[RMadd]

It seems that most critiques of the album give the title track big thumbs up. And it's easily my favorite song on the album, roughly one month in. But what are the odds of the song becoming a single somewhere down the road? I can't imagine any label releasing a single longer than 6 minutes, and 8 minutes is typically way too long for radio (especially on alt/modern rock stations). But I can't think of a chunk of the song that I would cut just to make it playable on the radio.

On the flip side, I honestly feel the song has the potential of breaking the band through to a larger audience. The mellower songs keep the old Creed fans hanging around. The harder songs might bring in a few new fans of some metal. But "Blackbird" has both. It starts out pretty mellow, but at the height of the song, it's just plain orgasmic. It would be a shame if so many people missed out on hearing this song.