"EVERY HUGE ARTIST HAS A BE HERE NOW" AKA the UK version

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ah, remember when "Wake up boo" got played as much as "Bang bang into the room" does now?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:13 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was true, but I was not reallly being nostalgic, yeah?

Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link

This thread is dreadful.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link

Still not sure why the original New Jersey thread needed a British spin-off though.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:11 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For derails?

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link

this was their fifth number one album - i'm sure i'd remember such an atrocious cover but i have no recollection of it at all

I remember the sleeve, but I couldn't tell you what's on it!

You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link

that album cover screams 'terrible flop'

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link

Not familiar with Bon Jovi's back catalogue, but I'd understood 'New Jersey' to mean 'The big hyped album that sold really well but which you could tell just by listening to it that it was the beginning of the end'. Still kind of unclear how this applies to Be Here Now and not Fat Of The Land, but I don't want to harp on about it any more.

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link

because da croupier made a suggestion that he would like to see one and i ran with it matt dc

Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link

Fatboy Slim with Palookaville? Or was it the album before?

the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link

thread is dead but: I only ever lived in the UK for a couple of years, but got the impression that the album as thing was just always significantly less important to Brit musical culture in general--like, in the US, you have AOR; in the UK, whenever I looked at the album charts some complication "Now That's Wot I Call Meat & Two Veg!" was always at #1......it just seemed like it was more of a pop culture, and therefore more about singles than LPs. Am I completely off base?

Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link

for "complication", read "compilation"

Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link

Radio has always bee singles chart orientated.
In the 80s, because of compilation albums topping the album charts , they gave them their own compilations chart and were, quite rightly, ineligible for the album chart.

Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link

Wonder if there's a Queen album that fits? Turrican?

Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 January 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link

Hot Space.

obv.

Mark G, Sunday, 18 January 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, I'd say Hot Space too.

was it an event album that sold shitloads at the time?

Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 January 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link

The opposite of that.

Mark G, Sunday, 18 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link

Then it doesn't fit.

Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 January 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link

Queen recovered just fine after Hot Space anyway. Except for in the US, where the damage was done during The Works campaign

PaulTMA, Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link

What about James' 'Millionaires'? I have no idea how well it sold, but it came out on the back of their hugely successful greatest hits and was supposed to be the album that propelled them to superstardom, or something. I actually don't think I've heard a note of it, though it seems like it was ultimately the beginning of the end for them.

PaulTMA, Monday, 19 January 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link

'albums that came after a greatest hits' is a whole weird make/break kettle of fish though, right?

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 19 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link

yeah , tho the huge selling beautiful south greatest hits surprised everybody

Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 January 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link

I've been wondering what Simple Minds album would fit this. I'd say Street Fighting Years - seemed to be them at their height in the UK, but the exact point where they became despicable in the eyes of everyone who didn't buy it. The album is so overblown and borderline worthless as well.

PaulTMA, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

that's probably the correct choice but 'once upon a time' was definitely a major dry heave before they coughed their guts up

Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link

Street Fighting Years is a good one.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link

yeah on the back of their only UK #1 Belfast Child wasn't it? Definitely a big anticipated album by everyone my age bar me at my school.

Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link

It's like a really sanctimonious proto-Be Here Now - the three times I forced myself to listen to it, I was reminded of This Is My Truth as well. No fun.

PaulTMA, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link

six months pass...

You never see pro-Street Fighting Years pieces, eh?

http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2015/07/simple-minds-street-fighting-years.html

mr.raffles, Sunday, 26 July 2015 03:57 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

heh it seems i ask that question a lot about bon jovi

Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 5 September 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link


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