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Post by damnnnitzzjohn on Mar 1, 2007 18:26:27 GMT -5
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Post by pen on Mar 1, 2007 18:36:48 GMT -5
I knew it. Great choice.
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Post by American Idiot on Mar 1, 2007 18:52:16 GMT -5
I just realized that I need to listen to this album more since besides Oh! Gravity (song), I hardly remember what anything else sounds like and I had to go re-listen to it to comment on here. I was hoping for American Dream, but this would probably be my second choice, so I'm satisfied enough with the decision. I'm hoping it does something, because their first single kind of bombed and I don't believe the album is doing very well. It's quite a shame.
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Post by damnnnitzzjohn on Mar 1, 2007 19:31:18 GMT -5
It has only sold like 102,000 to date.
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Post by Matt4319 on Mar 1, 2007 19:40:04 GMT -5
Someone from Arrested Development, or... Arrested Development?  I listened to the album a week or so ago, but only once, so I don't remember all the songs by heart. But I don't think anything on the CD will do well. What they need to do is wait until mid-2008, release a greatest hits CD (this is their 6th album), and release "Politicians" (from Nothing Is Sound) as the single. I think it's their only shot to get back on the format again. |
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Post by damnnnitzzjohn on Mar 1, 2007 20:09:47 GMT -5
LOL I love your sig!
The TV show arrested development
put that quote for the 2007 awards lol
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Post by pen on Mar 1, 2007 20:34:30 GMT -5
What they need to do is wait until mid-2008, release a greatest hits CD (this is their 6th album), and release "Politicians" (from Nothing Is Sound) as the single. I think it's their only shot to get back on the format again. Not only would that never happen for obvious reasons, but I think it's betraying your love of that song that you would think that. It's a good song, but I fail to see how it would possibly affect their performance on alternative. Chances are it would tank just like everything else. |
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Post by Matt4319 on Mar 1, 2007 20:40:48 GMT -5
Not only would that never happen for obvious reasons, but I think it's betraying your love of that song that you would think that. It's a good song, but I fail to see how it would possibly affect their performance on alternative. Chances are it would tank just like everything else. 1) It's not poppy like "We Are One Tonight" and (to a lesser extent) "Oh! Gravity", which both flopped. 2) It would be just in time for the presidential elections. (I guess there are 2 sides to this, and 1 side thinks this would be a gimmick. That may very well be true, but it wouldn't be as if they had anything to lose.) And I have no idea what you mean by "betraying my love of that song". |
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Post by pen on Mar 1, 2007 21:40:23 GMT -5
I'm saying that you obviously like that song to the point where it's deluding you.
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Post by Matt4319 on Mar 1, 2007 21:53:48 GMT -5
I'm saying that you obviously like that song to the point where it's deluding you. Right, because you can tell from my grand total of two (now three) posts that make reference to the song. What if I told you it wasn't even my favorite song on the album? |
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Post by pen on Mar 1, 2007 23:18:24 GMT -5
Hm. I knew that Politicians had been mentioned several times before in previous Switchfoot threads by someone as their choice for a single and I thought I remembered it being you, but upon running a search I find that it was actually SunnyScorpio. I apologize.
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Post by pen on Mar 1, 2007 23:18:55 GMT -5
See my posts work better if you realize that I thought you were obsessing.
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Post by singingsparrow on Mar 2, 2007 0:08:27 GMT -5
Hm. I knew that Politicians had been mentioned several times before in previous Switchfoot threads by someone as their choice for a single and I thought I remembered it being you, but upon running a search I find that it was actually SunnyScorpio. I apologize. Well to be exact, I said that "Lonely Nation" should have been released as the second single in that that song and "Politicians" were the only two tracks from the album that could likely help them maintain ground at Alternative a little longer because of their thematic and musical grit. Sincerely, Noah Eaton |
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Post by pen on Mar 2, 2007 0:20:13 GMT -5
Yes, well, the point is moot now, I guess.
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Post by Matt4319 on Mar 2, 2007 3:48:30 GMT -5
See my posts work better if you realize that I thought you were obsessing. Heh... thanks for the mea culpa. But even if that had been me who made those other posts, I wouldn't have been obsessing nearly as much as many, many folks in... well, almost any 50-page plus thread in the Pop forum or Music News. |
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Mar 2, 2007 4:29:23 GMT -5
Someone from Arrested Development, or... Arrested Development? Aw, you motherfucker, I was gonna make that joke! The only guy's name I remember off the top of my head is Speech (the guy in front). |
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Post by damnnnitzzjohn on Mar 13, 2007 9:46:26 GMT -5
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