I think leaving it off the album was the best choice. Obviously it's a brilliant song that deserved to have been heard and I'm glad it was, but Rumours had enough of that type of 'type' of Stevie song, with Dreams and especially Gold Dust Woman. Gold Dust Woman in all of its long, dramatic-ness was the PERFECT album closer with those wails at the end but it would have been strange to include a song like Silver Springs as anything other than a closer, so it just wouldn't have worked. I Don't Want to Know (personally one of my favorites) was a perfect lighthearted, fun Stevie song that sounded terrific with her and Lindsey in their Everly Brothers style harmony going the whole way through and whose sound blended perfectly in the album. Personally I would not have changed the way it happened.
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