Gerry1975

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

Only Revolutions climbing in anticipation of Opposites I would guess :cool: would love to see Funeral For A Friend get a top 20 album with Conduit in the same Biffy release week as there is practically nothing out and they deserve that sort of thing. Would think they might be a band who could crossover with Biffy's sort of music, I like them anyway and I'm a huge Biffy fan already had a few top 20 albums and even a top 10 (No3) one with Tales Don't Tell Themselves

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

would like to see Billy Talent stay in the top 20 if they can, don't think they've had a UK top 40 album over here and they deserve it. Dead Silence probably isn't their best album but it's a very good one Gallows album is pretty decent as well, hopefully that stays in the top 40 as well

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

think American Slang was No3 in midweeks as well wasn't it? Handwritten is a great album that I bought myself but it's obviously frontloaded which might keep it out of the top 10 shame as these guys deserve to break big over here and in the US, AS was top 20 in the Billboard chart so maybe Handwritten might give them their first US top ten album

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

200 copies which means they've no chance. Rocksound have been updating the figures through the week as YMA6 are their cover stars for the latest issue, keep going on about "if you care about British rock, buy this album" shame that YMA6 are rubbish though, better British rock acts like Sucioperro or Pulled Apart By Horses should be where they are

HDD is always a little bit out when they put up "final" figures which is why you have to go looking at the Billboard ones but then again HDD work on estimates so that's probably why Mastodon reaching the top 10 after Crack The Skye missed out last time at 11 :cool: would probably say Crack The Skye is a better album but The Hunter is damn good

there is a Machine Head "physical" but it's in conjunction with Metalhammer magazine which I couldn't be bothered with. I'll pick up the physical CD when it comes next month

I consider myself quite open minded when I listen to music but I just found this to be awful Metallica did the S&M stuff earlier in their career with the orchestras and it worked because it mixed. Lou Reed's vocals mixed with a guitar riff that goes on for about 3 minutes solid is something that doesn't sound right and doesn't mix well. Even the differing guitar riffs towards the end and hearing Hetfield can't save it

nice to see Blink and Mastodon in the top 15 of the chart, can't see Mastodon staying there too long because it will be front loaded but top 15-20 isn't bad. Blink will probably at least stay in the top 10 I think, maybe shame Machine Head couldn't get in the top 40 though as they and Mastodon have created two fantastic albums and possibly album of the year contenders in my opinion

reminds me very much of the Boxcar Racer days, I don't mind it though because I liked that album be interesting to see what the rest of the album is like though, another Boxcar Racer album wouldn't sell to those millions of punk fans who have expected the "old" Blink back I'm not surprised they've gone in this way though because the pop-punk genre is owned by newer bands such as Four Year Strong, Set Your Goals, The Wonder Years etc and they might be a bit more inside the mainstream that the 3 mentioned bands but in the punk fanbase, those 3 are the top dogs at the moment so any sort of "old style" album would have to be a good one and feel modern - if that makes any sort of sense :D