"Yeah, we don't have mass apeal on radio," agrees vocalist, Thurston Moore.
"But mass acceptance isn't really what it's about. More people liking the
music doesn't denote being better.

"Anyway, I'd never want a number one song," he yawns. "I'd never want to
be in the charts. That's a drag. It would be so embarrassing.

"Everybody would know you and you wouldn't even be able to go to the
bathroom to take a leak without somebody popping up out of the loo.
What's the point of that?"

"It's not something we aspire to or even think about it," adds guitarist
Lee Ranaldo, "because between the Geffen deal and our own label, SYR, the
whole setup is so ideal. We'd be hard pressed to think of many bands that
would be in a better situation."

Ranaldo's reference to their "setup" is the enviable posistion they enjoy
of simultaneously releasing material through their own independent label,
SYR, while signed to a major label. Their unprecedented move from an
undergroung to a major label at the beginning of the decade, was initially
critisised by cynics who argued it would stifle their creativity and
credibility. But, as with REM and Nirvana, they've made the transition
without compromising their ideals.

"With the first couple of albums we were aware that everybody was looking
at us as a band who were really touted in the independent community and
who were now on a major. People thought we might sell out, but we didn't,"
insists Ranaldo.

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