Since the track didn't do too well on U. S. radio, most fans think more radio-friendly songs from the album, like " Unconditional Love ", would have done better as the commercially released second single.

In the weeks before the album's release, the original first single " Birthday Girl ", a radio-friendly collaboration with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump was removed from the album reportedly because it didn't fit in with the album's tone.

Emerging out of the British electronic pop scene, Depeche Mode quickly asserted themselves as a radio-friendly pop group, and had hits with their next three singles, including the UK top ten single, " Just Can't Get Enough ".

The album Clues, produced by Palmer and featuring Chris Frantz and Gary Numan, generated hits on both sides of the Atlantic, first with the radio-friendly single " Johnny and Mary " and then " Looking for Clues ".

" A single, " So Many People ," received some radio play, but the side-two-filling " Ennea " suite, with its tightly chorded jazz arrangements and lyrics based on Greek mythology, was less radio-friendly.

Their second album Paging Mr. Strike was released in the same year, containing the band's most popular single, " Rollercoaster ", which displayed more radio-friendly lyrics and was used in a commercial for Just Jeans.

Concentrating mainly on heavier material than the radio-friendly singles output on Greatest Hits, the album is noted for the inclusion of the 1978 studio version of " Chip Away The Stone "-previously released only as the B-side to the 1978 single " Come Together ".

Both this album and the original The Chicago Transit Authority featured long recordings which were moderately popular on FM stations, but when Guercio edited several tracks down to a radio-friendly 3-minute length — including single versions of " Make Me Smile ," " 25 or 6 to 4 ," and " Beginnings " -- Chicago became a huge commercial success.

It is perhaps best known for the hit single " You Turn Me on I'm a Radio ", which Mitchell wrote sarcastically out of a record company request for a radio-friendly song.

The lead single " River of Life " did little to help album sales due to its lack of a radio-friendly sound ( that dominated South ) or commercial ability.

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For example, John Lodge had gone from writing powerfully reflective mystical or humanitarian themed pieces such as " House of Four Doors ", " Candle of Life " and " One More Time To Live " to quirkier items such as " Here Comes The Weekend ", " Rock and Roll Over You " and " Love is On The Run ( From Me )", while Hayward's songs seemed less the deeper drama of numbers such as " The Actor ", " Dawning is the Day ", " You Can Never Go Home ", " The Land of Make Believe ", etc., to pleasant ( and more radio-friendly ) perennial far simpler songs about lost love and romance (" Your Wildest Dreams ", " No More Lies ", " I Know You're Out There Somewhere " etc .).

In 1991, Simple Minds returned with a much more radio-friendly collection of their political concerns, Real Life.

Harlequin was arguably the most popular band to come out of Manitoba in the early 80s, producing several radio-friendly hits including " Sweet Things in Life ", " Innocence ", and " Superstitious Feeling ".

Conversely, the band's transition from lengthy, complex songs to more compact, simplistic, radio-friendly material was not welcomed by critics ; Rolling Stone's review of ... And Then There Were Three ... read: "... this contemptible opus is but the palest shadow of the group's earlier accomplishments.

Some saw Q-Tip's arguably radio-friendly material as pandering to the mainstream ; something his former group was highly respected for avoiding during their run.

Given that and record company pressure to record more accessible, radio-friendly material similar to their first album – something Lee, Lifeson and Peart were unwilling to do – the trio feared that the end of the group was near.

The album, produced by British producer Mark Wallis and recorded in Melbourne's Sing Sing studios, was a move away from the catchy, more radio-friendly pop sound of Pet.

Carpenter explained that, " When the record was released, I really believed there were several radio-friendly songs ... it has been since proven to me that is not exactly the case.

The music was radio-friendly, but with a progressive twist.

With the addition of Douglas, the band was moved in a more radio-friendly direction.

Around this time, Elektra Records was exerting pressure on the band to write concise, radio-friendly songs.

It was co-produced ( along with the band ) by Jerry Finn, who would later be successful producing albums for Blink-182, Alkaline Trio, and other radio-friendly artists.

Featuring a more rock-edged, radio-friendly sound than most of the material on Useful Music, the song peaked at # 22 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart in 2001, and was featured in an episode of the comedy series Scrubs ( season 1, episode 7, " My Super Ego ").

