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Originally Posted by chiliD
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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Yeah- I remember it was alllllll over Mtv back then. It was only five years after Mirage, though- and Stevie had released two solos in between, with Lindsey and Christine each releasing one. I think the general public and, especially, the fans were really revved up to receiving it. I remember I bought it on vinyl the day it was released and went home and played and it and was
. I had to warm up to it over time- on first listen I was completely WTF?? on "When I See You Again".
I remember sitting around in front of the tee-vee waiting for the official first airing of "Big Love". I thought it was odd that Stevie was even
in the performing parts of the video since she's not even on the song. If I was a member of the band who didn't perform on a track I certainly wouldn't just lip-sync as if I my voice as was there. How embarrassing. But, they wanted to present a united front, blah, blah, blah. At the time, I thought "Seven Wonders" should have been the first single.
Now the whole album is pretty much blah for me. It's extremely dated. "Isn't It Midnight" and "Tango in the Night" are pretty much the only songs that really hold up after nineteen years. They should have done "Tango" instead of "I'm So Afraid" on the SYW tour
. Would've been a much better choice.