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MGMT, formely known as The Management is a collaboration between Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser. What began as an experiment in electronic dance music while freshman at Wesleyan University in 2001, MGMT evololved into a sound for everyone. Their first hit, "kids" quickly became a campus theme song which, along with other tracks, was performed off an ipod version 1.0. Ben and Andrew would sing acapella style over their prerecorded music becoming the nucleus of dance parties with hundreds and sometimes hundreds of thousands of people dancing around them. After spending a couple summers playing music together in Athens GA, MGMT befriended many other youg artists including Of Montreal with whom they set off on their first national tour in 2005. On the tour, they brought with them the recently recorded Time To Pretend, an EP produced and distributed by three NYU students and their label Cantora Records. After nearly a year long hiatus, Ben joined Andrew in Brooklyn where a record deal from Columbia Records was soon proposed. In the early spring of 2007, MGMT joined forces with producer Dave Friddman and recorded Oracular Spectacular, a fully realized album of epic cosmos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cable9 (talk • contribs) 19:04, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Need to add stuff like the original band format of a backing track. --William Graham talk 22:57, 14 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
trustfundia is in fact a style of music quite prominent in brooklyn. obviously, it's not on the internet, but i guess you would know that, now would you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.69.133.211 (talk) 13:58, 6 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
I corrected the newly added genre link of Surf to the Surf music article, but in doing so I started wondering if MGMT is really considered within the genres of Surf or Jungle, as the article currently states? It doesn't sound like it to me, and their roots wouldn't indicate it, but I have no counter evidence hence why I'm leaving the genres up for now. Any ideas on the matter? Cbragg (talk) 06:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Quick thing.I am by no means an expert on this band, but I saw them on "Later...with Jooles Holland" the other week and Jools Holland asked what does MGMT stand for. The band member replied "Machine Gun Mountain". Should this be affed somewhere?--AjCrisci (talk) 22:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
To all editors: Please refrain from personal attacks. Editors should always endeavor to treat each other with consideration and respect. Even during heated debates, editors should behave politely, calmly and reasonably. Thank you. Version prior to removal of personal attacks kollision (talk) 05:47, 19 September 2009 (UTC)Reply
The Mediabase links used as sources seem to have been disabled and/or broken and/or deleted. Why is this? Did Mediabase redisgn something? Those were pretty important. Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 15:03, 15 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
Someone seems to be vandalising this article again and again... - 86.27.65.97 (talk) 10:59, 10 September 2008 (UTC)Reply
This article need more info about Metanoia and its respective EP and it should have gotten article by now. Not to be bossy but someone should get on that. GEM036 (talk) 00:56, 16 September 2008 (UTC)Reply
Shouldn't it be mentioned somewhere that these guys aren't technically indie anymore, since they signed with Sony/Columbia? I know their previous releases were, but Oracular Spectacular is a major label debut, and not really indie anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.39.151.0 (talk) 00:38, 19 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
The English language Wikipedia focuses too much on technical detail like dates of events and economic successes - music articles usually lack information about the musical attributes about bands and fail to discuss in musically termed paragraphs the nature of the musical ensemble or entity. — Adriaan (T★C) 12:10, 28 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
So how is this an already released Album? I can't find ANYTHING on it. GEM036 (talk) 22:09, 28 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
The supplied references for most of the charts do not directly substantiate the claims. Perhaps it would be better to direct people to a historical-chart reference site rather than the current charts? JulesH (talk) 13:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Why does the article say "MGMT is..." instead of "MGMT are..." when most other articles about bands say "<band> are..."? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jklitten (talk • contribs) 00:18, 16 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
Anyone else agree the popular culture section should be removed? it serves no purpose in describing the band, its just a bunch of references to miscellaneous TV shows and BMX videos. You could put a section like that for any band article and it could go on forever and ever... --99.249.149.134 (talk) 19:05, 23 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
I think that the use of the word spring in this article and others to describe the expected release date for Congratulations is... not misleading, or ambiguous, just a bit unfair to those of us who live in the southern half of the world, since this is the case I'd like advice as to whether Wikipedia should include words such as seasons that don't correctly apply to the entire population? PN57 00:58, 20 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
The album Oracular Spectacular was also in the running to be the musical costume for the jamband Phish at their Halloween 2009 festival. The song Kids was played during the soundcheck for said festival. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.186.3 (talk) 02:53, 25 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
