Gerry1975

surprised nobody has done one for this considering the success of My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) but here goes: http://mtvasia-com.mtvnimages.com/mtvasia-news/201303/fall-out-boy-reveal-striking-save-rock-and-roll-album-cover.jpg tracklisting: 01) The Phoenix 02) My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) 03) Alone Together 04) Where Did the Party Go 05) Just One Yesterday (Feat. Foxes) 06) The Mighty Fall (Feat. Big Sean) 07) Miss Missing You 08) Death Valley 09) Young Volcanoes 10) Rat a Tat (Feat. Courtney Love) 11) Save Rock and Roll (Feat. Elton John) album out in the UK on April 15th, US on the 16th obviously everybody's heard the first song, but I'll still stick a link to it LkIWmsP3c_s My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) yesterday however they released the first song from the album called The Phoenix on ITunes in the US (more likely a UK release coming) and it's quite a good starting point for the album in my opinion. Strange video though 5hDZbroaQDc The Phoenix quite looking forward to this album based on the first two songs, certainly feels like they are trying new things

JrbMNBNMksk Biblical the next Biffy single from Opposites, apparently going to be out on Monday April 1st but that hasn't been confirmed yet video has an interesting concept and the song is one of my favourites from the album, has potential to be another chart hit for them

I can see Bullet For My Valentine as possibly a contender for the No1 album next week, not sure what their pre-order sales are on ITunes or anything but they are coming off two UK top 5 albums and the fanbase is definitely there could actually enter the US chart higher than the UK one like they've done for the two previous albums

seems a strange analogy thinking that MCR have to be doing the same as FOB considering I'd say both bands are quite different and attract a different audience. I could use the buzzword "emo" but I would describe both as probably alternative rock rather than pop-punk which FOB were until Infinity On High and MCR have practically been most of their career rather than the "emo" tag which is lazy and reminds me of the "nu metal" tag that was used to group bands like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit etc in the early 2000s

Supremacy is one of the best songs they've done in years so that's hopefully why it's became a single the video as usual for Muse is dire though, should have had some sort of Bond-esque video considering the song could work as a theme for those movies

had a listen to this last week, the music is still decent but the lyrics are just so badly noticeable at times it almost sounds as if the band is bored with most of the songs on the album as well, nothing like the band who created the Hand Of Blood EP or The Poison. Will probably be their highest charting entry in the UK and US though, despite it probably being around the same sort of quality as Fever

FOB should be top ten by the end of the night, the song will be played on Radio 1 later as it's going to be Zane Lowe's "Hottest Record In The World"

FOB song isn't a one off single, new album "Save Rock And Roll" is out May 7th (or 6th here) not sure what I think of it to be honest, it's catchy but I'm one of those older FOB fans who would have rather a return to their old stuff which probably wasn't going to happen

would say it's above the level of the last two albums and it's verging at times on the 3 albums that were made before the major label involvement. Accident Without Emergency, Picture A Knife Fight, Trumpet and Tap, Magic Modern Formula, The Joke's On Us, A Girl And His Cat and Biblical are my favourites from it but I actually don't dislike any of the songs would say Pocket is probably the only one I'm a bit indifferent towards but that's not dislike or hate. As I said before though, Biblical has the potential to be a big single if they release it. Apparently the next single could be Victory Over The Sun

album out on Monday, it was released in Japan yesterday on their ITunes store and that has led to the inevitable leaking from first impressions, I like most of it. There will take songs that will take time to grow but that's what happens with most Biffy albums for me. I can see Biblical and Modern Magic Formula being songs that radio will play to death, especially Radio 1 as they have huge choruses and the epic feel, especially Biblical I do feel that a double album might be a bit too much in a way but I always love the idea of having new Biffy material to listen to. There is a lot of things that Biffy have not really touched in songs as well, synths and mariachi are two types that feature on the album along with the big choruses and riffs that a Biffy album should contain

don't really think anyone is whinging about the price of chart CDs but they are also catered for in supermarkets as that's generally the sort of thing you'd find on sale at ASDA, Tesco and the like at the same prices really the biggest problem is the "specialist" genres being overpriced and these are the sort of people you should be trying to keep in the shop considering the range of CDs in the supermarkets in that sort of area isn't as big as HMV. I've seen albums at £17.99 in the metal genre, you can go home and pick it up for about £10 online. I know there is overheads but that's a good way to stop somebody wanting to use your shop

so everybody who pirates a copy was going to buy a retail copy in the first place? sounds like the RIAA's idea of thinking :D I'm sure most people will either download something or listen to it on a stream/Spotify so they can see what they think of it. If they like it, they'll go ahead and buy it if they were willing to in the first place. I will download/stream to see what I think and if it's poor, I'll just delete it the recording industry don't like the idea of this "try before you buy" as they had it perfect in the 80s/90s when computers weren't prominent and we had to buy albums blind which sometimes meant you wasted a lot of money on rubbish. Nowadays you can find an album on a stream or Spotify if you don't want to download it

