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Post by lockebox on Oct 23, 2011 19:02:20 GMT -5
New band from Universal send their first single for adds on October 25th. Best way to describe this is old school Incubus/311 meets Saving Abel.
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Post by Pipa on Oct 23, 2011 19:03:34 GMT -5
God, the title reminds me of "Sk8r Boi". Strike #1 right there.
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Post by Devin on Oct 23, 2011 20:36:12 GMT -5
I wouldn't have thought an old Incubus/Saving Abel combo would be possible, but this proves it.  It's not bad, but I wish they never put that corny '8' in 'Straight,' makes it look so immature and early 00's. |
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Post by onefrayedrepublic on Oct 23, 2011 21:14:54 GMT -5
Str8 ... unspeakably awful decision on their part.
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Post by American Idiot on Oct 24, 2011 19:04:00 GMT -5
I hear the 311 and Incubus comparisons as far as sound. Actually, those are the best two bands I'd compare this song to as well, but it doesn't even belong in the same sentence as the other two. It's interesting though. I'm not really sure what I think of it, but since it's a bit different, I hope it makes some kind of dent on the charts.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Oct 25, 2011 18:16:34 GMT -5
Methinks this was some pretty bad shit. I'm a negative nancy I suppose, but I feel like the only reason this is going to do anything is because they got signed to Universal.
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Post by Devin on Oct 25, 2011 19:23:40 GMT -5
Well it got 7 adds this week on active, so it could very well do something.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Oct 25, 2011 20:12:47 GMT -5
^Hence my comment. I saw the 7 Active rock and even more surprising 2 Alternative adds, and thought to myself just how powerful Universal is in the radio game.
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Post by rosemoor on Oct 27, 2011 11:37:22 GMT -5
I like it. a bit heavier than their old songs which are so crappy that I wonder how they got signed by a major label to begin with. But this single is not bad.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Nov 2, 2011 12:00:29 GMT -5
Top 50 on Active:
105 50 WEAVING THE FATE Str8 To The Bottom 83 15 68 0.074
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Post by jvandyck87 on Dec 28, 2011 2:24:32 GMT -5
Methinks this was some pretty bad s**t. I'm a negative nancy I suppose, but I feel like the only reason this is going to do anything is because they got signed to Universal. I don't know if the version I just heard on Music Choice and the version I originally commented on are different or my opinion just did an arbitrary 180, but I decided this was my guilty pleasure a couple days ago. I think it was because the 8 in the title was so annoying when I saw it, it biased me very strongly against the song. |
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