Every huge artist has their "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline

I will rep for Blood on Blood

We never did determine if Elvis Costello had a New Jersey, but http://youtu.be/jNsgOhIcqNQ

If you're reading Rock and the Pop Narcotic for pop chart stats...

"EVERY HUGE ARTIST HAS A BE HERE NOW" AKA the UK version

Backing up, to say Weezer Make Believe was an event album is really wrong, looks like it's not even multiplatinum, American Idiot is from the year before, did 15M sales, spawned a Broadway musical, and rewrote Green Days critical/establishment cred to the point they got in the Hall of Fame

hahahaha holy fuck

ilxor...

Dire Straits?

On Every Street did go platinum in the US (& sold 10 million worldwide) but I don't remember it being an event record. It felt like Dire Straits had been gone for too long.

It also came out about two weeks before Nevermind

iirc, Knopfler confidently and repeatedly proclaimed at the time that OES would be the biggest-selling album of all time.

that's his own affair

I certainly remember a LOT of coverage in non music media (tabloids/tv) but i swear i cant remember any of the singles

I remember "Calling Elvis" and "Heavy Fuel" getting tons of AOR airplay, though apparently neither of them charted. I also remember despising both songs.

wiki says Calling Elvis only got to #21 but I think it got a lot of airplay as i listened on youtube and actually remember it

(UK)

CAS was their final album so I guess the game was really up

beasties have no new jersey
these five words i swear to you

I had to google fairweather johnson. Hootie had zero impact over here. Like DMB i wouldnt even know who they were if it wasnt for the internet

I wish I could say that

I guess they don't have khaki low profile baseball hats in the UK though

where is this magical place you speak of

you guys didnt get ocean colour scene, stereophonics and other britpop shit that we all hate and you guys wonder who we are talking about.
nu metal otoh did cross here

xp
the UK

the land where kula shaker had hits.

OCS and Stereophonics were big enough to be on my radar even as a landlocked yank; didn't care for either though

now Mansun -- that was a band

Shania Twain - Up! ???

I can definitely confirm that Hootie & The Blowfish and Dave Matthews Band had zero impact here. I couldn't even tell you the name of a Hootie & The Blowfish song off the top of my head.

I think we cited Up in this thread.

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The thing about "Britpop" (or whatever you want to call it) is that there were different strands running alongside each other which unfortunately all got lumped in together as one thing, which does nobody any favours. Mansun were more for those who were listening to Suede or Manic Street Preachers, rather than those listening to the OCS/Cast/Stereophonics "wing" of Britpop.

But anyway, back on topic...

What was Shakira's New Jersey? Oral Fixation? She Wolf?

i just looked at the list of biggest selling albums ever in canada to see if there was anything could fit itt and this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Shiny_Tunes_2

is the 5th biggest selling album ever.

check the tracklist

tempted to poll it

Favourite track from Canada's 5th biggest selling album of all-time "Big Shiny Tunes 2"

dunno if it came up on this thread -- so many 1986 superstar albums qualify -- but Break Every Rule, yes?

honestly, the drop in sales and success is so extreme (5x platinum to one, one top 10 hit rather than 3) it probably classifies more as a fairweather johnson

apparently in the uk it's album AFTER break every rule thats huge

George Harrison - Living in the Material World.

one good one I thought of recently (re-reading Shakey the Neil Young book) is Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu

follow up to the mega debut CSN album, according to the book shipped 4 mil out the gate, spawned huge overblown stadium tour, but isn't very well regarded now

but no one thought Deja Vu triggered a decline, especially when the solo projects still sold pretty well.

Isn't well regarded now by whom?

crosby stills nash & young to start

That album is fire

Who cares what they think

also it's the decline of the GROUP - they didn't do another album for years & neil got big but he was kinda his own thing to begin with

I will just say that Deja Vu is viewed as one of the two great CSN/Y records, which invalidates it as a New Jersey.

Isn't Deja Vu considered the best CSN(Y) record? And it's not like "Our House," "Woodstock," or "Teach Your Children" have gone the way of "Born to Be My Baby" or "Lay Your Hands on Me."

Not to mention "Helpless" or "Almost Cut My Hair"

Alright rescinded!

too early to call but this new macklemore video seems pretty classically new jersey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGhoLcsr8GA#t=47

tbh i could see it as a total free-fall bomb, but yeah it does have the attempted BIGNESS.

yeah it could just be bomb but that video is like man....10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound sock