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by **King Of Kings** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:27 am

Life Of A Thousand Crimes is released tomorrow, but its a bit of a strange one to be honest.

The reason there is a download single with no B.Side is to keep the Bunnymen on the radio over the holiday period.

Radio stations will play a track of a album more if it is marketed as a single, so thats what the Bunnymen have done with this. Yes its a single but not a single as we all know.

There will be no promotion behind it, its purely to keep the buzz around the new album on the radio and thats whats happened.

hope that makes sense...

by **Dr Cheese** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:29 am

Keep them on the radio? What radio does he listen to?

by **Mr. Brian** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:40 am

That is pure genius!

Let's release a single that is NOT a single but we will tell no one!

by **In The Margins** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:21 am

If I'm reading this right, there will be no reason to buy it since it will be the same thing that was released on the album (which assumes one has bought the album).

And there is no B-side.

Yippee! I just saved 99 cents!

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:29 am

It is a bit farcical. Keep up there at the back.

Let's get this right. It's not a single at all, but is pretending to be the new single for radio play. You can't buy it as a "single" on any website or as a MP3 single with any artwork depicting it as a single (as with TINIT) but you can buy it individually on MP3 as one of the ten tracks that make up the Fountain... just as you can buy any of the songs from the album individually.

On that basis, I have decided Everlasting Neverendless is the new single. It's actually a MP3 EP with track two Forgotten Fields or Do You Know Who I Am?, Shroud of Turin, Life of A Thousand Crimes, The Fountain, or.... Track 3 and 4 is Forgotten Fields, Do You Know Who I Am?, Shroud of Turin, Life of A Thousand Crimes, The Fountain, or....

by **In The Margins** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:32 am

I declare that Proxy is the new single! :lol:

If Life of a Thousand Cwimes is a single in name only, why did they make a big announcement last month(?) that the new single was being released Jan. 4? Another case of poor/no communication within the camp?

by **Dr Cheese** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:34 am

And what's all this bollocks about the radio? I haven't heard the Bunnymen on mainstream radio for fucking years!

by **electrabunny** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:38 am

Dr Cheese wrote:And what's all this bollocks about the radio? I haven't heard the Bunnymen on mainstream radio for fucking years!

Is XFM considered mainstream? They had been playing I Think I Need It Too on there.

by **Dr Cheese** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:42 am

electrabunny wrote:Is XFM considered mainstream?

I was thinking UK mainstream ie Radio1 & 2 and the commercial stations. I've no idea what passes for mainstream in the US.

by **electrabunny** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:52 am

Dr Cheese wrote:I was thinking UK mainstream ie Radio1 & 2 and the commercial stations. I've no idea what passes for mainstream in the US.

Yeah, me too. XFM is out of the UK. Mainstream here in North Carolina is really bad. There is a half-decent alternative mainstream in Chicago where I used to live, but not here. You have the party music station, the country station, the classic rock station and the R&B/Hip Hop station. The college station is the only thing worth listening to, but they usually stick to indie bands. They may sprinkle in some classic Pixies or Bauhaus once in awhile, but that's about it.

by **black francis** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:54 am

Dr Cheese wrote:I was thinking UK mainstream ie Radio1 & 2 and the commercial stations. I've no idea what passes for mainstream in the US.

But you feel qualified to comment on American Ftink music do you?

How dare you sir

by **zabird** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:02 pm

Can't say I've heard ANY Bunnymen on the terrestrial airwaves of L.A. since they pulled the plug on Indie 103 last year.

by **DivaDiana77** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:02 pm

zabird wrote:Can't say I've heard ANY Bunnymen on the terrestrial airwaves of L.A. since they pulled the plug on Indie 103 last year.

LA radio went to hell when KROQ stopped being remotely innovative and interesting. Loveline every night??

What happened? Did good music end or did they just stop promoting it? I've heard more about interesting bands from joining this site than from the radio.

Come to think of it, what happened was that hip hop took over literally everything.

by **DivaDiana77** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:06 pm

In The Margins wrote:If I'm reading this right, there will be no reason to buy it since it will be the same thing that was released on the album (which assumes one has bought the album).

And there is no B-side.

Yippee! I just saved 99 cents!

It's really stupid. Part of the way they now measure "singles" is by downloads. Who is going to download it? Perhaps some of the people who only got the free single? I don't know.

by **Dr Cheese** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:30 pm

black francis wrote:But you feel qualified to comment on American Ftink music do you?

Yes, yes I do.

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