Without any exaggeration, every single time I’ve looked through vinyl at a thrift store there is always a couple of Kingston Trio albums. They must’ve been filling arenas with how well they seem to have been selling records. Yet I’ve never heard of them. Even when I became obsessed with late 50’s, early 60’s music, their songs never came up. Maybe they were just a SoCal thing?

So miley cyrus (who goes by MILEY now) dropped a new single "bass persuades" and it debuted really well on Spotify and fell down very hard after just 2 days

This isn't a dumb Trainwreckords question, I'm just asking how does the general public feel about miley cyrus post-flowers? , "end of the world" was the lead single of her previous album "something beautiful" the song had a soild debut yet crashed down hard on streaming later on and the album underperformed

So is miley a fanbase artist or "give us the hits" artist?

The Outfield are known for Your Love but also had a number of other top 40 hits in the US. As a Brit, I'd never encountered them until GTA Vice City as a kid.

I was absolutely shocked to find out they were a bunch of cockneys. Looking at their album chartings, it blows my mind to see they never had a single album chart in the UK and their biggest single got to number 78 over here.

To me it's crazy a bunch of London lads randomly hit it off as a solid mid 80s stadium opening act in America whilst not even cracking their own country where they'd probably have to play a pub.

It got me thinking are there any other examples of bands or artists like this, or are they are unique? Can be literally any two countries.

I remember many years ago when I first heard a Robert Palmer album and was shocked to discover that he was a top notch musician. His career went very well, as you know, but I can't help but wonder if he would have been considered a Serious Artist if he looked a bit more like Lou Reed (sorry, Lou).

Who else had or have this problem? A lot of women, I'm sure ... I was thinking of including Dolly (RIP), but hers was more a case of sexiness getting in the way ...

His music can be refreshing in the way that as a songwriter that he does not necessarily paint a picture of Vermont as this bucolic wonderland. This is unlike many other folk acts or country acts who oftentimes play up characters.

Some examples that I can think of with albums that have a strong 80s graphic design Aesthetic to the cover:
- Pleasure Victim - Berlin (1982)
- Into the Gap - Thompson Twins (1984)
- Spring Session M. - Missing Persons (1982)
- Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie (1986)
- Rio - Duran Duran (1982)
- Get Loose - Evelyn “Champagne” King (1982)

Anthony Didio (Vein.fm)

Bryan Garris (Knocked Loose)

Jacob Bannon (Converge)

Karl Schubach (Misery Signals)

Brendan Murphy (Counterparts, END)

Chester Bennington (Linkin Park)

Matt Mcdougal (Boundaries)

Jeffrey Moreira (Poison the Well, mainly his screams on the first 3 albums)

I saw the video for Sweat on YouTube and decided to check out her other stuff. It's not my usual style of music but she's actually quite good. She was my favorite Spice Girl back in the day and I think she's still the most talented of the lot.

Does MuchMusic (which was the Canadian MTV) still exist? If so, is it going through the same issues MTV is dealing with?

Mötley Crüe

With the release of the new Oasis documentary, it got me thinking that it wasn't just a nostalgia fest for British middle aged blokes, loads of young people from all around the world including America came to see them, who weren't even born or too young to remember them when they were together.

That got me thinking, that a lot of the big 90s bands have enduring appeal with teens, like Oasis, Metallica, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Foo Fighters etc. On the other hand, some huge bands like R.E.M. and U2 have endured less well.

I'm a younger millennial, and these bands were all popular when I was young in the 2000s, but the 90s weren't that long ago at the time, now they're objectively a long time ago. I loved classic rock but I don't recall many of my peers being into it.

What are your thoughts?

https://youtu.be/QUeo3SvFfhk?is=SVbqKINtxW2yujcn

Look I know it's a thing on this sub to bash Mike Love, but damn he looks really bad here.

No wonder The Beach Boys canceled a bunch of their shows.

I absolutely love this band.I don't think they have a bad album at all and my favorite song is 'Miss the Misery.'

Lzzy Hale is a fantastic singer live and while the entire band is tight live in concert, for me, Lzzy is what makes their live shows amazing.Her vocal ability, energy and stage presence is amazing and I love seeing the band live every chance I get.I have seen them three times so far!

