Old Enough to Forget

I have a soft spot for this album. Back in '84 I got this solely based on "Love Will Show Us How" A mini master class in pop perfection. When I lost my records, I replaced this with a CD, and then recently for whatever reason a near perfect record showed up in the dollar bin - so I had to drop the buck.  I know this is probably not the popular opinion, but of the solo efforts from the Fleetwood Mac camp this is the album I like best. Oh sure Lindsey Buckingham released Go Insane in '84 as well, and I really liked the title track, and I appreciated how weird he got, but it wasn't something I pulled out very often - and of course I no longer have it (you never know, that could change one day). Then there was the witchy woman herself, Stevie Nicks, who I will admit had some great songs, but mostly I found her voice irritating. So here we have Christine who must have figured it was time to do a solo effort as well - and no doubt this cost a boatload of money to produc...

I always had a soft spot for"Sentimental Lady" and "Ebony Eyes" the guy had a cocky weird swagger, and incorporated disco and strings but added a rock element through his guitar. I didn't really know a lot about him at the time. I knew he was in Fleetwood Mac, but I didn't know anything by them other than Rumours so it wasn't really anything that carried any recognition. Oddly enough it would be Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie who would produce his biggest hit "Sentimental Lady" and they would, along with Mick Fleetwood, play on the track as well. So at time at least it would appear that he left his old band on decent terms. French Kiss dropped November 1977 and did pretty well, and considering a month later Saturday Night Fever came out as disco enjoyed it's brief ascent to world dominance through Donna Summer, The Village People and Barry Gibb's tight pants nut-crushed falsetto. It was a terrible time if you had to live throu...