| AP-Racing 27.10.2008 13:54 |
We Believe was released to radio stations as digital single on Friday last week by EMI Germany. The song was shortened to 3:40 mins by omitting most of the first verse (like they play it live) and cutting later. Sadly, no advertising, not even additional informations from EMI to the release. Few chance for airplay, I'm afraid. The EMI bosses should learn to work like a record company! |
| Walter B. 27.10.2008 15:39 |
Where did you found this information please? Any chance of a link? |
| Penetration_Guru 27.10.2008 17:00 |
link |
| onevsion 27.10.2008 22:53 |
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| August R. 28.10.2008 10:31 |
I hope these guys get the writing royalties from We Believe as well. link |
| AP-Racing 28.10.2008 16:03 |
Ehhh...We Believe - dead for me after that |
| Hank H. 28.10.2008 16:53 |
August R. wrote: I hope these guys get the writing royalties from We Believe as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_2bnAA9wjw&feature=relatedAmazing. My respect for Brian as a songwriter is going down, down, down. And they even have the impudence to release it as a single?? That's much worse than the Tenacious D rip-off that is c-lebrity's guitar riff. And the Lovin' Spoonful song is much nicer. |
| john bodega 29.10.2008 03:10 |
Say it's not true... I mean seriously, if I am to play devil's avocado here, "Call Me" is more radio friendly. |
| Hitman 29.10.2008 05:47 |
in my humble opinion, cosmos rockin' IS (i mean it should be) the single: it's title track, it's rock'n roll, it's fun, and with some money of investment it would become a great video!!!! why not? |
| Holly2003 29.10.2008 06:30 |
If true, this is a terrible choice for a single. It's only an average song anyway, but the main problem is that it doesn't have any catchy radio-friendly elements that would justify using it as a single. Brian May's ego perhaps over-ridng common sense? |
| Adam Baboolal 29.10.2008 12:37 |
August R. wrote: I hope these guys get the writing royalties from We Believe as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_2bnAA9wjw&feature=related What a joke! It bears little resemblance to We Believe. We're not talking about Coldplay's viva la vida song, which happens to resemble 2-3 different songs. I look forward to hearing if WB is coming as a single as it's my fav song. Adam. |
| Michael Allred 29.10.2008 14:28 |
Zebonka12 wrote: Say it's not true... I mean seriously, if I am to play devil's avocado here, "Call Me" is more radio friendly. To *country* music radio, sure but not mainstream radio, not even close. |
| Lord Fickle 29.10.2008 17:28 |
I was right then! [img=/images/smiley/msn/wink_smile.gif][/img] |
| john bodega 29.10.2008 21:16 |
Michael Allred wrote:Zebonka12 wrote: Say it's not true... I mean seriously, if I am to play devil's avocado here, "Call Me" is more radio friendly.To *country* music radio, sure but not mainstream radio, not even close. I dunno. I heard something on the radio last week that was certainly on that side of the country fence, but then I do live in Australia and this place shouldn't even have radio sometimes, I swear. Put it this way; if you can have that Kid Rock cocksucker ripping off Sweet Home Alabama (a shit song to begin with) and having it on the radio on a regular basis (again, I think this country should sell all of it's radio stations) then I don't see "Call Me" being that outlandish. I don't even like the song that much but at least it's not "We Believe". Ha-ha What I was getting at is that neither song is really a good single, I think. Surely if you had to pick one, you'd go with the one that's shorter, the one that doesn't take a thesaurus to sing along with. Actually... do they even need another single??? Who buys those things nowadays? |
| Fenderek 29.10.2008 21:38 |
WE BELIEVE would flop big time It's the single worst song they have EVER recorded... |
| joe90 30.10.2008 05:24 |
Jeez. I love the song. Especially Bri's solo. "Call Me" would be more radio friendly imo. Make's no difference what they release here in New Zealand though. Never heard Celebrity played once on any of the radio stations here, including the classic rock ones. Great record company you've got there boys! |
| AlexRocks 30.10.2008 13:16 |
Just further evidence that Brian May is out of touch with reality. |
| breakthru50 30.10.2008 19:40 |
Excellent choice as a single. One of my faves on the album although I would have released 'Small' before 'We Believe'. |
| Lord Fickle 30.10.2008 20:23 |
As I said elsewhere, We Believe may not be my favourite track off the album, but it's 100 times better than Surf's Up.., and it also has a bit of a Christmassy sort of feel to it, so I think it's a commercially well timed release. I also think it will get quite a bit of Radio 2 airplay, and I've already heard Johnny Walker playing it. Currently reserving judgement on the 3:40 edit, until I've heard it, but traditionally, single edits haven't all been wonderful, and I hope this isn't just hacked in half for the sake of it. It's a shame they couldn't have put out the full version, as Queen have released long singles in the past, but I guess WB is a bit repetetive for over six minutes of airplay. |
| Fenderek 31.10.2008 05:47 |
Lord Fickle wrote:
but I guess WB is a bit repetetive for over six minutes of airplay.
