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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Jan 30, 2010 10:08:03 GMT -5
I thought Panic Switch was their best single until this. Pretty cool song.
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Post by lockebox on Jan 31, 2010 10:37:51 GMT -5
Top 40 - Alternative
57 39 SILVERSUN PICKUPS - The Royal We 216 100 116 0.763
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Post by Pipa on Jan 31, 2010 17:28:55 GMT -5
This one's definitely better than Substitution.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Jan 31, 2010 17:31:34 GMT -5
Top 40 - Alternative 57 39 SILVERSUN PICKUPS - The Royal We 216 100 116 0.763 Holy smokes! That's great.
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Post by PHOBES on Jan 31, 2010 22:40:52 GMT -5
This is better than anything else I've heard from them, though his voice is still borderline unbearable.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Feb 1, 2010 3:27:04 GMT -5
This is better than anything else I've heard from them, though his voice is still borderline unbearable. You're borderline unbearable.
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Post by PHOBES on Feb 1, 2010 16:32:16 GMT -5
This is better than anything else I've heard from them, though his voice is still borderline unbearable. You're borderline unbearable.
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Feb 1, 2010 16:45:06 GMT -5
^^^^ that's a mischievous freaking grin!!
It's too bad that you find the voice "unbearable", the unorthodox styling of his voice is what draws me to them. When everything starts to sound the same I can enjoy groups like this and KOL just for that reason.
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Post by American Idiot on Feb 1, 2010 23:33:41 GMT -5
Yeah, his voice is what attracts me to the band in the first place. Otherwise, I'm not sure I'd be much of a fan. Although, I definitely have to admit, if I didn't know any outside information on the band, I'd definitely think he's a female.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Feb 19, 2010 19:09:17 GMT -5
7 months after starting the topic it gets some traction. So goes rock radio these days.
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Post by crash46 on Feb 20, 2010 1:41:16 GMT -5
Coming from an album where I like all the songs below "Panic Switch" about the same (which is quite a bit), I thought to go forward with this song was an odd choice, leaving them with a really awkward song title for mainstream attention. Sounds great, though, and I'm glad it's gotten off to such a nice start.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Feb 26, 2010 7:54:01 GMT -5
Top 30 on Alternative:
32 30 SILVERSUN PICKUPS The Royal We 436 366 70 1.612
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 3, 2010 1:46:26 GMT -5
This song is really good, it deserves to match the success of "Panic Switch" IMO though I think it might struggle to even match the success of "Substitution". They should have just made this single #2 if they weren't going to go with "There's No Secrets This Year" (even though I think that song is overrated, but it'd obviously do well based on how many people like it).
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Mar 23, 2010 7:00:06 GMT -5
I'm wondering if this could actually match Substitution.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 23, 2010 10:06:30 GMT -5
Where did "Substitution" peak? I feel like this is already more popular.
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Post by lockebox on Mar 23, 2010 12:28:59 GMT -5
^#17. This should surpass it. They're still yet to release my two favorites from the "Swoon" album, "There's No Secrets This Year" & "It's Nice to Know You Work Alone".
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Post by American Idiot on Mar 23, 2010 13:28:31 GMT -5
^#17. This should surpass it. They're still yet to release my two favorites from the "Swoon" album, "There's No Secrets This Year" & "It's Nice to Know You Work Alone". Those are mine as well, but I'm not sure if they're going to release a 4th single.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 23, 2010 14:41:41 GMT -5
My favorite is "Growing Old Is Getting Old", but I agree that the two mentioned above would make better choices for a fourth single should "The Royal We" do well enough. I think both could have been released as third and fourth singles had "The Royal We" followed up "Panic Switch" in lieu of "Substitution".
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Apr 7, 2010 6:55:16 GMT -5
Top 20 on Alternative:
22 20 SILVERSUN PICKUPS The Royal We 723 679 44 2.527
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 7, 2010 7:21:30 GMT -5
More importantly, it's just 41 spins from "Panic Switch"! But "Panic Switch" has basically been bulleted every other week, so "The Royal We" may need a good week or a couple pretty good weeks just to pass it.
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Post by thisbeautifulmess on Apr 7, 2010 8:35:46 GMT -5
More importantly, it's just 41 spins from "Panic Switch"! But "Panic Switch" has basically been bulleted every other week, so "The Royal We" may need a good week or a couple pretty good weeks just to pass it. Most importantly, "Break" is now in recurrent position. One down, one to go (excluding "Savior"). "I'm Your Daddy" and/or "The Good Life" need to pick up spins to push two songs to recurrent.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Apr 8, 2010 3:38:08 GMT -5
Most importantly, "Break" is now in recurrent position. One down, one to go (excluding "Savior"). "I'm Your Daddy" and/or "The Good Life" need to pick up spins to push two songs to recurrent. Frankly, I've never gotten sick of "Panic Switch," even after all this time. I guess it's left alone or I leave it alone just long enough so that I always enjoy whenever it comes on or whenever I choose to play it. And if it's up to "I'm Your Daddy" and/or "The Good Life" to knock it out of the Top 20, I'd just as soon "Panic Switch" stays in there and shuts both songs out for good.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Apr 8, 2010 18:06:28 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind seeing both those songs hit the Top 20.
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Apr 9, 2010 12:37:43 GMT -5
This song took awhile for me to warm up to compared to the other songs that I loved on the album but its slowly sneaking its way in.....its like the weird kid no one wanted to play with but they would chase the ball down the street for you when it got away, so eventually you just let them be your friend.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Apr 10, 2010 3:39:34 GMT -5
It's like the weird kid no one wanted to play with but they would chase the ball down the street for you when it got away, so eventually you just let them be your friend. You're so weird.
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Apr 10, 2010 14:33:52 GMT -5
It's like the weird kid no one wanted to play with but they would chase the ball down the street for you when it got away, so eventually you just let them be your friend. You're so weird. Please tell me that you are not JUST figuring that out :)
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Post by Mega248 on Apr 11, 2010 9:09:16 GMT -5
This is finally higher than "Panic Switch" (albeit only thanks to the tiebreaking rule, but I'll take it at this point):
22 16 SILVERSUN PICKUPS The Royal We Dangerbird 771 697 74 18 17 SILVERSUN PICKUPS Panic Switch Dangerbird 771 782 -11
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Apr 11, 2010 12:13:29 GMT -5
It accomplished what Substitution couldn't do. ;)
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Post by metalfan87 on Apr 11, 2010 18:28:32 GMT -5
THANK GOD PANIC SWITCH WENT RECURRENT!
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Post by Mega248 on Apr 11, 2010 19:40:47 GMT -5
So songs with enough spins to be #17 can go recurrent now? As if "Paralyzer" and "Feel Good Drag" getting booted as should've-been-#20s wasn't enough. Why even keep track of WOC if Mediabase is just going to get rid of songs whenever they feel like it?
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