The Script released their debut self-titled studio album, The Script, in 2008. The album went to number one in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. It also reached the top ten in Australia and Sweden, and peaked at number 19 on the US Top Heatseekers chart.
The Script's debut single, "We Cry", peaked in the top 10 of the Irish and Danish charts. It was followed by their most successful single from their first album, "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", which reached number two on the Irish, Danish and UK singles charts. "Breakeven" was then released; peaking at number three in Australia and number 10 in Ireland.
The Script is the debut album by Irish pop rock trio the Script, which was released in the Republic of Ireland on 8 August 2008 and was released in the UK on 11 August 2008 by Phonogenic Records.[1] Following success in the Republic of Ireland, the album was released elsewhere in Europe in September 2008. The album topped the UK charts and peaked at number 64 on the US Billboard 200 on 4 March 2010.[2] The album was nominated for a Choice Music Prize-Irish Album of the Year 2008.[3][4][5]
The album was met with mixed reviews from music critics. Timothy Powell of the BBC stated that the album "reveals a band that is fresh, vital and ferociously good." He went on to say that the Script are now positioned as "next big thing" and that the album entails "hip-hop, pop melodiousness, state-of-the-art production and anthemic rock." His overall summary was that the album is "Intelligent, beautifully crafted and compelling."[14] Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the album 3/5 stars while saying it was often "devastatingly effective" and that "A lot of people are going to hate the Script, a lot of people are going to love the Script."[8]
The German WOM magazin monthly went as far as writing: "Eigenstnding und originell ist anders. The Script bringen die Misere der Musikindustrie auf den Punkt. (Independent and original [music] is different. The Script points out the music industry's demise.)"[15] The album has mixed reviews in MTV Asia, which has praised "O'Donoghue's vocals are a pleasurably unique aural experience" though it also comments that, as a whole, "the album plays across a flat plane, with no big leaps, but no huge letdowns either."[16] AllMusic's Alexey Eremenko said that the album was "not reckless or fuzzy enough [to be] power pop"; instead the closest discernible influence was the rock style of U2.[6]
Following the success of "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", The Script entered the UK Albums Charts at number one with sales of 54,520 copies where it stayed for two weeks. The album spent eight weeks in the top ten and was the twelfth best selling album in the UK of 2008. The album also entered the Irish Album Chart at number one, holding the top spot for five weeks.[17] It had, of January 2009, spent twenty two weeks in the top ten. The Irish office of Sony BMG music presented the group with their first multi-Platinum award disc for over 600,000 sales of The Script. On Sunday, 18 January 2009, the album went back up to number 1 in the UK Album Charts, a whole 5 months since it was first released, mainly because of the 3.95 deal on iTunes. Though released in 2008, the album was the 198th best-selling album in 2010 in the USA.[18] It has so far spent over 174 weeks in the UK albums chart.
Five singles were released from The Script. The first single that released from the album was "We Cry". The song peaked at #13 on the UK Singles Chart. It was followed by the second single, "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", which peaked at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the Script's highest-charting single until "Hall of Fame" topped the charts in 2012. In December 2008, the Script released "Breakeven" as their third single from the album. It peaked at number 21 on the UK chart. The Script then released "Talk You Down" in 2009, as the fourth single from the album. However, the single failed to reach the success of the album's first three singles, missing the UK Top 40 and only peaking at number 47. "Breakeven" was released in fall 2009 in the United States and the Script performed it live on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on 14 October 2009.[19] "Breakeven" then went on to peak at 12 in the US where it was also certified Platinum for shipment of 1,000,000 copies. "Breakeven" was also released in Australia where it peaked at number 3 and was certified Platinum.
In May 2009, the Script confirmed that a fifth single would be released from the album. "Before the Worst" was released on 15 June 2009 in the UK. It peaked at number 96 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the lowest charting single from The Script in the UK. In Australia, it peaked at number 10 and was certified Platinum.
