Frightening Fault wrote:Oh and think their best chance if crossing over and selling more records may be releasing Infallible (a radio edit version as the record version is too long for radio) or sleeping by myself...
No I think Lightning Bolt is their best bet, and maybe Getaway. They are both songs that could be played across multiple radio formats. Infallible is great, but it just does not have that cross media potential. It is like an Immortality or Sleight of Hand. Great songs but anything outside of an alternative rock station is not going to have the patience for them.
I see your point, but Infallible is more accessible than Sleight of Hand definitely and maybe more so than immortality...not saying it's a better song, but more digestible for a mainstream audience.
Eh. There is no winner left. They are all pretty good Pearl Jam songs (better than Backspacer), but not good fits for modern radio. Anything other than SBM would blend into the other dad-rock tracks out there as they lack the mainstream verse-chorus-verse sing-a-long appeal of Imagine Dragons or the bland pop idiocy of The Script. Plus I would be embarrassed as a Pearl Jam fan if that "making love like the lizards" line was on the radio.
BladeRunner wrote:Here in Australia 'Getaway' has been released just this week as the third single sans a video. Think it's a Promo.
Its the full video from the EPK?
sans means without
yeah i know, but the "i think its a promo" phrase confused me.
As in, it's a song sent to radio for promotional purposes, but not really intended as a single, so it's not accompanied by a video like "MYM" and "Sirens" were. In the pre-internet days it would mean that there was no commercially available "single" release either, but obviously those things don't really happen anymore, so...
