GrandOmegaBoss Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Never heard it. Wouldn't expect it to, due to it's genre but mostly due to the fact that it's not really a single anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonisdead Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Wouldn't expect it to, due to it's genre but mostly due to the fact that it's not really a single anyway Well it is, at least in the sense of being a promotional single, but now that it's going to be released as part of a double A-side single makes that more apparent now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandOmegaBoss Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Well it is, at least in the sense of being a promotional single, but now that it's going to be released as part of a double A-side single makes that more apparent now. Is the double A-side confirmed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudia O Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Is the double A-side confirmed? Amazon says so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyndris Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 The radio station 3FM here plays Psycho now and then. Haven't heard Dead Inside anywhere yet. Also some friends of mine all know Psycho as 'the new Muse single' but haven't even heard of Dead Inside. So yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I feel odd saying T2L didn't have "staying power" when Madness was so utterly, insanely successful for such an extended period of time (in the US, at least.) Maybe just that the way people buy music has changed to such a vast degree that single songs will far outstrip the albums at times. I also feel like Madness started really slowly on radio. Was big in larger, more trendy markets, but fell off rotation entirely in many other areas, and came back with a vengeance. So, DI still has hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uccellino Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I think Psycho got a couple of plays on Radio 1. Annie Mac might have played it on her show that replaced Zane Lowe. Dead Inside has had more airplay though. I think TSL wasn't playlisted at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonisdead Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I feel odd saying T2L didn't have "staying power" when Madness was so utterly, insanely successful for such an extended period of time (in the US, at least.) Maybe just that the way people buy music has changed to such a vast degree that single songs will far outstrip the albums at times. I also feel like Madness started really slowly on radio. Was big in larger, more trendy markets, but fell off rotation entirely in many other areas, and came back with a vengeance. So, DI still has hope. It didn't stay in the charts for very long, dropped way down in the charts when it did, and was more #2 in most places than #1. Also Madness charted for 40 consecutive weeks in the Billboard top 40, I don't really think that's "slow" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 It didn't stay in the charts for very long, dropped way down in the charts when it did, and was more #2 in most places than #1. Also Madness charted for 40 consecutive weeks in the Billboard top 40, I don't really think that's "slow" I assume you're talking about DI in the first part, and what I mean is, it still has plenty of time... They haven't done a stitch of promotional stuff for it yet, such as TV shows, even. And Madness didn't start out at number one, did it? I could be wrong, but I know it was slow in many markets, and that would be odd if it debuted and stayed at number one. I know for a fact it dropped to like 80th in rotation locally for a few weeks, and then was suddenly being played once an hour for months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonisdead Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I assume you're talking about DI in the first part, and what I mean is, it still has plenty of time... They haven't done a stitch of promotional stuff for it yet, such as TV shows, even. And Madness didn't start out at number one, did it? I could be wrong, but I know it was slow in many markets, and that would be odd if it debuted and stayed at number one. I know for a fact it dropped to like 80th in rotation locally for a few weeks, and then was suddenly being played once an hour for months. I was talking about T2L in the first part, and Madness did I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I was talking about T2L in the first part, and Madness did I believe. Ah, I see ya now. I still think the trend towards buying single songs digitally has hurt album sales to an extent, and it's a bit weird to say T2L was a bit of a failure when Madness was setting records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonisdead Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Ah, I see ya now. I still think the trend towards buying single songs digitally has hurt album sales to an extent, and it's a bit weird to say T2L was a bit of a failure when Madness was setting records. Yeah it definitely has. I think T2L was a weird case because it just wasn't as strong a record in the charts as TR, and Uprising was a pretty solid single that represented the success of the album, and both Uprising/TR were prominently featured in Apple advertisements around that time too which definitely helped with promo (although I don't really know why that happened but hey, good stuff). Madness just seemed like a one off chart "success" with Panic Station kind of flopping about, I don't think it really raised much interest in whether Muse had actually put out a new album. Uprising + Resistance + Undisclosed Desires all got pretty decent airplay and I feel like that album had more commercial appeal than T2L in the way it was presented. If Follow Me had been the second single rather than Panic Station then things might have been different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I think Follow Me would have been a strong second single in the US. It really fit in more with the current climate than Panic Station. They seemed pretty content to let the success of Madness ride, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Anyways, on the "greatest guy" thing... I hear that said, like, every single day. Not about themselves, of course, but by girls about their new boyfriends, guys about their guy friends, girls trying to get other girls to date their boyfriend's friend... So, the only thing a little awkward in the song is Matt apparently saying it about himself, but really it's done in a self-deprecating, sort of wistful way, that I guess it never bothered me. And it needed to sort of fit the rhyme scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonisdead Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Anyways, on the "greatest guy" thing... I hear that said, like, every single day. Not about themselves, of course, but by girls about their new boyfriends, guys about their guy friends, girls trying to get other girls to date their boyfriend's friend... So, the only thing a little awkward in the song is Matt apparently saying it about himself, but really it's done in a self-deprecating, sort of wistful way, that I guess it never bothered me. And it needed to sort of fit the rhyme scheme. Yeah, this. I read it as him feeling the pressure weighing down on him to keep up a façade, wanting to feel like that inside/in the esteem of his other again. And of course to highlight a stark contrast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleluman Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 it kinda annoys me that the bass drum/bass in the song are not perfectly centered, this seems to happen way too much with music. At first I thought my headphones were faulty, but a downmix from stereo to mono shows clearly that the bass frequencies are shifted somewhat to the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpypotato Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 It's a phrase which uses everyday vocabulary, so yes. I can think of a lot of phrases using everyday vocabulary that are total nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopix Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I can think of a lot of phrases using everyday vocabulary that are total nonsense. Okay.... But this one isn't total nonsense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonisdead Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I can think of a lot of phrases using everyday vocabulary that are total nonsense. Except it's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabriPav Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 It isn't "nonsense". It just is a bad lyric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I was really surprised at how many people dislike that line so much. It seems like such a neutral line, and it fits the song and theme just fine. And, I mean, doesn't involve someone's ass, a questionable reference to a Brazilian city, gas, or squeezing something out someone's lady parts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpypotato Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I almost wish it was total nonsense. At least then it might not be so painfully heavy handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Radiator Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I almost wish it was total nonsense. At least then it might not be so painfully heavy handed. Hear, hear! I'm happy with the rest of Dead Inside, even the repeated uses of "babe" (probably because of how often Simon Neil used it on Opposites, I'm just numbed to its cheesiness) but "greatest guy" is just horrific Wait a moment I think I've seen this lyric discussion in another thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentsatellite Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 The "babe" thing wasn't my favorite, but it seemed to only bother me the first time, watching the lyric video. I guess it's pretty unobtrusive in the actual song, and I don't hear it unless I'm listening for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbo Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 (edited) The whole "greatest line" guy feels just like a really quaint way to cap off the track and sum it up considering the rest of the song lyrically is fairly well constructed and on-point. I can see why it's considered by people to be so "standard" though. Edited April 14, 2015 by Carbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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