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Hello! I am zmbro (pronounced "zim-bro"; like Invader Zim) and I'm here to help make Wikipedia better and more reliable. While I primarily edit music articles, I tend to edit anything I believe needs improving.

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Featured lists

† = created

Song lists

• Led Zeppelin (before → FL) – October 19, 2017
• Syd Barrett (before → FL) – December 14, 2017
• Beastie Boys († → FL) – January 14, 2018
• Daft Punk († → FL) – January 18, 2018
• George Harrison (with JG66) (before → FL) – January 28, 2018
• Joy Division (before → FL) – February 8, 2018
• Talking Heads († → FL) – November 26, 2018
• Radiohead (with Popcornfud) (before → FL) – February 6, 2019
• John Lennon (before → FL) – March 21, 2019
• The Smiths (before → FL) – May 18, 2019
• Coldplay (before → FL) – July 31, 2019
• David Bowie (before → FL) – August 19, 2019
• Jimi Hendrix (with Ojorojo) (before → FL) – October 29, 2019
• Paul McCartney (before → FL) – October 29, 2019
• Ringo Starr (before → FL) – November 18, 2019
• The Beatles (before → FL) – December 29, 2019

Others

• Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (before → FL) – February 21, 2018

Featured articles

• Hunky Dory – David Bowie album (before → GA → FA) – July 7, 2020 (GA) / October 7, 2020 (FA)
• The Idiot – Iggy Pop album (before → GA → FA) – May 7, 2021 (GA) / August 29, 2021 (FA)
• "Sound and Vision" – David Bowie song (before → GA → FA) – May 20, 2021 (GA) / October 30, 2021 (FA)
• Low – David Bowie album (before → GA → FA) – October 13, 2021 (GA) / November 27, 2021 (FA)
• This Year's Model – Elvis Costello album (before → GA → FA) – June 18, 2022 (GA) / November 7, 2022 (FA)
• The Next Day – David Bowie album (before → GA → FA) – May 13, 2022 (GA) / April 10, 2023 (FA)
• Darkness on the Edge of Town – Bruce Springsteen album (before → GA → FA) – September 3, 2023 (GA) / October 19, 2023 (FA)
• Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen album (before → GA → FA) – February 10, 2024 (GA) / September 5, 2024 (FA)

