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seriously though... is it the stupid public's fault? or is he just not that good? do you think he'll ever have one? i'm not sure if he even wants to though, but imagine windowlicker had hit no.1! he would have gone green.. i remember reading in an interview that he said he'd like to do something like windowlicker again.. |
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*yawn* |
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fuck off |
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He was nominated for best male solo artist at the brit awards. |
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Yeah, I remember seeing that! How bizarre? Imagine seeing him skulk up to collect his award, in fact he wouldn't turn up would he. |
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I remember having this conversation many times in the past. Does it matter anyway? |
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if windowlicker was his best shot... ...then of course he never had a snowball's chance in hell. |
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I think that electronica just isn't a particularly easy 'genre' to market in the same way most of the popular stuff is. |
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having no lyrics seems to remove ~80% of your potential audience when it comes to pop however i'm pretty sure he doesn't give a shit |
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Windowlicker had great lyrics! |
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Not really, but half the posts on here are a load of bollocks imo. So I thought I'd join the club. |
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the headless monster perpetuates itself... but seriously folks... |
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I think Come to Daddy reached around number 14 on the charts, so he withdrew it for a short while so it would stop rising. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I know I've read it somewhere, can anyone else confirm this? From what I know, RDJ, much like myself and most of the people I know, doesnt like the charts. |
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Crazy, I didn't even know you could withdraw.. he obviously needed the charts initially though for £££ otherwise he wouldn't have relased it if he was just gonna withdraw it? That seems bizarre; he could have got even more £££! hmm. |
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not popular enough |
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Okay, I found something, this is a great interview... he says towards the end, Come to daddy reached 16 so he withdrew it for a week. So there you go. |
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Thanks, good interview that.. at least he seemed serious. |
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MEREDITH: Those tracks got into the mainstream? RICHARD: Pretty much. Come to Daddy was going to go well massive — not in America, but over here. It got to about 16 in the charts, and it was on the way to the top. I had to withdraw the record for a week, just so it would drop out again. I just about kept a lid on it. MEREDITH: Why would you do that? RICHARD: I think it's bad to be really well known, because you end up in people's faces whether they like you or not. That's a really horrible thought. The shittiest thing about famous people is that they just assume everyone wants to listen to them or look at them all the time. |
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flat beat by mr oizo reached number 1, that was electronica... |
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It was on the Levi's add though and had a more kid-friendly, gimmiky ball of shit in it. |
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i think he did rather well in england then, and on mtv.. |
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Because if you ask most people his music is shit. |
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there's a chance songs he produced came high on charts, at least that's what he implied..i'd sure like to know if that's true and hear what songs those were.. |
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yeah thats an interesting point. he certainly does imply that, but surely someone would know if it was a successful song? |
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i remember reading a long time ago he'd produce a song and use his mates names to place it on charts or something..could be just one more of his stories though.. |
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does anyone know where untilted reached in the album chart? it must have got somewhere,i'd say about 50 something |
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i heard that SAW2 reached the top 40, and was the only warp release ever to do so...but the source for that info may be outdated... |
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No. LFO freeze was the best selling electronic single of its year, and it got into the top fourty if I remember correct. I know BoC music has the right re-release went into the top 40 in vancouver, and 26 mixes was in the top 40 as well. |
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untilted got a positive review in the local (the hague) paper it said: though you cant dance to it, it's rooted in 80's hiphop and electro so they keep it light and approachable :D |
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what an insight! |
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maybe they got it out of the accompagning bio :) |
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i meant the british top 40 |
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LOL TOP40 |
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APhex UK Chart Positions SAW II 11 (3 weeks in chart) RDJ Album 62 (1 week) Drukqs 22 (1 week) Digeridoo 55 (2 wks) On 32 Ventolin 49 Girl / Boy 64 Come to Daddy 36 Windowlicker 16 |
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Dickie has topped the Melody Maker indie chart several times |
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i think he said he would never do something like windowlicker again.. |
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SAW2 reached eleven? |
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Drukqs 22 (1 week) over here things dont drop out off the chart that quick |
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didn't "On" get to number 10 in the indie charts? :) |
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Squarepusher put crowd sounds in Ultravisitor to make "stupid people" like it. He said that in a pretty funny interview recently. I am curious as to what positions various albums reach. Has Squarepusher ever got into the charts? Tracks like "My Red Hot Car" are no less accessable than Windowlicker and the like imo. |
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wot about autechre? have they ever done anything in the charts. |
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For the same reason my friends will not let me play any RDJ tracks in their presence. |
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the reason windowlicker did so well was purely due to the saturation of the video on mtv |
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"on" was played every day, in the afternoon when i first got mtv, by simone angel |
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i've often wondered about this too. I like aphex's music a lot. i play his stuff for my close friends, one or two of them like it, but the majority of them say it sound like porno music (esp astrobotnia/ovuca's stuff) where are the lyrics etc. so i guess it all depends on the person, they're not active music listeners...they'll just listen to the radio, they don't do research and analyze (over analyze) music like some of us do. and thats fine. its just heartbreaking in a way. but its also nice to enjoy music that only a few people know about. if they dig it, i share it with them if not...oh well. |
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LFO - LFO #12 Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco #14 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker #16 Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure #20 LFO - Every Other Time #24 Aphex Twin - On #32 Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy #36 Nightmares On Wax - Aftermath/I’m For Real #38 Think for WARP the trick is to name the song after the artist. |
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LFO - Every Other Time #24 Hehe, I think this is the other LFO... |
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