Comments on: Sony Music Thinks Writing An Annoying James Blunt Song Counts As Executive Experience

By: revmatty

revmatty — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:28:15 +0000

@raihala: I've been OK with the post Richey output, though the reenergization of Send Away the Tigers is certainly the high point (along with some of the b-sides like Pedestal which is far superior to most of This Is My Truth).

Apropos of nothing, back in college Traci Lords was on a speaking tour and I got her to sign the Little Baby Nothing single I had.

By: revmatty

revmatty — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:26:03 +0000

@Audif Jackson Winters III: Motorcycle was a minor hit in the Bay Area at least, but I'm with you on Natwest. I think almost every track on the US version could have been a radio hit with proper backing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:08:40 +0000

@raihala:

Post Orgasmic Chill by Skunk Anansie is one of the better rock albums anybody has made. Very dynamic.

By: Audif Jackson Winters III

Audif Jackson Winters III — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:07:08 +0000

@revmatty: Lead single "Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds". That shit would have been jamming out of the windows of every Camaro in the Midwest during the summer of '92.

(Seriously, though, "Motorcyle Emptiness" and "Stay Beautiful" coulda been hits)

By: raihala

raihala — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:06:49 +0000

Oh, the Manics. There are at least a half dozen singles from the first four albums that could've at least been serious alt-rock radio hits at the time.

They signed to Virgin w/"This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" and I seem to remember the label actually put some dough behind them. Unfortunately, the music had gone to shit at that point.

I've still stuck with them, though, if only because they have impeccable taste when it comes to record sleeves. (Yay for Mark Farrow!)

There's a new Manics album coming out this spring. It's all Richey lyrics and Albini produced it. They claim it's a follow-up to "The Holy Bible" which -- of course -- we've all heard before...

By: revmatty

revmatty — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:24:18 +0000

@raihala: Damn straight. The US version of Generation Terrorists should have sold at least a half million if there had been any promotion at all. Sony has never had any idea what to do with them.

By: T'Challa

T'Challa — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:40:57 +0000

@raihala: You nailed it re: Suede. That band should have at least hit Pulp status in the States.

By: T'Challa

T'Challa — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:40:57 +0000

@raihala: You nailed it re: Suede. That band should have at least hit Pulp status in the States.

By: raihala

raihala — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:20:38 +0000

@bcapirigi: I've always held a grudge against Skunk Anansie.

In the '90s, Epic and Columbia managed to screw up pretty much all their acts from Great Britain -- Mansun, the Manics and Suede never would've been million sellers here, but they should've done much, much better. (A prime example of the fucked up thinking at the time would be the U.S. label commissioning the deeply bizarre, yet fascinating, rock remix of "The Holy Bible" and then sitting on it for more than a decade!)

Even a band I don't particularly like (and who are actually Belgian), Hooverphonic, should have at least had a gold album or two had the label had the faintest idea how to market non-U.S. bands.

So, yeah, whenever I got a Skunk Anansie promo, I was always, like, "They're wasting time and money on THIS???"

By: bcapirigi

bcapirigi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:44:45 +0000

er, pretend i had an italic-ending thingy after the word ‘that’.