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Erasure might be closer to a fair comparison, but I don't think NO is- they were more popular than PSB at both of their heights...(and NO has a label that believes in them).

Yes, PopArt wasn't released because of all the labels bickering, but if it were really that important, a deal could have been struck. I'm sure that after the pie was cut in its many pieces, there wasn't a single label that could fit the bill to put it out, ESPECIALLY, as you point out, that once they'd have had a deal put together, most of the true Petheads would have already had them on import....

Kirk Mack wrote:Erasure might be closer to a fair comparison, but I don't think NO is- they were more popular than PSB at both of their heights...(and NO has a label that believes in them).

Yes, PopArt wasn't released because of all the labels bickering, but if it were really that important, a deal could have been struck. I'm sure that after the pie was cut in its many pieces, there wasn't a single label that could fit the bill to put it out, ESPECIALLY, as you point out, that once they'd have had a deal put together, most of the true Petheads would have already had them on import....

I was kind of thinking of putting the Cure in the mix, just because they are British, but they have a very rapid following here. I agree with what you're saying about "PopArt". In the last five or so years, there have been a whole lot of multi-label compilations out there....It doesn't seem to be an issue what label an artist recorded for...One label usually releases the disc and they figure it out.