Time: Your favorite songs, grouped by singer

[Mr Scarrott]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I like it as well as BTM, and better than SYW.

I really think there's only one real dud on Time- Blow by Blow and it's a pleasant, sunny, varied, listen. The title track aside, BTM is a toilet overflowing with turds.

There's enough angsty, occasionally experimental stuff on SYW maintain my interest 85% of the time and Stevie does at least bring some good songs to the project- I love her take on Smile at you- and John's bass work is great on that. Despite Christine's absence, I prefer it to Mirage and (just) Tango and I suspect I'm in a minority in that.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

I really think there's only one real dud on Time- Blow by Blow and it's a pleasant, sunny, varied, listen. The title track aside, BTM is a toilet overflowing with turds.

There's enough angsty, occasionally experimental stuff on SYW maintain my interest 85% of the time and Stevie does at least bring some good songs to the project- I love her take on Smile at you- and John's bass work is great on that. Despite Christine's absence, I prefer it to Mirage and (just) Tango and I suspect I'm in a minority in that.

Really, FM for me is White, Rumours, Tusk, Live, Mirage, and BuckVie. The rest of the Rumours output is mostly filler.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Really, FM for me is White, Rumours, Tusk, Live, Mirage, and BuckVie. The rest of the Rumours output is mostly filler.

I agree, except that against all odds I liked Behind the Mask, though obviously it's not on the same level as the mentioned albums. And except The Dance that I do love that album because of how I loved the reunion, though it was short. And then I closed my albums fandom.

I rescued only Christine songs from Time. And as WatchChain said in the Rumours forum, without Chris SYW became two solo albums loosely stitched together. So I said meh that year.

And then it appeared BuckVie in 2017, which though I did miss Stevie there, I love it.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I agree, except that against all odds I liked Behind the Mask, though obviously it's not on the same level as the mentioned albums. And except The Dance that I do love that album because of how I loved the reunion, though it was short. And then I closed my albums fandom.

I rescued only Christine songs from Time. And as WatchChain said in the Rumours forum, without Chris SYW became two solo albums loosely stitched together. So I said meh that year.

And then it appeared BuckVie in 2017, which though I did miss Stevie there, I love it.

Oh, I can listen to the other stuff... but I don't live and breathe it, nor do I love it.

[David]

Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

The title track aside, BTM is a toilet overflowing with turds.

Tell us how you really feel!

Mask has boring instrumentation. Strip the good vocals off the tracks, and you basically have a Toto or a Cruzados album. Greg Ladanyi engineered some good albums — Building the Perfect Beast, The Envoy — but this isn’t one of them. It’s really drudged-up, charmless MOR. It’s music for spending a day at the water park.

It might have been a little more interesting with the first choice of producers, Don Gehman? We’ll never know.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by David

Tell us how you really feel!

Mask has boring instrumentation. Strip the good vocals off the tracks, and you basically have a Toto or a Cruzados album. Greg Ladanyi engineered some good albums — Building the Perfect Beast, The Envoy — but this isn’t one of them. It’s really drudged-up, charmless MOR. It’s music for spending a day at the water park.

It might have been a little more interesting with the first choice of producers, Don Gehman? We’ll never know.

If Patrick Leonard (“Love Shines,” “Heart of Stone”) it would have been A LOT better.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

If Patrick Leonard (“Love Shines,” “Heart of Stone”) it would have been A LOT better.

You've got a sweet heart!

[WalkAThinLine.]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

you've got a sweet heart!

YOU MAKE it HAPPEN

[David]

At the moment, I am listening to “Sooner or Later.” Liking it, dudes, liking it.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by David

At the moment, I am listening to “Sooner or Later.” Liking it, dudes, liking it.

It’s a really good song. Her cool, moody vocal…the sexy arrangement…

It’s a spare song, not many notes. And those sophisticated drum fills.

Love it.