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Originally Posted by elle
it came out at the completely wrong time. plus although FM fans seem to think it was advertised a ton, i didn't see one commercial for it at the time. it came out at the height of the grunge era.
it sounds kinda timeless now, but i'm sure it sounded very dated and old-fashioned then.
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I'm not so sure. I don't think OOTC sounded dated or old-fashioned when it was released. It was highly praised and not slammed as too traditional, even if it was released at the height of the grunge area, which I would not know anything about.
I just know that even though it didn't sell as well as one would have expected, everyone who was talking about it was raving. It seems to me that it wasn't until several years later that people looked back and thought, "oh maybe songs like
Don't Look Down or
Countdown are a little too breezy." Although they may have been rather hooky even then, somehow the album as a whole still felt innovative and it wasn't just Lindsey fans that were salivating, critics were too. You'd have thought it would have done better, just because of the critical attention it received, but I guess it didn't move anyone to check out the guy who'd been out of the picture for awhile.
Michele