I recently heard their new single edge of revolution and it sounds good when compared to some other recent rock recordings. How do they get such quality sound. Do they they use any special plugins or mixing techniques in their DAW to acheive this ?

Sometimes I'll hear a song while watching a movie, and then later when I look at the movie's soundtrack, I find out the song isn't on the soundtrack. Why are songs in a movie sometimes left off the movie's soundtrack? As an example, the movie American Wedding had a scene with Stifler in a dance...

The term record and album seemed to be used interchangeably, however, was/is there a difference between these two terms? For example, the Grammy Awards have awards for both, yet records and albums existed before the Grammy Awards. Are these merely synonyms or did they have a different meaning in ...

I am wondering about, what was the first vinyl record ever pressed. I am not interested in the first record ever (for example shellac), only the first vinyl record.

In Indian/Pakistani music a term called Sufi music is used. How a song can qualified to be a Sufi song?

In Music SE we can embed Youtube videos and SoundCloud audio to our questions and answers just by posting the link. Here's an example. I think that feature would be very useful and convenient here.

As of now, there's no way to subscribe to tags - the normal subscribe option fails and the manual subscription page (e.g for jazz) gives a 404. Is that just because the site is too new?

On one hand, these questions do often have a clear answer, and may be of some interest to people beyond the asker. On the other hand, by their nature, the questions are going to be hard to find in the future by others with the same question. Are "Identify this..." questions on-topic?

I would like to ask how the lyrics to some songs written in languages other than English are translated. Would it be on-topic for me to ask for the translation for the lyrics of a specific song?

Do we need feed in chatroom for main site and meta site? If yes then what should be the feed's bot name?

Are Music reality show question are On-topic?

In 1992 Prince signed a reported $100 million contract with Warner Bros. Records. What were the specifics of this contract?

Say I'm a fan of artist X who made a song Y. There is a sample used in song Y and I'm wondering where it is from. A similar but perhaps slightly different question would be asking about an instrument used by artist X to make song Y. Are these kind of questions on topic?

There have been many members of successful bands who have gone on to have successful solo careers. For example Phil Collins & Peter Gabriel of Genesis, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, etc. etc. The question is, have there been any solo artists who have since joined or formed a successful band ? Obvi...

Originally, Vivian Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed the 'narration' on part one of Tubular Bells. I recall a remix version, created I think for the BBC on one of the Tubular Bells anniversaries which was a complete re-recording using mainly sythesisers. This version was 'narrate...

Do bands, such as the Propellerheads or similar need to gain permission to remix another artists song ? For example, 'Proffessional Widow' by Tori Amos was not only remixed but appeared on the 'Boys for Pele' album so obviously this was approved. But Fat Boy Slim 'remixed' 'I see you baby' by Gr...

Sometimes, my friends told that some songs that remixed is a cover song. Is it true? How to explain that to my friends that new to things like this?

I (misguidely) answered a question about HiFi equipment used to listen to music with a reply about instruments used in songs. This Question I think that equipment questions are on topic. For instance, in 'name of song' what intrument created this perculiar sound 5.43 mins into the song ...

When talking about different versions of a musical work, it’s useful to uniquely identify them by referencing URLs that are solely about these versions of a specific work. Is there an online database, similar to the IMDb for movies, that can be used for this? Requirements: The project must al...

This question is going to be really weird, but we all have in mind when we think of a typical metal listener a person wearing black clothes, long haired, with big black boots and etc... For almost each genre, there exist stereotypes of the typical listener. So I asked myself two questions: Has...

When a song has performer A, composer B, and lyricist C, who is the artist of this song? Is this decided by rules not based on the creative process, e.g., by producers? Or is the artist the party that had the "idea" for the song (and, so to say, engaged the other two parties to work for them)? O...

Auto-Tune is a technique to hide bad vocals in a track. Good or bad, it seems that it's here to stay in popular music. Many people credit Cher's Believe as the first use of auto-tune in popular music. Did auto-tune appear in music prior to Believe by Cher? When did auto-tune first appear to be...

Apart from the song The Promised Land, there are quite a few other songs by Bruce Springsteen whose lyrics make reference to a "promised land". Some examples: "For all the blown-off strangers and hot rod angels, stumbling through this promised land" (Racing In The Street) "We'll ride o...

A lot of rock musicians use a hand sign to symbolize the concept of "rock on" typically during a performance. The hand symbol is shown below. Where did this hand symbol come from and who created it?

Is "indie" a moniker that indicates their record company is of a certain size, or not part of a larger music conglomerate, or is it a style or subgenre? Googling this seems to come up with multiple conflicting answers. In the world of film, studios have "indie film" divisions - is the same true f...

Who decides whether a record should be labelled "Parental Advisory"? Are there any agreed-upon standards? If not, what individuals in the production chain are the people who actually decide whether a record should be labelled as such?

Coming from the question about distinguishing songs from tracks based on presence of vocals, I wonder if track is a term that can be used for every kind of musical work? In the comments, Noach mi Frankfurt thinks that a track has to be recorded on a medium, while Unihedro thinks that the definit...

..so that people can talk about "songs that have charted" without perpetually having to specify e.g. "US Billboard 100"?

I remember a radio interview with some members of Pink Floyd concerning the making of the dark side of the moon and in particular some comments around the track 'On the run'. Anyone who knows this song will remember that it's very 'looped' and 'sampled' but, of course it was recorded before the ...

One of the most famous albums of Pink Floyd is 'The Dark Side of the Moon'. Besides the title of the album, this phrase also appears in the lyrics of the last song of the album, Eclipse: And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear You shout and no one seems to hear And if the band you'r...

I just noticed that we have a history and music-history. Should we keep them separate or should we make on a synonym of the other?

When this site was proposed there were sample questions about the meaning behind certain song lyrics. Now that we're in beta and the first question about the meaning of lyrics has received some questionable answers? What should questions about the meaning of lyrics look like?