Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie - June 9, 2017

Lindsey definitely has a knack for depressing album covers

This cover's hilarious. I guess the major label art departments have gotten hit hardest.

Buckingham/McVie: We've Got Our Own Album To Do, Stevie!

Buckingham's recent solo output has been so damn wonderful. I only hope the Christine pushes him into weirder territory instead of restraining him ala Say You Will with Stevie.

His tracks on Say You Will are every bit as weird as his recent solo albums, for obvious reasons.

I still think this should be a Fleetwood Mac LP.

xp
aren't Mick and John the rhythm section on this too? it's basically FM minus Nicks

yep

lol owned

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Nicks.

should've called it Perfect Buckingham

Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman & Stevie Nicks.

(xp)

Honestly, I think it's bullshit that this isn't going out under the name Fleetwood Mac. Mick and John own the name, so if this isn't Fleetwood Mac then Say You Will sure the fuck isn't, if the same logic is applied.

god who gives a shit

psyched for this record

lmao at the cover art

for symmetry's sake, she should've held a keytar imo

I'm psyched for this record too, although it's probably bound to get less people checking it out and less press exposure generally since it doesn't have the Fleetwood Mac name on it. Which it should have.

I suppose the Stevie Nicks Fanclub think it's a good idea, though.

they can call it whatever they want, you jackoffs!!!@#!@$

my total indifference to whatever this is called is non-partisan

The Kurt Schwitterz Experience, Featuring Most of Fleetwood Mac

meatwood flack

BuckVie

Where's Stevie?!?!?!?!

Buck and Perfect worked on these songs together. Then they got the ol' rhythm section to record them. Stevie wasn't involved in the writing.

Dinosuar rockers making a buck
God just retire

Thanks, bro.

I wonder if Mick and John will be performing on the tour? If so, I'm buying a ticket

$125 for "rear orchestra" seats, before service charges and taxes? This album better be good

1. Sleeping Around the Corner, Stevie?
2. (How I Really)Feel About You, Stevie
3. In My World, There's No Stevie
4. Red Sun (That's What We Call Stevie)
5. Love is Here To Stay Now That Stevie Is Gone
6. Too Far Gone To Care About Stevie
7. Lay Down For Free, Free From Stevie
8. Game of Pretend That Stevie Doesn't Exist
9. On With the Show, Without Stevie
10. Carnival Begin, Stevie End

For that price it better be Rumors part II

Where does Lindsey end and Stevie begin

i paid more than that for actual Mac last year or the year before.

in a huge stadium

Mac without cheese.

The cover looks like one page from a FMac tour programme, other pages have Mick with Stevie, etc.

John stands alone, and by "alone" I mean with a lager.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NYX6WjNcL.jpg

Mac without cheese.

― Mark G, Wednesday, April 12, 2017 6:52 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Heh, well that's certainly one way of looking at it!

oh man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwBy3TvzPEU

holy shit this is fucking awesome, they need to change the cover immediately

Very nice. Very LB, but I can hear how CM tempers his approach.

yeah, diggin' this, hope the single's an indication of things to come rather than an outlier

I like how it has the same beat as Trouble

Law & Order: LBCMV

The album sleeve looks really naff, definitely. It looks like it was knocked up in a couple of hours by a record label art department in 1988.

does it matter whether two musicians whose collecive age is over 140 years approved a naff sleeve?

Maybe if they expect anyone under the age of 70 to pick it up and give it a listen?

those listeners will likely stream it

Or would, if they hadn't wussed out from calling it a Fleetwood Mac record. They must be seriously expectng to make a lot of money on this forthcoming "final" tour.

promo video for the album, has clips of more of the tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVsqngf9yE

damn they all sound fantastic

surprised this hasn't leaked

Christine sounds like she'd be an acerbic joy after a glass of wine.

The production makes them sound like the younger bands who are inspired by them. The three new songs on Spotify sound like a Captured Tracks band's new EP!

oh: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/530271657/first-listen-lindsey-buckingham-christine-mcvie

damn they all sound fantastic

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, June 1, 2017 5:57 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kinda weird that this thread went dead when the album was actually, you know, released.

yeah :(

I'm listening to it as I type.

I'm not as high on it as Brad but about half of it consists of keepers. McVie sounds magnificent on "Carnival Begin."

