Well, it’s not like there are a plethora of “cool” names out there. Kid Rock? A prominent rapper named after candy?
I like them, I will continue to like them.
Gift of Game was released about 3 years before Butterfly took off. It may take that long again before someone hears Changes or any of the other really good tracks on the album.
Drowning has been getting some radio play out here, and some video rotation, from what I hear.
Considering that I have heard their latest single on the radio, and seen the video on MTV, it is shocking they only sold 55,000 copies. The people who bought their first album weren’t the Ozzfest fans, so it’s not relevant that they were booed. But the people who did buy the first album should have bought more of the second one, unless they really hated it or something.
I don’t have to. The mere fact that “Butterfly” exists is enough to make me forever hate the “band” that performed it. It dosen’t matter if that song isn’t representative of their overall body of work - they did it, and it forever tarnishes them in my eyes.
Butterfly is a really horrible, annoying song, but I find it even more annoying because it totally rips off the Red Hot Chili Peppers song, Puff Daddy-style. Despite being little more than karaoke, I’ve seen Crazytown perform it “live” on MTV, holding guitars and such. What the instruments are used for is beyond me.
When Butterfly was popular, I started seeing “Shifty Shellshock” all over the place - in magazines, on MTV, etc. It really bothered me because I knew they were a one-hit wonder, and an undeserving one at that. Last fall I heard that they had a new album coming out, and I found myself hoping that it would fail miserably - call it schadenfreude if you will. I am very happy that it seems to have done just that.
Not to defend Kid Rock (I’m not a big fan, but I don’t actively hate him), I have heard him complain about how his goofy nickname stuck and how he thinks that it’s stupid. I’ve not heard “Shifty Shellshock” do the same.
And referring to them as “the Town”? Yikes.
I’m not sure, but it might be one of Aerosmith’s albums from their “lost years.” I’m thinking maybe “Rock in a Hard Place.” I remember (I think) reading an interview with Steven Tyler where he hyperbolized a bit and said that he thought that album sold about ten copies or so.
And add me to the list of people who have no idea who Crazy Town are or what “'Butterfly” is. And I do listen to rock-type radio. This sounds more “Top 40”-ish, though, from what people are saying.
I seem to remember that 19,000 unit figure being bandied about as the opening 3-month sales tally for Michael Jackson’s “HIStory” compilation.