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Originally Posted by Macfan4life
I don't necessarily disagree with you Steve but it makes no sense for a record company not to promote one of their albums from a band with a mainstream name. Yanking Chris songs from Time would have hurt it even more.
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Lindsey, Stevie, and the Time band were all failing while their contemporaries were having successful reunions and The Smashing Pumpkins were having success with one of their songs. WB wasn’t going to promote Time. However, WB wasn’t necessarily committed to a new studio album by the classic lineup, just a reunion special in conjunction with Viacom, Clear Channel, and Ticketmaster.
When alternative rock took over, legacy artists generally didn’t have success with new studio releases. Since WB had already paid for the Time songs, they decided to release what they had when they could, guaranteeing at least some measure of recouping versus the reunion potentially failing and getting nothing back on their investment. Nobody knew what to expect in 1995, especially from Stevie, who’d gotten some pretty brutal reviews on her 1994 tour.
Things were fluid at WB after Mo and Lenny left in 1994. The bean counters took over. There was no loyalty left. They dropped Van Halen after one flop, and think of the tens of millions of albums they sold.