Let's Show Some Love For... Mystery To Me!

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by jaycee

I'm surprised to hear some praise for Penguin. At least, I think I'm supposed to be surprised...
I love "Did you ever love me", which I heard on (Selections from) 25 Years - The Chain. If all of the songs on Penguin are of that quality, then I see no good reason to give it anything other than the highest accolade!

Well I love Penguin, but then there is a lot of what I call "Dave Walker Hate" out there which tends to cloud people's judgement of Penguin. I've bashed my head against the wall over this matter so many times I've given myself concussion.

I think that Heroes is better than Mystery to Me which in turn is better than Penguin. The white album and Rumours were only a logical progression of this, and probably suffered for the lack of Welch on those (Buckingham out, Welch in - I can dream can't I?).

In fact Bob Welch was the consistent factor on those three albums, much more so than on Bare Trees or Future Games, his songs were consistently good. Even Christine produced some great songs (and coming from me that is a big compliment).

Oh yes but then on Penguin we have Dave "The Voice" Walker and The Derelict. Universally criticised and one of my favourite FM songs...