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Post by ttt on Aug 12, 2019 11:42:47 GMT -5
Katy asked him to label Astronaut and Paper Gods...Astro was mainstream, Paper Gods experimental. But the new album has a totally different vibe than PG. The title track, Universe Alone, Kill Me with Silence...these are anything but mainstream. With that being said, the worst tracks on the album (Last Night, Danceophobia) were overtly mainstream, so please bring on the experimental. I will continue to defend PG as a Top 5 DD album, albeit with a new track list: PG, PO, FFT, VS, YKMWS, WATC, Skyline, Cinderella, Lights, Sunset, Dreams, Universe. Astronaut had to have been mainstream as they relaunching the Fab Five and the commercial expectations were very high. I hope Sony's A&R team for that album were fired though...Want You More was the obvious first single. It was chart chasing but it did retain their Fab 5 sound. I will always wish that Astronaut had a new-waveish component to it - as it was at that time where young bands were copying that DD/80s sound...and now the kings of the sound were about to put out a new album and instead we got Sunrise and Bedroom Toys, etc... That being said Beautiful Colours still could have and would have made a great comeback single/video that caught people's attention... The way things are in the US presently maybe they should revisit it.
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Post by riomar on Aug 12, 2019 18:09:00 GMT -5
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That being said Beautiful Colours still could have and would have made a great comeback single/video that caught people's attention...
The way things are in the US presently maybe they should revisit it.
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Indeed it would have. They played it at the reunion live shows (certainly in Belfast anyway, so I was shocked that it didn't even make the Album) They should also have had a single released at the time of the reunion shows in the UK(April), to make the most of the hype surrounding the sell out gigs, but of course, Duran time again, meant Sunrise wasn't released until late August/September.
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