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Originally Posted by TotallyTusked
Yeah, I mean, Say You Will has some great songs on it... and I might be one of a minority that absolutely LOVES Stevie's matured voice (on SYW particularly) but I agree, I doesn't quite make the cut as an ALBUM.
Lindsey is the spectacle here, once again, and his songs are definitely the stand-outs of the album. Simply, I think that there were too many songs I skipped, and the absence of Christine weighed the LP down more than I thought it would. It's not all that bad, but not stellar. I think this is where the Rumours lineup (minus C.M) kinda lost the plot with FM's style of music the most. We see a classic Mac sound again in this year's EP, but Say You Will is a bit out of it in my opinion.
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Respectfully I disagree - there are far too many Lindsey dud songs on SYW. Murrow, Red Rover, Miranda, Say Goodbye are just sub-par for someone as talented as Buckingham and did not really excite me as I listened to them for the first time. Miranda I used to like but after a few listens it wore thin. Say Goodbye is just cliché central, as is Red Rover. Murrow is too frenetic musically and the lyric doesn't make a lot of sense. I loved the four new Stevie songs Illume, Destiny Rules, Say You Will and Silver Girl - they make a neat little EP-style playlist like that. What's the World Coming To, Peacekeeper and Come are all really cool.
I agree the collection of 9 Lindsey songs and 9 Stevie songs does
not work very well as a cohesive Fleetwood Mac album but I am grateful that the band worked hard to perfect these songs and release them as Say You Will. SYW is the record which spiked my interest in Fleetwood Mac. I'm only 20 so was largely unfamiliar with the Mac's music for most of my childhood except for Rumours songs which get played to death on Sydney radio station 101.7 W.S. F.M. The Live in Boston 2003 film clips on YouTube hooked me in last year, so I downloaded SYW on iTunes (subsequently I've purchased 90% of the Rumours line-up Fleetwood Mac catalogue).
SYW is definitely not the greatest Fleetwood Mac album for me. It is not the greatest album of 2003, its year of release (I have a soft spot for Pink's
Try This from the same year). But it is an outstanding musical work and I'm glad to have it. If only the band could gets its act together and do just one final, new Fleetwood Mac studio album! 12 tracks minimum thanks! Or at least something new from Stevie
