Fleetwood Mac: Classic or Dud

this looks pretty bad

http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/06/fleetwood-mac-tribute-album-features-mgmt-the-kills-anthony-hegarty-and-more/

Fleedwood Mac Tribute Album Tracklist:
01. Entrance Band – Green Manalishi
02. Crystal Ark – Tusk
03. Best Coast – Rhiannon
04. The New Pornographes – Think About Me
05. MGMT – Future Games
06. Marianne Faithful – Angel
07. Antony Hegarty – Landslide
08. Ranaldo and Mascis – Albatross
09. Trixie Whitley – Before the Beginning
10. Washed Out – Straight Back
11. Super Wolf – Storms
12. The Kills – Dreams
13. Gardens and Villa – Gypsy
14. Billy Gibbons – Oh Well
15. Lykke Li – Silver Springs

Interested to hear the Crystal Ark's version of Tusk though.

can imagine entrance's green manalishi being quite badass too tbh

who is Ranaldo of Ranaldo and Mascis?
Future Games is a cool jam, that could be good too.

must be Lee, can't imagine who else it would be

o for some reason i thought that wasn't how he spelled his name. weird.

04. The New Pornographes – Think About Me

this could work

Mostly would like to hear Billy Gibbons and Marianne Faithful's tracks.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13773-think-about-me-fleetwood-mac-cover/

Mentioned it on my "Tusk" thread, but I'm not sure the New Pornographers cover works, as much as I appreciate the stab at making it different.

That's disappointing. "Think About Me" has with great stealth become my favorite Mac single.

^feeling this

don't like that track at all (I am an NPs fan in general). hate all the squiggly farty keyboard junk on there.

Zactly. When I want the Cars I'll take the Cars, not NP doing the Cars doing the Mac.

hate all the squiggly farty keyboard junk

^^^ yeah, this. But without it, the NP's version could pretty much be any bar band with competent harmonies. I want to hear Billy Gibbons too.

wau @ that album art

how did the crystal ark get dragged into this shit show

Best Coast – Rhiannon

hahahaha

"Rhiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-verrrrb."

her version of storms is really beautiful

a live version of the crystal ark track is on youtube, i don't love it

yeah, i don't even really care about best coast but i heard her do "storms" on morning becomes eclectic and was pretty wowed.

How could you mess up such a pretty song?

11. Super Wolf – Storms

i think this could be great.

~peter

Have you ever sat around wondering, "I wonder what Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon' would sound like if someone re-harmonized it for a major rather than minor key?" I know I have! Well, wonder no more!

ewwwww

So many things wrong with that cover, but the piano comping is seriously wack.

like it's been retrofitted to be done by christine mcvie instead

speaking of covers I don't even like yo la tengo but this is all time

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

after hearing her excellent 'storms' i had high hopes for the BC cover but that sucked

Even the Fleetwood Mac guy who *wrote* this great song couldn't cover it well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSWMMO4LeU

dig the tame impala doing 10cc doing fleetwood mac thing

some of the more faithful versions aren't bad.. the lykke li & will oldham ones could grow on me.. but the ones trying to be 'different' are almost uniformly crap

Yeah, Fleetwood Mac didn't spend all that time and money making something perfect for some shitty indie band to come along and prove how hard it is to be that good.

Something to effect of that line needs to be in EVERY review of this compilation.

saw this on UK TV when I was like 9 or something, made me a Mac fan for life. they are on severely awesome form here, spitting mad and totally frenetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUKvMO_wgE

Actually this is my test band. If someone doesn't like Rumours Tusk or the S/T one, out he/she goes. :-)

LOL. I wouldn't really do that. Not then, not now. But I still play Rumours quite a bit (in the car mainly).

Seeing Buckingham tomorrow night. I've seen the Mac once. This will be the fourth or fifth time seeing Bucky solo.

Really digging "Mystery to Me" lately.

That making of Rumours book is great. Like how he divides the factions into pot and alcohol/cocaine, with poor Stevie (with nothing to do most of the time) dabbling in everything. It's a wonder that album got made, it's a greater wonder that it does not sound like it was made under duress.

I get the impression that today's producers and engineers are slightly less indulgent of such, well, indulgences. The sheer amount of time/money wasted when someone is too drunk, too high, or everyone is too drunk or too high ...

Read the Mick book, too, which is more like a mini-coffee table book. It's worth it for his dedication by ending with several pages of the Buckingham-free "Behind the Mask" era as yet another fresh start (ha!). Also for the picture of Lindsey sitting in what I think is called his artificial rain room. Looks like a greenhouse with water constantly sprayed on the glass from the outside.

whatever for?

in which faction was Buck?

I'm sure this has been posted, but this 1975 concert is pretty illuminating. An odd transitional period from blues rock to Buckingham/Nicks, I believe well before the self-titled album had taken off. Christine is really into this, Buckingham/Nicks have yet to become the "stars."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDskCL-EHk&feature=related

xpost Buckingham was really into pot c. "Rumours." Clearly his interests ... expanded.

The producers and engineers have to strike a balance. They can't abstain, because it would kill the mood, but they can't drink, because it hampered their skills. One would always have to get high with Lindsey, the other one tried to limit his smoking for the sake of stability. Coke was in and out of the scene around then, but at least so far in the book is doesn't seem to be as much of a problem as alcohol, which in particular turned McVie from the nicest guy in the world into a big asshole, which would spark fights with Christine, which would set off Lindsey and Stevie ...

I really liked that Rumours book a lot. John McVie's daily studio routine (come in early and already drinking hard, get surly hammered by the time everyone else is in their groove and go home early, yet still lay down killer tracks) boggled me.

seriously though, what was the rain room for? Just a vibes thing?

Never explained!

From a 1984 Rolling Stone piece:

Lindsey Buckingham is standing in the "rain room." This is his favorite room in the house --- other than the recording studio. The room has a glass ceiling. Flip a switch and a gentle shower of water begins pitter-pattering against the roof --- as if it were raining. "It's great for freaking people out," he says, smiling. "You just turn it on without saying anything, and you're in here talking, and suddenly they think it's raining." the room also contains an immense pine tree growing right out of the floor and up through a hole in the ceiling.

Here's the whole thing, which I guess is interesting: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hVgyDFYMEVEJ:bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php%3Fpage%3Dindex_v2%26id%3D60%26c%3D9+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

How did he keep rain from coming in around the edges of the tree trunk? Was there some kind of huge gasket?

xpost. I've heard both a million times before, but while watching that Capital Center video realized that the intro to Station Man could just as easily have gone into Think About Me. Also, for some weird reason I never noticed that Lindsey (with beard and 'fro) looks a hell of a lot like Peter Green! Has anyone ever remarked on that? So weird...

http://www.streamingoldies.com/content-images/streamingoldies.com/0524-Peter-Green.jpg