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| From | Sam Smith <SamSmith@colorado.edu> |
| Subject | Re: The Poppyfields |
| Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:16:06 -0700 |
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True, true, and true. But the story just made the Nightly News, and that
can't hurt sales.
m m wrote:
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>From: "Sam Smith" <SamSmith@colorado.edu>
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>>Okay, somehow I missed this completely until today, but it's priceless.
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>>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=19367
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>Sadly, I don't think the story is all that it seems. To reach the chart
>position they did, they sold 4000 records. There's a reasonably sized,
>loyal following for the Alarm and Mike Peters, who probably snapped up the
>lion's share of that total. I certainly hadn't heard it on radio or seen it
>on TV until it made it into the chart. It's not as if they were picked up
>by the radio stations and touted as the next Rancid. I'd love to think
>they'd playfully duped 4000 image-conscious kids, but it's more likely that
>just about everyone who bought it was in on the joke, as it were. And to be
>honest, the track's not up to the standard of some of his post-Alarm solo
>work.
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