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Originally Posted by aleuzzi
At the end of the day, only a few thousand people in the world still listen to these albums, if that.
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Well maybe at this late point TODAY at best, but not once upon a time. Moreover you'd have to change "a few thousand" to
tens or hundreds of thousands to be anywhere near the mark, especially worldwide. Not everyone who has MTM in their collection, or listens to it on a regular basis, shows up at the Ledge. In fact, probably 1 in 10,000 do!
To me Mystery is a VERY good album. But it has always gotten very mixed criticism in the press. One of the rare highlights of Brunning's otherwise awful book on the Mac is when he cites the mixed critical reports on this record.
It's generally cited as one of the Mac's best productions, short of a few whiny Green diehard critics, or detractors of the Welch sound. I remember quite well the "smoke" around it at its time of release, the fact that it was so divergent from the original Blues Mac (oh boo hoo, wah wah wah). But even upon its release, a lot of folks gave it winning marks, to include many Mac "early adaptors." Hypnotized helped immeasurably. That song is just undeniably cool and breezy.
Since then, music journalists have either placed the album in "one of the band's best" or "boring/middling" category.
Some things never change. F*ck the so called music critics. Always go by your own gut instinct, and what your ears, heart and foot tell you. That's always far more reliable measuring stick.
But you know that.