Matchbox fuse as Subways go overground

80s will be back without going away!!

They have a huge fanbase so maybe they'll sign to a smaller label who actually care about them!!

Major labels confuse me. They delay the new 80s Matchbox album by like, what, six months? They release three singles from it before it comes out, in a time when the singles market is dead on its feet, and then finally release the album and then... drop the band.

Frankly, no wonder a lot of them are bleeding money from every angle. Ridiculous.

the subways are shit anyway.

So a band that doesn't deserve a deal has got one, and a great band has lost one.

Pfff. Thank God it's Friday.

Universal fucking BATTERY FARMED the Matchbox. They toured within an inch of their lives and had about two days off in the entirety of the time they were signed. I remember seeing them at Frog about six months ago and thought they looked jaded. Of course they'll be back, providing that Universal's lawyers don't have them in a financial stranglehold.

Can you imagine them having a 'proper' hit, anyway? If you want proper hits, don't sign a band that sounds like a pack of wolves dissecting Lux Interior's blackblooded corpse in a transylvanian graveyard at midnight.

Sign McFly.

Anyway, good luck to 'em.

actually knowing them, I can say that they could barely play or write a song before they signed to universal, they got their deal based on 'buzz' and their great live shows.. they may have been farmed but at the same time they wouldn't exist in the way they do if they hadn't had the opportunity of that sort of money. So they have certainly benefitted lots from their time on a major.

wank. i predicted this in the next band to be dropped thread. i didnt want it to come true!!!!!!!!!

"80s Matchbox have been dropped"

*Does celebration dance|*

JJ72??? Are you a retard or really thick? When will you learn never to open your mouth and embarrass yourself, I tell you what though that Il divo they don't half sound like the white stripes............

They the music choice for peadophiles and sadists

wha?

What's wrong with major labels, the Sex Pistols signed to EMI (alright they were dropped for being to controversial) and then then next biggest label until they hit Virgin.

They might of only had one album but it was probably one of the most important albums of all time, they where pioneers of a genre with countless bands basing themselves/drawing inspiration from them since.