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

Ah, that should have been a side question to the poll: Sequence your own Rumours

lol

Haha... I do agree though that the above-mentioned trio doesn't quite click.

#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

Really miss her curls. When did those go? The 80s?

Yep... Same decade her voice went! (ducks)

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.

Really miss her curls. When did those go? The 80s?

she mistook them for coke and snorted them

Clarke is your numbering off at Black Magic Woman?

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.

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.

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.

If a mod feels like fixing it, that would be amazing

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, 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...

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.

Really miss her curls. When did those go? The 80s?

she mistook them for coke and snorted them

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

#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

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?

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

There are comps for the Peter Green years, not the Bob Welch years. xp

As another aside, I found one of the rare never-released-on-CD Jeremy Spencer & The Children solo LPs the other day!

The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a pretty good one for the Peter Green years.

Green Manalishi is my no.1! Like I said on the other thread, I'm not even entirely sure that I *like* it, but it does what it does so brilliantly that I had to give it its due.

It's an amazing track... I first heard it via the famous Judas Priest cover version.

I was unaware of the Priest until this poll. Still haven't heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnOJXIvu6s

jon/via/chi, you can get pretty much every Welch era CD used on amazon for less than 5 bucks. Vinyl even less. Can't say I've checked the used LP bins at my local shop lately, but most of them are (or at least used to be) pretty common ime.

Seconded re: getting Welch stuff cheap... It's well worth it. Future Games and Mystery to Me are great ones to start with. But definitely don't sleep on Kiln House either!

Thanks! Maybe I just need to keep checking those used vinyl bins.

I got Bare Trees a week ago for $3 on vinyl and probably overpaid.

Yeah, they'll pop up if you keep it in mind as a thing to do when browsing...

The only way to get a good full career retrospective would be to get the albums and roll your own, sorry to say. xposts

Speaking of which...

#32: "Future Games" (Bob Welch, 1971) - 168 points, 8 votes

http://www.neontommy.com/sites/default/files/Bob_Welch_and_Jimmy_Robinson_at_the_Record_Plant_in_Sausilito_CA.jpg?1339180319

Track link: http://youtu.be/HDqFLwTQrN4

Nice!

This track has such an undeniable Can't Buy a Thrill-era Steely Dan feel... Love it.

But definitely don't sleep on Kiln House either!

^^^ It's pretty much unlike any other album in their catalog. My most played Mac album these days by a longshot.

xpost I can see that...Bob Welch kinda sounds like David Palmer here...

#31: "I Know I'm Not Wrong" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 185 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/18294407/Lindsey+Buckingham+medallion.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/pyQpIVuaxs0

#36: "Man of the World" (Peter Green, 1969) - 155 points, 7 votes

love this song so much. should have been in the top 10–15.

oh and i know i'm not wrong should be higher too.

"I Know I'm Not Wrong" was one of my last cuts.

I love the Tusk bonus disc version of this one too

I've gone back and forth on Lindsey's Tusk songs. Right now I'm not that into most of them. I really love the little heroic solo at the end of this one though.

#30: "Over My Head" (Christine McVie, 1975) - 217 points, 11 votes

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/24094587/Christine+McVie+Christine+Perfect.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/R9hbEKR-qzA

Oh man, I don't remember where I placed this, but it's one of my absolute favorites. Those harmonics positively crackle. And I like the way that the chorus is just this side of booming. It feels like a pre-chorus really, but then it pulls back to the groove.

I looove this song, too; Lindsey certainly has a way with harmonics. It's such a little burbling brook of a song, almost literally refreshing, like cool mist in your face on a sweltering day. Lesser groups would turn that lilting groove into gravy, but John and Mick keep it tight. Amazing.

Either that or they would lean into it too much and make the song to "jammy" and swinging.

I was away and busy during yesterday's rollout and ealier today (waaaahh), so will lump my thoughts/responses to upthread comments together in a later post.

Thus far 8 of my picks have placed, including all three of the Bare Trees cuts (all from side 2!), along with "Warm Ways" and "Monday Morning". I was wondering when and where the Peter Green contingent would kick in after yesterday's results; "Man of the World" may be my favorite song he wrote, and I voted for it and "Black Magic Woman". "Future Games" rounds out my placing votes thus far.

I'm wishing I voted for more Peter Green tracks now myself... His was the stuff I was least familiar with when putting this thing together.

"Man of the World" really speaks to me

....except that i'm not as "worldly" as Peter ever was....