HMV's problem is not converting to the digital age as quickly as some of the others have done I bought about 30 digital albums last year and probably only around 2 new release CDs. It's not that I don't like CDs but I don't actually own a CD player (other than the one in my computer) and that CD is ripped to MP3 as soon as I get the product so it becomes a digital album with a slightly better bit rate than what you get from Amazon/ITunes Physical media is still viable but I feel some sort of click and collect service could be a good idea for a relaunched HMV. Maybe you can buy downloads in the store if you are away from a computer and download them to your Ipod/phone in the shop or download them later on the PC when you get home. They should keep expanding their vinyl though as that's something that will keep people coming back to the stores, finding something that the online stores don't have extensive stocks of is what they need to do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L9qByb317Y that's the full ITunes festival slot that Biffy did towards the end of last year and features some of the new material favourite song off Opposites for me so far is Modern Magic Formula, really reminds me of the older Biffy stuff. All the new stuff is pretty good though

Biffy the musical guest on Jonathan Ross's show tonight, so that might end up getting them a bit further up the chart will be buying it on Monday so I can get my hands on the b-sides :)

it's an amazing album and they are touring the UK early next year as well B-)

Muse have no chance, they'll start off with a big week for The 2nd Law and then probably get a jump in sales slightly when the album goes in sale in the New Year Buble, Murs, Boyle, Williams, One Direction and JLS will be the huge sellers as they are presents for granny, mum and kids

here's my two cents on the argument. :) I used to be a heavy buyer of physical music formats and I have plenty of CDs as evidence to show for it. During the time of the 90s, nobody had Spotify or any sort of websites that will offer streams of albums before they come out so 99% of people were buying albums blind and unless you picked a decent artist, it was always an album with about a few good songs on it and the rest was filler tracks. Nowadays, I find myself buying more and more digital albums because it keeps space to a minimum (only requiring my computer and my mp3 player) and because you can normally get digital albums for a much better price than the physical format - an example being The Killers' Battle Born which is £4.99 on mp3 at Amazon but it would cost around £9 to buy the CD of it. I remember the days of going into HMV to find an album that wasn't mainstream and seeing something like £16 as the price and then putting it down to try and find it cheaper at an independent music store now the arguments of downloading albums are the usual. For instance the advert that says "you wouldn't steal a car etc" which is of course true. In my honest opinon, it allows me, a music lover, to choose which albums I want to buy rather than buy something blind and then get conned by the artist when their interviews about "the greatest album we've made" turns out to be a load of rubbish. I will either download the album before release date or stream it, see what I think of it and either end up deleting it if it''s not to my standards or go looking to buy the digital version of it when it's released at Amazon, ITunes etc. The other argument I can put in favour of downloads is I don't really follow a lot of mainstream bands apart from maybe a select few. Downloading has allowed me to gain a much bigger library of artists whom I have bought music from legally and even went to see their concerts when they've appeared in my area. Without downloading, I wouldn't have heard these bands on the radio because they don't fit a radio profile Of course there are plenty out there who get the mp3s and just burn the CDs without a care for the artist but for me, downloading is a useful tool that can help music fans make a decision about buying a certain album because lets face it, nobody wants to buy a bad album and I feel that's the reason why the music industry dislikes downloading. They can't get their artists to make a crappy album that sells millions like it might have done in the 90s when there was blind buying, it has to meet a certain quality now or people will just not buy it

as expected this album is due out next year, January 28th 2013 to be exact tracklisting is as follows: CD1: The Sand At The Core Of Our Bones 1. Stingin' Belle 2. Sounds Like Balloons 3. Biblical 4. The Joke's On Us 5. Black Chandelier 6. A Girl And His Cat 7. Opposite 8. The Fog 9. Little Hospitals 10. The Thaw CD2: The Land At The End Of Our Toes 1. Different People 2. Modern Magic Formula 3. Spanish Radio 4. Victory Over The Sun 5. Pocket 6. Trumpet Or Tap 7. Skylight 8. Accident Without Emergency 9. Woo Woo 10. Picture A Knife Fight Hopefully there will be a single soon as Stingin' Belle isn't really one according to the band despite the fact it's on ITunes and is on the R1 playlist

I'm willing to give the album a chance because I know Muse have already reached their peak with albums such as Origin Of Symmetry and Absolution this album seems a bit more experimental than BH&R or The Resistance which is good because I'd rather see them make a different album than try to make what they've done before. I like Madness and Survival, could do without the "dubstep element" in Unsustainable but the intro/orchestral bits in that more than make up for it and it's a 2 part song so who knows what will happen in Isolated System

I'm not going to say that sales won't drop next week because they obviously will but next week is when people go out and buy things post-Christmas and MWC will be the last thing heard on the Christmas TOTP this year so that's potentially a new audience for the song there personally I won't be watching the TOTP because I've not enjoyed much chart music this year but you'll get the random people who will tune into it and they might not have heard the MWC song which might lead to a CD/download purchase next week. Of course it won't be 550-600k like this week but I wouldn't be surprised at another 250-300k probably

pretty much anyone else who hasn't been quoted for a bet in the odds

Albums Machine Head - Unto The Locust (Special Edition) Downloads Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto can't say no to a digital download at £4 to be honest, Machine Head and Coldplay very different in the music spectrums as well :D

around 250-300k, it's going to be £3.99 for a digital download at Amazon as well so it will pick up sales there along with the physical CD which will probably be in impluse areas of supermarkets on display more than likely going to buy the digital download myself, really like the album

listen to albums outside the mainstream charts and you will find a lot of quality, think I've bought 20-25 physical/digital albums this year easily and it's not been a case of having to "cherrypick" them because the majority of albums don't have filler on them