The Billboard Hot 100 for the 9/26/2009 issue: Do you know/Like these songs?

[David]

Is The Devil's Crayon on the hit parade?

How about All Fall Together by Big Country?

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by golddustdrummer

wow. I've only heard one song out of the whole bunch.
KOL
I don't care if they've sold out. (how evolving musically counts as selling out, I'll never know..)
I get sick of the whole "oh, I liked them before everyone else did"
blah blah "I liked them before they were even a band"


someone tried to pull that crap with me, talking about Fleetwood Mac
"oh, I liked them before they were famous"
you want a medal?

Well, you're right I have been guilty of that in the past, but in KOL's case I really do think they changed their sound just to appeal to a wider audience, which would be alright by me if I liked the new sound but it just doesn't appeal to me much. Like Lucy I do honestly prefer the rawer sound of their first albums.

[golddustdrummer]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Well, you're right I have been guilty of that in the past, but in KOL's case I really do think they changed their sound just to appeal to a wider audience, which would be alright by me if I liked the new sound but it just doesn't appeal to me much. Like Lucy I do honestly prefer the rawer sound of their first albums.

I prefer the earlier stuff as well!
Holy Roller Novocaine rocks my socks. I liked the "look" they had back then as well. really retro, in your face rock and roll.

but I just think part of the point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
I don't care what they say, no band ever in history made music because they didn't want people to hear any of it.
and if it takes their new album to get people to listen to their older albums, then more power to them.

[wheart]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Issued Fri Sep 18, 2009

1 I Gotta Feeling The Black Eyed Peas

2 Down Jay Sean Featuring Lil Wayne

3 Party In The U.S.A. Miley Cyrus

4 Run This Town Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West

5 Use Somebody Kings Of Leon

6 You Belong With Me Taylor Swift

7 Whatcha Say Jason DeRulo

8 Obsessed Mariah Carey

9 Hotel Room Service Pitbull

10 Good Girls Go Bad Cobra Starship Featuring Leighton Meester

11 She Wolf Shakira

12 Knock You Down Keri Hilson Featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo

13 Best I Ever Had Drake

14 Throw It In The Bag Fabolous Featuring The-Dream

15 Boom Boom Pow The Black Eyed Peas

16 Battlefield Jordin Sparks

17 Break Up Mario Featuring Gucci Mane & Sean Garrett

18 Paparazzi Lady Gaga

19 Be On You Flo Rida Featuring Ne-Yo

20 Big Green Tractor Jason Aldean

http://www.reuters.com/news/entertai...LES-ONEHUNDRED

I"ve only heard Obsessed, once... and it underwhelmed. I have no interest in what's being played on the radio these days.

[bucklind17]

Of those, I only know and like two: Use Somebody and Battlefield.

I'm a fairly new fan of KOL, started liking them just when Only by the Night came out. That's the album that sold me on them as a band, got me listening and intrigued. That said, my favorite song of theirs is "Milk", my favorite album is Because of the Times, I sing along to the bass line of "Slow Night, So Long" more than any of the words, I haven't stopped listening to "Trani" since I saw them play it live two weeks ago and if I could choose a setlist that is the length of what they play (23 songs), there would be at least four or five of the OTBN songs missing so I could get me some "True Love Way" and "Joe's Head" in there. When a band hits they way they have, there's always that feeling of liking them first or knowing them better and feeling like new fans don't get where they came from. I'm a new fan and even I feel that way simply because I was into those other three albums almost immediately and wish newer fans would give them the time of day. The band obviously wishes the same and vary in their ways of getting that across. But if you listen to all four albums, it's all very gradual to me. You can hear what's coming in each preceding album. It'd be one thing if it went from Youth and Young Manhood to Only By the Night, but it didn't. Either way, I'm really looking forward to what comes next, especially with the hints they're giving to it being like Aha Shake.

And I've just said way more on that than I planned to!