I read some horrible article in Shiding recently which goes by the idea that they were pop sellouts after John Lawrence left, becoming "the Euros Childs show" afterwards, which is kind of laughable― PaulTMA, Friday, January 17, 2020 10:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Don't know about "pop sellouts" (wrong decade), but they certainly took a sharp right turn around that time. "Euros Childs show" is understandable, though basically amounts to giving JL all the credit for their previous David Bedford-inspired lunacy which strikes me as dubious (but I wouldn't know).
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 19 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
I’m straining to imagine a world where Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci was ever considered anything like a commercial proposition. The 90s really were a long time ago, weren’t they?
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 20 January 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
Patio song got a fair bit of daytime radio play
― Mark G, Monday, 20 January 2020 07:42 (four years ago) link
Funnily I just happened upon a Netflix documentary about Clive Davis where they tell exactly this anecdote about Clive "not hearing any singles" from Bruce, and Bruce therefore obligingly going off to write "Blinded by the Light" AND "Spirits in the Night."
The implication being, of course, that Springsteen is apparently a talented enough songwriter to quickly write songs of the quality of "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirits in the Night," sure, BUT the true visionary genius in this story is the pudgy bald guy in a suit who told him to do it.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
"and then old Clive Davis said he surely gonna make us a star, he gonna make us a star"
― calstars, Monday, 20 January 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
If Gorky's didn't refuse to play the double-formatting game, then most of their singles from Patio Song onwards would have made the top 40 with ease.
― PaulTMA, Monday, 20 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
There was a little story about the Commodores on Decades last night, and they said "Brick House" was sort of one of these (producer told them they needed one more song).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
Mac Demarco - "Let Her Go" is one of these
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
superdrag - "do the vampire"
― brimstead, Friday, 31 January 2020 06:20 (four years ago) link
p sad that "Living With A Hernia" appeased them - worst song on the album and possibly Al's all-time worst single
You can go straight to hell.
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
i will admit that after listening to the album again it rose a bit in my estimation, there's some good lyrics. i'd have to look thru his singles discography to see what could go below it tho.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
This thread title makes it sound like the label got fed up with the band and recorded the hit single themselves, incognito
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
While on tour in 1968, the band (Ohio Express) found out they had a new single, "Chewy Chewy" when they heard it on the radio and had to deal with fans yelling for a song they didn't know at their concert that night.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
Heat of the Moment by Asia!
“It was an afterthought,” Downes told Prog in a new interview. “We were going to lead off with ‘Only Time Will Tell,’ but the label said, ‘Do you have anything else?’ So John [Wetton] and I came up with ‘Heat of the Moment’ in one morning. Literally, the bones of the song were written in maybe a couple of hours.”
― ☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
checks out
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link