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Post by Devin on Jan 14, 2011 8:57:26 GMT -5
It's like a slowed-down "When I'm Gone" then
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Post by mcbrearty on Jan 14, 2011 10:24:23 GMT -5
I love it, it's kinda got 2 songs mixed into one. The start and end are very soothing and reminiscing. Then the chorus is full of anger.
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Post by HereIsGone on Jan 14, 2011 12:46:20 GMT -5
I love it, it's kinda got 2 songs mixed into one. The start and end are very soothing and reminiscing. Then the chorus is full of anger. Yeah, I love how the chorus is so angry like that. Definitely captures the frustrated sentiment of having to cater to others. Anyway, looks like April 12th is the date for the album according to this vlog with Brad. Edit- Just going to make this a youtube embed...
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Jan 15, 2011 12:49:17 GMT -5
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Post by Devin on Jan 15, 2011 13:42:53 GMT -5
2 spins last week?
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Post by HereIsGone on Jan 15, 2011 13:43:57 GMT -5
Lol. Maybe two stations wanted to do premieres or something.
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Post by rockmaniac on Jan 15, 2011 18:26:25 GMT -5
this should definitely top the Active chart. As for Alternative, top 5
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Post by lockebox on Jan 16, 2011 21:26:33 GMT -5
^ I'm not sure it will. Probably top 5 & top 10 on Alt.
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Post by American Idiot on Jan 16, 2011 23:01:57 GMT -5
Just heard this for the first time. I immediately thought at the beginning that it was almost identical to "It's Not My Time" and did hear very identical traits to "When I'm Gone" in it too, but I really like how it picks up. I understand the band can't change their material that much because it's what makes them who they are. However, in this case I think they did the right thing here and I don't see how this won't go Top 5 on either format.
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Post by atlantaboy on Jan 17, 2011 9:37:18 GMT -5
I just don't see how combining previous singles to make this one is doing the right thing - Active might not have a problem with it, but I think Alternative will
To me, all their previous first singles sounded pretty unique - IMO this sounds like a blend of When I'm Gone, Landing In London, and Here By Me all mixed together, and I'm just not sure it's "cutting-edge" enough for Alternative
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Jan 17, 2011 13:16:02 GMT -5
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Post by HereIsGone on Jan 17, 2011 13:54:00 GMT -5
I'd say that was extremely fast but I keep on forgetting Active is a much smaller segment compared to Hot AC. Nevertheless, that still looks good. :)
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Post by Ragin on Jan 18, 2011 13:10:35 GMT -5
I want to first state that I like 3 Doors down really quite a bit.
But all this talk of re-hash and sounding like other songs....
Don't they pretty much always do that ever since Away From the Sun?
Not that I'm complaining, because like I said, I like their music.
Not everyone can be all over the place with their sound like Finger Eleven
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Post by HereIsGone on Jan 18, 2011 13:52:01 GMT -5
I want to first state that I like 3 Doors down really quite a bit. But all this talk of re-hash and sounding like other songs.... Don't they pretty much always do that ever since Away From the Sun? Not that I'm complaining, because like I said, I like their music. Not everyone can be all over the place with their sound like Finger Eleven I think the thing is that you either have a certain 'sound' you can play within the confines of this set sound or you can be really all over the place like you mentioned with Finger Eleven. Either way, you can't really win because if you stick to a certain sound, people will complain that you're redoing the same things over and over again since it's a blurred line between having your own sound or people thinking you're copycat-ing yourself. Like what people are doing right now. But on the same token, change it up too much and people complain about that and want them to go back to their deemed 'original' sound they used to do, a la what happened with Linkin Park. So unless if you're the master of the ever so subjective balancing act, bands can't win for losing.
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Post by Ragin on Jan 18, 2011 14:54:53 GMT -5
The good news is that phenomenon goes with success, so at least they've had some success before they have to deal with it.
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Post by Devin on Jan 18, 2011 16:07:42 GMT -5
I don't care that this sounds like a 3 Doors Down mega-mashup, I like it a lot :)
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Jan 18, 2011 22:35:28 GMT -5
I don't care that this sounds like a 3 Doors Down mega-mashup, I like it a lot quite a bit. Yeah I don't mind that this references their past songs, but I still need to listen to this a few more times.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Jan 19, 2011 12:14:45 GMT -5
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Kinda surprised this hasn't hit Alternative yet.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Jan 21, 2011 2:29:36 GMT -5
I just don't see 3 Doors Down doing anything better than scraping the Top 20 on Alternative with a lead single at this point in their career.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jan 21, 2011 5:10:01 GMT -5
Well "It's Not My Time" went top 5 just two years ago, did it not? I agree though that my predictions would be #2 on active and #17 on alternative.
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Post by Devin on Jan 21, 2011 15:07:29 GMT -5
I'm going with... #2 Active #10 Alternative Kinda iffy with the alt prediction though. Could go higher, could flop hard.
