SKON: Release Date Confirmed

[Deets]

I'm not a huge fan of SKON but meh, I will buy it, maybe not on the release date, especially now as I must consider the flights to LDN in Jan.
if life gets shitty then in all aspects.

[counterlanguage]

They released The Everlasting as a 'Christmas single' and that didn't do very well, so what's the point in releasing SKON at the same time, which is a similar sort of song? Odd.

[Matt_o_Mac]

Originally Posted by counterlanguage

They released The Everlasting as a 'Christmas single' and that didn't do very well, so what's the point in releasing SKON at the same time, which is a similar sort of song? Odd.

I would say it's got more Ooomph...... I would have released All We Make is Entertainment but it would have been lost on most of the population.

[starstruck]

finally got the album this week. played it a few times. SKON got skipped after the 3rd play. utter, utter fucking shit - i think the duet was conjured up as a novelty to hide just how fucking dire this song is.

they are releasing this as a single? it must be piss cheap to make & release a single these days, knowing that fans (like me, i wager) will buy it just to get the b-sides.

Billion Balconies, Postcards, All We Make and possibly even Hazleton Avenue shit on SKON, what the fuck are they playing at?

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by leericketts

finally got the album this week. played it a few times. SKON got skipped after the 3rd play. utter, utter fucking shit - i think the duet was conjured up as a novelty to hide just how fucking dire this song is.

they are releasing this as a single? it must be piss cheap to make & release a single these days, knowing that fans (like me, i wager) will buy it just to get the b-sides.

Billion Balconies, Postcards, All We Make and possibly even Hazleton Avenue shit on SKON, what the fuck are they playing at?

play it more.. i didnt like skon at first but its my favourite track now and i have excellent taste bah to subjectivity... so even if you dont like it as much as me you should like it a little

[pan1x17]

It's available to order now on the official site if anyone wants to look.

[UEF]

Signed wank online: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/si...3744&pTypeId=1

[franny]

Red Rubber and Evidence Against Myself are b-sides, epic! Red Rubber is amazing.

[Flint]

VERY pleased that they've stuck the cover on the vinyl this time!

[starstruck]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

play it more.. i didnt like skon at first but its my favourite track now and i have excellent taste bah to subjectivity... so even if you dont like it as much as me you should like it a little

OK, i'll try....but it's a big ask mate......


....just had it on again. over-produced and far too much going on for it to be a viable hit single, really, or even something i would play for pleasure. i might give it some space and try it again when the singles that i shall inevitably order turn up. In mid-January 2011, going on Townshend records ship to us in the rest of the world

going on the rest of the album, having It's Not War & SKON as the singles could be an even bigger fuck up from the band than when they bewilderingly did not release 1985 as a single.

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by leericketts

OK, i'll try....but it's a big ask mate......


....just had it on again. over-produced and far too much going on for it to be a viable hit single, really, or even something i would play for pleasure. i might give it some space and try it again when the singles that i shall inevitably order turn up. In mid-January 2011, going on Townshend records ship to us in the rest of the world

going on the rest of the album, having It's Not War & SKON as the singles could be an even bigger fuck up from the band than when they bewilderingly did not release 1985 as a single.

lifeblood bombed tho' whereas this album hasnt. We shall see.

[starstruck]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

lifeblood bombed tho' whereas this album hasnt. We shall see.

oh it hasn't? sorry, haven't followed all the details, but the last time i saw the sales thread it seemed that PFAYM was suffering badly in sales week after week?

not sure how LB compared in sales to PFAYM but i am sure someone can tell me. however, didn't both TLORN and Empty Souls chart quite high? that being the case (if it was), then that would be the argument for a 3rd single, surely? "wow, 3 great singles, let's get the album".

although, to be honest, i kind of meant to infer that 1985 should have been a single instead of TLORN.

[wireintheblood]

Ordered online. I think we could/should start a campaign for Xmas number one... In true Manics style it'll probably bomb, but you never know!?!!??! And there's more glory in failure than in not trying at all.

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by leericketts

oh it hasn't? sorry, haven't followed all the details, but the last time i saw the sales thread it seemed that PFAYM was suffering badly in sales week after week?

not sure how LB compared in sales to PFAYM but i am sure someone can tell me. however, didn't both TLORN and Empty Souls chart quite high? that being the case (if it was), then that would be the argument for a 3rd single, surely? "wow, 3 great singles, let's get the album".

although, to be honest, i kind of meant to infer that 1985 should have been a single instead of TLORN.

PFAYM hasnt set the charts on fire by any means but i think someone mentioned it sold more in its first week (or longer) than SATT and JFPL. That sounds a bit wrong as SATT got to number two but something like that anyway. Indie/Rock is generally out of favour in the british charts at the mo' and with that in mind its meant to have done quite well

Lifeblood only reached number 13 i think and then sank

[The Gutless Wonder]

Is SKON available to be ordered on Townsend then for when it's released?