8.17.12 Countdown to Summer Sonic 2012

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I remembered myself to stay out of the Idol talk embarrassingly late, when I realised I hadn't seen a single episode of that show in my life ( note to myself : don't talk about stuff you know nothing about!), but I did do what any law abiding Glambert should - all the Adam bits are DLed and safely stored on my PC.

Based on all his AI appearances, I have to say that Adam and that stage seem to have a great chemistry together. Without exception, he always shines there. One of my go-to-in-times-of-need videos has been his AI Aftermath performance. In short, it leaves me thoroughly debauched and smitten by his voice/looks/general gorgeousness. I love that song, the lyrics, the message and the 100% adamness of it. A hit in my book.

A couple of days ago, I read here that that performance did not make a bump in the song's sales. It wasn't a hit, right? Now I want to make a Queenbert connection.

There are a few things I learned from the experience/Talon:

~ true Queen fans very much appreciate the songs which are not on the Queen's Greatest Hits collection. Probably not so by default, but because of their quality/relevance to the band ( which should be far more important than the relevance to the general public?)

When I heard Seven Seas of Rhye, I couldn't wait to hear a 'real hit' - talk about casual fans, huh. That's how you should tell a true fan: not by the amount of saliva drooling from their chin while the object of their stanning is performing ( well, not only by that), but by the thorough knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the said object's opus.

~ As a bonafide Queen fan, Talon has kindly offered to share his song-by-song tutorials on Queen, which are educated, informative, well-worded, thorough. I want that for Adam and his songs, all of them, not only the ones from Trespassing. A place to go to learn literally everything on every song, compiled and presented in a satisfactory manner. All the facts, trivia, origin, the hows and whens and whys and with whoms, something only a die hard devotee could dig out and know. ( not personal ramblings like my own). There is time for that, in the course of years to come and future Adam's albums to enjoy, I know. Or maybe that place already exists? If you can kindly point that out for me, I'd appreciate it, because I really want to know everything about Aftermath.

I also happen to agree with another thing I read here, that Adam is more popular than his music. I think it's true, for a casual fan. That's why it's up to his real fans to elevate the awareness of his work, to explain, educate, point out.

And now some heavy duty drooling and slobbering by me:



PS - I apologise for any facts/grammar/spelling/whatever mistakes, cut me some slack, please. Yes, I wish all Adam's songs to be hits, and allow me to wish he got ( ?? gets/would get ??) AI gig although I know nothing about the show.


ETA After the fourth full screen/maximum volume headphone listen of the song, I'm mentally inserting a gif of me majorly flipping the bird to all the bumps/execs/radios/hits... Fuck all they'd know about a great song, even if it bit them in the eye.

Can anybody fill me in on radio play in the UK?

Be careful you guys. I might retaliate with Sanskrit which has even Latin declensions look easy by comparison!

Took 4 years of it in High School in CT. It was required for College Prep. Hated it but, I now have an edge when the family plays words games!! ;D