A BIT??? It's about 4 minutes TOO long! ;0 There's NOTHING happening in that track, NOTHING... plain boring, from start to finish. Yeah, Queen released some long singles- but NO-ONE in their right mind is going to compare WE BELIEVE with BORHAP and INNUENDO, are they? ;) Anyway- apparently according to Radio 2 the next single is CALL ME. Maybe they are not that out of touch with reality as we thought? ;) |
| Lord Fickle 31.10.2008 05:59 |
Well, Call Me is even more repetitive than We Believe! [img=/images/smiley/msn/confused_smile.gif][/img] Also, it's not being performed live, whereas WB is. |
| April 03.11.2008 14:13 |
Small should be another single, this would be the best choice. We Believe is rather dull. I don't like it that much. |
| ITSM 07.11.2008 10:17 |
I have not heard anything from the Cosmos Rocks on the radio here in Norway... But when I was on vacation in Italy, I heard a commercial on the radio for the new album. |
| Grantcdn1 08.11.2008 01:29 |
Why are some people blaming Brian for the choice of a single? Unfortunately it seems that they have no real choice here.... the decision to do NO Promotion is the record company the record company will decide if and when a second single will come out and what it is.... they'll get input from the band....and the band may veto......but they won't get to pick the single and promotion $ the real shame is no videos........that really kills promotion |
| Rick 08.11.2008 08:48 |
I think they could make a VERY nice promo video for Small. |
| atg2001 08.11.2008 10:39 |
Whereas with Queen you have 4 people pulling in four different directions fighting for their songs to be singles, these days you've got a three people consensus which means nobody is arguing an opposite corner. Thats a problem with a lot of the QPR stuff I think which leads to poor singles choices and quite bland studio out-put. Queen's biggest asset in many ways was that it was four egos and four individuals competing against each other. they've lost that now with Brian, Roger and Paul all being seemingly on the same page and all being very agreeable in their old age. |
| iron eagle 08.11.2008 16:27 |
a nice vid montage could be used for 'we believe' but they wont do that (cant believe i admitted that) think its not a very good choice for a single IMO though--its a bit to preachy for my taste... i would choose TCR's, SB and TTS myself as single choices--heck Warboys would be better then 'WB'--- but dont listen to me i'm just the buying public.... |
| Saint Jiub 09.11.2008 11:49 |
Although I am not a fan of Obama, I feel that We Believe might have been an appropriate single after Obama's presidential election victory. Viva Hope-ium, LOL. I am not crazy about We Believe either, but after one week without Queen in India (great country, I love it), I still cannot get that bloody song out of my head (and I only had The Cosmos Rocks for 3 days). However, even though I am in India on business, I plan on briefly having indirect "contact" with Freddie in Panchgani on Tuesday. By the way, I like Call Me (one of the better songs on an ordinary album) and think that it is also an appropriate single. |