Weirdest decision?

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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,135
    HesCalledDyer said:

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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,513
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    This band has made lots of weird decisions over the years. Weird isn't necessarily bad though. Many have been mentioned here but I always think of:

    The Target deal and commercial.
    Who You Are as the first single off of No Code
    Nothing as it Seems as the first single of of Binaural
    Re-recording several vocal tracks for Lost Dogs and other tinkering
    No videos after Jeremy (until much later) - that was pretty weird at the time
    Not releasing anything from PJ20
    Lyric change on Who You Are for the reissue
    Private show for corporate event (Oracle)
    Releasing every show from 2000 was a very weird thing to do at the time, but awesome
    The 1995 Tour Movie
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
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    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
    PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,492
    edited September 2016
    Flagg said:

    This band has made lots of weird decisions over the years. Weird isn't necessarily bad though. Many have been mentioned here but I always think of:

    The Target deal and commercial.
    Who You Are as the first single off of No Code
    Nothing as it Seems as the first single of of Binaural
    Re-recording several vocal tracks for Lost Dogs and other tinkering
    No videos after Jeremy (until much later) - that was pretty weird at the time
    Not releasing anything from PJ20
    Lyric change on Who You Are for the reissue
    Private show for corporate event (Oracle)
    Releasing every show from 2000 was a very weird thing to do at the time, but awesome
    The 1995 Tour Movie

    I think Ed also performed at a private Salesforce conference.
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  • densan
    densan Posts: 563
    I had some of the same thoughts as others have posted. I thought about it more, and wtf business is it of mine. none, poll is cool but the merchandise, and Ed playing corp stuff is his business not ours my opinion. I'm glad all of us can state our thoughts. Who gives a rats ass if either of us thinks differently. That is a good thing. My observations are that Ed and band have demonstrated through the years how generous and caring they are. I just have a gut feeling that the net goes to charities, and they are private and do not need the press to say your a great guy (band.) Seems to fit their MO.
    Thanks for your time.
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  • densan
    densan Posts: 563
    Crap. most of the stuff I say and think turns out to be wrong. So disregard. Someone stole my password and posted that. damn good thing I saw it. Just kidding. Kind of stupid but happy.
    Be different & make a difference. Decency & kindness @ a grassroots level works.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,720
    Choosing to play Olé on national television
    mcgruff10 said:

    HesCalledDyer said:

    Mail Innovations

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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,720
    Choosing to play Olé on national television
    I also agree that playing that Oracle party was a really weird (and bad) decision.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,720
    Choosing to play Olé on national television
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo

    Yikes, lol. Never saw that because we don't have Target in Canada. That's pretty lame.
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  • weddingparade
    weddingparade Posts: 1,179
    2-feign-reluctance said:

    Love Ole!

    no you don't
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,513
    PJ_Soul said:

    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo

    Yikes, lol. Never saw that because we don't have Target in Canada. That's pretty lame.
    Old people trying to be hip.
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  • lolobugg
    lolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,195
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo

    Yikes, lol. Never saw that because we don't have Target in Canada. That's pretty lame.
    Old people trying to be hip.
    don't talk about @Wobbie like that.

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,840
    lolobugg said:

    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo

    Yikes, lol. Never saw that because we don't have Target in Canada. That's pretty lame.
    Old people trying to be hip.
    don't talk about @Wobbie like that.
    Broke a hip?
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  • bootleg
    bootleg Posts: 1,209
    Having an avocado against a blue gradient as their album cover
    I'm ok with the Avacado album art, I think the "weirder" descision was to self title the Album. Either that or naming Lightning Bolt the same as one of the tracks. I just like Album titles so these ones were a bit disappointing.
  • ryph raph
    ryph raph Posts: 887
    Playing " THE END" in public.
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  • pjalive21
    pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    edited September 2016
    Choosing to play Olé on national television
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo

    Wow never saw that....yikes!

    question is did that even help at all?

    EDIT: looking back at old threads it actually did help as it went 500,000 units in 6 months in the US don't know what it is now so I guess the Target partnership did help

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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,135
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo

    My god that s terrible.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    I agree lol
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,913
    Choosing to play Olé on national television
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QYAWXK7fo

    I get uncomfortable just watching that. So lame.
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Really not that bad. Its part of the Fixer video right?

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