That is so perfect and ridiculous. In the best way!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:41 (fourteen years ago)
such a good story
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 23:06 (fourteen years ago)
$10 says he lurks here
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 23:28 (fourteen years ago)
aw cuet! chaki!
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 23:32 (fourteen years ago)
wtg chakster
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 23:32 (fourteen years ago)
First Australian act to hit #1 in the U.S. since ... Savage Garden?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:29 (fourteen years ago)
Ah yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_by_Australian_artists_which_reached_number-one_on_the_Hot_100_%28USA%29
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:31 (fourteen years ago)
"Torn" didn't hit number one?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:32 (fourteen years ago)
Wow, and INXS only had one number one?
Torn never made it to the main Billboard Hot 100 because of those crazy rules involving the Airplay Chart.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:42 (fourteen years ago)
About which:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/04/gotye_somebody_that_i_used_to_know_no_1_billboard.php
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:21 (fourteen years ago)
That is a great piece, diligently digging into the data to draw some interesting conclusions.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:30 (fourteen years ago)
yeah chris was telling me about the piece yesterday, very excited to dig into it now
― lathe darkman (some dude), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:35 (fourteen years ago)
it's pretty excellent
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:37 (fourteen years ago)
I'm so used to reading opinion pieces that it's a real treat to see some proper, painstaking research.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:09 (fourteen years ago)
man i need to check for chris molanphy more often, that's great stuff
― goole, Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:59 (fourteen years ago)
Dude's a statistical hero!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:22 (fourteen years ago)
This is why Dick Clark had to die.
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:25 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, Molanphy's the best.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:41 (fourteen years ago)
I mentioned this to him the other day, and he was like "Already working on it!"
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:43 (fourteen years ago)
LOL at headline
http://jezebel.com/5901437/americas-number-one-pop-song-reads-like-a-crap-email-from-a-dude
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:19 (fourteen years ago)
For the first time the top two songs are sung by two men whose voices repel me.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:23 (fourteen years ago)
LOL at article, too
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:24 (fourteen years ago)
Chris is one of the handful of guys I know who read (a) read Paul Grein (b) read Paul Grein's column before glancing at the charts.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:31 (fourteen years ago)
too many reads
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:32 (fourteen years ago)
it's a good piece, but there's an alternative theory that chris didn't really explore: millenials are getting older and more interested in the kind of adult-pop boomers liked as they got older. I don't hear "alternative" here, I hear Don McLean & the Outfield. While he hints at it later in the piece, it's possible the songs are more pop songs that cross-over to the piddly remainder of alternative rock radio than vica versa.
admittedly my perspective is tainted by the fact that I think both these songs are barf.
― da croupier, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:38 (fourteen years ago)
I'm pretty sure it isn't nostalgia talking when I claim "All That Money Wants" and "Peek a Boo" are more outré than anything coughed up by the late nineties modern rock chart.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:40 (fourteen years ago)
Jezebel article reads song correctly, lambastes song as if it did that by accident
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:33 (fourteen years ago)
I imagine an Al Smith type pronouncing it GOI-TUH.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:35 (fourteen years ago)
it's kind of stupid that Jezebel felt the need to write a female rebuttal to Gotye's lyrics in "Someone" since that's what the 2nd verse of the fucking song
― some dude, Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:14 (fourteen years ago)
is
Wow, how have I never come across Paul Grein until now.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:27 (fourteen years ago)
Even worse was the "oh I knew about the rebuttal in the 2nd verse, honest" comment the author posted after other commenters politely pointed out that this was a remarkably thick article.
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Saturday, 21 April 2012 04:15 (fourteen years ago)
lol
― some dude, Saturday, 21 April 2012 04:24 (fourteen years ago)
Finally heard this on a Top 40 radio station, but it's a different mix than the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNcToysajw
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:24 (fourteen years ago)
@ Gotye's US label
"This won't work on radio""Can we...make it sound more like late nineties Sting?""Jackpot!"
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 April 2012 22:15 (fourteen years ago)
Probably because he writes for Yahoo! and most of us don't usually turn there for quality writing about anything, much less music.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:12 (fourteen years ago)
this song sucks
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:14 (fourteen years ago)
For most of the eighties and nineties he wrote "Chart Beat" for Billboard though -- chart nonsense for non-sports nerds.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:17 (fourteen years ago)
Pre-Fred Bronson?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:00 (fourteen years ago)
mais oui!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:03 (fourteen years ago)
rong
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:04 (fourteen years ago)
it is pretty good
― some dude, Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:07 (fourteen years ago)
into it
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:07 (fourteen years ago)
Well, that top 40 version is pretty lame.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:40 (fourteen years ago)
It sounds good between Katy Perry and "Starships," i.e. ear relief but no more.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:54 (fourteen years ago)
my top 40 station plays a remix too but it's even more dull than that one
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 22 April 2012 03:02 (fourteen years ago)
well that would have been precisely the time before i had regular access to Billboard, hence why i was unfamiliar with the name. i wasn't trying to knock him btw, his column seems good, just that i never expect to find anything of quality on Yahoo!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 April 2012 04:11 (fourteen years ago)
still keep reading this as "goyte"
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 05:01 (fourteen years ago)
good song anyways, not a favorite
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 05:02 (fourteen years ago)