Sinister: when is a single not a single?

[duke of harringay]

> The Duke, in one of his more impetuous moments, wrote...
>
> > oh goodness, i can remember when they said that the max was
> five and that
> > anything more than five was an album. i think back then the groove farm
> > complained. personally i'll only be happy when they limit it to
> ONE song.
> > now THAT'S POP!

the tubby man then listed a series of great besides and went on to add:

> Not one but two blasts of perfection, each one meaning everything
> for...ooh,
> minutes. Now _that_ is P!O!P!. Wouldn't you say?

and of course he was right. i was of course being a little tongue in cheek
with my post, both about the solitary song and the reference to the groove
farm, who, frankly, were fun for, oooh, five minutes at least and i liked
the corelation between that and mansun, who have been something rather less
than fun for far too bloody long imho. i think Pop records should be two
sided slabs of 7" vinyl... using the cd format negates the thrill of
flipping the disc over and playing the 'b-side'. it just becomes 'track 2',
which is a great deal less interesting. but if we must have cd singles, i am
seduced by the idea of one song mini-cds, selling for the price of a packet
of crips, or chips for our transatlantic cousins. then for all the great
songs that timbo listed, we could just have more little mini-cd thingies,
couldn't we? Now how cute would that be?

the duke, who has moved on from the peloton and is now delving back through
his Magnetic Fields records and going, 'aw...'.

PS: just out of interest, how many crushes per day is the average?

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