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Old 06-02-2011, 21:04
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Yes, their first single not to reach the top 40 since they became well-known
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If you say so.
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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Old 06-02-2011, 21:10
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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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Old 06-02-2011, 21:18
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Yes, their first single not to reach the top 40 since they became well-known
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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Old 06-02-2011, 23:22
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Reception and such probably would've been better but I doubt they would've been able to score much more of a success. To do that you need the support of the masses and rockier stuff's just not been that popular in the recent years.
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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Old 07-02-2011, 00:00
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I reckon some of it would've done very well if pushed in the right channels.
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Old 07-02-2011, 00:19
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yes they fucking would have charted, yes the fucking singles charts are relevant, and yes the band fucking knew that they had some hit fucking single material on their hands, hence a fucking radio fucking friendly version of JCEQT being fucking made that took all the fucking fucks out of the song, never mind that they made a fucking video for it that fucking pisses all over the videos they have made for PFAYM man with it's beautiful fucking simplicity.

JCEQT would have been all over the airwaves if they had put it out as a single, but fucking no, let's be all fucking pious about this fucking album and not do singles, shall we?


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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Old 07-02-2011, 01:11
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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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Old 07-02-2011, 01:14
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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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Old 07-02-2011, 01:14
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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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Old 07-02-2011, 01:21
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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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Old 07-02-2011, 01:25
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the others are too good for today's singles chart (like SKON, I hope Nicky knows that).
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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Old 07-02-2011, 01:27
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probably not, but who cares... they're still a hundred times better as songs
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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.
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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Old 07-02-2011, 07:26
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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.
Aye, sometimes a song captures the public, sometimes it doesn't. Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the song itself, just what the prevailing mood is amongst the populace at the time. For me SKON is superb.
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