You Make Polling Fun: FLEETWOOD MAC POLL RESULTS, ILM Artist Poll #22

God, the full-neck harmonic stuff he does!

Rest in peace, Bob!

#49: "Keep On Going" (Bob Welch, 1973) - 96 points, 4 votes

http://www.bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Bob-Welch-Fleetwood-Mac-suicide.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/cHdM1Nh3mDA

Wow! "So Afraid" = shockingly low! My first to appear; I had no idea that Lindsey set a precedent for Gold Dust Woman.

^^^ One of the reasons I said upthread that I see the s/t and Rumours as companion pieces--the similarity in tone/structure of their closing songs... And I like the closing song of the s/t more ;-)

Yeah so do I

glad everyone else sees it

#48: "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" (Christine McVie, 1972) - 102 points, 4 votes

http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/pjpeg/4db1693d3aaacc9304e99a0124b84f77f74d2ffe.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/ToMLmNre2pU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vrNtkC6rU0

Does any more footage of this show exist? It must exist.

#48 and #49 are fine songs, but they feel a little slight in comparison with most of the others on the list so far...

#47: "Monday Morning" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1975) - 109 points, 5 votes

http://jackyso.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/fleetwood-mac.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/dwtKof6G5iw

That live "I'm So Afraid" is amazing, Ismael!

Mick Fleetwood killing it in that pic.

I love Lindsey's look of extreme skepticism... As if he has any room to talk given some of the fashions he's sported over the years.

And is John grabbing Stevie's ass or what?

wouldn't you?

Sure, but I'd look a bit happier about it than he does!

#46: "Book of Love" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1982) - 109 points, 5 votes

http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/1/50219/3065253/photo-8.jpeg

Track link: http://youtu.be/pMTUPwJTRcI

deep track! Love those harmonies and Bucky's solo

I was amped to see it place like it did!

It's a track I feel like I only recently discovered / gave the time of day to... It was only when I found myself singing the chorus to myself almost constantly that I realized what a strong song it is.

#45: "Don't Stop" (Christine McVie, 1977) - 111 points, 6 votes

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zhvl9wIMEfc/T7W-Us6kPvI/AAAAAAAADfw/KP02D_KHtaY/s1600/ClintonArsenioHall.jpeg

Track link: http://youtu.be/Tm0nopK1BQM

Well I don't like this one

Neither do I! In fact, I considered doing what you did for the U2 poll and allowing everyone a "subtract 20 points" H-bomb... This would've been my target.

I don't necessarily hate this song, but I think I like it less every time I hear it.

I like this song, but it didn't make my twenty.

Book of Love is constantly in my head. I put it on my ballot based on that. Lindsey's mental illness is catchy.

Good image choice. I'm pretty sure it's Bill Clinton who ruined it for me.

"Don't Stop" certainly isn't the most imaginative or exciting of their songs, but come on, crankies. It's fine.

pretty sure Stevie's hat ruined it for me

Yeah, I can't remember if I already kinda hated "Don't Stop" before Clinton, or if that cinched it for me. Either way, it feels out of place on Rumors, too bouncy, too much a "Have a nice day" cartoon of '70s Cali good vibes. Also, since Lindsey's so prominent on it, it was years before I realized it was a Christine song.

that's partly why it works, no? Smiling through tears.

It totally has the slipping-into-vapidity major-key bouncy thing that Christine's songs at their least inspired have...

btw I kinda love the version on The Dance, especially when Mick loses it in the last fifteen seconds and bangs a gong.

"Yesterday's gone, YEEEESSSSSTTTEEEERRRRRDAAAAYYYY'S GAAAAAHHHHHNNNN!"

It's a great song for anyone else, but subpar for THE MAC

Interesting single here: A-side is McVie in self-caricature mode, B-side is Nicks in self-caricature mode...

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002290247/458662614_2587953_fleetwood_mac_dont_stop_answer_7_xlarge.jpeg

love that big moon

It's actually Mick's gong

Back to the old Mac...

#44: "Woman of 1000 Years" (Danny Kirwan, 1971) - 113 points, 6 votes

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/38358945/Danny+Kirwan.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/z-PVWrjAdQ0

It says "Suck it, Bonham!" on the back. xpst

Why not think about times to come,
And not about the things that you've done,
If your life was bad to you,
Just think what tomorrow will do.

could almost be an abba lyric

"Woman of 1000 Years" is so beautiful.

I feel like "Woman of 1000 Years" nails that ethereal vibe I think a lot of Stevie's songs are reaching for.

But like, without even trying.

Danny's etheral is a blissed-out transcendent ethereal, Stevie's is a darker more desperate ethereal... I don't think she does blissed-out very well!

I think maybe what I was getting at is that I wish Stevie did blissed-out well. :)

Christine does it though! Listen to "Warm Ways."

I think "Don't Stop" is just kind of treacly and simpleminded in sentiment and lyric, and was surprised to find myself thinking that about most of Christine's songs as I went through the catalogue. Coming into this poll, I would have ranked LB >> CM >> SN, but now I'd put Stevie ahead of Christine because her songs don't reduce down to swoony Moon-June-Spoon platitudes and cliches -- at least not as often. #stonetheheretic

No way is she as interesting a lyricist, let alone a personality, as Buck-Nicks, but she's such an attractive singer.

I'll give you that, yep.