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Yes, their first single not to reach the top 40 since they became well-known
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i do, and this little thing called "the record industry" says so. hence them, whilst they claim to be under immense financial pressure and on the verge of collapse, still manufacturing and releasing singles, unless you have it in your head that they do it as some sort of "vanity project" that loses money but appeals to sensitive bands and boring old farts like me who buy them?
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Surely, the download market makes singles still quite important.
I for one tend to download one or two singles from a band rather than whole albums (unless I really like the band).
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Sorry, thought you were referring to Lifeblood. Just re-read your post! Postcards as an album has done very well, I think it's downloading and all that affecting the singles chart.
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this. Rock and indie just aren't getting into the higher reaches of the charts anymore. I keep banging on about this but autumnsong got to number 10 in 2007 and you can't get blander than that really can you? All three postcards singles are better songs than that. The JFPL songs might've done slightly better but not by much
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I reckon some of it would've done very well if pushed in the right channels.
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But yeah, I don't really get why they didn't put any singles out. I reckon both Peeled Apples and JCEQT could've both gone top 20 at least, think they're both better than the PFAYM singles so far. Who knows, if they'd released singles like they used to they might've improved the performance of the last couple. A fourth JFPL single would've probably been due around March 2010 and maybe they'd have been fresh in people's minds with INWJTEOL coming in September. |
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They didn't release singles, I think, because they wanted the album to remain whole. Hence why they played the whole album live.
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Had they done this...
Single 1: "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time" Single 2: "Me and Stephen Hawking" Single 3: "Marlon J.D." ...I gaurantee they would all have been top 20 singles.
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Since reception overall - critics and fans - to JFPL seemed better compared to PFAYM, I do think so. "Peeled Apples" and "Jackie Collins" were practically made to be singles (well, apart from the potentially 'controversial' content of "Jackie")!
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No, probably not, sadly. I think JC might have done about the same at INW (i.e. - good try but no cigar), as it has almost the same 'trying to be radio-friendly' jauntiness; the others are too good for today's singles chart (like SKON, I hope Nicky knows that).
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I hate to sound so negative, but had SKON been the follow-up to ADFL it still wouldn't have charted well. It's just not a good choice of single.
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probably not, but who cares... they're still a hundred times better as songs
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I don't agree, I think SKON would have been massive if it had been released during the Truth era or even after YLAINE. Matter of opinion of course but I think it's brilliant and accessible and definitely not their worst ever single, as the chart placing would suggest taken alone.
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