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| From | "Andrea Kremer" <kremer@shore.net> |
| Date | Sun, 4 May 2003 14:21:40 -0400 |
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I would have picked "Bright Future in Sales" as the radio hit from the
new FoW album, but I realized this morning (as I was playing it in a
child-filled paint-your-own-pottery studio) that the choruses begin with
"I'm gonna get my shit together." Oops!
On Sun, 4 May 2003 11:02AM -0500, DanAbnrml9@aol.com wrote:
> I had a feeling that this one might be "it" for them, but now it seems
> it's
> well on the way--Mix 98.5, a hugely influential (and hugely irritating)
> crossover-style station in Boston has put the song into heavy rotation.
> This
> is the station that's widely credited with breaking the Barenaked
> Ladies in
> the United States about 5-6 years ago.
>
> It could be great for the band, though it's also a mixed blessing--BNL
> were
> broken as the station's "House Band", a designation so vile (and one
> that
> they _still_ use) that it's probably part of what caused the vicious
> backlash.
>
> Still, Bostonians should take a listen--at least someone realizes how
> great
> this band (and this album) are. --Jason
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