I didn't read any of the leaked track info or demos before the cd was released on April 15th so it was nice having an element of surprise and not knowing what many of the songs were before I listened.
I liked it from the beginning and it definitely grew on me the more I listened to it. I didn't miss Christine as much as I thought I would.
The songs I liked at the beginning are still pretty much what I like now. Silver Girl is the only song I didn't like at the beginning and still don't like. Illume grew on me as I listened to the cd a few times.
I barely ever listen to the cd, I have been drowning in live bootlegs for months, but I'm that way about most of the catalogue with the exception of Tusk.
I wish they had the guts to release SYW like the Outkast cd with 1 cd from Stevie and 1 from Lindsey. I think overall the songs sounded like a disjointed project, it doesn't have any overall feeling the way any of the previous cds did, and in places it's very disjointed and sounds like 2 cds that were meshed together. I tried to listen to the running order that Tango mentioned but I didn't like the 1 Lindsey, 1 Stevie, 1 Lindsey, 1 Stevie sound either.
One day I think I'll burn a seperate Lindsey and seperate Stevie cd and add a few GOS tracks and Stevie demos or TISL tracks. I have a feeling I'll like it more and perhaps listen to it more often.
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