The One Great Song on These Terrible Albums

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

In 1990 Stevie called BTM her favorite Fleetwood Mac album.

Well that shouldn't surprise me, should it? She was surely very proud of her BTM song that reached #1.

I wonder if when Stevie said that, Chris said she loved to hear John's bass thumping and Mick playing drums again, and John told Bob BTM was better than Tango, all those phrase were a message to Lindsey while they were upset with him because of the way he left the band, kind of... "see, we didn't need you".

IMHO, history did not confirm some of those phrases. But I understand their angry at that moment.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Well that shouldn't surprise me, should it? She was surely very proud of her BTM song that reached #1.

I wonder if when Stevie said that, Chris said she loved to hear John's bass thumping and Mick playing drums again, and John told Bob BTM was better than Tango, all those phrase were a message to Lindsey while they were upset with him because of the way he left the band, kind of... "see, we didn't you".

IMHO, history did not confirm some of those phrases. But I understand their angry at that moment.

I do not believe Stevie meant it but was a way to promote the album and say "we are fine without Lindsey." Chris praised the album too during release but 30 years later called it suicide music. Half the album is really good. The other half meh with a few bad apples. It needed some good and powerful Stevie songs. Hey, it went to #1 in the UK and Greece.
Because Stevie was sick their 1988 Australian tour was cancelled. The band promised to make it up to Australia next time. They did. They started their BTM tour in Australia and Japan. Sadly when they got to the states Save Me was already falling out of the top 40 after barely creeping in. By the time they got to the States to tour the album was already tanking on the charts. Then Chris's dad died and everything had to be rescheduled.

[SteveMacD]

As much as I absolutely adored Christine, she was meant to be an equal. She wasn’t supposed to be THE driving force. Stevie was gonzo, Billy was too corporate, and the rest were just kind of there. Rick and Bekka had a lot of potential, but it just didn’t happen.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Billy was too corporate, .

This isn't clear to me, why was too corporate?

[WalkAThinLine.]

Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

i have an old audio interview w chris from BTM time and she had this to say about Skies the Limit-- i don't think the album was finished but they were a few songs in when stevie (who obviously hadn't been there much) decided it sounded dark...

"That was actually written as a consequence of Stevie coming in one day and saying, "These songs are so depressing!!" Because I think we'd recorded hard feelings and I think we recorded a couple of others-- love is dangerous, and behind the mask, and she'd heard like a whole string of songs that, back-to-back had a kind of a dark side, you know, so we sort of sat around kind of tended to agree with her that it was a bit serious vibe, you know, when you hear them like that. So I went home and I said to my husband, 'we're going to write a happy song. Now what constitutes a happy line?' and I just thought the sky's the limit. And we just went from there. The song ended up being not so much of a love song but a kind of anthem to the band. You know, the words are very dual, double-edged sword kind of thing. You can take it as being with a romantic context, or not, and the words kind of read as sort of a tribute to the new band if you like."

--Lis

Is this an interview she did with Mary Turner? Is there any way you could post the audio somewhere?