Tango Deluxe Release Ledgie Reviews and Comments

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Originally Posted by mitzo

TOSOTM to me is meh. Trying too hard to be mysterious, with more lyrical messes than ever, like in Two Kinds of Love and Ghosts. The real issue I have is that it lacks a deep ballad. My experience with her solo work has been to search for that delicious ballad with its great vocal, then work backwards to try to appreciate some of the other tracks. As for TITN, it brought me back to FM and Stevie after some years of wandering away, triggered by Bella Donna, which I still think was badly conceived and grotesquely produced. In 1987 Seven Wonders was all over the radio and it brought me back.

Ghosts could have been such a good song.... musically I like it a lot, and I really like the premise of it: Stevie looking at her life and being at a crossroads.... "the past that you live in" and "the future you are frightened of" and being haunted by the ghosts of both.

She'd had a lot of relationships but never found 'the one'-- "one day they were lovers, one day they were friends, and there was nothing else to say" and now she was getting older "so the silver-haired girl looks for escapism"...

To me the best part is the bridge, when she sings:

To fill the empty spaces
She's feeling
She depends on her music
Like a husband
And she knows it's no good
To fall in love again

That is as powerful as Doing The Best That I Can.

The problem though is the first half of the song is a mess and needed a stronger producer to bring some discipline to it.