selling out?

damn I don't know anythig about either one of those, are they japanese?
lots of US celebs do Japan commercials that we never see over here
Dave

The beer commercial is Japanese but the Mitsubishi one I think is German...

TLFR a sellout-now how do you work that one out?
I might have considered it a sell out if they remade the songs in the same tempo etc but they changed the arrangments tempo structre instrumentation on most of them hardly a commercial idea

I hate TLFR, but if anything, it's very Anti-"sell out".

Exactly, they went completely left field and made it just for the die hards. For what it's worth I quite enjoyed it. It has a very relaxing quality.

They sold the same songs twice which is why it's a sellout in my eyes. It was advertised as "greatest hits with a twist". I know they did different versions of them, but why desecrate a great bunch of songs when you can write a whole new album of orginal material? I'm far from overwhelmed with the new stuff but I am thankful that the band is still making new music. That's why the band is not sellout. Sellout is a bad term anyway.

Because it was only a year after their last studio album? Because the project originall started life as a live acoustic CD?

Exactly, so why not make a live acoustic CD? The bonus tracks of The Distance and Joey were live acoustic versions were the best songs on the album. Hell they were even better than the Bounce versions.

What does sell-out mean? I just can't seem to be able to describe it properly.
I for one believe it's to betray your roots or maybe your musical desire by going another road, a safer and probably more successful one.. That's commercial music.
Maybe being on lame TV shows and commercials could be to sell-out but I believe that's just a gig and the music is what matters when it comes to selling-outness (?)

Musically it's hard to say if being hard rock in the 80's and then a more serious rock in the 90's and to a more pop-rock from 00' means selling out.

If you ask me, I'll say, they sold out from Crush on. That notorious pop side to their music is not what I expected to come after something like These Days. But I wouldn't have thought about something like KTF after New Jersey, it's just too different..

Truthfully I believe I only say that they sold out from Crush out because IMO the music lost the rock edge, vocals, solos and a quality that was set by the highest bar BJ could ever set which is These Days. Maybe if the post 00' records were as good or better than the previous ones I wouldn't think that way.

My opinion is terribly influenced by my age, because I believe that many older people who lived the 80's era musically, could think that after New Jersey, they sold out. I wouldn't know..

I think it's all very subjective anyway