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I think some of us are confusing accessibility with commercialism.
For instance, in 1992 I would hardly call "Soul Drifter" a commercial song. Is it accessible? Most certainly, as is all of "Out of the Cradle," at least to my ears. Any time I've played "Out of the Cradle" songs for people, they get this expression of amazement, like, "Wow, who is that?" Yet, the album didn't sell. I've tried to figure it out, but it still doesn't make sense to me. I don't believe "Steal Your Heart Away" is terribly commercial, even though I have said that very thing in the past (lest someone picks up on an apparent contradiction). It's an accessible song, but if it were commercial, it would have hit big when it was released to radio a few months ago. What is commercial today is what will sell today, and in some ways, what we have grown used to hear. Something like "Go Your Own Way" may sound commercial today because everybody's heard it 6,000 times, it really was fairly unorthodox in 1977. |
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When I think commercial, I think radio, but also, I'm thinking accessible as well, Carne. Lindsey's "wierd" (for lack of a better term. LOL) songs such as Time Bomb Town (complete with herky jerky singing) and 99% of the Tusk songs are songs that mostly Lindsey fans love. Not that your casual listener wouldn't like them if they heard them, but it's just that with Lindsey, I feel like most people need to dip their toe in, before jumping in the pool. LOL
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. Lindsey , from the destiny rule doc. |
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Teedee, if you think the stuff you're hearing on the radio is great music, that tells me all I need to know.
There's a difference between music that is original and creative, and it just happens to achieve commercial success, and music that is written expressly to be played on the radio. Very different situations. If you like formulaic commercial music, good for you. To me, it stinks. |
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Slipping intentionally commercial songs into a FM CD at this point just soils the work and, clearly, does not get them enough radio play anyway. |
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Being commercial as intention stinks. Sometimes you just don't know what hits. Tusk was the highest ranking Macsong of the 70's in the UK! OH Well was number one in the netherlands in '69. I am totally convinced that something like Gift of Screws or Shuffle Riff or Miranda, Destiny Rules or even illume would have done much better in terms of recordsales for the album (if all those songs were on it) than the singles they did put out now. Because an old brand MUST shake the expectations of the listener to provoke new attention.
It's just dumb to try to cope with the industry in radioland. They did that in choosing the single-album. And they caved in in the choice for singles, too. Maybe that worked a little bit in the States, but certainly not in Europe. I believe, even in these strange consumption-times, character can sell. it's a shame that an album with a lot of a-typical songs, did not once provided a single that Pushed the so called envelope... And now I'm going to play with my 4-year-old son who's sitting in his bath singing "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, I'm a long way from home......" not bad for a dutch kid.... gerald
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yes gyow, was played alot back in the day when it was released, so i would think that it was a commercial song. |
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"lets just do what we want" i do basically think that they do , do what they want already. or at least they did on syw. but i also see nothing wrong with an artist wanting to have a commercial success. i think when an artist/band puts out new material, they want some kind of commercial success/air play/ call it what you want.. but a hit song, generally will bring up the number of sales , than hurt the number of sales. and when i say have a commercial success, that doesnt mean i want them to lower there standards of writing because if whats out there today.. |
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You can't have it both ways Linds! Stevie Nicks the drama queen? Hello Mr. Buckingham!
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I agree that he should have given the independent-label idea a try for his solo record, but then we wouldn't be talking about a FM record right now, would we? |
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