SYW: A Dud Album

[Chrislit18]

Originally Posted by Sarah

I just have to roll my eyes right now a little bit.

Why would FM even give a damn about competing with Maroon 5 or any of that stuff for radio time? They didn't even bother making a proper video for their singles! They were barely singles at all. And realistically, how much were the members out there talking up the cd? A few appearances come to mind, but really, they just put the thing out there, and 850k people bought it up like that, no additional effort required.

They've sold millions and millions of records. They didn't need to prove anything with SYW except that they were, in Lindsey's Mirage-era words, "still doin' it". They made SYW an artful, respectable album. It's sold reasonably well and made some amount of money for the label and the group Not to mention that they toured the **** out of it for 2 years. Arena after arena. That's the real cha-ching for the band members, anyway.

I think it sucks, quite frankly, that so many people apparently feel like this band needs to be vindicated by radio airplay or other types of exposure and sales to new fans. FM has received a lot of praise over the last 30 years. If someone hasn't heard of them or given them a listen, that is their own damn fault.


That's just my $0.02.

The thing is, I dont feel that way either about radio play. Id RATHER that they didnt get all mainstream again, then people would only like them because they're 'popular' not because the music is good

Im just saying, they had a chance to get mainstream success again, and didnt take it. im just pointing out the fact that they could have went that way.

I love Say You Will, at this point, probably more than Rumours [shocker eh?]. I think people are stupid for overlooking this album, Mirage too. Mirage is probably my favorite album of thiers at this moment in time. but just because of one or two 'alright' songs, its 'not as good' as Rumours [TBT, I prefer the 'stinkers' on Mirage to Gold Dust Woman and Oh Daddy].

Im sure that all FM wanted to do with SYW was put out thier art, and just do appaerences to promote it here an there. and by no means am I saying it is a failure, 850.000 albums is amazing, especailly for a band who went through as much ***** as FM did concerning the line up changes, and the time between studio albums with S/L.

I agree with your comments Sarah, 100% about people feeling that what is on the radio is popular, and in no means was I trying to say that SYW would have been better had it sold more, I was just stating what could have happened had it have some more radio play.