If There Had Been an Album Between Mirage and Tango...

[Villavic]

Stand back is now an adopted live FM song, so it would be probably included

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

But those album titles were not based on song titles. There is a song called "Rock a Little". Now there is precedent for it, just not with FM. Led Zeppelin released House of the Holy the album and then the song was released on the next album. Queen released Sheer Heart Attack album and then the song a few albums later.

Wait isn't there a tune called, "Mystery To Me"? And it did not make the album?

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Wait isn't there a tune called, "Mystery To Me"? And it did not make the album?

I believe that song title came from the lyrics to the song "Emerald Eyes".

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

I believe that song title came from the lyrics to the song "Emerald Eyes".

No not Emerald Eyes, there's an actual bootleg called Mystery to Me from the 1974 concerts. I have to go look in my library.

[aleuzzi]

I have occasionally wondered what an album in the "between" years would have sounded like. I'll go with a list from the three albums mentioned in the original post, but technically "The Wild Heart" and Mick's Zoo should be considered, too.

I chose 12 songs. Since we're in fantasy land, I chose 4 from Lindsey, 5 from Christine, 3 from Stevie--though I know the Christine-Lindsey distribution would most likely have been reversed.

Go Insane
Got a Hold on Me
I Sing for the Things
Ask Anybody
Playing in the Rain
Some Become Strangers

Love Will Show Us How
Lovin' Cup
Has Anyone...
One in a Million
DW Suite
Smile I Live For


My thoughts:

All of the songs--except Smile I Live For--would have to be rearranged and recast to fit a FM sound. Got a Hold on Me and Love Will Show Us How have great verses and bland choruses; Go Insane is a wonderful tune that sounds better both on The Dance and in the re-tooling of it for the Unleashed tour; Lindsey's other songs are really quite strong contributions that could fit right alongside his Tango songs, given the FM treatment. Stevie's songs are strong but arranged in a calculated 80s synth style that doesn't suit her as well as the arrangements on albums before or since Rock A Little. I'd have loved to hear what the band would have done with them...As much as I love Has Anyone... I don't think the album version sounds nearly as good as it does when Stevie sang it for the Storytellers special in 1998. THAT was a classic performance.