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Originally Posted by Villavic
Maybe (about the band, not media), because in spite of the stormy/splitting couples time, they enjoyed recording Rumours far more than Tango, and memories are more bittersweet than bitter.
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Well, Lindsey has said in several interviews that he did not enjoy working on Tango with the band because their reasons for making music had changed--ie: it was all for money now. The spirit of FM, Rumours, and Tusk had been replaced by calculation, a bid for big money.
I think Lindsey's read was, to some extent, accurate. Mick admitted the reason for pushing the album was to help him out of his bankruptcy. But another reason for recording it was to a make a more assertive statement than the band had done on Mirage, which none of the band were really all that happy with five years on. But Lindsey saw this as a swan song, a great, last triumph whereas the rest of the band considered it a return to the group format. There's an article on the band in Creem magazine from that time where Mick, Stevie and Christine are all optimistic about the future of the band and citing all sorts of future projects they'd like to do with Lindsey. And Lindsey's comments are quite to the contrary.