Soundscan
Posted July 20, 2006 — in Music News
Decemberunderground
AFI
TW 32,979
Total 461,794
**as mentioned in KOAR’s previous posts, this record has legs and the band has a solid vision. Producer Jerry Finn did a great job on the record, not over-produced. Kids don’t like slick generic records, they need something real. Check out Love Like Winter
One-X
Three Days Grace
TW 18,567
Total 179,338
**This record is the anti-thesis of AFI’s Decemberunderground. Cut and Paste! This is a display of pure laziness! This record is ridiculously over-produced and its ashame because Three Days Grace wrote decent songs that will avoid a sophomore slump. They could squeeze out a gold record.
Louder Now
Taking Back Sunday
TW 16,807
Total 411,805
**I guarantee you that its the last time Warner kicks up big bucks (millions) for a band that can barely skim a gold record. Warner got burned.
Liberation Transmission
Lost Prophets
TW 9,643
Total 50,642
**First single “Rooftops”
Chorus
Standing on the rooftops,
Everybody scream your heart out.
Standing on the rooftops,
Everybody scream your heart out.
Standing on the rooftops,
Everybody scream your heart out.
This is all we’ve got now.
This is one of the reasons rock seems to be extinct. We have rappers talking about guns and rockers singing about rooftops. Still blaming illegal downloading? C’mon guys, who’s fooling who! If I purchase “rooftops” for 99 cents do I get a free pair of windshield wipers? Another badly over-produced record that will fall between the cracks. Cut and Paste and put it on Myspace.
Appetite For Destruction
Guns N Roses
Total 18,000,000+
**First Single “Welcome to the Jungle”
Welcome to the jungle
We got fun ‘n’ games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
We got your disease
A dirty nasty gutter band from the streets of Los Angeles. Beautiful! Again, kids want something real. They don’t want to be standing on their rooftops screaming their heart out.
…these kids have NO f*ckin clue about anything……a party to them is suckin in a spray can and a red bull….jesus I could sell this crap if I was pumping a couple million bucks to radio for promo as wellll
PEOPLE ARE SICK OF BEING SOLD FOOLS GOLD!!!!!!
ROLLING STONE REPORTS KIDS ARE LISTENING AND BUYING MORE CLASSIC ROCK RECORDS THEN EVER….AND NOW YOU WANT TO COMPARE G&R TO TAKING BACK SUNDAY!!!!!AFI…HEY MAN ROBERT SMITH CALLED, HE WANTS HIS GIG BACK!!
Lets Talk about SEX!
DRUGS!
and ROCK AND ROLL…….
LETS GET UGLYYYYY
This is one rocker who wants to talk about how come black rappers can talk about p*ssy, crack, bitches and ho’s….but I cant talk about sex drugs and rock and roll…….
IT IS TIME…….ENOUGH
Comment by Tubes — July 21, 2006 @ 8:33 am
Real gutter rock w/ huge hooks:
ROCK N ROLL SOLDIERS
http://www.myspace.com/rocknrollsoldiers
Comment by Carlos — July 21, 2006 @ 9:08 am
The difference is GnR, and others like them, were signed because they could write great songs and had an amazing show. Today, artists get signed because they have amazing MySpace numbers. MySpace is a great place to look for bands if you’re trying to target the 14-18 yo female demo, but everyone else in the world wants to hear great bands.
Comment by Jeff — July 22, 2006 @ 4:36 am
thank you….thank you….thank you
well said
Comment by Tubes — July 22, 2006 @ 8:18 am
Except the 14-18 yo female demographic is buying more mainstream records than the 30-35 male demo…
Comment by mondo — July 23, 2006 @ 7:15 am
Have you guys heard the new Crossfade single? Its EXCELLENT! It can go Rock, Country, or Pop!
This album will debut w/ at least 100K, and could go platinum.
Comment by Sloute — July 23, 2006 @ 2:10 pm