Comments on: Navigating Your Way Through This Week’s New Releases, From Madonna To Miranda http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:55:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: perfectomix http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980902 perfectomix Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:10:10 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980902 @<a href="#comment-980622" rel="nofollow">NunyaB</a>: Nevermind, I Googled it and found a good deal of info. Looks to be quite a sad situation! :( http://requiem4adream.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/celebration-a-retardation/ Between this and the "glue" problems with Neil Young's Archives box, I'm starting to wonder about Warner's QC division. (As in, do they have one?!) @NunyaB: Nevermind, I Googled it and found a good deal of info. Looks to be quite a sad situation! :(

http://requiem4adream.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/celebration-a-retardation/

Between this and the “glue” problems with Neil Young’s Archives box, I’m starting to wonder about Warner’s QC division. (As in, do they have one?!)

]]> By: Maura http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980842 Maura Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:13:51 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980842 @<a href="#comment-980672" rel="nofollow">pdfreeman</a>: Sure, metal sells, with the bigger artists moving about as many units as your highish-profile indie acts. But I don't feel comfortable passing judgment on things that I don't know all that much about! Which is why I'm glad you chimed in. (Also I am still of the opinion that <i>Home Movies</i> > <i>Dethklok</i>. YMMV, of course.) @pdfreeman: Sure, metal sells, with the bigger artists moving about as many units as your highish-profile indie acts. But I don’t feel comfortable passing judgment on things that I don’t know all that much about! Which is why I’m glad you chimed in.

(Also I am still of the opinion that Home Movies > Dethklok. YMMV, of course.)

]]> By: jonian2008 http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980782 jonian2008 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:04:56 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980782 I will have to respectfully disagree that metal albums don't sell as well as other genres. Especially first week sells. I look at the current Top 20 albums and the only modern rock I see is Muse. I also see Megadeth in the Top 10. Hatebreed and Dethklok both have a good chance at debuting at a decent position. Alice In Chains will debut high and they definitely come from a metal background. Metal radio in the early 90's is where every "grunge" success story started(Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc...). I will have to respectfully disagree that metal albums don’t sell as well as other genres. Especially first week sells. I look at the current Top 20 albums and the only modern rock I see is Muse. I also see Megadeth in the Top 10. Hatebreed and Dethklok both have a good chance at debuting at a decent position. Alice In Chains will debut high and they definitely come from a metal background. Metal radio in the early 90’s is where every “grunge” success story started(Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc…).

]]> By: chachwitablog http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980722 chachwitablog Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:35:21 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980722 @<a href="#comment-980672" rel="nofollow">pdfreeman</a>: In all fairness, metal doesn't really sell CDs in the numbers of pop/rap/modern rock...how many metal albums are going to be in the billboard top 20? And I'm sure there are at least that many albums in every other genre coming out this week, that Idolator also "excluded." As for La Roux - from what I've heard the album is pretty fantastic. But it should only be at Download because their frontwoman is an idiot, per that article you linked to. Don't front like "Bulletproof" couldn't have been a GaGa track, girl! @pdfreeman: In all fairness, metal doesn’t really sell CDs in the numbers of pop/rap/modern rock…how many metal albums are going to be in the billboard top 20?
And I’m sure there are at least that many albums in every other genre coming out this week, that Idolator also “excluded.”

As for La Roux – from what I’ve heard the album is pretty fantastic. But it should only be at Download because their frontwoman is an idiot, per that article you linked to. Don’t front like “Bulletproof” couldn’t have been a GaGa track, girl!

]]> By: perfectomix http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980692 perfectomix Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:17:50 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980692 @<a href="#comment-980622" rel="nofollow">NunyaB</a>: What kind(s) of mastering errors are you talking about? I was also planning to buy it, so I'd like to know what I'm in for. :) @NunyaB: What kind(s) of mastering errors are you talking about? I was also planning to buy it, so I’d like to know what I’m in for. :)

]]> By: pdfreeman http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980672 pdfreeman Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:13:27 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980672 Aaaaaannnd once again, metal (one of the few genres that still actually sells CDs) doesn't exist in Idolator-world. Out this week: Austrian Death Machine, <I>Double Brutal</I>. Schwarzenegger-themed joke-thrash. Dethklok, <I>Dethalbum II</I>. Second volume of <I>Metalocalypse</I>-related tunes. Doomriders, <I>Darkness Comes Alive</I>. Converge side project. The Gates Of Slumber, <I>Hymns of Blood and Thunder</I>. Excellent stoner/doom/power metal from Indianapolis. Hatebreed, s/t. The kings of knuckle-dragging hardcore-metal crossover return. Om, <I>God is Good</I>. Spiritual stoner-art bass-drums duo; first album on Drag City after several on Southern Lord. Plus about a half dozen others. Aaaaaannnd once again, metal (one of the few genres that still actually sells CDs) doesn’t exist in Idolator-world.

Out this week:

Austrian Death Machine, Double Brutal. Schwarzenegger-themed joke-thrash.
Dethklok, Dethalbum II. Second volume of Metalocalypse-related tunes.
Doomriders, Darkness Comes Alive. Converge side project.
The Gates Of Slumber, Hymns of Blood and Thunder. Excellent stoner/doom/power metal from Indianapolis.
Hatebreed, s/t. The kings of knuckle-dragging hardcore-metal crossover return.
Om, God is Good. Spiritual stoner-art bass-drums duo; first album on Drag City after several on Southern Lord.

Plus about a half dozen others.

]]> By: TriedandTrue http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980662 TriedandTrue Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:55:22 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980662 I'd throw Seven Worlds Collide - "The Sun Came Out" into the Buy category just because proceeds go to a good cause (Oxfam) and there are a ton of talented people involved (Jeff Tweedy, Neil Finn, Phil Selway, Johnny Marr to name a few) I’d throw Seven Worlds Collide – “The Sun Came Out” into the Buy category just because proceeds go to a good cause (Oxfam) and there are a ton of talented people involved (Jeff Tweedy, Neil Finn, Phil Selway, Johnny Marr to name a few)

]]> By: NunyaB http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980622 NunyaB Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:07:10 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980622 I was thinking of buying "Celebration" but apparently it's so poorly mastered even non-fans notice the errors… I guess I'll be saving my dollars then. The La Roux album really is very good. I could care less what Elly Jackson says, and even when I do read her interviews I can't quite understand what makes everyone else hate her so much- I just end up feeling bad for her. I was thinking of buying “Celebration” but apparently it’s so poorly mastered even non-fans notice the errors… I guess I’ll be saving my dollars then.

The La Roux album really is very good. I could care less what Elly Jackson says, and even when I do read her interviews I can’t quite understand what makes everyone else hate her so much- I just end up feeling bad for her.

]]> By: cassidy2099 http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980592 cassidy2099 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:01:17 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980592 @<a href="#comment-980562" rel="nofollow">2ironic4u</a>: What about them? Do they have new albums coming out? What's lower than Kill? @2ironic4u: What about them? Do they have new albums coming out? What’s lower than Kill?

]]> By: 2ironic4u http://idolator.com/5277392/navigating-your-way-through-this-weeks-new-releases-from-madonna-to-miranda/comment-page-1#comment-980562 2ironic4u Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:54:48 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5277392#comment-980562 What about AFI and Breaking Benjamin? What about AFI and Breaking Benjamin?

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