I ended up playing around with the default script a bit because I loved the way it handled things but I too wanted the (YEAR) before albums. I have tested and used this one on my entire library without issue
That is, firstly the original year when the album was released (from original release date or original year tag) and, between brackets the current release date (date tag), be it a year, year-month or year-month-day.
Your second $if2 has been so clarifying, and those 0000 and ---- so useful at the same time. Great! I have made a couple of minor edits to your code to better suit my needs in regard to the original date and original year variable length and order. I had to escape the brackets, though, for it to work in Debian. Do not know whether it applies to other platforms as well.
I've been trying to scrape a publicly-shared photo album I have on Google Photos: sharing the album provides a link along the format of photos.app.goo.gl/SOME_ID. The goal is to be able to retrieve the individual photo URLs (the URLs that don't expire, following the format lh3.googleusercontent.com and which can then be embedded onto any other website within an tag).
However, the response doesn't display any of the images as if the page would instead need to be loaded some more, even though I'm testing this on an album with just 2 photos. If I inspect the page manually, I can clearly see the images + image links along the lh3.googleusercontent.com format. What should I change to my fetch request?
UrlFetchApp.fetch() returns an HTTPResponse object within Apps Script which contains Headers, HTML Content and other information such as the HTTP response code, as if the page was being fetched and loaded via a browser. There is also a set of URL Fetch limits as detailed on the Quotas for Google Services page which result in you getting a truncated response for sufficiently large pages.
The Photos API however has methods which are specifically designed for the purpose you are describing, and this data can be retrieved from the mediaItems REST resource. Bear in mind however, that this returns all photos and not ones that are in a specific album; further processing would need to be done from there.
After creating a new project in the Developers Console, you need to enable the Photos API from the APIs & Services > Library menu item, and then link it to your Apps Script Project by going to the script UI and following Resources > Cloud Platform project. Add the project number of the project just created in the Developer's Console and press Set Project.
Delete records using Automation. I want to move data from Table A > Table B. Currently there's no way without scripting to be able to do such a simple operation. Given that you can right click to delete a record, I'm shocked that this basic functionality is missing.
Photos does not have an Unfiled album. Meaning, a listing of all of the photos that have not been organized. I have a large library and want to keep it organized the way that I want. However, without a Camera Roll on the iPad or iPhone, I do not know which are new and haven't been placed.
Here is where it gets interesting and tough for me. I would like to keep an active Script that every so often, maybe once per night, reads my Unfiled Smart Album, copies it to a regular Album called Unfiled. This will then get pushed through to iOS. Thus, I will know what needs to be organized. Then, once I file that photo...I want to delete it from the Unfiled Album so I don't have two versions and can keep my Unfiled album clean.
Just select the smart album wwith photos not in any album to be synced to the iPhone or iPad you want. There's no need to move, copy, delete, or anything else. The smart album will be updated with every sync.
In summer 2014 I went to the states with The Script for a couple of weeks to capture both live and behind the scenes material. It was a great chance to get a lot of new images that could be used for the tour programme and social media, but also a chance to get creative given that I knew I had the time to try out new things.
Over the course of the trip Mark had showed me the in progress artwork for the new album cover and it gave me a feel for what they were going for. We chatted about how it would be great to try and capture something between shows that matched the feel for the album. The issue was that between each show we would hop on the tour bus and drive through the night to the next show, and given the quality of photos needed, I was fairly sure I was going to need a studio to get the right photos. Fast forward a couple of days after the initial chat Mark and I had, we were chatting again and both simultaneously had an idea about using some laser lights to get the look we needed. We immeditaly got the runner at one of the venues to buy some laser lights at a night club supply warehouse and installed them on the bus. We then closed every blind on the bus, made sure it was parked in a shadowed area, started up a smoke machine and turned on the lights. That first photoshoot was just Mark and myself, and here is one of the shots from the first attempt.
After looking through all the shots over the next day or so at any moment that we could, and deciding on the best technique for the shots with Danny & Glen, I proceeded to do two more shoots, one for Danny and one for Glen. Below you can find a couple of shots from those shoots.
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