You know what I'd like to see happen again? Someone put out a single that becomes a hit, without a visual image to go with it. Without seeing a fancy sleeve, promo photos, nothing. Can you imagine? You wouldn't know that the band had, as lead singer, a balding drummer, or that they were an all white band on an almost exclusively black label. You would have no idea that they had practically zero flash. Nowadays, it is mandatory that you look the part. Thank you MTV for changing that, and digital media, thank you, for twisting the knife, killing any chances of that scenario playing out ever again.
Rare Earth were pretty much the epitome of early seventies AM radio, weren't they? I mean, when you look at them, they were kind of nondescript. Faceless to the kids listening to the radio. They did their share of snoozers (I've heard a few), but that doesn't matter. Because they had a few really good songs, so good that they've been heard a zillion times, to the point, one would think, of exhaustion. But, when was the last time you really listened to them, to all the stuff going on? Forget you've ever heard them and listen to them again. That's some bad ass top forty there.
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