Which is better? This is 40/You Can't Fix This or EP?

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Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

The point of this is to try to generate discussion about whether Stevie and Lindsey are better off solo or together with the Mac? Or maybe they still make fireworks together but outside producer/s are needed as evidenced by the solo songs? Or do they just not jive together anymore?

frankly, i would never pit these 3 very different outputs against each other.

This is 40 songs are little (or way) too sparse for my taste, although i love She Acts Like You and the message it contains. maybe if someone like Shane McGowan was singing them i would think differently... Brother and Sister goes on for way too long, and Sick of you i can take or leave. (although i do like to listen to them because i just like to hear Lindsey and they are not getting on my nerves like Trouble or Did You Miss Me.)

You Can't Fix This has the opposite problem for me - no melody, annoying lyrics, although great arrangement / instrumentation. i want some melody in a song so this bores me, similar to Illume. (and no, this is not FM-like song, it's just Illume-like song.)

so i don't really think these specific recent examples of a "solo" output represent their solo output at all. i like SWS and IYD much more than these, and would take that as more representative of the most recent solo output.

so if you asked me whether i think SWS is better that EP, i would without any hesitation say it's SWS, even if EP has Mick and John on it and i like that fuller sound.

however, if you are pitting EP against This is 40 and YCFT, even though EP is on average too poppy for my taste and i normally wouldn't probably give it a chance if it wasn't Lindsey's baby, than that's no brainer for me: EP wins hands down.

i also find interesting that most of complaints that i've seen around here against EP are about arrangements, production, who sings, who plays, and who wrote what, but not about the actual songs and their melody or lyrics.