BOC: Mirrors - Can You Dance to It?

[Stephen Swann]

Ted Jackson jr. EL84 writes:
>
> >> From:          John A Swartz <jswartz at MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG>
>
> > >Well, didn't Mirrors sell better than CE?
> >
> > I think it did - at least back then (probably still to this day - but I
> > don't have sales figures).  The Goldmine article mentioned this -
> > which kind of left BOC scratching their heads as the overall problem
> > with Mirrors appears to be it's lightness, so BOC makes the heaviest
> > album they had in several years, and it sold even worse... Maybe CE
> > suffered simply from Mirrors' lack of popularity (i.e. fans "gave up"
> > on BOC), or Columbia failed to promote the album, or other factors.  But
>
> I think that Mirrors probably did alienate some fans.  No idea how
> well Columbia got behind CE. Al?  But if that logic should hold, how
> can we explain FoUO's success?

Burnin' For You.

;-)

...and among s/f and heavy metal fans, the tie-ins with the Heavy
Metal movie, and the overall heaviness of _FoUO_.  In the days of
AOR, I heard no less than 5 songs from the album on the radio:
BfY, VotPW, JC, V:tP, and the title track.

Steve
swann at panix.com