For Jimmy: Lindsey's chart/sales info

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

There was an interview for SYW where LB flat out says The Dance was about the money and, I think, the exposure it would get him to a world who had pretty much forgotten him.

As for SYW and what was he supposed to do, well he could have released the GOS songs online for free or for $1.00 a song after The Dance. I mean if artistic integrity is all he cares about, then why care if it sells or why use FM once again to sell it

It's not about integrity. I don't know why you come up with The Dance for g*ds sake.

The dance has NOTHING to do with Lindsey Buckinghams search for artistic growth and search of meaning. OFCOURSE that was for the money and the attention. There's not one soul on earth that would argue that. Say You Will was NOT primary for the money in LB's book. He wanted an artisticly valid double album that contained both FM's radiopopsensibility as well as out of the box new approaches in poprock. How can a man think it's about bucks if you take the challenge to put Murrow, Rover, Come, Say Goodbye etc. on a record? You're also going for critical acclaim for daring that in such a moneymachine that the Mac was.

And he could have released GOS on an indielabel and I'm sure he has weighed that as an possibility. But the labels' double standard towards that batch before and after the AOL-fusion pissed him off bigtime. Then the Mac came by for the Dance. So the possibilities of getting these songs released changed .

Now, concerning marketingdecisions he made, you may be right that those are not the most strong or consequent choices of him. But that has NOTHING I say NOTHING to do with the fact that this man challenges himself over and over again to find NEW grounds and experiments on songwriting- and productionlevel, trying to reinvent himself as a musician, not as a product. He's bad at that. It's not a Madonna, for sure. Not even a Stevie Nicks in that case. But he's not selling out like his ex does.