The Independent - London, November 8th, 1996
Ever since the long-playing disc was introduced in the Fifties, the record industry has been trying to convince us to buy entire albums by the same artist, tricking us into believing we'll get all the satisfaction of the single we've heard on the radio, multiplied by a factor of 10. I've often fallen for that line, and usually regretted it. For every artist who's managed to stay interesting throughout an album, there are 99 who didn't.
The solution is to get the singles on "various artists" compilations, most of which are, in effect, drive-yourself radio shows: hits from a specific genre (jun...
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