[Dogstar]

There's no doubt Wind-Up was looking to cash in on the success of HC and even MOP. I don't know if Wind-Up personally took part in the writing of the songs, but I'm sure there was some move on its part to make it commercially viable/*radio-friendly*. That's what these labels are looking for--big bucks. There do seem to be more radio-friendly songs on Weathered than say, on MOP, even though that one had four top hits. I think Weathered is the fifth or sixth single off this CD...They've had MS, OLB, DSD, Bullets...I think I'm forgetting one...I kind of like it when there's only one or two *radio* songs on a CD and the rest are more album-cut like, where the artist gets to experiment a little more, do something a little different, more solos, longer songs.