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

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....

Is anyone playing "guess which songwriter will come next" during this countdown?

Billy Burnette?

I'm pleased so my of Kirwan's songs placed but don't expect any others. May be proved wrong tho.

my = many

Eddy Quintela

KNUCK IF YOU BUCK

#29: "Big Love" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1987) - 219 points, 11 votes

http://image.lyricspond.com/image/l/artist-lindsey-buckingham/album-out-of-the-cradle/cd-cover.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/C1rRA3UIseQ

Fuck! Right album though.

I wonder if those two post-TITN-pre-SYW albums got any votes at all

The song epitomised the stylised production techniques used on the album, with its provocative "oh - ahh" male/female vocal exchange. Though many assumed the female "ahh" to be Stevie Nicks, it was actually Lindsey Buckingham performing both, created by way of his voice being sampled and altered in the studio to mimic that of a woman.

wtf?

Awesome song, and that acoustic version on the other thread rules.

Is anyone playing "guess which songwriter will come next" during this countdown?

Nothing by John or Mick yet. They didn't write much, but I'd be astonished if "The Chain" isn't in the top 20

and, sorry guys, I still prefer the original "Big Love" and ESPECIALLY the Arthur Baker 12" version.

The song epitomised the stylised production techniques used on the album, with its provocative "oh - ahh" male/female vocal exchange. Though many assumed the female "ahh" to be Stevie Nicks, it was actually Lindsey Buckingham performing both, created by way of his voice being sampled and altered in the studio to mimic that of a woman.

wtf?

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Love it.

It's fucking me up a little bit.

"Big Love" was my #4. I've already stated my preference for the live version on the other thread (when the sort of ironic-sultry "ooh" "ahhs" of the album version turn into insane yelps that sound like he is being prodded with flaming pins and needles), but I've grown to love the album version. The feel of this song and some of my other faves on Tango is like nothing else I've ever experienced.

Eh what? I must hear this Arthur Baker version.

> I wonder if those two post-TITN-pre-SYW albums got any votes at all

Behind the Mask was a UK chart-topper! But doubt anything from it will place. "Save Me" was a hit though, and I'm guessing it at least got a vote or two.

McVie'ss "Skies The Limit" isn't bad but anyone with a problem with her lyrics should plug their ears.

#28: "That's All For Everyone" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 231 points, 11 votes, 1 number one vote

http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/l/lindseybuckingham.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/tJeikZr5xN4

Behind the Mask was a UK chart-topper!

always an interesting fact. Also: Tango topped the UK charts three times.

That cascading harmony section from 1:42 to 2:07 is one of my single favorite Fleetwood Mac moments.

(In "That's All For Everyone")

Yeah, those harmonies are trancendant.

yes! I was going to say exactly the same thing about the harmonies when we got to this one

future games! such a jam!! my #7!!! i am p excited for some reason

"Honey Hi" = John McVie's clinic on the importance of ghost notes.

Have you guys ever noticed how much the intro to "Eye in the Sky" by Alan Parsons Project sounds like "Sisters of the Moon"?

John and Mick are basically always in full-on clinic mode in how to play tastefully and complementarily.

re: chart placement - here's a shocker - Fleetwood Mac s/t '75 completely missed the charts in the UK upon its initial release! Only after Rumours became a megahit did the previous album begin scaling the charts, eventually reaching #23. It was an immediate #1 in the States.

Odd discrepencies in UK/US popularity for this band. The Peter Green stuff was huge in the UK but tanked in the US. It's much better known here now than when it was new.

#27: "Never Going Back Again" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1977) - 243 points, 10 votes, 1 number one vote

http://whenyouawake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tumblr_lk3ztoMGKC1qacj99o1_500.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/02ZKmCQl3vw

Nice to see the UK was the one place to make Tusk a no.1

We couldn't work out how to get the discs out of the sleeves so we had to buy another copy.

lol

I apologize; I've bonked up the numbering again... Should be as follows:

#29: "Big Love" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1987) - 219 points, 11 votes
#28: "That's All For Everyone" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 231 points, 11 votes, 1 number one vote
#27: "Never Going Back Again" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1977) - 243 points, 10 votes, 1 number one vote

It would be awesome if a mod could repair the original posts... (I keep looking at my spreadsheet incorrectly--hard to explain without seeing it.)

I can do the repairs, but it'll be later today. Just wanted to say I was the #1 vote for "That's All" and it's that harmony section that put it there.

#26: "What Makes You Think You're the One" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 252 points, 11 votes

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/23969775/Lindsey+Buckingham+Gypsy+Video.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/mUJ-QsijPNQ

Love this one. Felt bad leaving it off my ballot.

love Buck's piano playing on this one.

My #2

Paul Zollo: I was listening to his part on "What Makes You Think You’re The One" from Tusk.

Lindsey: Oh yeah, that’s one of the classic drum tracks. I love that. That’s one of the great drum tracks that I’ve ever heard. That’s up there with "Instant Karma." That was a great moment. That was just Mick and myself late at night in the studio, me at the piano. We put a cassette player that has one of those really cheap mikes in it, we put that right under his snare, and it was so explosive the way he heard it in the cans, he got off on it, and he just turned into an animal. And it was just two-piece, there was no Christine or anybody putting any constraints on what could or couldn’t be done. That has to rate as one of my top-five moments with the band.