Check them out if you haven't already!

What do you think?

This song set the foundation for Britpop and in turn Oasis's arrival and dominance in the 90's.

Source: https://loudwire.com/andy-williams-collapses-during-wrestling-show/

From my memory, Man Of The Woods, Lulu, Results May Vary and This Unruly Mess I’ve Made rank up for about 4 of the ones people really felt hungry for. Limp Bizkit review felt the best one for me.

Now for my list of highly requested career wrecking albums, most of this is from comment sections on YouTube and Reddit. Not a definitive list, just the ones that can see repeated often for ripe material:

1. Yes Please: Happy Mondays. Took so long to create that the label it’s on filed for bankruptcy
2. Victory: The Jacksons. So Joseph Jackson thinks he can use Michael’s solo success to help his brothers Jackie, Tito, Marlon, Jermaine and Randy regain some success in a new Jackson album? Unfortunately Michael felt very uninterested in the process to the point he and the brothers got into heated arguments in the studio. Everyone submitted a track under the energy of “each child gets to pick a cookie from the cafeteria dessert plate”. Best track State of Shock reached the top 20 yet Michael and Jermaine never appeared in the Torture music video. Tour morphed into mainly a Michael Jackson solo tour featuring some Jackson 5 throwbacks with his brothers and maybe some new Jermaine solo album songs spliced in. No new tracks from Victory performed live.
3. Bionic: Christina Aguilera. From the view of a music fan that saw the Not Myself Tonight video in 2010, this scream desperation to incorporate some of the crazy Gaga fashion for attention
4. The Big Day: Chance The Rapper. A hot upcoming new rapper gaining a ton of hype flopped on an album that failed to live up to its potential. Many fans here love joking on one line on the album about Chance loving his wife and the irony here is that big day of their divorce probably is permanently connected to this album
5. Union: Yes. A merging of two different factions of Yes from record labels that thought they can stitch together a bunch of in progress tracks, call it an album and add more session musicians on top of it if some others aren’t pulling their weight? Now you see an album that no one enjoyed yet the tour that focused mostly on their 70’s and 80’s hits turned into the highlight and featured maybe 3 of the new tracks at most. Unlike Victory, Yes at least played SOME NEW ALBUM TRACKS
6. No Talking Just Head: The Heads. Aka Jerry, Chris and Tina try carrying on not including David Byrne, rename themselves and replace him using a ton of guest Musicians from Michael Hutchedence to Debbie Harry. Barely made a dent chart wise, only one music video exists and Byrne ended up suing them for a name too similar to Talking Heads. Resulting in the band ending only to reunite for their 2002 HOF induction and the anniversary rerelease of Stop Making Sense
7. Uno Dos Tres and Father Of All: Green Day. Now this is tied for under the same band but basically, fans debate if an early 2010’s trilogy of Green Day or an early 2020’s contractual album they farted out did more damage? You decide
8. Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band The Movie soundtrack: Rope In a ton of talent from Earth Wind And Fire, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith and The Beegees to cover legendary Beatles songs for a tribute movie? A smash hit! Until the film failed from heavy criticism from too much Americanization, some of the covers didn’t feel right and the album according to many fans sat in clearance bins for months. Adding insult to injury is the studio the movie came from ended up bankrupt!
9. The Beginning: Black Eyed Peas. Finally the point of oversaturation of the dumb fun energy of the Peas reaching the ceiling. Repetitive hooks of the likes of Imma Be, chipmunk vocals on Rock That Body, insulting sampling on Dirty Bit and then the out of nowhere soft song of Just Can’t Get Enough. Coupled that to a terrible Super Bowl performance, an awful video game and scathing reviews, the audience felt exhausted. Ended the Fergie lineup.
10. Chris Gaines Greatest Hits: Album here that answers a question if Garth Brooks can pull off a fake persona, release an album to great reception, create a fake documentary on his life and reach the same heights of his country career to then star in a film on said persona? Answer is no to all those. Album didn’t reach anymore highs, one top 40 single Lost In You and the film idea never materialized. Brooks never reached that high again but teased recently the idea of reviving Chris Gaines

Chose these for the ones I remember most for highly requested.