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Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.
Her Tusk offerings are incredibly strong. "Never Forget" is a very underrated gem and I've been listening a lot to "Never Make Me Cry" recently.
In terms of my picks, I would probably go with Heroes Are Hard to Find first followed by Mystery to Me. In fact, my top four favorite songs on Heroes Are Hard to Find are probably all Christine McVie songs. The title track is a peppy tune with infectious horn licks, "Come A Little Bit Closer" is one of her best ballads, "Bad Loser" is one of the few angry songs in her discography and possesses an incessant tribal tom-tom beat, and "Prove Your Love" is an understated slow-burner.
Surprisingly, I actually think Rumours might be the album with Christine's McVie's worst collective body of work. Of her four offerings (not counting "The Chain") "You Make Loving Fun" is the only one of hers that I really enjoy from her. The remaining tracks, while by no means bad, are ones that I'm most likely to skip, particularly "Songbird".
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You make some great points. This is an impossible question because Chris's songs are always or usually the best ones on the albums. She finds her footing on Bare Trees and then every album she really grows. Heroes is sensational because of her variation of the 4 contributions. They were equally as good on the White Album, Rumours, Tusk, Mirage, etc. She shines on every album so this is an impossible question for me to answer.
My hunch is why her songs on Tusk don't get recognized as much is because she sort of disappears on the album for about 7 songs.
I could never say that her songs are better this album or that album post Bare Trees. I could not agree or disagree that her songs are better on the White album than Heroes. I could not agree or disagree her songs on the White album are better than Rumours either. I could not agree or disagree her Tusk songs are better than Mirage.