Worst Follow Up Single

[Traxan]

Surprised no one has said Buckcherry. They had a great revival with "Crazy Bitch" and the first single off the next album was a steaming pile of shit called "Too Drunk." Absolutely terrible.

[Wild Obsession]

Too Young To Fall In Love

Imo, TYTFIL is the best song on the album.
I never understood the appeal of Looks That Kill?

[CrankerBait]

I already voted on this song earlier today: "So Tired" by Ozzy.

A couple of others:

I liked David Bowie's "Blue Jean" when it came out, but the follow up single "Tonight" was pretty mediocre and boring. Most of the album was.

I like the song, but "Hangman Jury" was a weird choice to follow up "Dude (Looks Like a Lady") instead of "Angel" or "Rag Doll." Aerosmith did the same thing one the next album with "F.I.N.E." following "Love in an Elevator." I like the song, but a curious choice for second single. Didn't hurt either album in the end, right?

F.I.N.E. was not a single. The second single was Janie's Got a Gun.

It was apparently released as a promo single before "Janie's Got a Gun." I thought it was bullshit when a friend of mine mentioned it to me a few years ago, but it happened.

[Ozzy Stradlin]

And......not that it would have made a difference, but IMO Jetboys "Evil" is the weakest song on their 2nd album, never mind as a choice for the single/only video.

Absolutely.

“Stomp It”, “Groove Tube”, or “Moonlight” should have been the first single/video, followed by “Too Late”.

That said, the writing was probably on the wall for them, which was probably why Sami jumped ship.

[Chip Z'Hoy]

Something like this happened with Anthrax and Sound of White Noise, right? I want to say they wanted to follow up "Only" with "Black Lodge" but Elektra dragged ass on "Lodge" and put out "Room for One More" in the interim and it destroyed the momentum. He talks about it in his book but that was like 10 years ago (Neil Young vox:) and I'm getting old.

What's wrong with "Room for One More?" I love that track.

The whole album smokes, I think "Black Lodge" is the more obvious "hit."

I don't think there's a world where they were going to be Metallica but "Only" had a decent amount of heat and then a year later I saw "Lodge" on Beavis and Butt-head and that's it.

[Love_Industry]

Had to look it up but Give Me More Time was the 2nd single off Slide It In. Probably the weakest song on the album.

Wow. I Love that album, but barely remember that song...much less it being the second single

But looking at the wiki page, none of the first 3 single really make sense, nor do I remember it that way.

1.Guilty of Love
2.Give me More Time
3.Standing in the Shadows
4.Love Ain't no Stranger.


So Slow and Easy, Slide it in, or Gambler were never released. And Love Ain't No stranger was released over a year after the album came out ?

I recall hearing Slide it in and Slow and Easy non stop on the radio.

It was like this, and Guilty of Love was even released twice I think. I got the early version, produced by Eddie Kramer and with Gambler on the b-side, then got the album months later and was surprised how different it sounded. It was a minor hit in the UK but didn't chart in the US or anywhere else, and the same goes for singles #2 and #3. The biggest US hit was indeed Slow an' Easy, the 5th (!) and promo only single.

That said, Standing in the Shadows is a great song and should have been bigger. No wonder they re-recorded it for 1987 even if I prefer the Slide It In version.