[kj] (ot) Billy Idol.... hahahahahahahahahaha

Tue Mar 29 20:04:03 EST 2005

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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