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Originally Posted by Sugar
Ah, so your point is he is commercially driven and was delusional enough to think "his vision" would be embraced comercially -- even though not one of his solo albums did "well" comercially . . . .
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I think he would have loved to have had some quirky thing like "Come" be a huge multi platinum hit - it would be his way at thumbing his nose at his non mainstream becoming the mainstream, etc.
Isn't it interesting that La Nicks often claims she could not write a hit single to save her life - and, she really never has, other than Dreams, Sara, and Gypsy - the latter two heavily if not totally influenced by LB. I suppose Landlside became a hit, but 25 or so years after it was written.
But, it still remains that many if not most of her hit singles, by her own admission, were written, or heavily influenced, by someone else. The only one I can think of is E017, which she readily give WW credit for on the guitar riff, which rather makes that song.
In fact, I cannot think of any song that all her.
Note - she was the moving force behind many of them and, without her personage and voice (which are her talent) - they may have not been hits.
Finally - "Holiday Road" - which I suggest was quirky and could have been a hit, was on a movie soundtrack - go figure
