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Post by josh on Nov 19, 2005 21:20:25 GMT -5
This song has seemed like it was going to be a smash and a flop so many times. It's been going back and forth as the bullet explodes and disappears over and over again. Now it's at #5 with a pretty decent bullet. I think this has #1 potential come Christmas.
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Nov 19, 2005 21:33:24 GMT -5
This is another example of radio waiting for the new year to drop the old and then really latch on to the new. Come 2006, this will be one of the new token power rotation songs at the format.
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Post by hector on Nov 19, 2005 21:50:03 GMT -5
This song is really hit of miss with me depending on my mood. One of their weaker singles, IMO.
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Post by kingLUKE22 on Nov 20, 2005 1:11:28 GMT -5
Yeah... I just don't feel this at all. It feels like it's been done before, aka. "Black Balloon" but not nearly as good.
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Post by irock on Nov 20, 2005 13:16:38 GMT -5
I'm getting tired of the goo goo dolls, too. As far as this song bopping up and down the charts, isn't Triple-A still pretty much a loose compllation of playlists from widely disparate radio stations? This has happened before quite a few times, and I can still remember some comments about it from the old R&R moderator for AAA (John Schoenberger or something like that). He said that often a song will be a hit first in the East, then the West, then in between, and that the time difference between chart peaks for a song in different areas of the country can be a month or more. There are so few AAA stations in the survey that trends like this have a profound impact on the chart.
That's also a reason that some songs tend to hang on this chart for a long, long time.
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Post by ragin on Nov 21, 2005 17:38:38 GMT -5
I love this song, and I can't believe someone is tired of the Goo Goo Dolls considering their inability to hit lately. This song hopefully will complete the crossover hit status that Give a Little Bit failed to do.
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Post by I Am Me on Nov 21, 2005 21:42:35 GMT -5
This IS my favorite Goo Goo Dolls song. I never thought they'd sing a song better than "Iris" but I guess I was wrong.
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Post by Rob64 on Nov 21, 2005 22:28:14 GMT -5
 this ain't better than "Iris"  |
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Post by I Am Me on Nov 21, 2005 22:52:33 GMT -5
this ain't better than "Iris" haha, I know most people won't agree with me, but there's just something awesome about it that I love. |
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Nov 22, 2005 21:45:59 GMT -5
According to FMQB, "Better Days" actually was originally intended as a holiday-only single! When CNN asked to use the clip for Katrina coverage, that's when the band decided to release the single when they did according to Johnny Rzeznik. Uh... only problem with that is, didn't this have a HAC adds before Katrina even happened?
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Post by RandallN on Nov 22, 2005 22:34:24 GMT -5
I'm glad this is doing so well especially at Hot AC.
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Nov 30, 2005 20:43:05 GMT -5
LOL. They're really trying to play up on the Christmas thing with this song. They just performed it on the Christmas At Rockefellar Center special.
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Post by That Skipping Rope. on Dec 4, 2005 14:54:06 GMT -5
I really do like this song. It reminds me of "Iris" a little bit.
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Post by Krypton46 on Dec 7, 2005 17:27:22 GMT -5
This is a vintage Goo Goo Dolls song. It's got that epic feel to it that "Iris" and "Black Balloon" had and I think it's just as good as the latter. I'm pleased to see this doing well on Hot AC and hopefully pop will eventually embrace this with open arms come 2006.
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Post by I Am Me on Dec 22, 2005 18:17:15 GMT -5
This song is just so awesome!
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Post by That Skipping Rope. on Jan 18, 2006 20:11:30 GMT -5
Starting to be one of my favorites on the radio.
I don't like or get the video, though.
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this ain't better than "Iris" 
