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Originally Posted by LukeA
I disagree. "Peacekeeper" was set to be the lead single of "Gift of Screws" in Summer 2000, and that recording is probably the most accessible (and one of the very finest) song of his entire solo career. If he truly favored his solo output over his contributions to SYW, no way he "gives" that to the project.
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I recall wrinkling my nose a bit when I first saw the track listing for SYW. Where was "Down on Rodeo?" "She Smiled Sweetly?" "The Right Time to Fade?" "I Am Waiting?" "Gift of Screws?" Instead SYW ended up with the most uncatchy, self-indulgent stuff Lindsey's aborted solo album: "Red Rover," "Come," "Murrow," etc., which don't even feature Stevie on vocals! Don't get me wrong; in the right context (i.e., solo) those are pretty amazing songs. But I think they were too morose, dark and oblique for a group effort. I can imagine that many FM fans balked at the amount of CD real estate being devoted to these decidedly inaccessible songs. I think "Down on Rodeo" could have been an amazing Fleetwood Mac song, perhaps the defining moment of the whole album.
As for "Peacekeeper," that is
hardly among his finest songs. I like the lyrics, but the melody is very uninventive (since it basically steals "Kodachrome" note-for-note) and the production is very sterile and tinny sounding. Pretty much the only thing this song has going for it is the fact that it is the closest we get to a Stevie-Lindsey duet on the entire album.