A second wave of punk pop was spearheaded by Blink-182, with their breakthrough album Enema of the State ( 1999 ), followed by bands such as Good Charlotte, Bowling for Soup and Sum 41, who made use of humour in their videos and had a more radio-friendly tone to their music, while retaining the speed, some of the attitude and even the look of 1970s punk.

They sent " Seether " to radio, as it was the most radio-friendly song they had written, and the reaction was unexpectedly positive.

Stylistically, the album was similar to the band's previous two releases, filled with straight-ahead rockers and garnished with radio-friendly ballads, but for the first time, the band experimented with synthesizers, shifting forever away from the Hammond B3 organ that had been prominent in previous records.

The album was not as radio-friendly as Mitchell's earlier work, and although it achieved initial commercial success, reaching number four on the charts and quickly going gold, contemporary reviewers were not entirely kind.

Another section of the song refers to a meeting the band had with the label's executives, where The Starting Line was asked to write more radio-friendly songs in the vein of New Found Glory's Catalyst ( 2004 ) and recreate " Best of Me " (" Just stay the same way / Do it like you did it before / Remain the same shape.

Light Fill My Room was a more polished, radio-friendly affair ; it had elements of Swirl's shoegazing sound, but also ballads and even a children's choir on one song.

The group's first album produced without Swillms, ... im nächsten Frieden (... in The Next Peace ), was released in 1990 shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and reflected a strong shift toward a radio-friendly pop rock structure.

It blended elements of radio-friendly rock with a more structurally ambitious approach taken from the band's progressive blueprint, with the fifteen-minute track " Endless Dream ".

In contrast, the 1982 album Der blaue Planet ( The Blue Planet ) sold more than 1. 3 million copies, propelled by its uptempo, radio-friendly title track referring to the looming dangers of nuclear and environmental cataclysm ( a topic of some popular concern at the time ).

Moreover, because of the limited airplay Rush's previous extended-length songs received, Permanent Waves included shorter, more radio-friendly songs such as " The Spirit of Radio " and " Freewill ", two songs that helped Permanent Waves become Rush's first U. S. Top 5 album ; both songs continue to make appearances on classic rock radio stations in Canada and the United States to this day.

They emulated the attitudes and music of grunge, particularly thick, distorted guitars, but with a more radio-friendly commercially-oriented sound that drew more directly on traditional hard rock.

After Nicholls ' departure, the band's style became increasingly commercial and radio-friendly — albeit without much success — on Nomzamo ( 1987 ) and Are You Sitting Comfortably?

In the 2000s, Carpenter's albums departed both thematically and musically from her early work, becoming less radio-friendly and more focused on societal and political issues.

**" Tracks that depend on false sentiment (...), that feature an excess of feeling molded into a radio-friendly pop song.

Mathers purposely made Infinites songs " radio-friendly " in hopes of getting on the air on Detroit radio stations.

It reached gold sales status despite having no radio-friendly tracks on the album.

That brief taste of mainstream success had a major influence on the band's next album, Between Heaven ' N Hell, which jettisoned most of the New Wave stylings of Hostage in favor of radio-friendly hard rock more akin to their Colours period.

Two songs, " All Lovers Are Deranged " and the more radio-friendly " Love on the Air ", were co-written by Gilmour and his longtime friend Pete Townshend of The Who ( Gilmour composed the music and Townshend wrote the lyrics ).

The album built on the themes introduced by its predecessor, from the artwork — again featuring electric guitars, this time doubling as Star Wars-style spaceships — to the music, which again featured a mix of hard-driving rockers and radio-friendly ballads.

The album continues the band's sharp stylistic shift, begun on the preceding album Duke, toward a radio-friendly pop music sound.

Later on their music became more idiosyncratic shifting to a more radio-friendly sound close to that of befriended bands Bloc Party and Enon.

" Another type of " bad music " is " rock critical lists ," such as *" Tracks that feature sound gimmicks that have outlived their charm or novelty " and " Tracks that depend on false sentiment (...), that feature an excess of feeling molded into a radio-friendly pop song.

During their 1996 tour for Secaucus the band was offered a new long-term contract for over a million dollars, on condition that in the future they tailor their songs to a more radio-friendly sound.

The show focuses on a ranges of music, from radio-friendly acts such as Go It Alone, Stolen Youth and Miles Away, to smaller more obscure act such as Hospital The Musical, Bad Day Down, Robotosaurus, This City Sunrise and R. A. D.