This was a bit anticlimactic for me -- my favorite song is still Christine's "Feel About You". I'd agree w/the above that about half of it I'd want to hear again, but that's not exactly my description of a great record.

quality of this feels v even to me, don't know what to tell y'all

shouts out to "sleeping around the corner" for kinda sounding like prefab sprout at first, thereby closing a loop

Keepers: Sleeping Around the Corner, Red Sun, On with the Show, Carnival Begin, Love is Here to Stay, Game of Pretend. Well, I guess that's more than half the album.

i think "too far gone" is maybe the only misstep but that's only bc i haven't decided how i feel conceptually about "'world turning' but less good"

that's one where the production is too spare to do it justice; the track sounds cramped.

I by and large like this, but they sound like hi-fi home demos. Which can be cool! But not always here, imo.

In My World is my favorite, still. Feel About You is a bit cloying?

this is adorable (ragged voices notwithstanding):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rqLQ05AVNo

Gonna have to take some sedatives before I can bear watching that.

buckingham unable to stop making his guitar face even while playing ukulele

Can imagine that's not that far off from Tusk sessions. Where's ?uest?

Feel About You is cute, but in such an old fashioned, sunshine pop kind of way, that I can't help but like it. These days, I am taken off guard when I hear a I vi IV V progression.

Sounds more like a Lindsey record with some songs featuring Christine McVie who, sadly, is not in great shape, delivering mostly weak, clumsy, schmaltzy songs ('Too Far Gone' being the exception) and unimpressive vocals lacking the beautiful tone and strong presence of her earlier work

while the modern efx (including mild autotune) work fine with Lindsey's more aggressive style, the production does not serve her well

'Sleeping Around the Corner' and 'In My World' are really good songs though

oh I love "Carnival Begins"!

that's a song that somewhat succeeds in establishing an interesting sonic environment but ultimately I don't find the narrative captivating

I don't mean to be negative, I'm just slightly disappointed bcz I love Christine McVie

anyone catching them on the tour?

haha, this first track uses a "motown" drum loop that's packaged with logic pro (and probably some others, but i recognize that one bc i've used it before). its also at the beginning of a tame impala song.

It's a good record, it's great to have Fleetwood Mac back.

yeah did you see rage against the machine are also on tour

saw them at the greek theatre in la tonight. buckingham is such a dominating stage presence that it felt more like a buckingham show with mcvie helping out than a buckingham mcvie show. also, her voice was not in a good place. she sounded like she was struggling all night. a little sad. it was still really nice to hear her give "wish you were here" a go. he talks too much and is boring and plays "never going back again" as a frighteningly slow dirge. the backing band (two guitarists who are longtime buckingham/mac regulars and a rhythm section who are not mick and john) came out after four songs and breathed some life onto the stage. "sleeping around the corner" from the new album was great in a way that made me wish they had totally fleetwood mac'd it up in the studio. that was my highlight of the night, along with a fully credible and fun go at "tusk." the set was about half fleetwood mac, half buckingham/mcvie, and two buckingham solo tunes thrown in. they ended quietly, with mcvie on piano singing a good ballad from the new album called "game of pretend," which she introduced by saying "this is not 'songbird,'" which was either a joke or an apology, i couldn't tell. glad i went. not sure what i was expecting. probably pretty much what i got.

"Game of Pretend" is a solid album closer.

Well, all "Sleeping Around the Corner" was missing to make if full Mac was Stevie!

It was totally the Bucky show here as well. I could barely hear Mcvie's keyboard playing, and she felt very much a supporting role. Having seen lots of Buckingham live, plus Mac, I think it would have been fine had she just been rolled out as needed to sing Everywhere, Little Lies, and Hold Me.

She closed the show with that same quip about Songbird by the way. Likewise, I couldn't tell if she was joking or apologizing. As it was, the show was maybe half full and people were already streaming out.

that's disappointing. did they already play these summer Mac festival shows?

I assume he's doing "Trouble" as well

yeah they opened with "trouble," lindsey and christine alone onstage.

Well, all "Sleeping Around the Corner" was missing to make if full Mac was Stevie!

truel but it sounds kind of small and weirdly enervated on the album. the live arrangement opened it up, made it more fun, bigger.

xp whoa that's awesome, that's a great opener

that show was amazing

"trouble" -> "wish you were here" is a real heartbreaking opening suite

also christine's voice was a little variable but she hit every note in "you make loving fun" so who cares?

i think "hold me"'s key was shifted but i assume that was for lindsey's benefit more than christine's

Could you hear much of her keyboard? How full was the audience?

it was pretty full but not sold out at the beacon theater i think. it was only difficult to hear christine's keyboard when lindsey was playing his solo tracks

i think i enjoyed this more than any mac show i've seen tbh

Have you seen Bucky solo? Because it was pretty much like every solo Bucky show I'd seen, plus special guest Christine doing her songs.