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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
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  |
GOS: quirky for a big part.
Come, Red Rover, Say Goodbye, GOS, GI-live, Murrow, Try For The Sun, SGCYM (can't be seen as commercially crafted is it?) It's just DOR and Steal Your heart away, maybe Miranda and Twist of Fate, but Shuffle Riff is quirky too. Come on. These songs are totally noncommercial of basic idea. Cradle is the album that is the most commercial album of LB. But it had the "zeitgeist" playing against him.
No, it's just the problem of the recordcompany that doesn't have the guts of taking a song that stands out from the regular **** on radio as a single. For SYW they could have picked Miranda, or even GOS, that- if I remember correctly- would have been on the double-album if it was finished the way it was initiated.
And I still can't believe that the acoustic Big Love was never put out as a single; that one could have reinforced interest in LB.
Still: I believe that being commercial is the same as having the guts to take chances. Radiofriendly popdrizzle of high quality is NEVER EVER been written by Lindsey Buckingham nor Stevie Nicks. They had someone else in the band who specialized in that.