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Post by crash46 on Oct 9, 2008 1:35:53 GMT -4
I have never heard this on the radio, despite its current top 10 standing. I have never heard a Kings of Leon song on the radio, in spite of 2 or 3 albums full of minor hits.
I finally caved in to see what the fuss is about.
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS??? That's what breaks them through? I had to double take to make sure I wasn't listening to some indie track that Mega248 sent me for the purpose of derisivity. S***, if "Molly's Chambers" and "The Bucket" had left any type of impact whatsoever, the effect of "Sex On Fire" would be flat out abandonment and alienation!
I'm shocked. Seriously.
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Post by a Nick O! on Oct 9, 2008 16:35:30 GMT -4
This is only slightly better than their other chart-scrapers, which I don't particularly care for. Certainly not leaps and bounds' worth, giving them their sure to be Top 5 (#1?  ) smash. Honestly, Because of the Times album cuts like "Knocked Up" and "Ragoo" kick the s*** out of anything they've released as a single. |
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Post by mtm4319 on Oct 9, 2008 22:43:25 GMT -4
Bands like this one and My Morning Jacket are pretty hit-or-miss with me... but when they hit, they hit big. MMJ's "One Big Holiday" is probably going to finish as one of my top 100 songs of the decade (yes, there will be a chart and I'm thinking about it already), despite never sniffing my top 50 chart when it was out... but "Sex On Fire" shouldn't have much trouble cracking my top 10.
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Post by Pipa on Oct 10, 2008 0:25:07 GMT -4
"Sex On Fire" shouldn't have much trouble cracking my top 10. ...Of the decade?  |
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Post by halo19 on Oct 10, 2008 2:00:18 GMT -4
I honestly quite enjoy this, I don't know about by a landslide though. And I don't believe I ever had heard "On Call" when that was out, which is strange because Because of the Times seemed pretty well acclaimed. But their promotion is just working in their favor. It seems like the indie elitists on Pulse don't even seem that excited about KoL.
Wow, I just listened to "The Bucket" on their Myspace... does anyone else think the intro sounds a bit like Rod Stewart's "Maggie May"? That being said the latter is a far better song overall.
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Post by mtm4319 on Oct 10, 2008 7:02:06 GMT -4
"Sex On Fire" shouldn't have much trouble cracking my top 10. ...Of the decade? No... I admit I didn't word that very well. Using only the relative sections of my post (and not just what you took out of context): "One Big Holiday" didn't make the top 50 of my weekly chart, but "Sex On Fire" shouldn't have much problem making the top 10 (of my weekly chart). |
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Post by halo19 on Apr 30, 2009 1:02:42 GMT -4
I always feel so insulted when radio starts to increase songs like this when it's this late into the chart run. It might be bulleted on Active: that's fine, it's not where the song started anyway.
But it's beyond belittling to see stuff like "Magnificent" lose more spins each time when an old song like this regains its bullet.
I hope they don't release a third single until "Use Somebody" actually appears to be more dead. Lots of artists these days don't see the good in that concept it seems, but I think it would calm the burnout.
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Post by a Nick O! on Oct 4, 2009 13:29:04 GMT -4
If you'd have told me a year ago (we're only a few days away from the anniversary of this topic) that Kings of Leon would have a #1 POP SONG, I'd be completely unable to process that information or make any sense of that at all. Now the All Access website has an ad that says: #1 Top 40!!! Thank You Radio!!! [all caps for emphasis]"SEX ON FIRE" IS NEXT...  |
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Post by radical347 on Oct 4, 2009 14:42:24 GMT -4
If you'd have told me a year ago (we're only a few days away from the anniversary of this topic) that Kings of Leon would have a #1 POP SONG, I'd be completely unable to process that information or make any sense of that at all. Now the All Access website has an ad that says: #1 Top 40!!! Thank You Radio!!! [all caps for emphasis]"SEX ON FIRE" IS NEXT... I figured this was going to happen (the re-release of Sex on Fire, not Use Somebody reaching #1 on Top 40 - I don't know how that happened either.) I couldn't see them resisting sending "ooh...this sex is on fire" to the popheads especially now that they're like "Kings of Leon ZOMG!!!111!!!!1!!!!". This was kind of what I alluded to when I commented that I wonder if they intended for "Notion" to get lost in the shuffle. |
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Post by radical347 on Oct 24, 2009 1:46:51 GMT -4
Sex on Fire is next, indeed. Alice Music just played it. |
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