Ugo
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Posted: Oct. 14 2007, 07:17 |
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Going off-topic again, sorry...
I think that maybe, in the 80s, Mike filled his albums with pop songs because that's what people (Branson? Virgin?) told him to do. Someone must've somehow convinced him that pop songs are what sells - what gets him on the radio, what makes him 'popular' etc. etc. (indeed, a pop song - Moonlight Shadow - is what gave him his first, and still biggest, 'hit'...) and that he could still have his side-long instrumentals in the albums, if he wanted - indeed, all of his 80s albums have one, except for QE2, TKF and Earth Moving [which, again in the opinion of various people in here, is considered a bad album... I don't agree... ]. He returned to his 'full form' only with Amarok, which just happened to be his very last album with Virgin. So don't you think that the record industry is almost certainly the only one to blame for Mike's 'poppyness' ? "Man in the Rain", which is IMHO a great song, was included in TBIII at the insistence of Warner/WEA, as far as I know - they wanted a single.
Forgive me for using the term 'despicable'. I just meant to say that Bonnie Tyler's performance of "Islands" can be hated with a passion, and sometimes it is...
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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