SYW - Too long or too short or too few or just right?

[TrueFaith77]

Thanks to Destiny Rules, we all know about the in-band fighting about whether Say You Will should have been a double album and we all know about Lindsey's about-face (after Stevie played her limited-tour trump card) which resulted in an 18-track single-cd that some feel are unwieldy.
So I thought it'd be fun to poll and discuss and maybe propose alternatives.

1. It's too long - It should have been cut down to 12 tracks for thematic coherence, maximum impact, and able to experience in one sitting or while communting to work in the morning.

2. It's too short - It should have been a double album: 10 Stevie songs (the 9+Make Believe) and 14 Lindsey Songs (9+Gift of Screws, Right Place to Fade, Wait for You, Down on Rodeo, Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind) and maybe the 2 covers from the SYW sessions "I Am Waiting" and "Love Minus Zero/No Limit". (Speaking of, how is it possible for all the bootlegs we have that no "I am Waiting" with Stevie vocals has ever leaked??!! We hear a section of it in Destiny Rules).

3. At one album, it's too few - Imagine if they had agreed on the almost-2-year-tour that resulted and planned something rather radical: release an album on the first tour and then a SECOND album when returning to and expanding markets. Again, approx 12-13 tracks per album (see #2).

4. Just right - In the 18-track version, all the songs found their proper home, the length is long enough to explore the band's themes and to provide a scope of the band's range while being manageable at length and economically ($$$ and space) on one disc.


Just some thoughts. Any proposed double-album, 12-track album, split album tracklists?

Personally, I always thought that it should have been a double CD so that the forced break would make the album more palatable and its structure more readily recognized while also providing maximum scope at the range of artisty of the Mac today. But it's not the only option.

I'll think about what the tracklists might look like.

ETA: I meant to put this in the Rumours Thread.