.Nick Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 Blink IMO should play older songs, not necessarily the hits though, because those songs are better. It makes sense to me. When I went to see green day, as good of a show as It was, they played too many new songs for my liking- although they did play many older songs too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsov Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 People love it: http://instagram.com/p/WHBJ8cvXOn/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thongrider Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 To drop the biggest hits seems stupid, they should drop songs like down and always imo and maybe even Josie(changed for another Dude ranch/Uranus era song obviously) I don't think those songs are huge enough hits to be needed in the set and seems to only be there for huge fans, of which would most likely want other songs like Herer's your letter, Neighborhood tracks or Apple Shampoo etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thibaut182 Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 I thought that it would be nice to share this here because it's rare, and i don't know if a lot of people saw this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majestic McMoose Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 do you not feel that theres at least 1 track from neighborhoods that could've been a fairly big hit for them if it was all promoted properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManchesterAdam Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 do you not feel that theres at least 1 track from neighborhoods that could've been a fairly big hit for them if it was all promoted properly? Definitely. I personally think Even If She Falls but could have been a handful that could have gone big- Natives, This Is Home, Wishing Well to name a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 If they were all 10 years younger then proper promotion could probably have turned one of those songs into a semi-hit. Most likely This is Home...but it seems like they are just too old now for mainstream success. I'm sure their label would have promoted them if they felt like there was any potential.Just look at bands like Aerosmith. Despite being the best selling American rock band ever, their latest single which was hand crafted for radio play got minimal attention.Pop radio wants 20-35 year olds. It seems pretty tough to break into it after that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojangles Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 I don't think blink's really interested into getting as big as they were in 99. I think they just wanna make music and if gets successful it will but they aren't trying to go for that anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkarrow Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 yeah, i don't think they are going for that either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom18222 Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 If they were all 10 years younger then proper promotion could probably have turned one of those songs into a semi-hit. Most likely This is Home...but it seems like they are just too old now for mainstream success. I'm sure their label would have promoted them if they felt like there was any potential.Just look at bands like Aerosmith. Despite being the best selling American rock band ever, their latest single which was hand crafted for radio play got minimal attention.Pop radio wants 20-35 year olds. It seems pretty tough to break into it after that. foo fighters just keep getting bigger and bigger every album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Nick Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 <blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="t o m" data-cid="1043091" data-time="1361789866"><p>foo fighters just keep getting bigger and bigger every album</p></blockquote>Bands can obviously still do it, it's just much harder. Green day had hits with AI- and that's about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoltan Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 there's no easy transition from being a "joke band" to being rock icons. if blink tried this, they did it well: they released self-titled and let it be their last album for a relatively long time, then they came back from hiatus, made another serious album, and no one thinks they are/will be kids band anymore. if they write a great album next time, they will have the attention of the desired target audience, so they can be a bigger band than ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkarrow Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 I don't really see how foo fighters keep getting bigger. I never hear anything about them from anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackedSkye Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Wasn't he like the ultimate sellout in the 60's`? When I saw him he played bunch of new stuff, too much even maybe.do your research. In the 60's everyone wanted him to play his earlier, acoustic folk songs. Robert wanted to go a different route. As he was scheduled to play the biggest folk festival in the world (newport) he closed his set with loud, distorted, electric rock and roll. The birth of american rock and roll that night.To call Zimmerman the ultimate sellout is non-sensical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thongrider Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 I don't really see how foo fighters keep getting bigger. I never hear anything about them from anywhere. They've always been huge, I can see how they got really huge mid 2000's though, but they don't get bigger and bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thongrider Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 do your research. In the 60's everyone wanted him to play his earlier, acoustic folk songs. Robert wanted to go a different route. As he was scheduled to play the biggest folk festival in the world (newport) he closed his set with loud, distorted, electric rock and roll. The birth of american rock and roll that night.To call Zimmerman the ultimate sellout is non-sensical. I don't care much about sellouts, I don't care if someone sells out as long as it's good. I prefer the earlier Dylan stuff, but I think Blonde on blonde is a great album. I'm just saying that he sold out the scene and played electric to sell it to a larger audience, that's what sellouts do, they sell out their old fans and try to get new ones. Kind of like Blink did with enema just more extreme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackedSkye Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 I don't care much about sellouts, I don't care if someone sells out as long as it's good. I prefer the earlier Dylan stuff, but I think Blonde on blonde is a great album. I'm just saying that he sold out the scene and played electric to sell it to a larger audience, that's what sellouts do, they sell out their old fans and try to get new ones. Kind of like Blink did with enema just more extreme.in 1966...singer songwriters and british rock where the popular choices....Dylan had established his fan base as an acoustic act (one of the biggest in america) then proceeded to create his own genre..no one had that sound back then.and your definition of sell out is wrong...Dylan never compromised his music for anything. The bastardized term of selling out implies a change of integrity. Blink never lost integrity either when they made enema of the state...its a natural evolution of dude ranch imo. It was polished and slick, but that doesnt mean they "sold out" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 tom pretty much confirmed that we will never see the blinkumentary https://soundcloud.com/triple_j/backstage-at-soundwave-with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy030 Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Not surprising, it probably sucked anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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