Herbie Hancock Still Has A Lot To Smile About - Idolator Comments

Herbie Hancock Still Has A Lot To Smile About

tristax — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:56:08 EST

Herbie Hancock Still Has A Lot To Smile About

Chris Molanphy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:59:56 EST

@softlord: Trust me, you want the new edition of Thriller appearing on the catalog chart. That means its sales are officially being combined with those of the original Thriller. Which means the album stands a chance at reclaiming the all-time U.S. single-album sales crown from the Eagles Their Greatest Hits -- one of the most unfortunate upsets in chart history.

Chris Molanphy

Herbie Hancock Still Has A Lot To Smile About

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:52:18 EST

@Al Shipley: I've heard more bitching about "that asshole Kanye West" from rank-and-file music fans in the week since the Grammys than almost anything else. (These are the sort of mortgage-having, early-middle to fully-middle-aged people I encounter IRL, not on the interwebs.)

In short, thanks to his speeches, if Kanye made any impression on the type of semi-passive music fan who only thinks to buy records after watching the Grammys, it was a bad one. I explain to these folks, Yeah, he's an egotistical twerp, but he's also three-for-three on great hip-hop albums, which is rare. I'd be a little egotistical too if my records were that good..., but they mostly scoff and shake their heads. So there's just no way a well-intentioned square (read: white, not young) person, who will try the occasional OutKast album, is going to try a Kanye record, given their not-a-nice-man impression of him every year around awards time. A shame, but true.

But Foo Fighters? That Dave Grohl...such a nice boy!

Chris Molanphy

Herbie Hancock Still Has A Lot To Smile About

softlord — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:30:09 EST

Um, except that Michael Jackson's Thriller 25 should really have been #2 because it sold 167,000 units this week, and yet somehow was only eligible for the 'top catalog albums' chart. F billboard.

softlord

Herbie Hancock Still Has A Lot To Smile About

Al Shipley — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:43:15 EST

Interesting that the Foo Fighters sold more than Kanye before and after the Grammy bump, despite the fact that both have been out for just about the same amount of time (their release dates were 2 weeks apart in September). That's either more evidence that rock releases have a longer tail than hip hop, or you can just chalk it up to the fact that practically everyone who could've wanted Graduation has it already.

Al Shipley