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I find Lindsey's first album so goofy that it's hard for me to listen to it. For example, Johnny Stew? I get that it's just a fun, goofy song but hearing him growl and scream during the middle of it is just strange and not what I want to here. |
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I loved SYW when it first came out, but now I think it doesn't hold together as an album too well, and it has several songs I don't like (mostly Stevie's).
Out of LB's songs, I really like Miranda, Say Goodbye, & Bleed to Love Her. WTWCT, Peacekeeper, & SYHA are okay; sometimes I really like Rover & Murrow, other times they annoy the hell out of me. Come is a totally overblown piece of crap, IMO. Most of SN's songs on this album make me want to wretch. I would probably really like Illume if not for Lindsey's Zelda Rubinstein routine at the end; I keep expecting him to tell the children to go into the light. RTTG and Destiny Rules are really the only songs of hers from this album that I regularly listen to anymore. Smile at You isn't terrible, but it annoys me after a while; I never thought it was one of her better songs to begin with. Thrown Down bores the hell out of me; I love the TISL version, tho. The rest of her songs on here are kinda "meh" for me. |
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PLEASE STOP SAYING HOT MESS. It's STUPID, and TIRED. It's soooo 2009! |
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I honestly think this album is/was a huge flop, let alone best of all time. It doesn't sound like a band album. The opening song is embarassing. The hits are weak. The tracks don't go together well. The running order is a disaster. The length of the album is tiring. The vocals are absolute rubbish. It sounds very very forced and a bit dated even when it was released. The production of Stevie's voice at times leads me to think someone should have been fired.
I loved the bonus track and put that disk in more than the main disk. I've tried to love this album, but I'll take GOS any day over this forced tired set of songs.
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Sure there are songs on this album that sound like they would work better on solo CD's but on Illume, Thrown Down, Miranda, Say You Will, Peacekeeper and EFO they sound very united. Even to a lesser degree WWTCT, RTHG and Destiny Rules both presences are still felt. I have yet to hear the two bonus songs, will have to check them out! |
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^^^ yeah check out the bonus disc.. I think you'll dig it.. I guess we disagree on the band/forced issues.. but tis very subjective..
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[QUOTE=caroline79;989337]Finally, someone who understands! What makes it your favorite? I'm curious!
I think it's because I saw the Live In Boston show before I bought the SYW CD. I immediately adored all the SYW songs done live so it was a foregone conclusion that I was gonna love the CD! |
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It should not take a long time to like a lot of songs on any album. I think it's always interesting when fans say this about an album. I guess if you listen to anything over and over, it can grow on you whether its subpair or not. This CD was a frankenstein effort with Lindsey attempting to make another double CD with some good tracks, but mostly odd-ball, bland, non-accessible stuff. Much of Stevies tunes weren't much better. The best example was the distruction of Smile at You. Where were Christine and Richard Dashut when you needed them? |
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I use Lindsey's first solo album as an example of how something can grow on you, but you may not love it. I can listen to it but I will never love a lot of those songs. They are just too strange, hold little meaning to me personally and I don't like how they sound. Sure the Smile At You demo may have been better, but wasn't that Stevie's decision to tone it down and not make it sound so angry? Fleetwood Mac has such a large collection of music and some songs don't even song like they are from the same band! And the only song I really dislike is Empire State |
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The beauty of albums like SYW (I'll even throw Tusk & the Beatles' White Album into that pile) is that there is so much material that each person can pretty much make the album be what they want it to be. As is, the album's tracking order just bites the big one; but thanks to technology, we can give the album's tunes a more personal (or "better", or "pleasing") tracking order.
Considering the wealth of material that Lindsey had from the original GOS sessions, I could swap out songs with some of those...so MY Say You Will has this as its tracking order: Say You Will Bleed To Love Her Thrown Down (the wall of sound version) To Try For The Sun (sometimes I'll swap it out for "Red Rover" here) Destiny Rules What's The World Coming To Illume Murrow Turning Over In His Grave Peacekeeper Everybody Finds Out Miranda Smile At You Steal Your Heart Away Not Make Believe Down On Rodeo Goodbye Baby I just continually fail to understand how ANYBODY can prefer subpar "demo" versions of "Smile At You" ("angry" or whatever...they all are poorly recorded and the performances are worse than "amateur") over the obviously mega-superior version on SYW. Without McVie's bass line that is on the final SYW version, that song fails on SO MANY levels.
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Too many bands churn out records that all sound the same - Fleetwood Mac has never done that, thank goodness! And even though each album is different they still retain the FM magic every time! |
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By the time I had bought SYW I owned every FM studio album plus all the solo works by Stevie, Lindsey, Christine and a couple of albums by Peter Green, Bob Welch and Dave Mason. SYW wasn't like any of those albums that came before it, I wasn't a big Lindsey fan, and while I generally liked the Stevie songs the Lindsey songs took me by complete surprise. It took a few listens for the album to grow on me, and a few more years for my music taste to grow and change to really appreciate the Lindsey songs on this album. I admit there are some albums that you love the moment you hear them, that you constantly played on repeat from the very minute you took it out of the cd case. SYW wasn't one of those, but it certainly isn't "subpar". Oh and finally, in my opinion, Love Minus Zero/No Limit is the worst of the four Dylan covers done by Fleetwood Mac members/ex members (and Just Like A Woman wasn't a very good attempt by Stevie). |
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He was more than that though, he was one of the most important contributors to folk music and perhaps the least known. Mention Woodie Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and the like and people know their names and at least some of the impact on not only folk music but the whole of America in that late 50's - early 60's period. Mention John Stewart and most people remember he did a song with Stevie Nicks. |
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Wow, such a polarized, love-it-or-hate-it response to SYW.
I actually like the record a lot. Although it does not hold a candle to Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, or Tusk, and it lacks two crucial ingredients of the Rumours-era Mac albums--joy and humor--it still provides a substantial body of songs. And it is miles above Behind the Mask and a good deal of Time. My impressions of it are mixed, but fundamentally positive. There are enough strong songs and performances by both leads to merit its existence. In my opinion, the middle of it sags. "Come," "Silver Girl" and "Smile at You" are all pretty insufferable, as is Buckingham's "What's the World..." and Nicks's "Goodbye." The two "hits"--"Peacekeeper" and "Say You Will" are dull. But we're left with some amazing songs. "Red Rover," "Murrow," "Say Goodbye," "Bleed to Love Her," and "Steal Your Heart Away" are all really strong Buckingham songs. Nicks weighs in with "Illume," "Everybody Finds Out," "Destiny Rules," and "Throw Down." The good stuff stacks up. In spirit the album kind of reminds me of Then Play On--two very different songwriters with very different approaches to music shore up the record. The result is an intriguing if occasionally frustrating fragmentation. |
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