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davidt
on Sunday February 22 2009, @02:00PM
Frank's Wild Years posted in the forums:
Years Of Refusal enters UK album chart at #3 Very solid effort considering it's only a week after Lily Allen's release and the masses of Brit Award winners vying for the top spot this time around. 1. (2) ONLY BY THE NIGHT (Kings Of Leon) 22 wks 2. (1) IT’S NOT ME IT’S YOU (Lily Allen) 2 wks 3. (NEW) YEARS OF REFUSAL (Morrissey) 1 wk --- Radio One Official Top 40 Albums Chart
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Pissing My Sides (Score:1)
Number 3 in post Brits week is pretty good going & I'm glad Elbow in particualr have gotten a bump off the back of it.
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Superb (Score:1)
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Kings Of Leon (Score:1, Redundant)
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15 Years Later... (Score:2, Funny)
They've lost it. My work here is almost done. Just another 30,000 words of bile-coated disappointment and I'm off. I mean it. This time I definitely mean it! You won't see me for dust.
Nurse! Nurse!
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Not bad (Score:0)
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I expect a new manager within the week. (Score:0)
Disgusted (Score:0)
Lily Allen sold 59,000 (Score:1, Informative)
promotion-Allen + Leon (Score:1, Insightful)
The thing that counts is sales compared to his previous albums. I think this album will do ok.
Remember, back in the day The Smiths sold around 320.000 copies of an album while Dire Straits sold 3.2 million...it's not all about 'units sold' is it?
Been Caught Stealing! (Score:0)
The Problem with the British (Score:1, Funny)
And what - a lame American band who absolutely sucks - I mean - terrible, manages to take the top spot
I get the Lily Allen thing - he she' topless all the time and is dating that guy from the Streets or whatever and sings in that accent and touches all the kid's hearts
But Kings of Leon - come on people - where is your pride, where is your heritage:
If this is thanks for Dunkirk we don't want it
Come on, who is next Rod Stewart
Come on Brits - take a stand - make it happen
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YOR no3 (Score:0)
damn (Score:1)
scum
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Was it me? (Score:1)
Also on the back of the the "I'm throwing my Arms Around Paris" paltry chart showing, note that U2 only got to number 12 with their new single. Every pre studio album release single since 1988's 'Desire' has made it to number , so I suspect we have to shift our view of how relevant charts are.
On the up side the last few weeks have seen Moz jump around 10000 listeners a week on the lastfm artist chart.
Cheerio now.
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pretty good result (Score:0)
Just the beginning of a new beginning (Score:2, Interesting)
A good sign (in Los Angeles, at least) is that it's being sold and featured in accessible places like Target (Eagle Rock, yo! 2 racks! And it wasn't me that put them there!). It's really too bad Indie isn't around on the FM dial because they'd be playing the hell out of Paris, I think. Huge props to Jose Maldonado for an awesome inaugural Breakfast with The Smiths/Morrissey on Indie online, and of course massive applause to David T for bravely stepping up to the mic. This airtime is historic in Moz fandome and it's amazing to consider how far we've all come from fanzines to the internet, growing up and being the target club demographic (for a while at least!), forming our own (sometimes cover) bands, and now a regularly-dedicated two hours on the airwaves! All for the love of this man and his music. It's just amazing.
And with Years of Refusal, it just confirms Moz still has a lot of music-love in him. Hopefully he will share at least a couple more albums of his art and heart with all of us.
Speaking of artwork, I was admiring the beautiful photography and oil painting of the Paris single when I turned it around an...WAHHAHH! It will be truly impossible to wipe the grin off my face at the shows now and truly hard to not want to touch and kiss every one of them. I wonder if we have Kristeen Young and her mischievous stage comments to thank for this? Has Moz been put to task? Or is this just the best pro-vinyl, pro-PETA ("rather go naked than wear fur") message ever? In any case, Moz does emerge as the most solid-bodied lion of the pack. Boz's expression is just priceless (the my-wife-is-going-to-kill-me-for-getting-talked-into-this look?;). Matt and Solomon (looking more and more like a model when he's sporting longer hair) have the swimmer's bods. And Jesse's got that nice Cali/Texas Chicano tan. Tour of Irresistible is what it will be!
And random associations:
The album's font styles somehow made me gravitate toward Carole King's Tapestry. Anyone else?
There's a bit of November Spawned a Monster in the Paris video (imho): Moz wearing bronze/soft-black eye shadow (that could have also been Sing Your Life, anyway, haven't seen that in a while), the tambourine, the hands out and forward, the joyful dancing around.
The YOR/TOR momentum has only just begun.
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This is a positive result (Score:1)
I have to say that I love the Kings of Leon album though. I don't think it'll be an album to stand the test of time, and it certainly doesn't have the myriad layers of a Morrissey album, but in terms of capturing a moment in indie / pop music, Kings of Leon are it.
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Who even buys albums now? (Score:0)
I like the new album and I wish people wouldn't argue online when people disagree with there opinions. I actually think with a reshuffle of the order and 1 less track(THPGU) it would be alot better. To be honest the order of the songs is not great. It's fine for the first few tracks then the album becomes muddled.
Re:Well done Morrissey! (Score:0)
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Re:May already have this but... (Score:0)
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Re:Heroic (Score:0)
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