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Post by maine on Sept 19, 2017 18:33:23 GMT -5
Under Cool New Music for Alternative.
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Post by rainie on Sept 19, 2017 18:59:18 GMT -5
Huh, I'll have to listen to this -- their album got completely thrashed critically, but I did like Weak and I like Weezer so maybe I'll like this.
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Post by Green Baron on Sept 19, 2017 19:06:09 GMT -5
I thought this said AJJ at first and was quite surprised to see an Andrew Jackson Jihad song get pushed to radio
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Sept 19, 2017 23:11:01 GMT -5
This sucks bad.
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Post by American Idiot on Sept 20, 2017 22:58:40 GMT -5
I could totally see as the new "Take It All Back" of the Alternative section. Man... this is pretty damn awful.
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Post by Pipa on Sept 20, 2017 23:04:09 GMT -5
I turned this off almost immediately, thank you to you brave souls for letting me know nothing of value was lost.
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Post by wheatsquares33 on Sept 20, 2017 23:06:33 GMT -5
Better than Drama (you think this one's bad...), not as good as Weak, but not something I ever want to hear again. AJR are a band I could live without.
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Post by rainie on Sept 20, 2017 23:13:56 GMT -5
Ehh, I surprisingly kinda like this. Like I feel like I should realize that how much of an awkward pandery mishmash of Jon Bellion and Twenty One Pilots that this is, and I should care more about how awkward some of those lyrics are and the fact that they completely wasted Rivers Cuomo. But I dunno, I think the teenage white girl part of my brain that this type of music is specifically made for must be too strong or something, idk.
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Post by Red on Sept 20, 2017 23:15:11 GMT -5
I could totally see as the new "Take It All Back" of the Alternative section. Man... this is pretty damn awful. Only if it reaches #1, which...I mean, it PROBABLY won't happen, but you never know with the Alt radio listeners of 2017. This is all over the place, and not really in a good way. Still better than "Young and Menace", though. I know, low bar to hurdle over, but...
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Sept 20, 2017 23:22:21 GMT -5
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Post by Red on Sept 20, 2017 23:29:23 GMT -5
Been disagreeing with Mark more often lately than I'd like (see: The National/Nothing But Thieves reviews), but I'm glad to see he hasn't completely lost his mind.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Sept 21, 2017 0:31:51 GMT -5
Red I just reralized your new avatar is Booby "the Brain" Heenen.
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Post by Red on Sept 21, 2017 0:35:52 GMT -5
Red I just reralized your new avatar is Booby "the Brain" Heenen. Indeed. Death and dying sucks.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Sept 21, 2017 0:42:11 GMT -5
Red I just reralized your new avatar is Booby "the Brain" Heenen. Indeed. Death and dying sucks. True. He managed some of the best names in WWF history. He made the show worth watching to say the least.
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Sept 21, 2017 7:18:25 GMT -5
That's a whole lot of vitriol for a band I've never heard of before
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Post by MilesW1998 on Sept 21, 2017 7:39:04 GMT -5
Gonna agree with Mark on this, there is no good song to be had on this album. This is a contender for worst album of the decade, and is already a shoo-in for worst album of the entire year.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Oct 5, 2017 6:13:47 GMT -5
Top 50 on Alternative:
80 49 AJR Sober Up 183 80 103 0.856
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Oct 5, 2017 6:18:40 GMT -5
Well, this isn't good.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Oct 5, 2017 22:33:46 GMT -5
What? the fact that this song debuted? Or the fact that the Alt chart is going down the crapper?
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Oct 5, 2017 22:34:29 GMT -5
What? the fact that this song debuted? Or the fact that the Alt chart is going down the crapper? This song. Not only is it not alternative, but it sucks as well.
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Post by rainie on Oct 6, 2017 0:31:18 GMT -5
God, between this some of the recent threads in which pulse is bashing a song and the 2017 most hated alt rankdown I'm beginning to realize how little music that charts on all these days I honestly hate. That should be a good thing but...I want to join in the bashing! Can we please have Take It All Back reenter and break the alt longevity record so I can have SOMETHING to direct my anger at? ;)
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 6, 2017 0:33:17 GMT -5
This sounds like some Jon Bellion shit and Jon Bellion is awful as it is already
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Oct 6, 2017 0:43:52 GMT -5
I think we started the worst songs RD too early....
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Oct 10, 2017 6:21:29 GMT -5
Top 40 on Alternative:
59 39 AJR Sober Up 254 145 109 1.23
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Post by rainie on Oct 10, 2017 10:53:19 GMT -5
I still kinda like this but um...why is this rising so quickly on the alt charts? You guys realize that that's not the format for this right?
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Post by maine on Oct 10, 2017 10:58:35 GMT -5
yeah what in the world is this chart run so far, lol
I mean, I don't mind it? it just feels like it's there. it's not totally out of place on Alt, but it's a little odd Alt is picking this up with them having somewhat of a charting history on CHR
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Post by rainie on Oct 10, 2017 12:44:23 GMT -5
Imo many of the issues surrounding borderline alternative artists smashing here would be solved by creating a new format that's somewhat of a cross between CHR, HAC, and Alt and plays popular artists that fall between the three. This would provide a more stable home for these guys, Halsey, Troye, Jon Bellion, HAIM, MUNA, Lana Del Rey and others, as well as providing a place for aspiring alt crossovers to be sent to instead of HAC.
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 10, 2017 12:52:02 GMT -5
Weezer gives them Alt cred
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Post by Green Baron on Oct 10, 2017 12:58:25 GMT -5
Also Fig your dream format was pretty much what Hot AC was before it became a second Pop
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Post by Web on Oct 10, 2017 13:07:59 GMT -5
this is a bad song, but it's weird to me that Rivers' verse is the worst part of the song. Also not sure what this is doing on Alt, but I'm not sure if I should really be that surprised.
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