Quote Originally Posted by sup_fan View Post
having read that one idea for the LC album was to focus on serious, mature, social songs. given what was released and what we've [[so far) received as potential songs for inclusion, I think that album would have been so dreary. But as LC was released, i think having the four "serious" songs all in a row didn't help the flow of the album. and sure, there is a tune or two i'd shuffle around. but i think if you just rejiggered it a little, it would have been an easy Top 10.

but you're right. the competition held back their chart performance. same with the 70s sups and the duets
Did we ever get an actual track list for the proposed idea? I know there was a mockup for when the lp was to be titled Somethings You Never Get Used To, but I don't remember it having the social tone.

I think if you take "Love Child", "Keep An Eye", "Does Your Mama" and pair with:

Beginning of the End of Love
Wish I Knew [[completed and with backing vocals)
Can't You See It's Me
Will This Be the Day
With a Child's Heart
A House Is Not a Home
This Time Last Summer
I See a Rainbow
Beware of a Stranger

I think it could have been a mature, more serious album, mixing social commentary with adult themes, both ballads and up tempo cuts.