![]() Both Christine McVie compositions, they are the very embodiment of adult-oriented, FM-radio easy listening. It’s all right there in the two most enduring radio hits, “Everywhere” and “Little Lies”. The whole thing has a gauzy, digital coating that comes from a combination of cold professionalism and heavy reliance on technology. ![]() The climate is ripe for critical reassessment.įair enough, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.įrom a cynical perspective, Tango in the Night is the sound of a band doing exactly what it had to do in order to reclaim lost sales (the preceding Mirage and Tusk had sold mere millions rather than tens of millions), please record company execs and radio programmers alike, and keep pace with then-current trends. ![]() Lindsey Buckingham, the band’s grand marshal, has been given his rightful place among rock’s bonafide Creative Geniuses. And a lot of what was previously dismissed as overproduction now simply sounds modern. Tango in the Night’s hits never really left the radio, becoming nearly as ubiquitous as those from Rumours. ![]() Bland, self-indulgent, easy-listening, cold, clinical, calculating, mercenary: On the surface, especially in 1987, it was all of that where the band’s previous million-sellers hadn’t quite checked all the boxes. If you were never much of a fan of the world-beating, Buckingham-Nicks version of Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night was the album that bore out all your reservations.
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