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Quote from: Jonathan Blum on September 07, 2008, 06:16:06 PM
Quote from: Andrew G. Doe on September 07, 2008, 11:03:32 AM
Not good. Not good at all.
...The bit I'm not getting out of all this is why -- aside from AGD's general cheery positivity about Brian's recent efforts -- this counts in any way as a bad result.
Unless both the surfermoon site and I have missed something... aside from the highly exceptional perfect storm that was "Smile",
this is the first regular album Brian's done in more than thirty years to make the UK top 40.
Woohoo!
Yes, Brian's been more acclaimed in the UK than the US in that time, but this hasn't translated into impressive chart performance there either. And for a 66-year-old man to score that high is pretty damn impressive. Sure, we would have liked a bigger post-Smile bounce -- but for an album without decades of mythmaking behind it, it's still a substantial step up!
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I am not sure having reviews in Mojoa nd Uncut are good, but not a place someone who didn't know Brian's work would look anyway. I am over in Tokyo and found it easily enough at Tower Records. However it was nowhere near the many displays of new releases...just placed amongst the other BW CDS.
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September 07, 2008, 08:47:33 PM »
This is the very first post on my new laptop. I wanted to rave and celebrate TLOS. I'm disappointed with the concert sales and chart position.
However, I have to say, I've been listening to TLOS all weekend and I'm in love with this music and it is the most emotionally satisfying piece of new music I've experienced in a couple of years. This album stands on its own despite chart success or sales. Anyone who ever seriously loved the Beach Boys and appreciates the lore of the California dream, who appreciates an inspired piece of art, and eventually discovers this, is going to love it.
Sometimes something really great is not appreciated in its time. Remember Pet Sounds?
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Quote from: Jonathan Blum on September 07, 2008, 06:16:06 PM
Unless both the surfermoon site and I have missed something... aside from the highly exceptional perfect storm that was "Smile",
this is the first regular album Brian's done in more than thirty years to make the UK top 40.
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charted at #30 in the UK in 1998. I was just expecting more because it's good product. Top 20 was my expectation. Oddly, it seems the US chart placing may be, for once, better.
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Re: TLOS debuts at #37 in the UK.
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September 08, 2008, 12:29:16 AM »
TLOS is the featured album of the week for the second week running in Borders UK. I'm pretty sure this has to be paid for by the record company.
I don't think sales at Borders (where i bought mine) count toward the UK chart.
(btw i am not suggesting that 10,000 people bought their copy at Borders, thus denying TLOS a higher chart entry.)
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September 08, 2008, 01:58:12 AM »
The reviews do count for quite a lot in the UK market, when you move past die-hard fans. And whatever your views on individual reviews and reviewers, the overall impression was that, whereas Smile had been something of a peak or plateau, we were now beginning the slow descent ...
For me the most significant feature of the infamous Guardian review was not the single star or the 'please let this be the end' comment, but the fact that Alexis Petridis, who'd been a huge supporter of BW over the last few years and gave Smile a stonking review, copped out of writing this one.
Prevailing economic conditions might have something to do with it, though I suppose chart positions are relative sales only.
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Yes I think the review says a lot more about the Guardian's arts coverage these days than the album, increasingly depending on cheap youngsters to write up quick content, thinly spread between the weekday edition and the Observer on a Sunday. The book reviews can still be OK though. If Brian and a sympathetic artist ever decided to do a children's picture book (or even a "Für Kinder" album) then it would get a more serious review.
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September 08, 2008, 02:27:59 AM »
The current UK album list is dated September 8 and it must've been based on sales figures from a few days earlier. TLOS was officially released on September 2, so when the list was made it had been available for just a few days, not even a full week... Could that have something to do with the low ranking?
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September 08, 2008, 03:31:35 AM »
TLOS was released on Monday morning. It had a full week, from opening of business on Monday to close on Sunday. That is the way things are done in the UK....none of this strange releasing records mid-week.
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Better marketing would definitely have helped the sales - with the success of Dennis's release, Capitol should have promoted TLOS as by "Dennis Wilson's talented older brother" and the album as a "natural successor to Pacific Ocean Blue - another celebration of California and the California lifestyle that Dennis Wilson embodied."
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Quote from: Wild_Honey-In_Stereo on September 07, 2008, 02:49:35 PM
I am sorry, did not mean to snap at Brother John at all.
But I just feel that it placed less than satisfyingly, due to the lack of promotion, not lack of interest.
Let's think about it, apart from a review here and there, which were mixed in the UK, (I guess they didn't get it, which is not surprising cause it is a 'lover letter to L.A') the album got basically no promotion at all, and in the US where Brian usually fares worse it's doing amazing in the iTunes and amazon charts due to some heavy promotion, music fans are liking what they hear. In my view putting in down to Brian not being a musical draw is slightly ridiculous.
Seeing it's postion next week will be interesting.
And again sorry Brother John.
Hey Mr Honey, no offence taken - as Luther points out, why would a grizzled 66 (?) year old man be storming the charts ahead of all the bright young things? The market is very much driven by product aimed at 12 to 25 year olds, and they're not the ideal market for a 'mature' product. If I was young and sexy I don't think I would be thinking about buying a record by some old guy who had some hits back in the Sixties. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Brian score a hit, and I think 37 is pretty damn respectable, but the radio stations play whatever they think makes them look good, and if you compare TLOS with some hip product that has a driving beat and a video of half naked boys and girls shouting about sex and money then it doesn't stand much of a chance.
However, lets wait and see!!
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Re: TLOS debuts at #37 in the UK.
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Exactly when is the billboard chart updated for the US?
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September 08, 2008, 12:21:00 PM »
Another week, I believe. Billboard lags album debuts by two weeks.
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September 08, 2008, 01:24:10 PM »
I do hope that Capital Records doesnt make any "accounting errors" when racking hte sales from this album.
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Re: TLOS debuts at #37 in the UK.
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While on the subject of PS, this from the Surfer Moon site.
PET SOUNDS
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Producer: Brian Wilson
Released May 16, 1966
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Charted: 5/28/66
Highest chart position: 10
PS charted 12 days. Numbers crunched a lot faster today but TLOS in less than a week. Not bad IMO.
Now will people still refer to the album in 40 years?
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September 08, 2008, 02:29:34 PM »
Hits Daily Double. Don't know if many of you have checked this out before, but it compiles sales on Monday and Tuesday of each week from record chains, and then releases a chart on Wednesday. Right now, it shows Lucky Old Sun to be at #32 in the US, although this changes every 5 minutes as updates arrive.
FWIW, their week-ending charts on Wednesday typically mimic Billboards fairly accurately.
Here is the link:
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi
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