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There is a simple explanation of why they talk the talk $ It's all about maintaining that image that makes the cash register ring . If they were to say we are done over and out -don't you think that would hurt the register from ringing in sales ? On Tickets , on merch , on albums , on streams etc ? It's called playing the game which they are masters at it as they invented it in the first place and truthfully no one does better than the London School of Economics student ! Nobody Does it Better -[www.youtube.com] My Compliments as I wish I had a cash machine just a tenth the size of theirs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote
Hairball
Yet they still talk the talk of being creative and productive mentioning a new album in the works in interviews for many years now , but seemingly they just can't get it done - sad, but true.
Thankful for Living in a Ghost Town and the recent tours though...and Keith's Crosseyed Heart from six years ago.
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Sighunt
This is a great thread! Lots of great thoughts...
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Sighunt
This is a great thread! Lots of great thoughts...
I agree. However, there seems to be two different issues in regard to the well having dried.
First is the original issue brought by Stoneage that was concerning the lack of 'hits' since "Start Me Up". Technically they have released countless singles since it, and some of them (at least during the 80's) made nice chartings, but none of them have achieved any kind of 'classic status' or even some sort of familiarity among their 'casual fans' as their old hits did. They've been more like 'flavor of the month' things, to be forgotten pretty soon after their hey-day (their set list history pretty much say the same thing). Since "Start Me Up" and TATTOO YOU they have released six albums of original material (all of them been pretty good sellers at the time, but what is typical to all if them is that their streaming numbers are pretty awful compared to their earlier albums), so it is not the question of them not able to create anything, but more like about the quality or impact of the results.
The second issue is that of not releasing anything, or like it have been for 16 years now, next to nothing. I think most of the posts in this thread actually discussing this issue (as many people also do in the 'new album' thread.)
I lean on thinking that these two issues - we might call the the lack of quality vs. lack of quantity - belong closely together. To get sense of the first one, we might be get an answer to the latter as well.
Now, this was a pretty boring and saying nothing kind of answer, wasn't it?
- Doxa
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TheGreekThere is a simple explanation of why they talk the talk $ It's all about maintaining that image that makes the cash register ring . If they were to say we are done over and out -don't you think that would hurt the register from ringing in sales ? On Tickets , on merch , on albums , on streams etc ? It's called playing the game which they are masters at it as they invented it in the first place and truthfully no one does better than the London School of Economics student ! Nobody Does it Better -[www.youtube.com] My Compliments as I wish I had a cash machine just a tenth the size of theirs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote
Hairball
Yet they still talk the talk of being creative and productive mentioning a new album in the works in interviews for many years now , but seemingly they just can't get it done - sad, but true.
Thankful for Living in a Ghost Town and the recent tours though...and Keith's Crosseyed Heart from six years ago.
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Witness
Ah, Hairball, now you forget Mick and friends' possible albums REJECTS VOL 1, REJECTS VOL 2 and REJECTS VOL 3! How I look forward to those as I have told you before!
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Witness
Ah, Hairball, now you forget Mick and friends' possible albums REJECTS VOL 1, REJECTS VOL 2 and REJECTS VOL 3! How I look forward to those as I have told you before!
Reminds me of the recent Mick/Grohl tune Easy Sleazy - a terrible tune and a complete reject - so much so it wasn't even released properly.
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Rockman
Oh I see ....