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Post by halo19 on Jan 12, 2009 19:41:23 GMT -5
I want to like this band/album a lot more than I actually do. Still, "Kids" is some good stuff and their rightful biggest hit. And I'm glad for their success.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 14, 2009 9:49:58 GMT -5
1/17/09 chart:
57 MGMT ORACULAR SPECTACULAR 12,658 -23% 16,519 291,562 - 44 weeks on
A new peak position on the Billboard 200...
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Post by busyboy on Jan 15, 2009 14:33:56 GMT -5
Nu US peak! 44 COL 94 57 38 MGMT ORACULAR SPECTACULAR 11,896 12,658 -6 303,458
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 19:28:58 GMT -5
Justice received a Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Grammy for the remix of "Electric Feel".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2009 11:37:57 GMT -5
Justice received a Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Grammy for the remix of "Electric Feel". That's my ringtone! And I used it in this video I made, which also features the Grammy winning Swagger Like Us:
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Feb 24, 2009 10:24:38 GMT -5
2/28/09 charts:
97 MGMT ORACULAR SPECTACULAR 8,328 8,319 345,219 - 50 weeks on
Peaked at #38
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Post by Active Aggressive on Feb 24, 2009 12:47:18 GMT -5
I went back and listened to the album. Not bad. The best songs are still obviously the singles but if I am really baked, I can enjoy the whole thing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2009 12:52:58 GMT -5
I went back and listened to the album. Not bad. The best songs are still obviously the singles but if I am really baked, I can enjoy the whole thing. You've finally come around. :o
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Post by Active Aggressive on Feb 24, 2009 18:41:43 GMT -5
I think I always said it was fine when I was really high and I stand by that. I still have no desire to listen to it sober, LOL. Sorry to piss on your parade!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2009 15:42:07 GMT -5
Jermaine Dupri committed absolute sacrilege and remixed "Electric Feel".
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Post by busyboy on Oct 21, 2009 16:23:56 GMT -5
MGMT To Deliver 'Congratulations' In 2010by Sandy Gordon, N.Y. After nine months of surfing the Pacific and recording in a Malibu home studio, MGMT member Andrew VanWyngarden is paddling back to shore and suiting up for the band's sophomore release, "Congratulations." The album is slated to drop in early 2010, as VanWyngarden told the San Francisco Examiner when the band performed at last weekend's Treasure Island festival. "Congratulations" is produced by Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember of Spacemen 3/Spectrum, and Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux contributes vocals. MGMT's 2007 debut "Oracular Spectacular" created a tidal wave that carried the psychedelic indie-pop duo from Brooklyn buzz band to international fame. The album has sold 508,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. MGMT's ricochet to popularity was inevitably accompanied by mass attention and a share of ordeals, including a recently settled lawsuit with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. VanWyngarden and bandmate Ben Goldwasser headed west in January to escape the commotion and focus on recording. There, VanWyngarden learned to surf and found solace in the waves, as he told the Examiner. Fans can expect "Congratulations" to ride a bleaker edge than the happy-go-lucky "Oracular Spectacular," as the duo reflect on their journey. "The song 'Congratulations' itself is pretty dark," VanWyngarden told the Examiner. "It's us trying to deal with all the craziness that's been going on since our last album took off. Sometimes it just doesn't feel natural." www.billboard.com/news/mgmt-to-deliver-congratulations-in-2010-1004029340.story#/news/mgmt-to-deliver-congratulations-in-2010-1004029340.story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plus, the three singles were all certified gold by the RIAA. Not a shabby era, LOL.
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Post by PDC1987 on Oct 21, 2009 16:25:32 GMT -5
Their album topped 500,000 scanned a couple weeks back, the week it was moved to the Catalog chart.
The label really should have pushed them more once the buzz took off.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Oct 21, 2009 20:32:41 GMT -5
Wow! That's pretty good. A Gold album and three Gold singles!
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Post by G-Reg on Oct 22, 2009 0:07:32 GMT -5
I'm so scared about the new album. Oracular Spectacular was so... epic. In every sense of the word. This is in the running for my #1 album of the decade.
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Post by Mpol on Oct 28, 2009 9:39:29 GMT -5
Really? I am with Overloaded Breast on this one. The best songs BY FAR on that album were the three singles (and their debut album was just a total freak out, you needed to be on some HARD SHIT to get into it.) I love and respect what they do, FOR SURE and know they can write pop/electro/alternate perfection. But more often than not they are just too far out there for me to enjoy.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Oct 28, 2009 11:23:29 GMT -5
Thank you, Mpol. I don't want to call into question anyone's tastes but album of the decade?? Hmmm...Their song with Kid Cudi is one of the best on his album. I think they should do more songs like that, Kids, Electric Feel, and to a lesser extent, Time To Pretend or whatever it was called and leave out that psychadelic mess that goes nowhere fast. I love my greenery and all but not THAT much, LOL.
