[kj] (ot) Billy Idol.... hahahahahahahahahaha
Alexander Smith
vassifer at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 30 08:17:58 EST 2005
According to BPF, Geordie is a massive Van Halen fan.....as well he
should be.
Alex in NYC
On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, at 05:24 AM, peter.west410 wrote:
> You made me do this Javier.I would just like to point out that I dont
> own
> any Van Halen or Aerosmith records and do actually despise them.
> I think we are talking about two different things.Im reffering to
> album
> sales worldwide and you are refferring to when YOU actually listened to
> them.If thats the case,then:I ve never bought any of their albums ,So
> they
> ve never sold any.
>
>
> Van Halen Album Sales
>
> Album
> Copies Sold * Peak Position Weeks on Chart
> VanHalen
> 10.3 Million 19 169
> VanHalen II
> 5.7 Million 6 47
> Women and Children First
> 4.3 Million 6 31
> Fair Warning
> 3.4 Million 5 23
> Diver Down
> 4 Million 3 65
> 1984
> 10 Million 2 77
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Javier Garcia" <jagargal at lycos.com>
> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
> <gathering at misera.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [kj] (ot) Billy Idol.... hahahahahahahahahaha
>
>
> So Aerosmith never broke??? I've always thought they splitted up for
> some
> years in the 80's. Still, I think they turned bigger worldwide since
> the
> second half of the eighties. At least in Latin America. The same with
> Van
> Halen. Even when their first album may have sold more copies than any
> other
> (which i really doubt, at least worlwide), i have the reference of the
> 1984
> album as their first big explosion. C'mon! Jump sounded more than any
> other
> VH song before. And as i see it, after the arrival of Sammy Haggar, VH
> reached a wider audience.
>
> We may see things different as the Latin American music scenario and
> market
> is very different from yours in the UK and US. Maybe Brasil could be an
> exception when i talk about Latin America's music market as they've
> been
> selling a lot of records of very different kind of music for many
> years ago.
> They had festivals like Rock in Rio and Monsters of Rock -am I right
> Diaz??-
> when we in Mexico and most Latin-american countries could only achieve
> to
> see Julio Iglesias live!!
>
> Javier
> mex.city
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "peter.west410" <peter.west410 at ntlworld.com>
> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
> <gathering at misera.net>
> Subject: Re: [kj] (ot) Billy Idol.... hahahahahahahahahaha
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:59:53 +0100
>
>>
>> "I dare to say without a doubt that "the kings of return and success"
>> are
>> Aerosmith, they returned to became a huge, huge act."
>>
>> Inncorrect Javi.
>> If you see their discography below,You will see that Aerosmith
>> never
>> went away.They have been amazingly consistant with their releases
>> ,And the
>> most popular ones were from 1975 & 1980.The Early years.
>>
>> PW
>> Albums
>> a.. Aerosmith (1973) #21 US, US Sales: 2,000,000
>> b.. Get Your Wings (1974) #74 US, US Sales: 3,000,000
>> c.. Toys in the Attic (1975) #11 US, US Sales: 8,000,000
>> d.. Rocks (1976) #3 US, US Sales: 4,000,000
>> e.. Draw the Line (1977) #11 US, US Sales: 2,000,000
>> f.. Live Bootleg (1978) #13 US, US Sales: 1,000,000
>> g.. Night in the Ruts (1979) #14 US, US Sales: 1,000,000
>> h.. Greatest Hits (1980) #53 US, US Sales: 10,000,000
>> i.. Rock in a Hard Place (1982) #32 US, US Sales: 500,000
>> j.. Done with Mirrors (1985) #36 US, US Sales: 500,000
>> k.. Classics Vol. 1 (Purple cover) (1986) #84 US, US Sales:
>> 1,000,000
>> l.. Classics Vol. 2 (Red cover) (1987), US Sales: 500,000
>> m.. Permanent Vacation (1987) #11 US, #37 UK, US Sales: 5,000,000
