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Originally Posted by JbbyStew86
What about the sales differential between Tango in the Night and BTM or Time?
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What about the sales differentials?
Tango In The Night was by the
Rumours incarnation of Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey was basically saying that, without him, Fleetwood Mac died a slow death, but he brought it back to life, which shows how much they need him. In reality, they did as well with their first post-Lindsey effort (Behind The Mask) as they did with their first post-Christine effort (Say You Will). Both albums featured two out of three singer/songwriters from the
Rumours era, so it's a valid comparison. Take any one person out of the equation, and it becomes a different equation.
OOTC,
Street Angel, and
Time were released in close proximity. Combined they didn't crack 500,000. I'm not convinced if they had released an album in 1995 with Christine, Lindsey, and Stevie that it would've sold 500K, at least without Warner Bros., Clear Channel and Viacom on their side.
The bottom line is that Fleetwood Mac (regardless of incarnation, save for the Peter Green years) had become a joke by that point.
Surrender The Rain,
Blue Denim, and
I Do were never going to be relevant in the era of
Smells Like Teen Spirit. No, Mick, John, and Christine weren't having success with a new Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey and Stevie weren't having success as a solo artists, either. They needed each other, otherwise their collective careers were in the toilet, and the knew it (except in Christine's case, where she was probably more interested in the big, happy ending to her time in Fleetwood Mac).
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Try inserting songs from OOTC into a early/mid 90s Fleetwood Mac album.
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Try inserting Christine's songs from
Time or
In The Meantime into
Say You Will. Would it have helped? Probably.
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His solo career was never in a state of slow death, at least no more than Stevie's was.
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While I really don't like
Street Angel, I have to say that it sold about two to three times as many copies as OOTC and
Time combined.