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Kirk Mack wrote:I would hardly call Rhino a tiny label. As evidenced above, they are bigger than one may think. Rhino has much better distribution than other smaller labels and are much better known that Sire/London and Sanctuary. While they may be more of a specialty label, they were also instrumental in re-issuing a lot of long-lost classics, as well as being a label for a number of once-top bands that were getting back into the biz.

I suppose that that last statement may not be THAT much of an endorsement, but, really, it is.

And I'll just throw out that while I do really like I'm with Stupid, I really don't think it has what it takes to be a true American hit. If it doesn't involve bragging about body parts, alcohol and drugs, or instantly make 13 year old girls cry, it ain't selling.....

You're right...It seems like Rhino has been doing a good job recently of doing really nice reissues.

Naughty Zoot wrote:[quote="a powerful friend"
On the other hand, they might try to ask for appearance as guest judges on American Idol and have contestants sing their hits. This will shamelessly guarantee them national exposure and maybe then, it might revive their US careers.

You know, apf, you may have hit on something here. We've recently been treated to Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow & (what's left of) Queen, so having " 80s Pop Stars Pet Shop Boys " isn't that crazy a notion.

But it'll never happen - N&C have been quite blunt in their distatste for these types of shows ( & I'm with them). Besides would you really want to hear glorified Karaoke versions of PSB songs? I'm shuddering as I type...[/quote]

Yeah but those are legendary artists. Even if they had prior albums that floped, Barry and Rod will never be without a label and without US distrubtion (and now that they are selling albums to our grandmothers, they're doing well on that charts). Stevie Wonder has always been on Motown....if he wants to release an album, it's coming out here before anywhere else. Not sure about Queen, though.

I still think of PSB as somewhat current and their fans aren't that old. I don't think they are in the same boat as the artists you mentioned.

…plus, honestly, Neil can’t sing and it is a “singing competition” after all.

Maybe they could have the album on the American iTunes store. That would be nice if they can't get an American record company to distribute.

karmavore wrote:…plus, honestly, Neil can’t sing and it is a “singing competition” after all.

And Rod Stewart can?????

Naughty Zoot wrote: Besides would you really want to hear glorified Karaoke versions of PSB songs? I'm shuddering as I type...

Ah, you're listening to West End Girls Goes Petshopping too...

Drico.

The main reason I think it will be great they do Idol is that Idol offers them national exposure/promotion and a great opportunity to be reintroduced to the American mainstream audience/listeners since Idol has like 30-over million viewers per show. This also allows them to showcase their fantastic repertoire of songs (most of which can be nicely reinterpreted in other genres and let's face it: PSB are really one-hit wonders in the US, mostly known for 'West End girls' and maybe 'Always on my mind'). If the audience/viewers like the songs, they will go out and buy the albums to hear the original versions, so I don't see how's that bad for the Boys.

Furthermore, if N&C could sit through that ghastly presentation in the I'm with stupid video, so I suppose they could tie themselves up and endure one hour of someone else butchering their songs for that kind of exposure in America which they will never get by other means of promotion.

American Idol should have a Trevor Horn night and slip some PSB songs in.

I'm going to wait for a US release and in the meantime download fundmentalism form a quasi-legal russian web site.

Domestic version of Fundamental[ism] ?

Check out the release date and price...

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.a ... ooglemusic

fahrenheit wrote:Domestic version of Fundamental[ism] ?

Check out the release date and price...

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.a ... ooglemusic

It's still listed as an import and the label is still EMI, which isn't happening. I would pre-order but have never pre-ordered from Cduniverse, although they seem realiable. Still, we all know that price could change when it comes closer to coming out.

Spot On! I fail to read the CD descriptions. Moreover, this doesn't seem to be the 2 CD limited edition set as advertise on page header. Looking further on the description the number of disc is showing as 1.

Deceptive advertising or are fundamental/fundamentalism both on 1 CD?