TS: Belly's "Star" vs Belly's "King"

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I should probably check out Belly properly one day... I never liked any of the quite poptastic singles as much as anything Tanya did *in* t'Muses though.

I imagine Belly were selling a little better than Throwing Muses at that point (circa "Limbo")? Am I wrong stats people? Who also broke up due to declining sales leading to not even covering touring costs, at least that was the official statement.

― da mystery of sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that's the reason I heard for TM becoming a less active concern (& I think the same thing's scuppering 50 Foot Wave as well, unfortunately). I think TM realized their best sales @ the same time that Belly broke (circa University - "Bright Yellow Gun" was all over the place @ one point), but Belly was "new" & exciting & probably got more of a push as a result.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I choose Star. It remains one of the few albums I listen to all the way through - even in the all new mp3 compulsive track skip noughties.

― onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I think TM realized their best sales @ the same time that Belly broke (circa University - "Bright Yellow Gun" was all over the place @ one point),

"Bright Yellow Gun" peaked at #20 on the Modern Rock Chart, which is odd considering how omnipresent it seemed the spring of '95.

Speaking of the Muses, I remember some of the promotion for University consisted of reminding people that "Hey! This is the band the Belly chick used to be part of!" This no doubt irked Kirsten Hersh.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm wrong re: University selling well, given that it was TM's last album for Sire / Reprise - they (KH, really) hopped over to Rykodisc for Limbo (& the In a Doghouse collection, I think) after that. Of course, University hit just as the alt.rock boom was petering out, so that probably didn't help any.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

from a Britisher perspective no way was University anything like as "big" (relatively speaking) for them as the time around The Real Ramona and it's respective singles...

― da mystery of sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm being a Ameri-jingo! Jingerican! MORANS!

http://lawwww.cwru.edu/faculty/friedman/raw/images/American%20Flag.jpg

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe University was more American

― Surmounter (Awn, R), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

We yanks love guns.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

haha right

― Surmounter (Awn, R), Thursday, 15 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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