Let's talk about Say You Will marking FM's legacy

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I have never shaken my first impression, that "Say You Will" is two solo albums on shuffle. I like it well enough to listen to it once in a while, but if it had been half as long it would be a better album. To my ear, Christine's absence is a fatal flaw in this album. She has always been the balancing factor between Lindsey's bluster and Stevie's airiness.

The BuckVie album, to my ear, holds together much better and sounds like much more of a band effort. Yes, there are songs alternating lead vocalists, but that has been true of most of the songs of the McVie-Buckingham-Nicks era. I don't find Stevie's absence a flaw at all; my opinion is that the lineup that recorded this album had a lot more fun without her, and it shows in the final result.