Thread 127671930

Wish [Fiction/Elektra, 1992]
Maybe they're SoundScan scammers like Vince Gill and Skid Row, reaping unwarranted cred from a revamped accounting system. Or maybe they're cool alternatives like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, poised to prove the sales appeal of self-dramatizing pessimism. Maybe they're even riding the actual-hit "Friday I'm in Love," which actually sounds cheerful, though by Sunday it's over, actually. In any case, let it be noted that these new wave survivors, a specialized taste of undiscriminating undergraduates for years, have just now scored their biggest album ever, a redolent 13 years after they didn't actually kill that Arab. I ask you, where were the Moody Blues after 13 years? (Riding their second--and final--No. 1 album, since you didn't know.) C+

>>127671930 (OP)
"Oh fuck the critics. You can print that." - Eddie Van Halen

>>127671956
>releases Van Halen III

>>127671930 (OP)
>Maybe they're SoundScan scammers like Vince Gill and Skid Row, reaping unwarranted cred from a revamped accounting system
And ditto Mariah Carey, there's no way she could have gotten a #1 hit every year for a decade straight using pre-90s counting methods.

>>127671971
>"HOW MANY SAY AAAAIIIIEEE" still better than anything a critic released.

if you thought the Billboard system was bad in the 90s they never as yet imagined the bullshit that streaming would produce

>>127671930 (OP)
>I ask you, where were the Moody Blues after 13 years? (Riding their second--and final--No. 1 album, since you didn't know.)
Apparently cockgau didn't know either since Seventh Sojourn came out 8 years after the band formed