Do we really want a new Fleetwood Mac album?

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I think it is heavily influenced by those things. In the past, she and Lindsey never got along, but since the finished product sold and won widespread acclaim she didn't think of it negatively. She was not happy with SYW from the beginning, but the tour seemed to ease some of the friction between her and Lindsey -- until it ended. I think if SYW had been a hit my some miracle, she'd never have knocked the songs.

Same thing with Street Angel. She may have hated the experience, but the album sales would have changed that. When the album goes nowhere like SYW did and the songs that will be on this next album will, then she's going to be unhappy and that resentment will be locked in. For eternity. No, I don't think that she will take the low sales of the FM album the way she took IYD. No, I don't think she's going to love her contributions to it anyway. If Lindsey is involved in her songs, she's going to blame him, rightly or wrongly. As they are eighty years old now, I think the complaints we get from them in the next years are going to be the same ones on their dying lips. Hopefully my ears and eyes will have deteriorated so I won't have to witness those gripes for very long. Michele

We have two examples of albums that didn't sell millions of copies, but that Stevie loves: 'Trouble In Shangri-La' (663,000 copies) and 'In Your Dreams' (188,000). And we have two examples of albums that didn't sell millions, that Stevie doesn't like: 'Street Angel' (229,000) and 'Say You Will' (864,000 - more than 'TISL' and 'IYD' combined, for the record).

I'm not sure why her reaction to the latter two albums has become the accepted view among fans of how she responds to something with low sales. Seems to me like a 50/50 shot that she'll love the next Mac album, even if it doesn't sell a million copies.