It's been said that the band Madness made A&R decisions with dozens of people. But even if that's not true, then let's follow in that tradition. Since I'll likely be only making one music video from each of my last three albums, I'm curious what people would pick as "the lead single" from those albums. I have my ideas, but if anyone has a suggestion for which songs from Noisy And Not So Noisy, Gang Of Foreigner, and Fallout Shelter Ran Out Of Beer are most worthy of emphasis, or conducive to a video, then please get in touch. You can send me an email or just tell me when you run into me in the next few days or post a comment here (due to weeding out of spam comments, your comment won't appear instantaneously, but I will get it and post it when I have a chance to review it, unless it's spam or something else not for publication, of course). So, in review, please pick one song from each of my last three albums. It could be your favorite. It could be what you consider the best one. It could be the one you consider the most commercial (if that's how you roll, then you probably do work in A&R for a record company!). It could be the one you think would make for the best visuals. Whatever it is, then please let me know your picks and your reasoning behind them. I'd love to make a video for every song, but it's clear I don't have the time to do that, so a more traditional approach to videos will be pursued in the future. I'm not interested in making AI crap or a lyrics video just to have a video. They should be art in their own way and not just an advertisement for the album. Given my zero dollar video budgets, I doubt I'll be making anything like "Thriller", "Come As You Are", "Why Can't I?", or "Manchild" (and, yeah, something like "Never Lose That Feeling" might be a better song than any of those, but which video would you rather watch?), but it should be fun. I try to avoid the band playing videos (I don't mind those when the musical act is actually playing live, but as videos go, they're kind of boring), preferring little films with interesting visuals thematically at least related to the song or song's subject (though if the visuals are strong enough, then I'll chuck the thematic constrains). So, please let me know your picks if so inclined. If you don't know the albums, then you can find them a variety of places such as Soundcloud, Spotify, or Bandcamp!
P.S./ Thanks to Cleveland Magazine for including me on their latest locals playlist on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6QOM5aEfcGTFM94O7EPEBh


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