I was surprised that they did another album with the same 5 people, yeah. I figured after that long that somebody wouldn't come back...so, that made Lindsey's departure NOT all that much of a surprise (well, a little bit of one. He did the album, so I kind of expected he'd tour, too)...I was actually MORE surprised that Stevie Nicks came back (read on).
I liked Lindsey's tunes, right away...I liked Christine's tunes on first listen...I thought Stevie's tunes were horrid..."Seven Wonders" kind of grew on me a bit, but the other two? {insert sound of projectile vomiting here}. I really though after hearing them and how much I liked 1/2 of Rock A Little that Stevie was starting to bring her B-material to Fleetwood Mac and saving the good songs for her own career (that thought was quickly shattered once I heard OSOTM...she'd just lost it altogether) and I thought "Why did she even bother rejoining the band for this album?".
I think the strength of the album sales was mainly due to the greatness of their live show during that subsequent tour. (with the added help of the MTV videos...it was still a fairly new medium then...when MTV was still "MTV" if you know what I mean.)
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Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be separated from the man.---Andres Segovia
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