41 The black maria - the memento 3
41 The World Is Sick 3
41 Suria 3
53 the black maria - a kiss for every d 2
53 A Kiss for Every D 2
53 Our Comiitments A Sickness 2
53 The Distance From Bottom 2
53 Bayside - If You're Bored 2
53 03 - organs 2
53 Resist (english) 2
53 infidelis 2
53 Betrayal *THE BLACK MARIA* 2
53 07 - mirrors and cameras 2
53 Lines We Cross 2
53 The Memento [Album: Lead Us To Reason (Victory Records)] 2
53 The Distance From The Bottome 2
53 the black maria - our commitments a sickness 2
53 Our commitment is a sickness 2
53 The Black Maria - Memento 2
53 Track 8 2
53 Track 6 2
53 les traces 2
53 06 - The Lines We Cross 2
73 Maria Memento 1
73 Our_commitments_a_si 1
73 Akissforeverydisaster 1
73 Silverstein - Smashed Into Pieces 1
73 Hawthorne Heights - Niki FM 1
73 01 The Black Maria - The Memento 1
73 The Memento (sampler ver) 1
73 Sr. Sol 1
73 Lady Cop 1
73 GGA 1
73 Pain Button 1
73 Head On Collision 1
73 Dirt Knap 1
73 Zero 1
73 a kiss for every death 1
73 Show Brother 1
73 Black Maria 2000 1
73 Hoje Só Pra Quem Tem 1
73 Our Commitment`s A Sickness 1
73 01 - the black maria - Track 01 1
73 02 - the black maria - Track 02 1
73 07 - the black maria - Track 07 1
73 The Distance From 1
73 something about her pms 1
73 Organs [Album: Lead Us To Reason (Victory Records)] 1
73 Honesty 1
73 Rats in the Prison (feat. Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die) 1
73 Victory Track 1
There's a few overlaps :P
