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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
Remove “Songbird?”
Seriously?
Willie Nelson not only covered it, but made it the title track!
Here’s MY Side 2
The Chain
Silver Springs
You Make Loving Fun
Gold Dust Woman
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I would not change anything about Rumours as it was originally released in February 1977. Not the song selection, not the running order, not the performance and arrangement choices. Nothing.
Thankfully, no album is perfect, for absolute perfection is a kind of creative death (and some of my favorite FM albums are the ones with noticeable flaws). But reaching near-perfection means realizing a kind of inexhaustible magic, a proverbial sliver of the eternal. Or something like that.
So, all those who say “Do away with ‘Songbird’” or “Cancel ‘Oh Daddy’” or “Swap out IDWK for SS”—to those I say you’re revising for worse.