Did MGMT really write a song called "Hunny Bunny" for New Moon, the 2nd movie of the Twilight series? I can't find it anywhere--it's also not on the Wikipedia "New Moon soundtrack" page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tess55 (talk • contribs) 00:08, 27 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
I think the picture representing MGMT is outdated and not serving its function as representing MGMT the very best. I would apreciate if someone could change it to something more symbolic of the duo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.243.64 (talk) 11:02, 28 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Really? Is a citation necessary for the release date of an album that's been released for two months? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.167.219.80 (talk) 22:36, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
I noticed that in the "genres" section of this page Progressive Rock is one of the many genres listed there. Now, I've listened to quite a few MGMT songs and none of them show any signs of a Prog influence albeit two 12 minute songs ("Siberian Breaks" and "Metanoia"). These songs are multi-parted and rather long by mainstream standards, which fits the Prog genre. And those two singles have, indeed, Progressive Rock listed in their genres in their own pages, but that does not mean the band should have the genre listed in their own page. They show no signs of Prog influence except in those two songs. Even Green Day has a single that has "Progressive Rock" listed as a genre (that would be "Jesus of Suburbia") and we all know that Green Day are not Prog. The genre is not listed on their page just because they have a 9 minute-long single that is multi-parted.
I'm just saying Progressive Rock is not a genre that describes this band. Besides, they aren't even in the ProgArchives.com database (and they have everything prog-related in there). They did two "Prog" singles and that's all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Holy-Snail (talk • contribs) 18:29, 9 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
The caption below the photograph of MGMT playing live reads "loves emily". I suggest that unless that is correct, someone with more knowledge on the subject of MGMT fix that, because that would be vandalizing the article. Again.
Are these two edits really correct? I considered reverting it but I thought I would ask here instead. — GypsyJiver (drop me a line) 03:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Who is this? I can't find any proof of him being a member of MGMT anywhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.3.238.190 (talk) 19:50, 3 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
Is there a source that describes MGMT as New Wave? --69.4.153.234 (talk) 01:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Why does it not say anywhere on here anything about Glitter Penis? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.173.81 (talk) 21:31, 9 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
Shouldn't these guys get Wikipedia pages. I mean especially Will Berman because he writes a lot of songs with Andrew (most famously Electric Feel) and Will has worked with other bands. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.23.122.26 (talk) 09:55, 27 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
The section on legal proceedings describes their donation to "an organization that supports rigid copyright enforcement". A better translation from the French article would probably be an "artists rights organizations", which is in line with what they wrote in their official statement. Here's an article that includes their statement.
Without a reference to the specific organization that they donated their settlement to, it's fairly speculative to make claims about the rigidity of their copyright enforcement. Perhaps just best to stick to a quote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.34.102.6 (talk) 17:18, 16 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
kinda makes the band sound so much less awesome than they are that you guys are that excited about an award like that (and it appears as the first sentence of the second paragraph). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.194.188 (talk) 11:26, 14 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Despite personal attacks and CAPITAL LETTERS above (in 2009), the article doesn’t say how to pronounce MGMT.
Also doesn’t cite a story for why they originally chose “The Management”.
MBG02 (talk) 10:02, 24 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
The current lead states “MGMT is an American rock band” although I believe MGMT are more a pop band with rock elements rather than a straight up rock band. I'm requesting we change the lead from rock to pop. NDLSS NMLSS (talk) 15:15, 25 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
The result of the move request was: not moved. Per WP:SNOW, pretty safe to say this isn't happening. (page mover nac) Nohomersryan (talk) 19:13, 6 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
MGMT → Mgmt – as per WP:MOSTM, where names which are treated in Sentence structure, such as Time (magazine) which is Time rather than TIME, and Kiss (band) is Kiss rather than KISS. Onel5969 TT me 23:54, 5 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
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I added a "citation needed" tag to the bit about the other band with the same name in the History section, because I think it would be valuable in a disambiguation sense. Who is said other band? Googling I can only find references to this band, and not the original. 107.161.156.186 (talk) 16:09, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply