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Originally Posted by Gabriel Shoes
Very good arguments.
Just want to add on top of the set list part, well, it's their fault. They could have done exactly what you said and rotate Bed Of Roses, Always and This Ain't A Love Song but they ignored completely TAALS for many, many years. It had a good chart performance in the US market and was huge in Europe, Asia and SA. I'm using TAaLS as an example, but there are many singles that they just ignored and they could have done a better job with it.
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I admit that I'm simplifying, I can understand why they don't like to revisit some songs/albums, but I don't accept the "it sold poorly, nobody likes it, what a shame but it is what it is" excuse. Stand by your damn work! Fvck what you think other people will think. It's not as if they never overplay a song nobody cares about! It's not as if those albums sold 100 copies! It's not as if you didn't play for half a million people once and now pretend nobody had the chance to know the songs! (I'm referring to Bounce of course)...
Maybe I just can't wrap my head around it, how can you share a piece of your work that is admittedly the best you have to offer in that moment and then accept defeat so easily? As a fan they make it very hard for me to accept their bullshit when they are gushing about their latest album, and then the inevitable happens, if you have a low tolerance it comes a day when you say FU but no thanks. (or more politely, if you are a nicer person than me)
The TD songs have an added layer that makes me give them a pass though: they are difficult to sing, so if it's a matter of voice preservation I can understand ditching them where they didn't work. The rest of the albums... sorry but not
