Least favorite album: Mirror. I don't think the songs are bad -- I don't think most of the songs on any of her albums are bad. But I don't like the vocals she laid down. Her voice doesn't sound good to me when she strips it of her trademark warble. Her early '80s albums were always favorites of mine because she warbled all over the scale. She had such elasticity, too, taking big leaps with intervals & creating a much wider range in dynamics -- all attributable to youth, I suppose.
I have just about nothing good to say of the album's engineering or orchestrations, except that Hornsby's acoustic piano on one of the tracks at least gets my foot tapping (the way that Roy Bittan did on Gold & Braid). I'm particularly irked by the way the drums were recorded throughout -- with virtually no bottom end. The whole album leaves me panting for a Mick Fleetwood kick drum sound, deep & full & satisfying.
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