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Post by G-Reg on Oct 28, 2009 11:26:31 GMT -5
No it was acid. This album is a trip in itself.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Oct 28, 2009 14:44:10 GMT -5
Certified Gold by the RIAA.
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Post by HEADOFTHEPACK on Oct 28, 2009 15:15:45 GMT -5
Kids and Time To Pretend are incredible songs. I love them.
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Post by kilt on Oct 29, 2009 9:11:28 GMT -5
Time To Pretend is this decade's anthem!
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Post by Active Aggressive on Oct 29, 2009 10:30:56 GMT -5
Time To Pretend is this decade's anthem! ...if you are rich, into coke/heroin and models...
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Post by PDC1987 on Oct 29, 2009 16:46:15 GMT -5
Time To Pretend is this decade's anthem! ...if you are rich, into coke/heroin and models... The song is obviously tongue-in-cheek.
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Post by PDC1987 on Dec 9, 2009 15:17:15 GMT -5
Top Catalog Albums Week Ending: 11/29/2009
9 COL 89 107 167 MGMT ORACULAR SPECTACULAR 2,935 18 2,496 523,526
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Post by PDC1987 on Jan 18, 2010 15:04:08 GMT -5
Billboard 200
146 MGMT ORACULAR SPECTACULAR 3,840 -24 5,045 549,792
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The extra attention from the release of their new album should push it past 600,000.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 19, 2010 15:28:48 GMT -5
This is still in the Top 200? Wow!
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Post by PDC1987 on Jan 22, 2010 19:34:01 GMT -5
This is still in the Top 200? Wow! Great word of mouth is to alternative album sales what smash follow-up singles are to mainstream pop album sales.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 22, 2010 21:43:09 GMT -5
Even moreso. This will likely be a consistent seller for a few more years.
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Post by PDC1987 on Jan 22, 2010 22:13:30 GMT -5
Even moreso. This will likely be a consistent seller for a few more years. Probably. Hopefully they'll hit 1 million some day.
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Post by busyboy on Feb 17, 2010 13:30:39 GMT -5
Exclusive: MGMT Unveil New Album!By William Goodman Mark your calendars, Blackberries, iPhones, iPads, or just write it on your damn hand -- 'cause now it's officially official: MGMT's second album, Congratulations, will release in the U.S. on April 13. MGMT's core duo of Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser recorded the album at studios in Upstate, NY, Brooklyn, and Malibu, CA, with producer Peter Kember, a.k.a. Sonic Boom of shoegaze pioneers Spaceman 3, and their live band -- Matt Asti (bass), Will Berman (drums), and James Richardson (guitar). Royal Trux frontwoman Jennifer Herrema helped with vocals, while knob-twiddler extraordinaire Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips) handled mixing duties. The release is the group's first since their 2007 breakout debut, the catchy and psychedelic Oracular Spectacular -- which landed MGMT on the cover of SPIN. "It's definitely going to shock people," Vanwyngarden recently told SPIN.com of the new album's sound. "We dropped any sort of irony that was on the first record, and Congratulations feels true to who we really are." Congratulations' nine songs are "sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence." And according to Vanwyngarden, the album moves from "Lady Dada's Nightmare," a "very nightmare-ish sounding" instrumental track inspired by the "Poker Face" pop star, to "Congratulations," a song written about fame and the "worldwide economic crisis." Through it all, he said, there's one unifying influence: surfing, a sport he picked up while recording in Malibu. "There's a surfing thread throughout the record," he explained, citing another new song, called "It's Working." "When you're surfing, there's a specific break you're paddling to. And when the waves are really good you say, 'It's working.' The song kind of has a surf-y vibe. It's like surfing on ecstasy!" The ocean's influence on Congratulations is also evident on MGMT's website, which features an image of a beach with crashing waves and, in the upper left corner, a timer counting down to the album's release date. Another album track "Siberian Breaks" is a 12-minute-long tune that's "like eight different songs strung together into one, and the general theme is about surfing in the Arctic Circle by Russia," Vanwyngarden explained. As previously reported, MGMT debuted a pair of songs during their late-night set at Bonnaroo last June -- an untitled piano-led track that recalled the bright psychedelia and flowing arrangements of the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, and the album's title track, a more standard MGMT fare (catchy synths, sing-along vocals). Currently, MGMT have only two live concerts scheduled: an April 17 appearance at Coachella and a May 2 gig at New Jersey's Bamboozle fest. A full tour in support of Congratulations is expected to be announced soon. Congratulations tracklist: "It's Working" "Song for Dan Treacy" "Someone's Missing" "Flash Delirium" "I Found a Whistle" "Siberian Breaks" "Brian Eno" "Lady Dada's Nightmare" "Congratulations" www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-mgmt-unveil-new-album
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Post by PDC1987 on Mar 2, 2010 20:23:59 GMT -5
^Can't wait!
Billboard 200
8 COL 133 193 178 MGMT ORACULAR SPECTACULAR 3,636 4,099 -11 573,571
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