In my love for OSOTM I just wanted to remind everyone that Rooms on Fire actually went to #1 on the "ROCK" music chart of Billboard, which i think at the time was based on airplay alone at rock and aor stations. Long Way to Go went to the top 10 in that same chart, and therefore to me seemed the logical choice as the next single. If it's already getting played enough on the radio to be in the top 10 on the rock chart then many people would recognize it and it might have been as big or bigger than ROF on the pop chart. I don't mind 2KOL, but I beleive that choice as a single killed any momentum OSOTM had. Especially since ROF was a small hit on the pop charts (#16 I think?), I think they needed the follow up single to be a strong, obvious choice...and with the airplay LWTG was getting, it was really the best choice, whether its your personal choice or an album favorite or whatever. I really like WLT-I dont know if it could've worked on radio -but it came too late. Does anyone remember that WLT was nominated for a Grammy for Female Rock Vocal performance? Weird, huh? The video to WLT was good too-a pretty snappy live performance, with Stevie looking great in top hat and boots doing the cute "bouncing around in the boots" dance that sadly we will never see again-I mean, she didn't even bounce in the orthopedic tennies, but I'd better not get started on that.... Ricoh
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