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The post-break up/divorce albums and how often they suck
data damage:
Another one for Sea Change. Magnificent stuff.
boneykingofnowhere:
Beyond by Dinosaur Jr is comparable to everything else they've put out.
Inlander:
I find Sea Change to be abjectly and unrelentingly dull apart from one song, "Lost Cause", which is super-grade-A-quality triple-ace.
Ptommydski:
--- Quote from: Retrospectre on 25 Jan 2009, 11:12 ---RUMOURS.
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This was the most obvious and best disproval of the premise in the title. Still one of my favourite records of all time. Has been since I was about five in fact. Sometimes I wonder if I would love it if I heard it tomorrow for the first time and it wasn't such a massive memory from my childhood. I think I still would, there's an incredible bite to so many of the songs.
As has been talked of at length, Rumours was written and recorded while all five members of Fleetwood Mac were involved in messy break ups and divorces. John and Christine McVie were soon to be divorced, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham separated and even drummer Mick Fleetwood was in the process of divorcing his wife. I would imagine all of these schisms were painful enough without spending long hours in the studio recording songs which were usually about each other. Most notably, the principle songwriters had to co-operate, contribute, arrange and occasionally sing songs which quite often had lyrics which were patently about themselves and usually not in a terribly flattering light. I think the frankness of the emotional content allows this reasonably over-produced and occasionally sickly album to endear itself to new generations of listeners time and time again. There really is nothing like it because it was spawned from such a unique situation which is supremely unlikely to be replicated.
Plus Lindsey Buckingham played the guitar like an absolute motherfucker.
ThePianoMan:
Wasn't "Love Will Tear Us Apart" recorded right after Curtis' divorce? Or right before? Something like that?
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