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Post by lockebox on Feb 2, 2011 19:21:53 GMT -5
Second single from "Showroom of Compassion".
Goes for adds February 15th.
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Post by The Party Captain on Feb 2, 2011 22:16:52 GMT -5
Damn. This one is okay, but nothing special.
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Post by American Idiot on Feb 2, 2011 23:00:30 GMT -5
I listened to the album last week and it didn't really do anything for me, which was surprisingly since I've been a big fan of every Cake album. Nothing was really bad, but nothing seemed really good either.
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Post by WotUNeed on Feb 2, 2011 23:06:00 GMT -5
When I saw them live, they confirmed this would be single #2, and they knocked it outta the park in performance, which resulted in it quickly becoming my favorite from the album. Obviously, I'm very much behind this choice and hope it does well.
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Post by lockebox on Mar 25, 2011 9:16:57 GMT -5
Top 50 - Alternative
58 50 CAKE - Long Time 128 91 37 0.327
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Post by Devin on Mar 25, 2011 9:21:37 GMT -5
That took a while.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 25, 2011 11:12:17 GMT -5
I heard the second half of this on Music Choice - Alternative the other day. The whole time I was wanting to change the station quite badly, but I figured I needed to give it a fair listen. Unless I missed something cool earlier in the song, I think it's fair to say that this song was painful to listen through. Despite the success of "Sick Of You", I'll be shocked if this goes top 30, especially if Anberlin can't even follow a top 5 single with a top 40 on a song that happens to be pretty good.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Mar 25, 2011 11:35:18 GMT -5
I don't think they've had a second charting single since 2001.
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Post by The Party Captain on Mar 25, 2011 18:49:38 GMT -5
That's a misleading statistic seeing as how they've released only one other album since then.
I personally would've sent "Federal Funding" out, but the jam at the end of this is cool.
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Post by crash46 on Mar 25, 2011 23:52:55 GMT -5
They have never had any success with any singles other than lead ones. Not even once.
I like this though, because you can never have enough vibra-slap, and there is vibra-slap everywhere.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 26, 2011 0:27:59 GMT -5
"Sheep Go To Heaven" got some pretty massive play on my local alternative station back in the day. Even "Let Me Go" off that album was in heavy rotation for a few weeks. That was the only album I remember hearing multiple singles from on the station.
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Post by crash46 on Mar 26, 2011 10:24:21 GMT -5
Yeah, I'll give 'em "Sheep Go To Heaven", which made it to #14. "Let Me Go" is actually one of four or five singles of theirs to last at least 20 weeks, despite a low peak (I don't know how long "No Phone" lasted, but I don't think that made it to 20). I think I was reading Wikipedia and its archaic Billboard data when making my previous judgment.
But, with all their records except Prolonging the Magic, there's been a tremendous drop off from lead single to all the others, and it looks like the latest release will be no exception.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Mar 28, 2011 22:46:46 GMT -5
This has grown on me, slowly but surely. I think I already like this one more than "Sick of You."
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Mar 29, 2011 13:41:36 GMT -5
WEQX is treating "Mustache Man (Wasted)" as the second single instead of "Long Time". They're one of the most "indie" leaning stations on the panel, and therefore one of the most likely to embrace a Cake followup single. I do like "Mustache Man" more, though I'm not sure if it would do any better on the charts. (The same goes for the aforementioned "Federal Funding.") But this bait-and-switch certainly isn't going to help "Long Time" climb up the charts.
In any case, if they couldn't score a followup hit with songs like "Let Me Go" and "Love You Madly", they probably don't stand a chance with this album.
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Post by Radical347 on Mar 29, 2011 18:53:25 GMT -5
I was "ehh" on this at first listen because I was not in the mood for Cake after Sick of You was shoved down our throats (esp. since that song was better when it was called "Rock N Roll Lifestyle."
But this grew on me, especially after seeing them live. I totally get why they've released the same set of songs six times now.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Apr 1, 2011 22:44:07 GMT -5
This isn't too bad, not as good as Sick of You, but still listenable.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 2, 2011 9:53:19 GMT -5
I heard the second half of this on Music Choice - Alternative the other day. The whole time I was wanting to change the station quite badly, but I figured I needed to give it a fair listen. Unless I missed something cool earlier in the song, I think it's fair to say that this song was painful to listen through. Despite the success of "Sick Of You", I'll be shocked if this goes top 30, especially if Anberlin can't even follow a top 5 single with a top 40 on a song that happens to be pretty good. What's funny is, I heard the second half of the song on Music Choice - Alternative yesterday and thought it was pretty good. I'm wondering if they accidentally played the wrong song and called it "Long Time" however long ago. This one I'm fairly confident goes by that name based on the vocals. I liked the part I heard yesterday better than "Sick Of You" actually.
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Post by lockebox on Apr 11, 2011 7:50:10 GMT -5
Top 40 - Alternative
43 39 CAKE - Long Time 164 145 19 0.656
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Apr 29, 2011 12:42:38 GMT -5
Top 30 on Alternative:
36 30 CAKE Long Time 243 212 31 1.055
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Post by GRRR on Apr 29, 2011 23:47:01 GMT -5
I like this song
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Post by The Party Captain on Apr 30, 2011 1:57:20 GMT -5
Yeah it took me long enough, but I really like it now.
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Post by onefrayedrepublic on Jul 8, 2011 13:12:56 GMT -5
This song is still struggling along around number 28. It deserved a better fate ...
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Post by lockebox on Jul 10, 2011 18:36:28 GMT -5
This song is still struggling along around number 28. It deserved a better fate ... I would agree, but "Closer" by Anberlin only reached #39, so you can look at it two ways.
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Post by The Party Captain on Jul 13, 2011 16:36:17 GMT -5
It's Top 25, now. That is better than I expected.
21 22 DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI Two Against One f/Ja... 540 546 -6 1.855 24 23 REDLIGHT KING Old Man 511 488 23 1.828 25 24 TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB What You Know 493 441 52 1.625 28 25 CAKE Long Time 469 385 84 2.184
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Post by Devin on Jul 13, 2011 19:13:58 GMT -5
Haha it's funny this is still going decently, although struggling at points, after six months.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Jul 13, 2011 21:18:30 GMT -5
I'm surprised it has that big of a bullet, but it could be rebounding from Independence Day.
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Jul 14, 2011 22:42:58 GMT -5
Glad to see this song continuing to grow. Hopefully it isn't hurt too badly by the demise of WRXP and Q101, both of which were playing the song. Same goes for another song in the lower part of the charts that I'm rooting for, "Taken For A Fool".
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Jul 28, 2011 11:20:47 GMT -5
Top 20 on Alternative:
24 20 CAKE Long Time 571 522 49 2.029
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jul 28, 2011 22:14:23 GMT -5
This is pretty successful for a Cake follow-up single, especially in 2011. Its performance has far exceeded my expectations, both in terms of peak and longevity.
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Post by onefrayedrepublic on Jul 29, 2011 11:57:13 GMT -5
Love seeing this go top twenty. Definitely a big grower.
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