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Post by michaelcasselman on Nov 16, 2013 0:44:59 GMT -5
I don't. They were done after 1 album. Their second album was remixed versions of their first. That's the best you can do for a follow up? I remember people being po'd all they did was lip sync their hits at their concerts as well. Granted we all know why now, but the charade wasn't going to last much longer I don't think. If they had never been exposed they'd still just be remembered as a duo with one "good" album and faded into obscurity. I totally understand that line of thinking. I just think how much Snap! should have gone away after one album. Or Technotronic. People were tired of Milli by the end of their year run, but for some people it wasn't so much about the singers as it was the music. I could see Farian coming up with something compelling enough, along with their notoriety, to have made things interesting in '91 or '92. As for the MV remix album, there were a few other acts (Bobby Brown, for one, perhaps Paula Abdul?) in that 1988-1992 era that immediately put out remix albums trailing directly from their major album releases. In both Abdul and Brown cases, wouldn't those have been follow-ups to debut releases? While their style may have started to diminish in popularity as other musical trends developed, I don't think having a remix album in and of itself is enough to have completely sealed their fate.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2013 7:32:51 GMT -5
3 more: Donna Lewis, Savage Garden, and the lady who now makes her living as the face of the company my uncle runs: Debbie Boone.Your uncle is responsible for Lifestyle Lift?!? To quote the late comic strip character Cathy: "AACK!" And it's Debby Boone. He's the CEO, yes.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2013 7:34:39 GMT -5
Your uncle is responsible for Lifestyle Lift?!? To quote the late comic strip character Cathy: "AACK!" And it's Debby Boone. He's the CEO, yes. And pardon me: Debby
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Post by kchkwong on Nov 17, 2013 5:31:06 GMT -5
The Knack. After "My Sharona", they have no more Top 10 hits and only two more top 40 hits.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Nov 17, 2013 5:32:14 GMT -5
The Knack. After "My Sharona", they have no more Top 10 hits and only two more top 40 hits. Is "Good Girls Don't" one of those non-top ten hits?
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Post by kchkwong on Nov 17, 2013 5:36:53 GMT -5
The Knack. After "My Sharona", they have no more Top 10 hits and only two more top 40 hits. Is "Good Girls Don't" one of those non-top ten hits? Yes, "Good Girls Don't" hit No. 11 and then "Baby Talks Dirty" hit No. 38.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Nov 17, 2013 5:42:21 GMT -5
Three more to add to my list:
C&C Music Factory. Had 3 top ten records in 1991, then had a #40 hit, then was gone from AT40 for good.
Seduction. They had one huge top ten record ("Two to Make it Right" went to #2 early in 1990), and had two more records make the top 20, and after that, they were never heard from on the AT40 chart again.
Black Box. They had 3 top 40 records, both their first and last top 40 hits made the top ten, and after their last top ten record "Strike It Up", they have since vanished from AT40 for good.
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Post by jlthorpe on Nov 17, 2013 10:44:22 GMT -5
M.C. Hammer - Five of his first six hits went Top 10. After that, his career declined and he only reached the Top 40 one more time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2013 11:05:40 GMT -5
I totally understand that line of thinking. I just think how much Snap! should have gone away after one album. Or Technotronic. People were tired of Milli by the end of their year run, but for some people it wasn't so much about the singers as it was the music. I could see Farian coming up with something compelling enough, along with their notoriety, to have made things interesting in '91 or '92. As for the MV remix album, there were a few other acts (Bobby Brown, for one, perhaps Paula Abdul?) in that 1988-1992 era that immediately put out remix albums trailing directly from their major album releases. In both Abdul and Brown cases, wouldn't those have been follow-ups to debut releases? While their style may have started to diminish in popularity as other musical trends developed, I don't think having a remix album in and of itself is enough to have completely sealed their fate. I'm not saying it necessarily sealed their fate. Though that remix album came out like a year and a half or two years after their first. The time you'd be putting out a new album. I'm saying looking back we know they were lip syncing. We know what their concerts consisted of. I do not think they could have kept the lie up for another album of new songs or two IF (and that's a big if IMO) they would have even been half successful to begin with.
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Post by woolebull on Nov 17, 2013 15:47:17 GMT -5
It's hard to believe but the Jets almost pulled the remarkable feat of all of their Top 40 hits being Top 10 hits. 6 top 40 hits, 5 of them Top 10, 3 of them Top 5 all in a little over two years. And then done.
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