Good articles

• "Ultralight Beam" – Kanye West song (redirect → GA) – February 21, 2018
• "Guilt Trip" – Kanye West song (before → GA) – July 20, 2019
• "Send It Up" – Kanye West song (before → GA) – November 10, 2019
• "Blood on the Leaves" – Kanye West song (before → GA) – December 22, 2019
• "Hold My Liquor" – Kanye West song (before → GA) – February 12, 2020
• "Moonage Daydream" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – April 11, 2020
• "Station to Station" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – April 17, 2020
• "Ziggy Stardust" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – May 17, 2020
• "Suffragette City" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – July 2, 2020
• The Man Who Sold the World – David Bowie album (before → GA) – October 31, 2020
• Aladdin Sane – David Bowie album (before → GA) – October 31, 2020
• Lodger – David Bowie album (before → GA) – January 20, 2021
• "Heroes" – David Bowie album (before → GA) – January 23, 2021
• Space Oddity – David Bowie album (before → GA) – March 26, 2021
• Diamond Dogs – David Bowie album (before → GA) – June 11, 2021
• Scary Monsters – David Bowie album (before → GA) – June 17, 2021
• Tonight – David Bowie album (before → GA) – July 21, 2021
• Let's Dance – David Bowie album (before → GA) – September 10, 2021
• Pin Ups – David Bowie album (before → GA) – September 12, 2021
• "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – September 14, 2021
• Blackstar – David Bowie album (before → GA) – September 24, 2021
• "Soul Love" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – September 30, 2021
• "Changes" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – October 2, 2021
• Lust for Life – Iggy Pop album (before → GA) – October 2, 2021
• "Life on Mars?" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – October 15, 2021
• Berlin Trilogy – Trilogy of albums by David Bowie (before → GA) – November 2, 2021
• Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie album (before → GA) – November 3, 2021
• Tin Machine – Tin Machine album (before → GA) – November 7, 2021
• "Golden Years" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – November 14, 2021
• Tin Machine II – Tin Machine album (before → GA) – November 16, 2021
• "Stay" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – November 25, 2021
• "Space Oddity" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – November 28, 2021
• Young Americans – David Bowie album (before → GA) – December 1, 2021
• "Oh! You Pretty Things" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – December 9, 2021
• The Buddha of Suburbia – David Bowie album (before → GA) – January 5, 2022
• Hours – David Bowie album (before → GA) – January 14, 2022
• "Boys Keep Swinging" – David Bowie song (before → GAN) – January 17, 2022
• Black Tie White Noise – David Bowie album (before → GA) – January 23, 2022
• Earthling – David Bowie album (before → GA) – January 24, 2022
• "Can't Help Thinking About Me" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – January 25, 2022
• Toy – David Bowie album (before → GA) – January 26, 2022
• "I Dig Everything" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – January 30, 2022
• Outside – David Bowie album (before → GA) – January 30, 2022
• "I'm Afraid of Americans" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – February 22, 2022
• "Let Me Sleep Beside You" – David Bowie song (redirect → GA) – February 23, 2022
• David Bowie – David Bowie album (before → GA) – March 9, 2022
• "Karma Man" – David Bowie song (created → GA) – March 26, 2022
• My Aim Is True – Elvis Costello album (before → GA) – April 2, 2022
• "Silly Boy Blue" – David Bowie song (redirect → GA) – April 11, 2022
• Armed Forces – Elvis Costello album (small → GA) – May 8, 2022
• Heathen – David Bowie album (before → GA) – June 7, 2022
• Reality – David Bowie album (before → GA) – June 14, 2022
• "'Heroes'" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – June 20, 2022
• Get Happy!! – Elvis Costello album (before → GA) – July 17, 2022
• Imperial Bedroom – Elvis Costello album (before → GA) – September 4, 2022
• Rio – Duran Duran album (before → GA) – September 29, 2022
• Almost Blue – Elvis Costello album (before → GA) – October 31, 2022
• "Young Americans" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – January 13, 2023
• "Ashes to Ashes" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – January 14, 2023
• Trust – Elvis Costello album (before → GA) – January 21, 2023
• Punch the Clock – Elvis Costello album (before → GA) – February 13, 2023
• "Let's Dance" – David Bowie song (before → GA) – February 14, 2023
• Duran Duran (1981) – Duran Duran album (before → GA) – April 5, 2023
• Goodbye Cruel World – Elvis Costello album (before → GA) – July 12, 2023
• Seven and the Ragged Tiger – Duran Duran album (before → GA) – August 5, 2023
• King of America – Elvis Costello album (before → GA) – August 12, 2023
• David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf – Classical music album (before → GA) – January 6, 2024
• The River – Bruce Springsteen album (before → GA) – October 2, 2024
• Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen album (before) (with Moisejp)
• Blood & Chocolate – Elvis Costello album (before)
• Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen album (before)

Good topics

David Bowie studio albums

28 articles

David Bowie (1967)

David Bowie (1969)

The Man Who Sold the World

Hunky Dory

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Aladdin Sane

Pin Ups

Diamond Dogs

Young Americans

Station to Station

Low

"Heroes"

Lodger

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Let's Dance

Tonight

Never Let Me Down ^(subtopic)

Black Tie White Noise

The Buddha of Suburbia

Outside

Earthling

Hours

Heathen

Reality

The Next Day

Blackstar

Toy (posthumous)

Good article reviews

• Human After All – Daft Punk album
• "On Sight" – Kanye West song (2 reviews)
• "Father Stretch My Hands" – Kanye West song (2 reviews)
• "Violent Crimes" – Kanye West song
• "Black Skinhead" – Kanye West song
• "All Mine" – Kanye West song
• "Amazing" – Kanye West song
• "It's My Birthday" – will.i.am featuring Cody Wise song
• "Paranoid" – Kanye West song
• "Smelly Cat" – Phoebe Buffay (Friends) song
• The Cry of Love Tour – Jimi Hendrix concert tour
• Tommy Tour – The Who concert tour
• "Drive Slow" – Kanye West song
• "No More Parties in LA" – Kanye West song
• "Reborn" – Kids See Ghosts song
• The Return – Kamaal Williams album
• "Street Lights" – Kanye West song
• "Things We Said Today" – The Beatles song
• "She's a Woman" – The Beatles song
• "Thinking of Linking" – Song written by Paul McCartney
• "I've Just Seen a Face" – The Beatles song
• Beatle Country – Charles River Valley Boys album
• "Coldest Winter" – Kanye West song
• "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" – Kanye West song
• "Tell the Vision" – Pop Smoke song
• "Heartless" – Kanye West song
• "Echoes" – Pink Floyd song
• White Light/White Heat – The Velvet Underground album
• "Big Brother" – Kanye West song
• "Good Life" – Kanye West song
• "Believe It" – Meek Mill song
• "Check" – Meek Mill song
• "Bigger Than the Whole Sky" – Taylor Swift song
• "The 1" – Taylor Swift song
• Selected Ambient Works 85–92 – Aphex Twin album
• "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" – The Lovin' Spoonful song
• Selected Ambient Works Volume II – Aphex Twin album

