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Post by Cody on Apr 23, 2009 16:47:32 GMT -5
lol Hemorrhage is one of the best rock songs of the new millennium, and its success will prove that
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Post by pen on Apr 23, 2009 17:10:51 GMT -5
Probably thought "Freshmen" was curious cause you usually don't see a song with actual meaning behind it hitting #1.
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Post by blackhearts08 on Apr 23, 2009 18:17:25 GMT -5
They are on fire! Sweeping the world!
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Apr 24, 2009 18:52:39 GMT -5
Artie, can you answer me a question? You state that you are shocked all these songs went to number one.....does it ever dawn on you that you are not the personal taste of all rock/alt listeners? That maybe , just maybe, just because you don't like a song that maybe the rest of the world might. Lots of songs go high on charts and there will always be someone, somewhere, who hates the song. Being shocked that the songs you hate get to number one is really elitist (which to me is as annoying as anything). You make it sound like if you hate.....it must be bad. While you have every right to hate, others have every right to love and not made to feel like an idiot for liking any certain song.
now if that's now how you mean anything, I'm just saying that's how come across, like your thoughts and opinions are what we should all base our musical tastes on. You should really take a lesson in learning to state your opinion without sounding like you are talking from the almighty throne.......which has a sense of irony to me.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 24, 2009 22:01:48 GMT -5
I'm surprised the song of this very thread hasn't come up in this conversation. My biggest shocker of a #1 was "Survivalism" by Nine Inch Nails. I know I know...they're Nine Inch Nails...but still, if "Discipline" and "Capital G" couldn't go #1, "Survivalism" definitely doesn't sound like a hit song. Not a bad song, just not a hit-sounding song.
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Post by pen on Apr 24, 2009 22:41:05 GMT -5
You like "Psycho" more than "The Freshmen"?
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Post by pen on Apr 24, 2009 23:32:52 GMT -5
Annoying? It's a beautiful song. It's about how fragile dreams are, these people were so oblivious when they were young and now they're older and know they made the wrong choices, their relationships are falling apart. I think it's incredibly relatable. Everyone is naive when young, everyone imagines their life will turn out different than it does.
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Post by pen on Apr 26, 2009 16:34:51 GMT -5
Hit too close to home? Ha.
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Post by PHOBES on Apr 26, 2009 16:36:22 GMT -5
Artie actually wrote it, hated it, threw it out, his college roommate then found it in the trash, roommate formed band, and the rest is history.
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Post by pen on Apr 26, 2009 16:44:24 GMT -5
Close to home? How is that? It's a joke. I don't know anything about you.
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Post by pen on Apr 30, 2009 17:53:20 GMT -5
I understand that. But even if you did, I'm not sure that comment made any sense. You've never had any regrets in your life? Then again I don't know how old you are, maybe you're not old enough to have regrets.
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Post by pen on Apr 30, 2009 18:04:56 GMT -5
Well that's what the song's about.
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Post by pen on Apr 30, 2009 18:17:21 GMT -5
Well what do you think the song's about?
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Post by pen on Apr 30, 2009 18:33:28 GMT -5
Close, and when I say close, I mean absolutely wrong.
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Post by pen on Apr 30, 2009 18:35:46 GMT -5
You said it was based on the film. The only thing that comes from the film is the idea of being freshmen. The song's lyrics are about his ex-girlfriend's abortion.
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Post by pen on Apr 30, 2009 18:39:11 GMT -5
How do you sleep at night, Artie. Do you just lie awake, laughing to yourself in your fortress of doom?
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Post by pen on Apr 30, 2009 18:45:01 GMT -5
]But getting the title one letter off was not close enough? Don't act like you don't understand that saying it's based on that film is completely missing the point that it was based on a traumatic event in Vander Ark's life.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on May 1, 2009 15:34:27 GMT -5
How do you sleep at night, Artie. Do you just lie awake, laughing to yourself in your fortress of doom? I don't know about anybody else, but I sleep on top of a pile of money, surrounded by many beautiful ladies.
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Post by pen on May 1, 2009 15:39:49 GMT -5
How do you sleep at night, Artie. Do you just lie awake, laughing to yourself in your fortress of doom? I don't know about anybody else, but I sleep on top of a pile of money, surrounded by many beautiful ladies. Yeesh.
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Post by fran182 on Dec 28, 2009 11:47:00 GMT -5
Goes out to A.A.A. and Hot Adult formats next week via Billboard. If this makes a 20+ week run on either of those charts, it has to be the longest lasting single I can ever recall. What about "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz?
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Post by Gravity. on Dec 28, 2009 20:13:34 GMT -5
Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" was on the charts for around 70 weeks.
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Dec 28, 2009 21:43:00 GMT -5
I've seen in on various charts, but I wouldn't know it if I heard it. But Sex On Fire charted 16+ months ago. Not sure about Mraz. You're so incredibly close minded... wow. Are you SURE you follow charts and radio and stuff? I'm Yours was a record breaking single. It was released back in like March of 2008....
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There's also an alternate 'pop mix' of this that may make it more suitable for this format. The changes are very appropriate.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Dec 29, 2009 3:33:30 GMT -5
There's also an alternate 'pop mix' of this that may make it more suitable for this format. The changes are very appropriate. I'm sure the band is thrilled.
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Post by metalfan87 on Dec 29, 2009 17:58:10 GMT -5
man, I wonder when will Use Somebody be off the Alternative charts.
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Post by Gravity. on Dec 29, 2009 23:39:15 GMT -5
Sex on Fire has been on the Hot AC chart for a good month and a half now. I believe that it's nearing the top 30.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Dec 30, 2009 0:53:05 GMT -5
man, I wonder when will Use Somebody be off the Alternative charts. I smell another 52 week run in the form of that song.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Dec 30, 2009 4:29:46 GMT -5
I smell another 52 week run in the form of that song. Good call, because that's how long it will have been as of this weekend.
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Post by Matt4319 on Dec 31, 2009 2:25:09 GMT -5
It's "Use Somebody". Pop/Hot AC success >>>> Rock/Alternative success.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Dec 31, 2009 4:03:15 GMT -5
^ Unless "Sex On Fire" takes off on pop and inexplicably does even better than "Use Somebody" did. That's looking unlikely.
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