>> n.. Gems (1988) #133 US, US Sales: 500,000
>> o.. Pump (1989) #5 US, #3 UK, US Sales: 7,000,000
>> p.. Pandora's Box (1991) #45 US, US Sales: 1,000,000
>> q.. Get a Grip (1993) #1 US, #2 UK, US Sales: 7,000,000
>> r.. Box of Fire (1994), US Sales: 500,000
>> s.. Big Ones (1994) #6 US, #7 UK, US Sales: 4,000,000
>> t.. Nine Lives (1997) #1 US, #4 UK, US Sales: 2,000,000
>> u.. A Little South of Sanity (1998) #12 US, #36 UK, US Sales:
>> 1,000,000
>> v.. Just Push Play (2001) #2 US, #7 UK, US Sales: 1,000,000
>> w.. Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology (2001) #191 US, #32 UK, US
> Sales:
>> 500,000
>> x.. O, Yeah! The Ultimate Aerosmith Hits (2002) #4 US, #6 UK, US
>> Sales:
>> 1,000,000
>> y.. Honkin' on Bobo (2004) #5 US, #28 UK, US Sales: 600,000
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Javier Garcia" <jagargal at lycos.com>
>> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
>> <gathering at misera.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: [kj] (ot) Billy Idol.... hahahahahahahahahaha
>>
>>
>> Well, I must let my dark side to show up and say I used to like Billy
>> Idol
>> first couple of albums. IMHO Rebell Yell is a pretty nice 80's album
>> (I
> even
>> have it on CD!!!).
>>
>> Regarding the topic about reformed bands:
>> I dare to say without a doubt that "the kings of return and success"
>> are
>> Aerosmith, they returned to became a huge, huge act.
>> Van Halen could count too, although I guess they never split after the
>> departure of David Lee Roth, when Sammy Haggar came up, they turned
>> bigger
>> than they were before.
>>
>> My two pesos
>>
>> Javier
>> MexCity
>>
>>
>>
>>> Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> "Now, I barely remember much of his earlier works but I'm pretty sure
>>> he used to try and sound american like most UK rock acts did. Well
>>> now
>>> he's putting on the mockney, coupled with the fact that he really
>>> cannot sing."
>>>
>>> Well, for a start, Billy was in GENERATION X, who I thought were
>>> pretty
>>> damn great, so go easy there, hater!
>>>
>>> Secondly, like Robert Plant before him, Billy Idol cannot sing ANY
>>> MORE, but he certainly once could.
>>>
>>> Alex in NYC
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, March 27, 2005, at 08:57 AM, bluce ree wrote:
>>>
>>>> .... chortle!
>>>>
>>>> I saw his new video last night.... oh my god.... I dont think
>>>> I'll ever recover. It is without a doubt the funniest, most
>>>> awful thing I've ever seen. The video is the usual 80s on-stage
>>>> heavy rock thing, but with a terrible, terrible Billy singing to
>>>> a woman in the crowd thing going on (like that Springsteen video
>>>> with Courtney Cox in it).
>>>>
>>>> Now, I barely remember much of his earlier works but I'm pretty
>>>> sure he used to try and sound american like most UK rock acts
>>>> did. Well now he's putting on the mockney, coupled with the fact
>>>> that he really cannot sing. He struggles throughout the song
>>>> which features some of the worst lyrics imaginable.
>>>>
>>>> You are the lock
>>>> I am the key
>>>> Climb up my lemon tree
>>>> I mean for fuck's sake... how bad is that? Oh... not bad enough?
>>>> Okay... try....
>>>>
>>>> Pretty baby in the back of my car
>>>> Look now, you've gone too far
>>>> Have a slice of my lemon pie
>>>> One more will get you high
>>>> the video ends with two more laughably awful things. Firstly the
>>>> camera pans out to reveal about thousands of people in the
>>>> audience when clearly there were about 50 max and then right at
>>>> the end the woman in the crowd passes out and when she recovers
>>>> Billy is there and he says....
>>>>
>>>> 'are you alright, love'... it sort of all sounded like The Cult
>>>> at their very worst, but even more shit!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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