Did you knows

• Lust for Life – Iggy Pop album; Main page – October 25, 2021
• "Life on Mars?" – David Bowie song; Main page – October 26, 2021
• "Golden Years" – David Bowie song; Main page – December 6, 2021
• "Space Oddity" – David Bowie song; Main page – December 16, 2021
• Hours – David Bowie album; Main page – January 29, 2022
• "Can't Help Thinking About Me" – David Bowie song; – February 1, 2022
• "Karma Man" – David Bowie song; – February 12, 2022
• "Let Me Sleep Beside You" – David Bowie song; – February 15, 2022
• "Silly Boy Blue" – David Bowie song; – February 19, 2022
• "I Dig Everything" – David Bowie song; – February 22, 2022
• My Aim Is True – Elvis Costello album; – April 29, 2022
• This Year's Model – Elvis Costello album; – July 15, 2022
• Imperial Bedroom – Elvis Costello album; – September 15, 2022
• "Ashes to Ashes" – David Bowie song; – February 2, 2023
• David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf – Classical music album; – January 27, 2024

Other articles I've created or contributed to

† = created

Articles

• "Etcetera" – The Beatles song †
• "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama" – John Lennon song †
• "No Words" – Paul McCartney and Wings song †
• "Junk" – Paul McCartney song (before)
• "DNA" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Lust" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "XXX" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Loyalty" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Fear – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Duckworth" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Love" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Pride" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Feel" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Element" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Yah" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "God" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Blood" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "All the Stars" – Kendrick Lamar song †
• "Reborn" – Kids See Ghosts song † (now )
• "Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2)" – Kids See Ghosts song † (now )
• "Cudi Montage" – Kids See Ghosts song † (now )
• "4th Dimension" – Kids See Ghosts song † (now )
• "Wu Tang Forever" – Logic song †
• "C.R.E.A.M." – Wu-Tang Clan song (before)
• "Modern Love" – David Bowie song (before)
• The Beatles in film (before)
• "Rebel Rebel" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Five Years" – David Bowie song (before)
• "The Man Who Sold the World" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Starman" – David Bowie song (before)
• I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74) – David Bowie live album †
• "Where Are We Now?" – David Bowie song (before)
• Goats Head Soup – The Rolling Stones album (before)
• "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" – David Bowie and Bing Crosby song (before)
• "Do I Wanna Know?" – Arctic Monkeys song (before)
• "Paint It Black" – The Rolling Stones song (before) (with TheSandDoctor) (now )
• Nothing Has Changed – David Bowie compilation album (before)
• "All the Young Dudes" – Mott the Hoople song (before)
• Never Let Me Down – David Bowie album (before) (currently )
• Be Here Now – Oasis album (lead and reception sections) (currently )
• The Masterplan – Oasis album (before)
• Some Girls – The Rolling Stones album (before)
• "Cracked Actor" – David Bowie song (before)
• "It's No Game" – David Bowie song (before)
• "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" – David Bowie song (before)
• Suck It and See – Arctic Monkeys album (before)
• Humbug – Arctic Monkeys album (before)
• "Queen Bitch" – David Bowie song (before)
• David Live – David Bowie live album (before)
• "I'm Waiting for the Man" – The Velvet Underground song (before)
• Station to Station – David Bowie album (currently ) (before)
• "Black Country Rock" – David Bowie song (before)
• Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby – Tin Machine live album (before)
• "TVC 15" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Up the Hill Backwards" – David Bowie song (before)
• "The Passenger" – Iggy Pop song (before)
• "Baby Loves That Way" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Do Anything You Say" – David Bowie song (before)
• "You've Got a Habit of Leaving" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Rubber Band" – David Bowie song (before)
• "The London Boys" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Love You till Tuesday" – David Bowie song (before)
• "D.J." – David Bowie song (before)
• "Fantastic Voyage" – David Bowie song before)
• "Fashion" – David Bowie song (before)
• "John, I'm Only Dancing" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Velvet Goldmine" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Shadow Man" – David Bowie song (before)
• "The Prettiest Star" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Panic in Detroit" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Hallo Spaceboy" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Survive" – David Bowie song (before)
• "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" – David Bowie song (before)
• "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" – David Bowie song (before)
• "China Girl" – Iggy Pop/David Bowie song (before)

