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Originally Posted by Artemis
I've been listening to SYW a lot recently, and Stevie is on fire on that album. I think if you cut SYW down to 5 songs from each of them, you have an incredible album:
Stevie:
Illume
Thrown Down
Running Through The Garden
Everybody Finds Out
Destiny Rules
Lindsey:
Peacekeeper
Miranda
Steal Your Heart Away
Bleed To Love Her
Say Goodbye
Those ten are, in my opinion, the best cuts from SYW and once you strip away the terrible and those better left for solo albums... it's a pretty amazing band album.
I think if they harmonised together a bit more it would have worked a lot better to. I read somewhere years ago, probably on here, how someone said it sounds like they "ghost" on each other's tracks - totally the best way to describe it.
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I love your list. Great selection.
Say You Will would also have been a good opportunity to release two albums in quick succession. 20 songs were recorded to completion, with 18 on SYW and two bonus tracks on the deluxe edition. Imagine two 10-track albums, released 4-6 months apart. I do believe that might have generated a lot of buzz, given them two chart debuts in the same year, and the second album's release would likely have given a late sales boost to the first, maybe putting them both on the charts at the same time.
Not that chart placement matters, but chart position does give visibility, and that never hurts.
Oh well.