Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxc!chris From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: the top-40 approach to life Message-ID: <585@pyuxc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 09:42:01 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxc.585 Posted: Mon Dec 17 09:42:01 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 02:19:38 EST References: <3268@mit-eddie.UUCP>, <8700001@rna.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 6 I'm new to this conversation, but I think Serge is right about EPs. If a band has five good songs together at a particular time, why should it rush to write five more or add long instrumentals to the first five just so they can fill up an album? Far better to get five good songs out and skip the filler.