On 15 Jul 2002 at 10:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyway, Wilco is superb and what makes > YHF even funnier is that the brainthrobs at Reprise wouldn't even > release it, they kicked it back to Wilco as being unacceptable. Proves > once again how out of touch the suits are! > Well, that's not quite fair. It's not that they didn't think it was unacceptable or great; they rejected it for not being commercial. They didn't think it would at least go platinum, and they're right - it won't. It has a slim chance of going gold. In the world of the majors were their multinat corporate parents are pressuring them to deliver a certain return on marketing dollars spent every quarter, every year and every career, the stakes are very high. And seeing as how the band had already put out three albums with the label without a huge breakthrough, the parting of ways was best for both. Nonesuch is a more appropriate label for the band to be with. The big lesson with YHF in my book is that despite the fact that all the tracks were streamed from the band's web site and were readily available on Napster and other p2p networks for more than a year before the CD was released, YHF still became the band's bestseller with all other things relative to their prior releases being fairly equal - no video in heavy rotation on MTV, college and some commercial radio play and touring. B n.p.: Lalah Hathaway & Joe Sample - "One Day I'll Fly Away" -------------------------------------------- "Radio has no future" - Lord Kelvin, 1897
