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I don't think he quit the band to make his solo album. He quit it because he was fighting with dysfunctional, addicts. Homeless Mick on one hand and no show Stevie (well, to give her credit, she did show up for Petty and Dylan concerts) on the other.
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I wouldn’t call most of Stevie’s solo albums masterpieces, truth be told. But at least she was on the road, keeping her name out there. TISL wasn’t much, but it was something, it was the only new album from any of them since “Time.” Meanwhile, Lindsey’s fecklessness and Christine’s retirement created a scenario where a generation basically grew up without them. Hell, there was a stretch in the late ‘90s where Peter Green was less reclusive.
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While he was producing solo albums, Fleetwood Mac albums, and sometimes even friends' albums. There's no question that he has always dragged his feet and wasted a lot of time. She has, too. (Rock a Little? Street Angel?) But you're pushing a weird story here—that he's slow and she's fast, and that her speed made her a commercial force that he could only dream about. That's silly. She didn't get inducted into the hall of fame as a solo gal because she busted her behind all these decades. (In fact, we chiffonheads always used to complain about how long she was taking on most of her projects.) She got inducted because the public likes her and remembers her.
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That HAS to be the reason. As I've mentioned before, in terms of her solo material, only Bella Donna and The Wild Heart are fantastic albums top to bottom. Rock A Little is trash, The Other Side Of The Mirror was mostly underwhelming and Street Angel was embarrassing. I didn't think Trouble In Shangra-La was all that special and I've never listened to In Your Dreams or 24 Karat Gold.
Stack up her solo work to her work in Fleetwood Mac and it's not even close to being competitive. Outside of her first two solo albums, none of her music transcends time. People talk about Tango In The Night having a "dated" sound. Compared to Rock A Little and The Other Side Of The Mirror, Tango In The Night sounds like it came out yesterday. Personally, I think there are plenty of women and men who had better and more prolific careers than Stevie. Of course my opinion doesn't matter and she's in the HoF forever. Good for her but she never would have got as far as she did by herself if it weren't for Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey's production on her songs. |
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I like her solo albums well enough. Street Angel and Rock-A-Little are my least favorite. Wild Heart is my favorite, because her vocals were on fire.
TISL was a slow burn. It was tuneless. The songs just droned on and on with no beat and I wrote it off early, but then I revisited it about two years in and it really grew on me. It's mood-invoking. The fact that I was attracted to her sound before I was even aware of FM tells me that she did indeed possess an indefinable spark. I mean without knowing who the vocalist was on Magnet and Steel, Gold, or even on the icky Sweet Love, I was drawn to her. Listen to the woman on Midnight Wind and try and deny she can be mesmerizing. Of course, I do have to say the same thing about Lindsey. Gold and Magnet and Steel. That's him and I recognized the production value in those songs without having a clue that Lindsey Buckingham even existed. But Stevie, as she said, even in Fritz, the boys played their hearts out, but folks kept asking about the mousy-brown haired girl. She caught their eye somehow. Of course, we should point out that FM was not the first time that Lindsey took his girlfriend along for the ride. Lindsey was the one who was offered a record deal in those early days and, as he did on NYE 1974, he made Stevie a part of that, when they left Fritz behind. The musicians gravitated towards Lindsey and the rest were drawn in by Stevie's charm. I guess that merits her being in the RRHOF. |
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Yeah, he didn't tour nearly 500 dates in three years like Stevie, that workhorse-whippersnapper-miracle worker that she is, working harder than anyone in showbiz, all the way to the rock hall baby!! Clearly In the Meantime would of been a cultural treasure had Christine had the pure privilege to have you produce it. After all you are our Robert Mandavi of music criticism, our gracious well of music production expertise. While we are on the topic of just how many oohs and ahhs are really needed, I too often wondered just how many stinkin' stairs did stevie REALLY need to climb in that talk to me video. Right?!
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She works like a soldier in the army.
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Like a Soldier's Angel.
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Her life has been so difficult.
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Christine McVie- she radiated both purity and sass in equal measure, bringing light to the music of the 70s. RIP. - John Taylor(Duran Duran) |
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