Who Has Given Up ??

[David]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I wouldn’t call most of Stevie’s solo albums masterpieces, truth be told.

Glad to hear it! I thought they were all equal to Revolver or Exile on Main Street!

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

But at least she was on the road, keeping her name out there.

While he was producing solo albums, Fleetwood Mac albums, and sometimes even friends' albums.

There's no question that he has always dragged his feet and wasted a lot of time. She has, too. (Rock a Little? Street Angel?) But you're pushing a weird story here—that he's slow and she's fast, and that her speed made her a commercial force that he could only dream about. That's silly. She didn't get inducted into the hall of fame as a solo gal because she busted her behind all these decades. (In fact, we chiffonheads always used to complain about how long she was taking on most of her projects.) She got inducted because the public likes her and remembers her.

[BigAl84]

Originally Posted by David

Glad to hear it! I thought they were all equal to Revolver or Exile on Main Street!

While he was producing solo albums, Fleetwood Mac albums, and sometimes even friends' albums.

There's no question that he has always dragged his feet and wasted a lot of time. She has, too. (Rock a Little? Street Angel?) But you're pushing a weird story here—that he's slow and she's fast, and that her speed made her a commercial force that he could only dream about. That's silly. She didn't get inducted into the hall of fame as a solo gal because she busted her behind all these decades. (In fact, we chiffonheads always used to complain about how long she was taking on most of her projects.) She got inducted because the public likes her and remembers her.

wait, what? the rock a little era wasnt the career defining moment that is referenced to this day, who knew!!

[Street_Dreamer]

Originally Posted by David

She got inducted because the public likes her and remembers her.

That HAS to be the reason. As I've mentioned before, in terms of her solo material, only Bella Donna and The Wild Heart are fantastic albums top to bottom. Rock A Little is trash, The Other Side Of The Mirror was mostly underwhelming and Street Angel was embarrassing. I didn't think Trouble In Shangra-La was all that special and I've never listened to In Your Dreams or 24 Karat Gold.

Stack up her solo work to her work in Fleetwood Mac and it's not even close to being competitive. Outside of her first two solo albums, none of her music transcends time. People talk about Tango In The Night having a "dated" sound. Compared to Rock A Little and The Other Side Of The Mirror, Tango In The Night sounds like it came out yesterday.

Personally, I think there are plenty of women and men who had better and more prolific careers than Stevie. Of course my opinion doesn't matter and she's in the HoF forever. Good for her but she never would have got as far as she did by herself if it weren't for Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey's production on her songs.

[button-lip]

Originally Posted by Street_Dreamer

Personally, I think there are plenty of women and men who had better and more prolific careers than Stevie. Of course my opinion doesn't matter and she's in the HoF forever. Good for her but she never would have got as far as she did by herself if it weren't for Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey's production on her songs.

And for all those people working for her 24/7. Those are the people that made possible all those albums and all those tours. She knows her job very well.