Christine wants to rejoin the band according to The Guardian

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Sure some of the songs stunk but that is another reason why 18 weren't too many. That way we could gather the ones we liked and ignore the rest and we still have a cool album to listen to. I haven't listened to that CD in over a year so I'm going to go from memory only and say the only song I really didn't like on it was Silver Hurl.I know there were a few more on my skip it list but that one topped them all as my throwaway track.

Regarding the stinky songs, I think that they're easier to digest when they're in the context of something bigger. While I don't agree with the oft-repeated grouse that SYW was just two songs slapped together, I do think that it kind of lacked a theme that bound everything together. So, that's one reason that I think fewer songs might have made the whole thing tighter sounding.

I contrast that to Tusk. Even though it was a double album containing songs I didn't like, I do feel that the songs went together somehow. I think Honey Hi was related to Tusk (the song), for example.

The Tusk ballads, even if I didn't like many of them, I think they were less weak hanging together than they would have been standing out like a sore thumb on another album.

Song selection, sequencing, whatever it was that the band couldn't do to make the SYW songs more cohesive, I think maybe it would have been easier for them to do if there were fewer songs.

And to me, it's not a problem of Stevie and Lindsey not intertwining, because if you DO break their songs down into two solo albums, I think the 9 songs on each of those solo albums go together EVEN LESS than they do as a blended family of 18 on SYW.

With Christine back we're going to have more harmony than SYW had.

I wonder if we will have a music VIDEO, like in the good old days, not just a performance video, but a conceptual video like in the eighties. I would love that. Also, if we had a retrospective video showing clips of the 5 in the seventies and eighties like Paper Doll did, I'd eat that up as well.

Michele