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Post by singingsparrow on Jan 21, 2011 16:37:23 GMT -5
Well "It's Not My Time" went top 5 just two years ago, did it not? I agree though that my predictions would be #2 on active and #17 on alternative. It peaked at #5. I think this is too slow and pensive verse-wise to do nearly as well at Alternative. I actually think it won't go Top Ten at Active Rock either for the same reason. Namaste, Lisping Hibiscus
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Post by marv1978 on Jan 21, 2011 18:51:19 GMT -5
i hear maybe a hint of "away from the sun" but listened over and over and the chord progression isn't really close to "when i'm gone". its got the same texture,sound,effect whatever that gives them theyre signature sound. 3 doors down are more of America's band like lynard skynard, eagles, bob segar, ccr etc. so rock will always support them but alternative is more into Muse,Cage The Elephant and 3 days Grace, so if i were the management, i'd market mainstream rock, active rock and hot ac and thats all! i'd boycott chr, i wouldnt want my rock tune beside hillary duff lmfao!
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Post by atlantaboy on Jan 21, 2011 21:18:11 GMT -5
Well "It's Not My Time" went top 5 just two years ago, did it not? You guys would know better than I would, but I think the Alternative format's really changed in the last couple years (from leaning Active to leaning Indie) - I'm really not sure It's Not My Time would do well on Alternative if it were released today
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Post by singingsparrow on Jan 22, 2011 1:34:11 GMT -5
Well "It's Not My Time" went top 5 just two years ago, did it not? You guys would know better than I would, but I think the Alternative format's really changed in the last couple years (from leaning Active to leaning Indie) - I'm really not sure It's Not My Time would do well on Alternative if it were released today I think it would go Top Twenty, but not Top Ten, if released today. Namaste, Lisping Hibiscus
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Post by lockebox on Jan 22, 2011 16:36:43 GMT -5
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Post by HereIsGone on Jan 22, 2011 19:25:18 GMT -5
Terrific article I found just now. 3 Doors Down 'On Fire' Over 'Time of My Life' Albumby Gary Graff, Detroit | January 22, 2011 12:32 EST 3 Doors Down frontman Brad Arnold is expecting big things for his band's fifth album, "Time of My Life," when it comes out on April 12. "I can't tell you how much confidence I have in it," Arnold tells Billboard.com. "There's a lot of songs on there that I think will appeal to a lot of people. And everybody's on fire; our label's excited about it, we're excited about it and I really think this record has a chance to take us from here up to here." Arnold says the 12-song follow-up to 2008's chart-topping "3 Doors Down," which the group recorded with producer Howard Benson in Los Angeles, reminds him of the group's six-times platinum 2000 debut, "The Better Life." "It's a bit like our firt record, only much more modern and with a lot more confidence," he explains. "We're going into our 11th year of being a signed band, so we've had the experience of being out there. It's a lot more updated." 3 Doors Down wrote material for "Time of My Life" in two shifts, according to Arnold -- half at his home in Nashville and the rest in Los Angeles, working with co-writers such as Marti Frederiksen, the Nixons' Zac Maloy and Bobby Huff. Frederiksen collaborated on the album's first single, "When You're Young," which Arnold describes as "almost a mockery of how easy people think it is to be young. Young people always hear, 'This is the greatest time of your life...,' but it's not always that way, y'know?" Arnold says the album is generally uptempo and rocking, with "not a lot of the lovey dovey stuff this time," and other key tracks include "Every Time You Go," "She Is Love" and the album-closing "Believer," which he calls "a punk rock song, almost like a 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' song or something. It's just a rocker." 3 Doors Down is currently formulating tour plans to support "Time of My Life." No dates have been set yet, although the group will perform on Jan. 28 at the Raleigh (N.C.) Amphitheater as part of the festivities surrounding the NHL All-Star Game. "I like going to games, even though I don't know exactly what's going on and I don't have a favorite team or anything," Arnold notes. "But I do like going and watching because they don't rest much. They keep it going." As for the tour, he expects that "at the beginning of April we're going to head over to Europe and tour over there a little bit, just to get our feet under us and get warmed up and then come back to the States and hit it hard this summer." source: www.billboard.com/#/news/3-doors-down-on-fire-over-time-of-my-life-1004139837.story
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Post by pen on Jan 22, 2011 19:32:12 GMT -5
This looks familiar.
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Post by HereIsGone on Jan 22, 2011 19:45:34 GMT -5
In what way? They say the same thing for the last albums or so? All I know is that the mention of Zac Maloy made me think of OLP's latest.
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Post by pen on Jan 22, 2011 19:49:01 GMT -5
In what way? They say the same thing for the last albums or so? All I know is that the mention of Zac Maloy made me think of OLP's latest. Maloy's been getting around lately it seems. I checked out The Nixons too, surprised they never had more success. But I was making a joke because you posted this at Tunelab. Dumb humor.
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