It has some good material on it but is one of those albums that would benefit by dropping some tracks. Ditch Little By Little, Hurricane Years, Die for You and Dirty Dreams, add It Rain All Night and you have a better album. Since I'm an old timer I still think of albums with "sides" and think the ...

I think that sometimes a lack of label support, when making an album at least, can be a good thing. Can you imagine what Dada would have sounded like if The Bros. Warner HAD been sending it's mucky-mucks around to the sessions?

1. It's more of a transition album than a 'proper' hair metal record. 2. It's better than the preceding trio combined. 3. All but one of the songs are at least pretty good, with some, like 'MAWBOM', 'HS' and WUT' being excellent. ('Dirty Dreams' belongs on 'Trash', as it's utter garbage.) 4. Alice ...

>The site also announced that Eminem is the most streamed artist of all time, Exactly (of course, that just is a reflection of Spotify's users, but your point is correct). Yes, and a clear signal to me that i will stay away from Spotify and it's users playlists! L) > It's hard to imagine an artist ...

> The music industry is alive and well the labels and people involved are just not making the money they used to. We are not talking about the "music industry". This is the "record industry". They are not the same. > There is more music on tv than ever before. Yes which usually follows a mainstream...

You are aware that most museums, libraries and cultural centers are not set up to earn a profit-but nearly all of these organaziations are able to survive by donations, gifts and endowments by wealthy individuals or corporations. If not by private donations and funding they are funded by government...

Yeah, i would agree - i bought them much later, and b/c I was already an AC fan, and didn't think they were very good, but can now understand them in their context and see them as a bit cooler than I did at the time (and i was always fond of "Levity Ball".) That said, i still don't think they're gre...

The other thing I've been mulling over is whether it's a good thing that you can download single tracks off albums. On one hand, your music is more accessible to the casual fan whereas on the other they may go straight for the hits or the radio friendly tracks. Until the late 1960s, the singles mar...

So what are the conclusions here? For some bands/entertainers no it's not worth releasing new material and for others it is. Good talk folks. :grin: It's about the process, not the product... I will be another unpopular one and say i, too, am looking forward to the covers album. If only because ALI...

Just to throw something in, when Alice did the X-FM show, in which bands play a classic album from start to finish, he choose "Greatest Hits" haha It was obvious why. All but, I think, one of the songs (TL74) were already in the show they were playing at the time, or had been in it the year before,...

Apologies to Mr Barlow-I stand corrected. I assumed "Fairytale of New York" was a worldwide hit because of its popularity in Britain and Ireland (perhaps understandably!!)when clearly it isn't. I was thinking of "Fairytale" as their "School's Out", as yes it was in fact huge all over and they had o...

>I'm not sure he has a classic hit album REALLY?! What about "Killer", "School's Out", "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Welcome To My Nightmare"? >(I mean, *I* think there's several, but does Billboard or whoever agree?) Who cares what they think? Well, not me, but somebody trying to book a profitable ...

This debate keeps shifting (as debates do) and it's getting irritating (although that isn't your fault). On the one hand we have people saying he should be playing more new material and on the other, we have people saying he should perform a classic album in its entirety (which, by the way, I can i...

Mr Barlow wrote: The Pogues never ever had any HUGE international hits that were Top 40 hits. "Fairy tale of New York"?!!!!! All true... but i brought up the comparison b/c while Alice has many hit singles, like the Pogues I'm not sure he has a classic hit album (I mean, *I* think there's several, ...

As much as id love alice to come out and play last temptation, welcome 2 my nightmare etc in its entirety im not stupid enough to know the chances are slim to say the least, but i can dream cant i? Well, the "classic album live tour" is a bit of a trend lately, and not just among the stadium-fillin...

>Well, i probably speak for most "fans", ie: those with more than a passing interest in the AC catalog, rather than the general punters who show up at a gig. Thanks for the clarification. Again though, those are a minority (albeit a large one) at most shows. I would agree with you there, but i stil...

>I'm much happier, and i think i speak for most fans, when the more obscure stuff gets thrown in. You don't, though. As has been pointed out before, the vast majority of people who buy tickets to see Alice are not the kind of hard - core followers who visit this site, for example. Well, i probably ...

I would agree with JJ here that I'd rather see the good material in a back catalog mined rather than second rate new material taking up space. But a live performance of a greatest hits package is a bit disappointing. I'm much happier, and i think i speak for most fans, when the more obscure stuff ge...

JJF: Now it only matters if you care that it matters, so if you want to write the stuff because you feel you have a need to express it then you write it and record it. Dee has not written a song in 20 years he has no need to express it and so therefore we do not do it and we do not play enough for ...

Si wrote:Kinda like the end of 'Suffragette City' from 1972 "reminds" you of 'Under My Wheels' from 1971....

Hah, i just got Michael Bruce's live "Halo of Ice" and indeed he throws in a bit of "Suffragette City" at the end there.