johnnywest
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 22, 2006 23:52:15 GMT -5
Great song from the late winter of 1992. I think it only spent a week or 2 in the Top 40. And interestingly, a hard rock song like this didn't even crack Billboard's Top 40 portion of the Hot 100.
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mst3k
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Post by mst3k on Sept 23, 2006 14:22:32 GMT -5
I liked this song. The video featured Shannen Doherty.
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Hervard
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Post by Hervard on Sept 23, 2006 21:55:10 GMT -5
Great song from the late winter of 1992. I think it only spent a week or 2 in the Top 40. And interestingly, a hard rock song like this didn't even crack Billboard's Top 40 portion of the Hot 100. Actually, this is from the early fall of 1992. And it only spent a single week in R&R's Top 40. It debuted at number 39 in late September and dropped out the following week. That was the first "one-week wonder" on the R&R chart since 1979, when "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick made a brief appearance, at #30. Yeah, I'm surprised it didn't hit Billboard's Top 40, since their songs from a few years before were Top 40 BB hits, fueled almost exclusively by sales. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that the song was more radio-friendly? |
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Post by jaxxalude on Sept 24, 2006 19:55:51 GMT -5
Great song from the late winter of 1992. I think it only spent a week or 2 in the Top 40. And interestingly, a hard rock song like this didn't even crack Billboard's Top 40 portion of the Hot 100. Actually, this is from the early fall of 1992. And it only spent a single week in R&R's Top 40. It debuted at number 39 in late September and dropped out the following week. That was the first "one-week wonder" on the R&R chart since 1979, when "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick made a brief appearance, at #30. Yeah, I'm surprised it didn't hit Billboard's Top 40, since their songs from a few years before were Top 40 BB hits, fueled almost exclusively by sales. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that the song was more radio-friendly? No, it had to do with the fact that Slaughter were linked to the hair-metal fad, which by 1992 was already considered "the enemy" by the time grunge and alt.rock took on the Pop world by storm. |
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jimmy74747
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Post by jimmy74747 on Sept 26, 2006 19:43:17 GMT -5
Good song, but totally forgotten. You never hear this one on retro shows like you do their first two hits ("Up All Night" & "Fly To The Angels")
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cartman2002
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Post by cartman2002 on Apr 30, 2007 16:14:59 GMT -5
Real Love peaked at #69 on the Hot 100 in 1992
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Chato
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Post by Chato on May 1, 2007 4:53:53 GMT -5
It might have become a hit , had it been released one year earlier. By the second half of '92 it had become incredibly hard for a "hair-metal" band to have a hit single.
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BillboardBoy
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Post by BillboardBoy on May 1, 2007 12:38:09 GMT -5
I liked it a lot.
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