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Come On
Gaslight Anthem sounds innocent as a church choir, no fire at all...
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alimente
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Come On
Gaslight Anthem sounds innocent as a church choir, no fire at all...
...which leaves the question: WHO NEEDS STONES COVERS LIKE THIS? It's just pointless.


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superrevvy
a slightly different answer to your question is that there are no more rock
bands. except the foo fighters, for what they're worth. yeah i know the black
keys are hanging in there for the moment, vibing off the stones to some extent,
but they certainly seem like mere flashes in the pan. maroon 5's only real
success has been with the saccharine "moves like jagger" and they're gonna have
to stick with pop if they wanna keep selling. coldplay has converted from rock
to pop in order to survive. even u2 can't sell records anymore, and all their
biggest-ever tour proved is that there is very little (net) money left in
touring for even the biggest acts, because of how expensive it has gotten
to put on such a big show.
think about this: mick jagger probably cleared about $30 million for humping his
ass around the world for two years on A Bigger Bang. "the dream", a co-writer
of Umbrella by rihanna, reportedly earned $15 million. For CO writing ONE song.
a song like Umbrella or adele's Someone Like You now gets played on lotza radio
stations in virtually every country on earth, and the royalties just flood in...
y'all know about the revolution that happened when big acts stopped making
money sellin records and started cashing in on tours, becasue the stones were
one of the chief beneficiaries.
y'all need to know about the current revolution, where tours are somewhat a
favor that big acts do for their fans, like releasing albums. tours, like
albums, are becoming loss leaders. artifacts.
the only big source of music money these days is hits singles and hits radio,
and its humongous. The lesson, as always: Follow the money.