Re: Barry Manilow no. 1 on U.S. Charts...pathetic
Date: February 12, 2006 15:02
Jack Knife wrote : "The Super Bowl left their legacy in tatters (70% of viewers gave it a C or below...with 40% giving it an F? I KNEW that would be the reaction. I don't know why Mick thought they'd be embraced). It certainly didn't bring in new fans or album sales. It turned OFF more people than anything else (still not sure why). I'm just saying that while they still have a SHRED of a legacy left...they should stop. The general public, the music industry and the media really, really HATE them."
There were a lot of polls, with different results. All of them, of course, with the footnote "are not conducted in a scientific fashion". I just saw the results of NBC4. A=19%, B=11%, C=18%, D=22%, F=30%. A-C= 48%. If you consider these results as discouraging, sorry, in my opinion you are 105% wrong. I say these are marvellous results! Man, we have not elections here. We have a huge public who takes an interest in football, not neccessary in music. And the people who are interested in the music have of course various tastes, especially in the USA where pop, country and hip hop are more popular than rock. A person who don't like the Stones music, with these polls has the opportunity to express his preference, not his opinion about the quality of the performance. If i don't like MC Hammer, what could vote after a MC Hammer's performance?
Jack Knife, if the Stones were performing at Super Bowl in 1972 or 1975, their percentages would be much more lower! Why? Because then they were less acceptable by the older people. So simple. "General public" means nothing when we are talking about music and about the Stones. At the end of this tour the Stones will have attract more than 1.5 million of people in the USA and about 5 million worlwide. According to your logic, we will have a "disaster", because these numbers are making a weakest minority in the States and in the whole planet...