Vinyl Me Please Essentials

[Jan]

We’ve had Pop/R&B exclusives like TLC, NAO, J.Lo etc, but have never had an R&B/Pop Essentials ROTM! I don’t think VMP will do it, and if they ever did, they would never choose Mariah Carey’s Rainbow ! That’s way too controversial! Music Box would be less controversial, but would still very much surprise me. Emotions and Butterfly would surprise me less, but I’d still be surprised that VMP made a Mariah Carey album and Essentials ROTM!

Mariah Carey’s Rainbow as a store exclusive wouldn’t be surprising at all however, especially after VMP making Jennifer Lopez’ J.Lo a store exclusive!

Probably more likely than some of the other wishes floating around in this thread

 

[duke86fan]

I cultivated my friendships in high school based on whether they or not they liked John Mayer.

OK I'm done.

i guess you made a few forum enemies with the defense of john mayer

 

[gouis]

The cool/rich kids in your high school liked adult contemporary music? Wheeeeeeeere exactly are you from?

A super white rich suburb. It was terrible.

 

[gouis]

i guess you made a few forum enemies with the defense of john mayer

Did you read anything I said? I didn’t defend that twit

 

[duke86fan]

Did you read anything I said? I didn’t defend that twit

No I meant the group that are defending him (detabably including me) will no longer be your friends

 

[Waitressboy]

I dunno I think it may happen. We're overdue for a Pop/R&B exclusive.

But yes, I completely agree Music Box would be the weakest Choice. Butterfly is much better but in terms of sales Music Box was by far the biggest and this is VMP we're talking about, it honestly wouldn't surprise me if they did Rainbow...

Or...

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

The cool/rich kids in your high school liked adult contemporary music? Wheeeeeeeere exactly are you from?

This is not off base at all, in my small Midwestern home town the cool/jock kids were big into music that their older brothers that were in frats listened to. John Mayer was more Ernest acoustic Room For Squares era Mayer but yeah it definitely fit the bill.

 

[scotthilk]

I like John Mayer. I don't support a lot of the things he said in past interviews, media, etc. That being said, I dig this album and the music on it. I still probably won't buy it because I won't spin it much!

 

[mdmost]

Continuum?

 

[Ghost]

Continuum?

Guessing it’s a “Gravity” clue

 

[gouis]

No I meant the group that are defending him (detabably including me) will no longer be your friends

If you’re not gonna be my friend because I said John Mayer sucks I dont know what to say

 

[Enaz Fox]

I wonder if this was a trade-off for doing the Dead Anthology. Access to the Dead but you'll have to put up a Mayer record. No idea but it's always been interesting to me how they pick AOTMs and how they gain access to them.

I just got an ad on instagram today trying to get me to be one of the first 3,000 so I could get that limited slipmat with the Anthology still. As soon as I saw Mayer was going to be a choice, I thought it was to try and pull in more of his crowd to maybe jump on that box because of Dead and Co. Not a fan of the guy as a person and don't enjoy his voice with the Dead songs.

All of that said this is probably the solo album of his that I'd go with if I was a trying to make a case of it being "essential".

 

[Jan]

Continuum?

So continuum confirmed. If you google Space time continuum you get a bunch of similar pictures.
See Resultados da Pesquisa de imagens do Google para https://ds055uzetaobb.cloudfront.net/brioche/uploads/TEkx320X9K-spacetime_curvature.png?width=1200

 

[gouis]

This is not off base at all, in my small Midwestern home town the cool/jock kids were big into music that their older brothers that were in frats listened to. John Mayer was more Ernest acoustic Room For Squares era Mayer but yeah it definitely fit the bill.

I think it’s hard for people to understand that didn’t go to high school in the early 2000s

 

[supahypeag]

I think it’s hard for people to understand that didn’t go to high school in the early 2000s

Did you want to run through the halls and scream at the top of your lungs?

 

[duke86fan]

If you’re not gonna be my friend because I said John Mayer sucks I dont know what to say

no we still friends you just said your old friendships were dependent on if they liked john mayer or not so i was confused

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I think it’s hard for people to understand that didn’t go to high school in the early 2000s

Listened to Mayer (amongst others) wore white college “the game” baseball caps with double entendre type names embroidered across the front with the likes of “Cocks” or “Beavers” on em. heavily clad in Abercrombie & Fitch, the “non-punk” Doc Martens and probably a giant hog of wintergreen Skol tucked into their lower lip.

 

[CrazyDiamond84]

Also 36 from a rich suburban high school. Dave Matthews was the biggest thing for the popular crowd, and it made me hate them so much. That changed after going to a few shows after hs though, and luckily it was split with a hippy crowd.

 

[Urbs_hott]

I think it’s hard for people to understand that didn’t go to high school in the early 2000s

I’m 37 so went to high school around the same time as you. The cool kids listened to rap and rock. I listened to John Mayer.....begrudgingly in the grocery store that I worked in at the time, on the occasional elevator and for as few seconds as possible after starting my moms car if she was the last one driving it and the radio was tuned into her station.

 

[scotthilk]

I think it’s hard for people to understand that didn’t go to high school in the early 2000s

This is a great point. HS class of 2005 here.