It's tough to say for sure, my parents played The Dance a lot when I was a kid and when I was getting into music I definitely thought of those recordings as great but didn't own anything by the band but then I heard some cuts from Bare Trees and Future Games and was absolutely amazed by this other phase of the band. So I went out to buy their records but the store didn't have those aforementioned two at the time, so I bought Tusk and Rumours. I gotta say I was blown away by Tusk. Still am to this day. But I had no trouble buying half a dozen more FM albums in about a month and was definitely a hardcore fan of Welch's contributions in particular on some of those "transition period" records.
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