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04-03-2024 05:22 PM |
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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
(Post 1289573)
Totally agreed.
After a certain point its tough to know what qualifies as a single past knowing a video was made for it but whether or not it was serviced to radio is a different question.
You can only do so much. Misunderstood while a big hit at the time in Canada, will people remember it 20 years later to the point where you cut a hit for it? I don't know. I genuinely which LH and Whole Lot weren't played as often. We got it...finally started getting played less but it at least played a purpose as far as crowd interaction but there's a bunch of 80's songs that could take that place.
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Yeah, I mean I'm not advocating that newer stuff needs to be played heavily replacing vintage 80's and 90's songs. From my perspective, you could drop most of post-2000 output in live setting (and with Jon actually singing them ala 2010-11 form). But, from Jon's perspective, I understand and even advocate his relevancy criteria by forcing newer stuff to his audience. But when you do it (and it is forcing basically), you should then force that stuff you forced to the radio behind your record company strength. Hardly anybody plays This House or Legendary on radio because they want, but because record company paid and/or demanded. But to abandon them immediately is a negative signal.
Like, take Make a Memory, alright it wasn't a global hit that Desmond thought it would be, but it is a solid song and more importantly, lead single from a successful album. Stay behind it for a few tours and this staying behind it becomes a main argument that you are a relevant band still, because hundreds of thousands of people know it, likes it, considers it a staple. If you don't, you just play to the notion of nostalgia. If so, just play 80's stuff and don't bother. I guess what I'm saying is it would be most rational to stay behind these singles, instead of acting kind of insulted that they're not global hits.
And I completely agree about Misunderstood example, but now it's too late evidently. However, if you played it every tour since Bounce, it would give it endogenous life regardless of the charts. These songs that general public heard few or several times at least on radio, would connect and resonate more in live setting versus okay here's deep album cut Jon really likes so I can go to bathroom or for beer cause its a new song nobody heard before (except diehards that bought the album)
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