It would be nice if the perfect singles of this era--and there are more than
a few--were played on the radio, but unfortunately, they aren't. And since
MTV wouldn't know M if it fell onto its face and wiggled, what's a modern
single lover to do? It's as if the mass media outlets of today avoid these
songs for fear of catching herpes.
So, if the era of the "perfect single" was the '60's and early 70's, it
could be because these songs were written for (and digested by) a mass
audience (i.e. allowed to be "singles"). You can't tell me that "New Madrid"
or virtually anything off of Built To Spill's There's Nothing Wrong With
Love are anthems-in-waiting, but the only people hearing them are the choir
to which preaching is unnecessary.
Lance . . .
