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Originally Posted by CADreaming
Yeah, I'm talking more about The post Dance period. But, I still think the whole hi-jacking thing is exaggerated. They knew they were going to be doing SYW after The Dance. Stevie even said at an interview at the end of The Dance, they would be doing an album and they knew Christine was retiring and she wouldn't be involved, but they would be doing one in 5 years. So, Lindsey had songs in the can and he chose to use them on SYW.
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But I don't think most of the GOS songs he had were unisex songs (so to speak). I think they were meant to be solo, not just up for grabs. I don't think it's just the
sound that was meant to be his solo expression, but the words too for some of those songs. I just don't see
Come (the starkest example) or even the more mellow
Peacekeeper as something that he'd want to say from an FM pulpit.
Sure, I don't think the songs were hijacked. In the end, he wanted them on an FM album as his best bet of getting them to the listener of listeners, but I think when they were created they had another purpose and he was really hoping for a solo album, which hope didn't end up panning out.
Some of these songs I think he not only did not write for FM, but he would have been upset by the way FM would have made him compromise them. Of course, when Christine left, he didn't have to compromise as much. But sometimes he has it in his head that keyboards soften his message and I think, before the Dance, he wrote some of those songs definitely NOT wanting them to have that smooth FM sound. Unless he was girding for another
Tusk battle, I just can't imagine him writing those songs without contemplating a definite solo purpose for them. His voice, his playing,
only.
Obviously, he
did want that sound, and those keyboards, for other songs,
Steal Your Heart Away, for example.
I don't agree with the oft-cited argument that SYW sounds like two solo albums slapped together. But I do think some of those songs were geared solo on LB's part. Of course, the stuff he's written
since then is an entirely different matter. All of UTS . . . definitely I see your argument there: that he just wrote and the songs didn't have a label, no FM versus LB. They were just songs that could have gone either way.
Michele