Anatomy of a flop

For Anjali and other failurephiles, there's a nice piece on the New York Times songwriting blog by Peter Holsapple of the dB's about how one of their best songs, "Love Is For Lovers", ended in commercial failure. I preferred the song "Amplifier" whose demise he describes in passing, but in general, the dB's were one of the bands that me and my high-school friends most wanted to sound like. (The other being Rush, so we were handicapped by our confused aspirations as well as our limited skills.)