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Originally Posted by michelej1
In 2009 the Sunday Express interview said:
I think she had a problem with the SONGS and the MUSIC.
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I don't think I've ever read that interview, so I concede that I was wrong about her feelings regarding the music on the album. Although -- and I know this is just nit-picking -- she didn't say which songs she didn't like or if it was specifically her songs she was unhappy with. She could very well have been referring to songs like "Murrow," "Come" (even Lindsey has joked about her distaste for that song) and "Red Rover."
(Which could explain why she's not singing on any of those tracks.)
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Originally Posted by michelej1
We don't know what the sequencing fight was. We know what the sequence is and from the way the album starts off, it seems that Lindsey got his way, but we actually don't know. It's a conclusion we make because of the first 3 songs. No one thinks that Stevie would have chosen those to lead the album. So, that's our assumption.
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Lindsey said (and I wish I could remember in which interview) that it was Stevie's desire to bury the album's heavier songs later in the album, but that he wanted them up front. So it's definitely more than an assumption.
But, yes, you're right that we don't know if any of the rest of the sequencing was born out of compromise.