National Treasures - The Singles Collection Thread

[everlasting]

Originally Posted by Tristan

Holding strong at 56 today - perhaps as a result of the price reduction, but the charts tend to stagnate over the next couple of weeks, so hopefully it can retain it's top 75 place for a little longer! One more week and it equals PFAYM's run. Maybe I'll buy another as an Xmas present for someone...

POstcards spent 9 weeks in the top 100 I believe, this is only the 4th charting week for NT. #56 isn't much of a drop from last week so that's not too bad, it probably sold roughly another 5,000

[The Gutless Wonder]

Yes, not bad at all considering!

[starstruck]

sent a copy off to my cousing at the 5.99 price, which i see has now moved up to 6.99. for all the faults in the set it's as good an introduction as any to the band for him; my Uncle would fly over and fucking batter me if i sent him THB up front.

[Takk]

Originally Posted by everlasting

POstcards spent 9 weeks in the top 100 I believe, this is only the 4th charting week for NT. #56 isn't much of a drop from last week so that's not too bad, it probably sold roughly another 5,000

but how many weeks outside of the top 75?

[Dancing Kirby]

It managed to beat the first week sales of Michael Jackson's newly released cash-in, Immortal, this week. This would be much more impressive if Sony hadn't done an even worse job of advertising that album that hit the heights of 65. It should have been Jacko's equivalent of The Beatles' Love album.

[Flint]

I might as well post this seeing as people have posted reviews here before, and they still keep trickling down: the Finnish music review site desibeli.net have only now got around reviewing National Treasures. Three stars, with the basic gist being that the songs are great and many of them are masterpieces of modern rock music (and wonderfully the reviewer is delighted that there's two songs from Lifeblood on the disc and notes that the band's own criticism of the album is completely needless) but the release itself isn't particularly important largely thanks to Forever Delayed already existing. This Is the Day gets a positive mention, although it's also suggested that instead of listening to it people should rather watch the great clipshow video.

If anyone wants I can translate the whole deal but that's the gist.

[Tristan]

Originally Posted by Takk

but how many weeks outside of the top 75?

PFAYM was 5 weeks in the top 75 (although it was unlucky to slip to 76 one week), so just one more for NT to equal that! PFAYM has since gone Gold though - I'd be surprised if NT does any time soon.

[starstruck]

sorry if this has come up before, but i have just noticed something - on disc two, Empty Souls features the line "collapsing like the twin towers".

so much for it being the singles, then - that was album only, wasn't it?

[Littlesue]

I thought that was just the radio/TV edit?

[starstruck]

i've just pulled the 2 CD singles out - makes no reference on either, but i am sure at least one of them featured the "dying flowers" line?

i'm not playing both right now, someone here with wisdom might be able to say on the spot?

[Flint]

Yeah the single version is on one of the single discs.

That said, IIRC National Treasures has no single edits on any song in the first place so having the Empty Souls one there would just be silly. Besides, that ridiculous lyric edit is best buried in history anyway and never mentioned again for the benefit of mankind.

[starstruck]

Originally Posted by Flint

Yeah the single version is on one of the single discs.

That said, IIRC National Treasures has no single edits on any song in the first place so having the Empty Souls one there would just be silly. Besides, that ridiculous lyric edit is best buried in history anyway and never mentioned again for the benefit of mankind.

are we certain that the version of Tolerate on NT isn't the shorter single edit? feels like it to me, but i shall bow to the collective wisdom on this one.

tbh "dying flowers" always worked better, especially with the April showers rhyme, but then again if they are going to write Twin Towers then why all of a sudden edit it?

[YouLoveMe]

The Everlasting and Australia are definitely the album versions.

[Dancing Kirby]

Originally Posted by Flint

That said, IIRC National Treasures has no single edits on any song in the first place so having the Empty Souls one there would just be silly.

Love's Sweet Exile is technically a single edit, I suppose. Little Baby Nothing also had its intro amputated.

[MSPKYE]

I prefer it to be the album versions, they absolutely butchered them on Forever Delayed