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Late to the party...only got this album a couple of days ago.
I love this collection...most of it. On The Wrong Side, Scream and Blue Light are my favourites. I Don't Mind, Santa Rosa and Blind Love are good. Swan Song is quirky. Not yet sure about Power Down. Not loving Time or Dancing. Indeed, Time sucks balls. If he's going to play somebody else's song....why go for that dirge? The intro to Scream sounds straight from Sad Angel. Where does this rank amongst all his solo records??? hmm? |
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I'm pleasantly surprised how little electric guitar the new album has. I hear just 3-4 songs with it. Does "Power Down" have it? "Dancing" "On The Wrong Side" and "Swan Song" do. And I hear just two songs with electric guitar solos (the latter two).
In fact, there is arguably just one other song with a guitar solo at all: "Blind Love," which contains a repeated acoustic figure over which Lindsey does some wordless singing (arguably a solo, arguably not). I'm stunned he didn't release "Santa Rosa" as the lead single. To my ear, it's a classic and far and away the best song on the album – second best being "Dancing," which I also enjoyed in its previous incarnation "Treason." I'll also say I find wholly unlistenable "Scream" – with its bell sound so tortuous it warrants a firing squad. my current ranking of his solo albums: 1. Out Of The Cradle (fantastic songwriting, marred only by some poor use of drum machine that I chalk up either to Lindsey improving at the craft by the 2000's, his abandoning it by then in favor of hand percussion, or the technology greatly improving) 2. Under The Skin (my kind of album) 3. Gift Of Screws ("Wait For You" should have gone on SYW or at the very least on Solo Anthology) 4. Seeds We Sow 5. Lindsey Buckingham 6. Law And Order – The two best songs–"Trouble" and "Shadow Of the West"–are great, but start-to-finish I rank the new album higher. 7. Go Insane – Again "Slow Dancing" and arguably the title track are stadnouts (though the live acoustic "Go Insane" draws the greatness of even that one into question), but the remainder IMO is awful. |
If he substituted "Blind Love" for "Hunger and "Dancing" for "Ride This Road", and I would have enjoyed the album even more. Apparently his record label wanted new material on the Anthology album, so he selected "Hunger" and "Ride This Road" to fulfill that requirement. Given the album's relatively short run-time, I'm curious if the two aforementioned songs were originally intended for his eponymous release.
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1. "Blind Love" has not just one but two acoustic guitar solos (including the one at the end). 2. There is electric guitar on "Power Down" (note the end where the electric guitar goes away and one is left hearing just the acoustic). There is no guitar solo, however. Albeit relatively briefly (thankfully), it does have three instances of an annoying bell sound (different from the one that permeates "Scream") that sounds like someone has won at the slot machine. 3. The above means there are just four songs with electric guitar: "On The Wrong Side" "Swan Song" "Power Down" and "Dancing." Of these four, just two have electric guitar solos: "On The Wrong Side" and "Swan Song." 4. The above also means there are just three songs with guitar solos (amazing for a Lindsey Buckingham album): "On The Wrong Side" (electric), "Swan Song" (electric), and "Blind Love" (acoustic). |
I personally have no problem with the bell sound on Scream. It's the one unique aspect that elevates the song beyond mediocrity.
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But love the squawk on Hold Me. |
We can all agree that the bird squawk on Hold Me is incredible. Lindsey's squawks on Peacekeeper don't really irk me, although he has used wordless vocals to a greater effect on songs like Second Hand News and Eyes of the World.
In regards to the eponymous release, I question the decision to include the wordless vocals on Santa Rosa's final verse when a guitar solo would have easily sufficed. |
Ummm someone fill me in on the Hold Me "bird squawk" please? Is that that effect after the chorus that goes, "Hold me, hold me, hold...(sqawk!) meeeee??" I always thought it was some crazy effect on the guitar and sure it's Lindsey's doing. And it's one of the reasons why it's my favorite FM song.
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The other songs from that time were In My World, Red Sun, Too Far Gone, Lay Down for Free, and On with the Show. Red Sun and Too Far Gone were only instrumental bits at that time, and Chris helped flesh those two out and ended up singing lead on them. Sleeping Around the Corner was an extra track from Seeds We Sow. Love Is Here to Stay I think was a new one for the BuckVie album when they decided it would end up just being a duo affair. Blind Love is one of my favorites on the new album along with On the Wrong Side and Power Down. |
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Seeing that I don't have the physical copy of Solo Anthology, I was unaware that Ride This Road was written in 2012, so thank you for that information. But it's still possible that both Hunger and Ride This Road were considered for the eponymous before the decision was made to release the anthology |
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