BOB/CHRISTINE HISTORY SONGS!

This a great work of art. My favorite songs are the title track and "Come A Little Bit Closer." Both by Christine McVie. I don't own this but I do own the boxset and listen to some songs on it. This is a wonderful album. I like it very much. The only thing I regret about is that Bob Welch gets to write more songs than Christine McVie. It's a great album any way!

Fleetwood Mac looses steam

Heroes Are Hard To Find is the final album to feature Bob Welch. And he goes out with a bang too contributing to most of the songs off the album. Welch highlights are Angel (not the Nicks version later on Tusk), Coming Home (very spacey semi-instrumental),Bermuda Triangle, Steel Heels, and the instrumental closer Safe Harbour.

Christine McVie contributes to the chipper title track, the soft Come A Little Bit Closer as well as the poppy Prove Your Love.

Bottom Line: Not a great album, but certainlly better than Penguin. You do get a sense that the band was losing steam or burning out by this point and they needed some new fresh ideas. Enter Stevie and Linsdey

The good songs are hard to find

As others have noted, this was a time of turmoil for the group. Now trimmed back to a fourpiece (they had just lost guitarist/singer Bob Weston and singer Dave Walker), they also changed producers after 5 straight albums they had either self-produced or collaborated with Martin Birch on. This CD also leans really heavily on material from Bob Welch (this would be his last release with the band) and it suffers deeply for that.



Most of the few highlights here are furnished by Christine McVie. The title cut is a nice lament about male prevarication. The understated "Prove Your Love" is also a winner. Of the Welch contributions, the only real standouts are the mystical "Bermuda Triangle" and gentle closer "Safe Harbour".



There are plenty of miscues, filler, and outright bad material here. McVie's "Come a Little Bit Closer" is produced like it WANTS to be a hit, but it's much too slight to stick in the memory. Welch's "She's Changing Me" sounds like Chicago colliding with the Mac...the horns don't work here. The handclap bridge in "Silver Heels" seems too poppy and out of place in the context of the rest of the tune, which is execrable anyway.



The silver lining to this disc is that what might have been a death knell turned into the band's finest hour just one album later...



2 1/2 stars