SIP Could Have Sold Much Better As Is
job:
The 4 singles chosen were Hot Fun, Forever, Summer of Love, and Boardwalk. They couldn't have done a worse job choosing the singles. If only the boys/record company had chosen ANY ONE OR TWO of any of the other 8 tracks as singles and promos to radio stations (radio was still huge in '92) the record would have had solid sales and radio airplay (especially the bolded):
"Surfin'"
"Island Fever"
"Still Surfin'"
"Slow Summer Dancin' (One Summer Night)"
"Strange Things Happen"
"Remember (Walking in the Sand)"
"Lahaina Aloha"
"Summer in Paradise"
ESPECIALLY when you consider the general smarm that made up the Billboard Hot 100 for 1992: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1992
Micha:
Quote from: The Legendary J-O-B on December 18, 2014, 07:47:28 AM
The 4 singles chosen were Hot Fun, Forever, Summer of Love, and Boardwalk. They couldn't have done a worse job choosing the singles.
You have a point there, but "Surfin'" or "Slow Summer Dancin" would have been a worse choice than "Forever". "Forever" is a good song, and it seems Stamos has a big fanbase in the US.
"Lahaina Aloha" would have been a good single and the European version of "Summer In Paradise" (the song) too.
The sequencing is terrible too. It starts with the four worst songs of the album! And some of the worst recordings in the Beach Boys catalog too!
ontor pertawst:
You know how Republicans and Libertarians always go on about the free market finding it's way and blah blah blah letting the market decide, as if it's some sentient force that inherently seeks out products of good value and dismisses shoddy tho well-marketed tripe?
Yeah, that. I'm gonna go full Mitt Romney on this and say all 100 of those singles are better than SIP. The market decided! Lo!
So get out your seats and jump around...
Jump around! Jump around! Jump around!
Jump up, jump up and get down....
Steve Latshaw:
I have to strongly disagree; I was a DJ in Adult Contemporary radio in the summer of 1992. We gave Hot Fun in the Summertime considerable airplay and it peaked at 17 on the ACR Billboard chart. It was, by far, the most commercial track on SIP and a damned fine choice as a single. Island Fever and Lahaina Aloha were great songs, but in the vein of Still Cruisin' also a great track but, sadly, a failure on the charts (peaking at 93 on the Hot 100). Still Surfin' might have been a hit in 1976. Slow Summer Dancin' wouldn't have had a chance. As for Summer in Paradise, good song but they never quite got the arrangement right on that one until the 1993 live version and by then it was too late.
HeyJude:
The album may not have died a quiet death back in 1992 for all the right reasons, but production-wise/sonically, the album is a trainwreck. The album is so programmed and electronic and sterile-sounding, it makes the 1985 album sound like a warm, fuzzy, analog production by comparison.
The electronic drums are the worst, and everything sounds harsh and shrill. Not sure how much that had to do with recording the album with the early beta version of ProTools and whatnot.
I think 1992 just wasn't a time where the BB's would have had the industry cred and whatnot to pull off a massive hit album. Even if it had been an album full of Brian originals, it probably wouldn't have burned up the charts. The fact that the album had no Brian participation whatsoever and was a pretty weak album overall obviously didn't help either.
There are some good *compositions* and vocal performances on the album, including "Lahaina Aloha" and "Strange Things Happen." But they wouldn't have been hits either had they been pushed.
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