Barenaked Ladies Survive Disaster to Make New Album, 'All In Good Time'

[Liam]

Even Though The Title Unnecessarily Capitalises The First Letter Of Each Word (a pet hate of mine), it's a pretty good article. Enjoy. :)

http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk/2010/04/05/barenaked-ladies-new-album-all-in-good-time/

[Suebee42]

Actually, that is how we were taught in school (before you were born, now that I think about it... dammit, now I feel old again) to type the title of any article, paper, book, or book report. LOL! It's only recently that titles are starting to shift to only capitalizing the first word.

I prefer every word capitalized in the title of anything.

I mean, you wouldn't call it "All in good time" would you? It's "All In Good Time." :D

[Liam]

Actually, that is how we were taught in school (before you were born, now that I think about it... dammit, now I feel old again) to type the title of any article, paper, book, or book report. LOL! It's only recently that titles are starting to shift to only capitalizing the first word.

I prefer every word capitalized in the title of anything.

I mean, you wouldn't call it "All in good time" would you? It's "All In Good Time." :D

Hmm yeah, I suppose so - I guess it's just how I have been taught to growing up. Whenever I'm writing a headline for a journalism project, it would be just the first letter of the first word capitalised (except for names etc). For example, the last piece I wrote has the headline: "Bristol ravers dance away their bad name" - and I certainly wouldn't have considered capitalising every first letter there. *shrug* - maybe there's different rules, because your point about AIGT is spot-on. I might just look it up, because it might be a bit of a grey area - for example, should the "in" of "All In Good Time" be capitalised? Words like in, at, to, or, etc are a little weird - "Everything to Everyone" or "Everything To Everyone" ?

I think it also stems from seeing many friends, particularly a few years ago, Writing Like This Just In Their General Every Day Conversations - frustrating! Oh - and definitely DOESN'T HAVE AN "A" IN IT! Haha. Anyways, as we were.

[garyrulez]

Your both making some good points.

[Liam]

tH@nX L0L!

[IWakeUpStrange]

Good article, but I have one thing stuck in my craw:

These (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/files/2009/11/hindenburg.gif) things (http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/Images/hurricane-katrina-category-5.jpg) are (http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID12837/images/haiti.jpg.jpg) disasters (http://clin.lsi.uniovi.es/wod/Tsunami2004-Tsunami-tears-through-Banda-Aceh-CH9.jpg).

This (http://i36.tinypic.com/34qp5b8.jpg), not so much.

I love hyperbole as much as the next guy, but come on.

That is all.

:rolleyes: elise

[Mobitz]

Good article, but I have one thing stuck in my craw:

These (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/files/2009/11/hindenburg.gif) things (http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/Images/hurricane-katrina-category-5.jpg) are (http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/Images/hurricane-katrina-category-5.jpg) disasters (http://clin.lsi.uniovi.es/wod/Tsunami2004-Tsunami-tears-through-Banda-Aceh-CH9.jpg).

This (http://i36.tinypic.com/34qp5b8.jpg), not so much.

I love hyperbole as much as the next guy, but come on.

That is all.

:rolleyes: elise



LOL!! Nice links!

[garyrulez]

I agree, Elise...tsunamis, floods, hurricanes...those are potential disasters. I thought of that when i saw the headline as well.

I don't care for hyperbole in general. I think it's pretty much the worst thing to happen to the English language. Ever.

[bayouBNL]

Thanks for the link!

I wonder if the person who wrote the article is banging his head against a computer monitor after reading the headline. I can't tell you how many times I have done that after reading what some copy editor wrote for a headline on one of my stories. Then I'd get all the calls/complaints/rants from readers about it.

Of course, if the article writer also wrote the headline, he needs a lesson in what's a disaster and what's not.

[DaWezl]

Just have to pop in to say that when I worked at the news station, it was standard practice to capitalize most words in titles. This page (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/70050.html) has a lot of discussion on the topic. Sounds like it's primarily a US tradition (which is starting to change), which would explain why you were never taught it, Liam. :)

[Liam]

Just have to pop in to say that when I worked at the news station, it was standard practice to capitalize most words in titles. This page (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/70050.html) has a lot of discussion on the topic. Sounds like it's primarily a US tradition (which is starting to change), which would explain why you were never taught it, Liam. :)
Makes sense! Thanks for the link, I was starting to feel a little dumb - but that does explain it! :)

[Ellen from Saint Louis]

I have a question. I don't have a lifetime of experience listening to music or reading record reviews. Has anyone reviewed the CD?

All these articles appear to review the recent events, but not the music, or the lyrics. I'd like someone to pretend this is a brand new band, never heard of before, and to concentrate on the tracks. Someone other than Liam (though, thank you Liam).

I remember People magazine and EW used to review new CDs.