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Post by raliverpool on Nov 1, 2011 20:36:54 GMT 1
was thinking that one of the worst lead singles in recent times has to be Get On Your Boots from the latest U2... totally wrong and they paid the price... Magnificent should have been single #1 Now that's a great one. The album was still very poor but that track was epic. 1990 Duran Duran album "Liberty". As lead single they released this turd of a lead single "Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)" that made UK#20/USA#64: But they should have released the late period Roxy Music/The Police like follow up first "Serious" UK#48/USA#53 (yes the video features Tess Daly): Which I reckon would have been a far bigger hit had they released it as lead single so they could release the lovely icy ballad "My Antarctica" as the next single in time for winter of 1990. |
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 1, 2011 23:55:04 GMT 1
U2's first release from almost all of their albums since Rattle & Hum has been one of the weakest tracks, perhaps because they usually reach #1 anyway.
Desire wasn't that great. The Fly was possibly the worst track on Achtung Baby? Certainly the worst single from it. And Discotheque?
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Post by borneoman on Nov 2, 2011 9:42:05 GMT 1
^That. One recent wrong 1st single is the Arctics Don't Sit Down cos I've Moved Your Chair... very poor single imho, the Hellcat Spangled Shalalala song would have been a better lead single  |
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 2, 2011 11:03:25 GMT 1
U2's first release from almost all of their albums since Rattle & Hum has been one of the weakest tracks, perhaps because they usually reach #1 anyway. Desire wasn't that great. The Fly was possibly the worst track on Achtung Baby? Certainly the worst single from it. And Discotheque? disagree on both those 'the Fly' was awesome but then so was 'Mysterious Ways and 'Even Better Than The real Thing' but the ywouldnt have made good first singles and 'Desire' is my 2nd favourite track on Rattle & Hum. Discotheque wasnt brilkliant but what would have been better? |
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Post by borneoman on Nov 2, 2011 12:32:12 GMT 1
^Staring at the Sun as lead single of course  |
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 2, 2011 13:29:44 GMT 1
Yeah, I actually like 'The Fly' (Number One 20 years ago this week) and even though it flopped in America their career seems to have survived. I think it might actually have been more effective as a comeback than something more obviously commercial.
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 2, 2011 13:53:49 GMT 1
^Staring at the Sun as lead single of course hmm maybe but I think U2 like statement records that define what their album will be like and even if 'Get On Your boots' was a bit rubbish it was a statement and thats what 'Discotheque' was as well. Imagine if U2 had released 'One' as the first single of 'Achtung baby' it would have given a huge false impression. |
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Post by Earl Purple on Nov 5, 2011 23:55:20 GMT 1
Perhaps you can't argue with the policy of releasing a weaker song first if the album remains in the chart when they start releasing the better ones.
"Something Got Me Started" as the first single off Stars by Simply Red?
And don't forget the first single release from Thriller was "The Girl Is Mine".
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Post by vya on Dec 17, 2011 22:46:29 GMT 1
I see the first case of this that springs to my mind has already been mentioned by several of you - but, in any case, I agree about "Hey Mister Heartache" - which was deeply mediocre: and an inexplicable choice for lead single, given the *extremely* high quality of all FOUR of the singles that followed it (You Came, Never Trust A Stranger, Four Letter Word, Love In The Natural Way) from the same album....
I suppose ABC's "That Was Then But This Is Now" maybe exemplifies this too. Sure, they were changing styles compared with what there'd done before....but there are stronger and more coherent songs on "Beauty Stab" that might have alienated fewer people. Yes, it was released at the wrong time of year too, in the run-up to Christmas, and I suppose the choice of "SOS" as a follow-up kind of acknowledged this. I think "Unzip" would have made a cracking single (catchy, funky and short, too), though I wonder if some of the lyrics would have got past BBC censors then....
Much more recently, Beyonce's "Run The World (Girls)" rather than "Best Thing I Never Had" too.
Or Pink and the rather mediocre "Stupid Girls" ahead of the classic "Who Knew?"
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