Lists

Songs

• Pink Floyd (before)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers (before)
• Kanye West
• Queen (before)
• Nine Inch Nails (before)
• The Clash (before)
• Tom Petty
• The White Stripes (before)
• Green Day (before)
• The Rolling Stones (before)
• Arctic Monkeys (before)
• Kendrick Lamar †
• New Order †
• Morrissey †
• Soundgarden †
• Audioslave †
• The Police †
• Roger Waters †
• Weezer †
• Cream †
• CCR †
• Slayer †
• Wu-Tang Clan †
• Boston †
• The Smashing Pumpkins †
• Nick Drake †
• Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) †
• Elton John †
• The Cars †

Others

• Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor
• Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress
• Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
• List of accolades received by The Dark Knight
• Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (before)
• Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

To do

• "The Laughing Gnome" – David Bowie song
• "Fame" – David Bowie song (before)
• Stage – David Bowie live album
• Ziggy Stardust Tour
• List of songs recorded by Bruce Springsteen
• List of songs recorded by Duran Duran
• User:Zmbro/List of songs recorded by Elvis Costello

Awards

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	You've been working hard on kendrick lamar songs, I think you deserve it. Bwoii (talk) 02:31, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	This is for all your reviews at WP:FLC. FrB.TG (talk) 21:01, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For bringing List of songs recorded by Beastie Boys to FL status. Congrats! Yashthepunisher (talk) 12:17, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

	The Half Million Award
	For your contributions to bring List of songs recorded by the Beatles (estimated annual readership: 500,000) to Featured List status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 16:34, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for your recent changes... a really cool addition! Gotta make way... For the editor superior. Kind regards. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For your excellent ch-ch-ch-changes and improvements to David Bowie related articles, here is a barnstar. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:48, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

		The Featured Article Medal
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears, and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 19:07, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Beatles and Bowie

Thank you for quality articles about music from England, such as Hunky Dory, Moonage Daydream and Ziggy Stardust (song), for incredible lists in the field such as List of songs recorded by the Beatles, for GA reviewing, for adding honesty, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for reviewing both "Drive Slow" and "No More Parties in LA" for me, I really appreciate the hard work you put in to review them both this month! -- K. Peake 21:20, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

	The Quarter Million Award
	For your contributions to bring "Heroes" (David Bowie album) (estimated annual readership: 250,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Vaticidalprophet (talk) 05:04, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		I just want to say well done on all those Bowie articles. I'd been hoping for years someone would turn them around but lacked the numerous books and resources to consider doing any myself. It's been amazing reading through them all. TangoTizerWolfstone (talk) 17:23, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

	The Bowie Barnstar
	For your many welcomed ch-ch-ch-changes and improvements to all things Bowie, here is a special barnstar. Keep 'em coming! Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:31, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	I believe you are well and truly deserving of this due to your dedication in nominating so many GANs! K. Peake 09:23, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

		The Music Barnstar
		Thanks for doing such great work expanding the Elvis Costello album pages (particularly Trust, which I feel often gets overlooked by editors on this site). It's great to see such well-researched work on articles for albums that are incredibly important (to me at least!). Beatleswhobeachboys (talk) 23:17, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

	And the stars look very different today....and so does Wikipedia
	Thank you for bringing so much great Bowie music to Wikipedia throughout the year. Your contributions bring joy to our global readership, and to me personally. Thank you for what you do! Happy New Year and cheers, Netherzone (talk) 02:59, 31 December 2023 (UTC)