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Originally Posted by Fleetwoodmark
Great post.
I totally agree, When Christine left I think there was in Stevie & Lindsey 2 polar opposites in terms of what an album should be. I question some of Lindsey's production techniques on SYW (ie Murrow, Say Goodbye). These would have been more at home on one of his more esoteric solo works. He has to realise that Fleetwood Mac is a commercial venture and should remain so, As their best work was created with this in mind (Rumours, Tango).
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I don't believe that Christine was any sort of a bridge between SnL. To me, all their albums sound as disconnected as SYW, only with 3 directions instead of two. I don't mind it, but only the first two albums felt like they had any sort of "meshing" whatsoever. But, overall, I still feel like I am hearing 3 separate solo artists, save for a handful of songs where the collaboration was there or they at least had more equal parts musically and vocally.
Honestly, we don't REALLY know how much discussion went on for SYW anyway. I would bet money that Stevie was just fine letting LB do all the prep work prior to her arrival to work on the tracks. For instance, he asked her about cutting the guitar solo in half on TD and she was cool with it.
Regardless, there are tracks on SYW where the two of them together still blow me away both with LB's guitar work on her songs (RTTG) and her vocals on his songs (Miranda, SG, WTWCT) and vice versa (Illume, TD). Almost a nice BN follow up.
Almost...