Frog Album Promo 1999 RCA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- 1999 RCA promotional video for the ill-fated sophomore self-titled release.
This video was intended to get the RCA sales team hyped up on the album which was going to be released within a few months.
Many of you have heard me talk about the experience with Michael Beinhorn - now you can put a face with the name (notice the giant copper cage behind him - that's where AJ spent 12 days getting guitar tones. (Apparently, the copper cage blocked out the frequencies from the NYC taxi radios.))
Blow You Away (the song I wrote with Andy Partridge of XTC) never made it to the final album, but it's featured prominently here. You'll also see the absolute beginning of 1229 Sheffield-just me playing a few chords.
Very cool!!! Thanks for sharing.
You bet Forest!
Love this!
Glad you dig it Brian!
So handsome and cute back then! And still. :)
This was and still is my favourite album - great from start to finish but highlights for me were She Loves Everybody, Hero, Generations and then the last three songs were just among the best ever written - Half a Mind, She Has Faces and one of my all time favourites - La La.
My feeling it was just the fickle music industry that doomed the album in terms of commercial and critical success. To these ears the songs were magnificent, the melodies superb, the lyrics evocative. As an album it was tight and cohesive, and for me this Verve Pipe lineup (no surprises that it was the same personnel as the also fantastic Villains album) was magical in terms of chemistry and overall sound with each member an essential part of it.
It saddens me that this album doesn't get the plaudits it deserves.
I appreciate that Rifai!
@@thebrianvanderarkchannel2408 And I appreciate you BVA, for all your music which has accompanied me through the years.
From the song Myself (Villains, on cassette tape) speaking to me as I was in an oneiroid state when I was a troubled adolescent, through to If I Could Make You Feel (Parachute on mp3 purchased off itunes) resonating as an adult negotiating the peaks and troughs of marriage, and for all the songs in between - I take my hat off to you for being the voice of the soundtrack of my life.
The album was not as good as Villains but still a great album. I know the band isn’t the biggest fan of it but it and all of the verve pipe albums have always been in heavy rotation in my life.
On the contrary this album has really grown on me over the years. Sometimes you just have to step away from the music - listening years later, I really do like it. Thanks for your comment!
@@thebrianvanderarkchannel2408 Without sounding like a fanatic weirdo, Brian, just let
me say since you’re hopefully reading this - You guys music has continued to move me time and time again. It’s a damn shame most people only know the hits. You’ve impacted my life (and others) in ways you will never know. Thank you.
@@mr.serious2618 He don’t care bro lol