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#18041 Re: Guns N' Roses » Libertad Fails - Will nuGNR follow? » 923 weeks ago
on a side note....i wonder if they will redefine the levels of album certification
Thats something that seriously needs to be taken into consideration. Things are so bad, I think Gold status should change from 500,000 copies to 50,000. M.I.A. had huge media interest and a successful tour and Kala just dropped off the Billboard 200 with around 80,000 sold. I think in this era it is definitely worthy of gold status. Had the album been released in the 90's it would have went platinum.
Brokenglass, thats a big assumption that MTV will push this album. It might, but no way in hell will GNR get a ton of rotation on MTV. At the most they will get some promo on their website and maybe an award nomination at the VMA's. As far as Loder goes, he no longer cares.
I've been saying this for years, but I think Axl and the GNR camp should try and get a huge push on Fuse. I think that would translate into more album sales because the people watching MTV are not going to drive to a record store and buy Chinese Democracy. They wont even buy the albums from the artists MTV shoves down their throats and they claim to love, but you think they're gonna buy an album made by a guy approaching 50? Not likely.
#18042 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » VR - Why the Sophomore Slump? » 923 weeks ago
There's going to be a LOT of "wheezing balloons" this decade. The music era we live in is unprecedented. There's a ton of bands in different genres all fighting for the small pie known as people who buy music. Without album sales able to gauge the interest in artists, and the huge tours becoming extinct, everything is upside down. You have huge bands like VR having low sales and little media interest, and artists like MIA getting tons of media attention yet very little record sales. Top sellers are Disney fads and other flavor of the month shit selling a max of 2 or 3 million copies. In 2007 and beyond, you can enter the Billboard top 20 by selling 10,000 copies. Thats insane. At that rate, no band can ever become dominant because they are always being pushed down the totem pole by the next artist to sell ten thousand albums. Its bizarre.
The days of Joe Public walking into a record store and buying several cds are long gone. You are lucky if you can even pay Joe Public to go within a mile of a record store, and if he does, he'll buy one album and its likely something he liked in his youth.
Also, the days of people sitting around talking about the hot new band are over as well. There's too many bands out there for a specific band/artist to gain a real buzz.
The industry is in chaos.
#18043 Re: Guns N' Roses » Libertad Fails - Will nuGNR follow? » 923 weeks ago
CD will likely follow the same course as VR did, although Cd sales might be a little bit better. The album isn't going to set the world on fire. The era we live in will prevent that, even if its a masterpiece. If Axl was looking for huge record sales, he should have followed through back in the 01-02 time period. In 2008 he will be lucky if the album reaches gold status. The media is going to decide how this album does. If the media doesn't push the album, it will be lucky to sell 100,000 copies.
They have to hit a grand slam with the opening single.
Russ, alot of people use the term 'nu' or 'new' when talking about the current lineup. Its a way to differentiate between the two. Even Axl referred to them as that on the Trunk show.
#18044 Re: The Garden » The NFL Yahoo Pick Em League Thread » 923 weeks ago
Latest standings....
1 Redarmy76 538
2 Tommie 503
3 NY Giants82 474
4 PASnow 473
5 CommunistChina 472
6 Jameslofton29 464
7 KINGOFFSPRING 440
8 Slashahaulic 434
9 alexh0618 421
10 Neemo 408
11 BigBri 370
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Amazing that only 10 points separates 6th place from 3rd place. This game is getting much closer. Some dropped down dramatically, while others moved up.
#18045 Re: The Garden » House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski *Book Review/SPOILERS* » 923 weeks ago
Sounds interesting. I'll have to see if this book is on the paperback bookclub site I am a member of.
Yeah, I remember Poe. I didn't even know she had a new album.
#18046 Re: The Sunset Strip » Lindsey Lohan broke » 923 weeks ago
Funny though, I predicted her decline many months ago. You cant spend money like it grows on trees when your actual career is in jeopardy. Her music career tanked, and Hollywood producers were already saying they were gonna start phasing her out of big roles. Her films never made money at the box office, so her per film fee is going to drop astronomically.
What does she do? Become a tabloid star and spend all her money like she's gonna have million dollar bricks of gold being fed exed to her house on a weekly basis.
Ridiculous. She could've been set for life.
Kinda similar to what Whitney Houston went through. She became a crack head in the late 90's, and while spending all her money, she forgot she didn't write 99.9% of her songs, and had only done minimal touring in her entire career. She had a ton of money being smoked up but no money coming in. Its why she is desperate for her next album to be her comeback. Its literally her last chance at getting rich again.
#18047 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 923 weeks ago
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A future Super Bowl champion may someday be crowned overseas in a game witnessed predominantly by a foreign audience, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said.
"There's a great deal of interest in holding a Super Bowl in London," Goodell told reporters Monday. "So we'll be looking at that."
The commissioner said London's new Wembley Stadium would make a great candidate for pro football's biggest matchup, given the enthusiasm overseas for the game.
The NFL has been expanding its overseas presence for years by televising games around the world. It's held preseason games in numerous countries in Europe, Asia, Mexico and Canada, and in 2005, the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers played the first regular-season match outside the United States.
The game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City drew the league's largest crowd to date, 103,467.
On Oct. 28, Wembley will host the first regular-season NFL game outside North America. It took just 90 minutes to sell the first 40,000 tickets for the game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants. Goodell said event organizers have sold 95,000 tickets in all.
Goodell spoke about the possibility of a British Super Bowl after a luncheon Monday in Scottsdale sponsored by the host committee for the 2008 Super Bowl in Arizona.
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This is the dumbest idea the NFL has had in years. While people all over the world do watch the SB, it is primarily an american sport, and the complete failure of NFL Europe is proof of that. You cant play the whole season here and then take the big game overseas.
They better just stick to preseason games overseas, and if they want to broaden their horizons, have the next expansion team be overseas. If they did do that, Europe wouldn't be a viable option. Mexico or Japan would be more suited for an NFL team.
#18048 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 923 weeks ago
Also, that team would collapse without him. If Brady shatters his collarbone next week and is out for the year, all their SB aspirations are tossed out the window. Could they still make the playoffs and maybe spoil another team's playoff run in the 1st round? Maybe. Would they go to the SB? Not a chance.
#18049 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 923 weeks ago
Take into account Young only won one SB with a team he should have won several with, and the 49ers actually missed the playoffs the season after Montana's horrible elbow injury. If the team was that good without his presence, they should have won the SB that year as it was before Dallas started dominating the league.
Had Montana been with the team, the 49ers probably would have won that 93 NFC title game, and possibly the rematch a year later.
If Bruce Smith hadn't knocked Montana out cold in the AFC title game against the Bills in 94, we would have seen a Chiefs-Cowboys SB. The guy was one game away from taking an average team to the SB.
As far as Brady's early career, only WR I remember is Deon Branch. In Montana's early career he didn't have many weapons either. Dwight Clark being the exception of course.
#18050 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 923 weeks ago
I played the new Madden at someone's house. Haven't bought it yet as I don't play videogames enough to warrant paying those hefty prices. I agree that its not as good as it could've been, and the only real reason to get it would be having up to date rosters.
Its better than 06 though. 06 was way too easy, and things such as instant replay and quite a few coaches were missing.
EA has a monopoly on NFL games. No one can compete with them, so they have no drive to actually create kick ass games. Sega was starting to kill Madden before EA got exclusive rights.
