That makes sense. This is the first song to crack my top 10 (at #9)
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
A little Christine Tusk double-dose!
#37: "Never Forget" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 145 points, 8 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOUSmnU7nbQ/TS0LPgMLSQI/AAAAAAAAA_4/aulk6hIwQco/s1600/tumblr_l2j0edfpem1qbvg22o1_500.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/q2p6OnSTN28
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ this one took years to sink its claws into me. Hot Chip are particular fans.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Um, that was my #6. I hope not to see to many more of mine today!
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
I like the way it closes Tusk after the bizarre carnival of the title track... I've always loved that that record is bookended by two amazing Christine songs.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
Today feels like the Christine day in the same way that yesterday felt like the Kirwan day.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
I'm keeping my mouth shut on that one... But this is a pretty big change of pace!
#36: "Man of the World" (Peter Green, 1969) - 155 points, 7 votes
http://www.kieran.keegan.btinternet.co.uk/Greeny/Greeny_pics/amsterdam_70.gif
Track link: http://youtu.be/_CT7mzrJunc
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
"He [Peter Green] has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."--B.B. King
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
"Songbird" is not a very interesting song, it's true. But Christine's singing on it is so, so appealing, that I enjoy it anyway. Is there a song out there that Stevie wrote, but Christine sang? That would be a really cool thing to hear, since Christine is by far a better singer, but Stevie's songwriting has some teeth that Christine's don't. I would love to here her smoothness over something gritty.
― JessFlip, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Better singer in the Glee sense, not necessarily in the "feel" sense...
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
Songbird was on this killer mixtape that my cousin made for me that had Love and Rockets and The Verve and the first Big Star song I'd ever heard on it; usually inclusion on said mixtape is enough to make any poll ballot I draw up, but space was v v v limited, but I will still pledge fealty to that song forevermore
― seapluspluspunk (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Is that PG's first entry? I can't recall whether he even has an album in our chart.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
I really like the Honey Hi on the Tusk bonus disc - just Christine & Rhodes as I recall it
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
They Play On made the albums list. xp
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Circling back to "I Don't Want to Know," I love the sustained harmony all the way through. I guess it's pretty slight, songwise, but it's a great bit of singing.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
<3 peter green
― buzza, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
And the Cut Copy remix of Never Forget takes flight nicely.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
Isamel, Then Play On was 8th place in the albums ranking...
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah, this is the first Peter Green song to appear... Beautiful track.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'd never even heard of "Man of the World" a week ago, but it leapt onto my ballot after the first listen.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
There are three Peter Green songs that I expect to see higher, plus Brown Eyes, but that's it for him.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
Ask and ye shall receive...
#35: "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green, 1968) - 158 points, 8 votes
http://991.com/NewGallery/Fleetwood-Mac-English-Rose---Se-451586.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/6pT3OaV0g64
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
I love Songbird, and a sparsely arranged, melodically straightforward composition like that is a perfect interlude amidst the multi-tracked feast of popcraft ambrosia that is Rumours.
I agree with others though, that "Don't Stop" is the relative dud on the LP. I actually like the verse sections plenty; it's just the chorus that annoys me.
― collardio gelatinous, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Exactly it. Say You Will shows what's missing when you take that out.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
<i>the multi-tracked feast of popcraft ambrosia that is Rumours.</i>
Nice! Beautiful turn of phrase.
― JessFlip, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
English Rose is the most horrifying album cover of all time.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, it's funny.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
I love it!
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9PUi1S3XRPo/T8pRybwEfqI/AAAAAAAAAXo/PoH_zMKckNQ/s1600/583J.jpg
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
"Black Magic Woman" rules, though... Dig John's bass!
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
"Don't Stop": assumed when the poll was announced it would be a shoe-in for my ballot, but in the end I thought "nah"
"Songbird": used to think "nah" but it's grown on me a lot lately; in the end it was a late cut.
Does anyone agree btw that Rumours is not well sequenced? Don't Stop-->GYOW-->Songbird really doesn't work for me, perhaps because they could all be the Side 1 closer. Not that I have a better sequence in my head.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, that should have been a side question to the poll: Sequence your own Rumours
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Haha... I do agree though that the above-mentioned trio doesn't quite click.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
#34: "Beautiful Child" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 161 points, 8 votes
http://oystermag.com/sites/default/files/stevie_nicks_saucer_eyes.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/MDTTI2UVcMQ
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Really miss her curls. When did those go? The 80s?
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yep... Same decade her voice went! (ducks)
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I love this song. It takes a hell of a band, instrumentally speaking, to sustain that much tension and drive in a song this slow... (Is this their slowest song ever?) The way the harmonies build, interlock, then stagger is lovely. Lindsey's shading is some of the best guitar work on the record--so subtle, but so perfectly placed.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
she mistook them for coke and snorted them
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Clarke is your numbering off at Black Magic Woman?
― Spectrist, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
This one...man, it's way beyond the pale for me. I find it to be totally lugubrious. Could be my least favorite Mac track ever.
― JessFlip, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
maybe rumours' song were deliberately in a jumbled order and 'go your own way' was actually a foretelling song of the times to be had with mp3s and cds where we could skip, burn and produce our own order of songs for albums.
― nathey, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Good catch, Spectrist, my bad... Should be:
#35: "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green, 1968) - 158 points, 8 votes#34: "Beautiful Child" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 161 points, 8 votes
I went a little nuts on my leftover wine samples yesterday evening.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
If a mod feels like fixing it, that would be amazing
― JessFlip, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:48 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Guess you haven't listened to "When I See You Again" lately...
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
So much prefer the Mac "Black Magic Woman" to the Santana one. Not that I mind Santana, but there's no tension in his, it's just groove.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, just said something similar about that god awful perm she had in the 80s: that maybe all the coke she did came out of the pores in her scalp and made her hair crazy.
http://festiva.themonitor.com/files/2011/06/stevie-nicks.jpg
― JessFlip, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
#33: "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" (Peter Green, 1970) - 168 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote
http://kenwilsonelt.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/fleetwoodmacpetergreens.jpg?w=500&h=374
Track link: http://youtu.be/kTvKaLW5bu8
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Sidetrack for a second, if anyone cares to indulge me. I didn't vote because I know nothing about Fleetwood Mac that isn't contained on Rumours, Tusk, or Tango. I've been wanting to dive in, but the pre-Buckingham/Nicks stuff is tough to find and almost all the comps I see seem to pretend the band only came around in '75. Are there any good, more comprehensive comps out there?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Green has explained that he wrote the song after experiencing a drug-induced dream, in which he was visited by a green dog which barked at him. He understood that the dog represented money. "It scared me because I knew the dog had been dead a long time. It was a stray and I was looking after it. But I was dead and had to fight to get back into my body, which I eventually did. When I woke up, the room was really black and I found myself writing the song."[2] He also said that he wrote the lyrics the following day, in Richmond Park. Supposedly, he was unable to record Robert Johnson's 'Hellhound On My Trail' following the incident; having conflated Johnson's hellhound with the green dog-demon of his dream.--Wikipedia entry
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link