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

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.

Mick really loved the sound of that snare drum...

xpost!

Christine gets a slap in the face!

Want to hear more about these constraints, tbh.

Constraints such as "seriously, cool it with the snare"

I've tried drumming along to this & it's impossible, he never plays the same thing twice

To recap the whole shebang so far:

#60: "Sands of Time" (Danny Kirwan, 1971) - 57 points, 3 votes
#59: "Dragonfly" (Danny Kirwan, 1971) - 62 points, 3 votes
#58: "Blue Letter" (Richard & Michael Curtis, 1975) - 63 points, 4 votes
#57: "Warm Ways" (Christine McVie, 1975) - 70 points, 3 votes
#56: "That's Enough For Me" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 70 points, 3 votes
#55: "Coming Your Way" (Danny Kirwan, 1969) - 71 points, 4 votes
#54: "Seven Wonders" (Sandy Stewart, 1987) - 76 points, 4 votes
#53: "Sisters of the Moon" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 76 points, 4 votes
#52: "Show Me a Smile" (Christine McVie, 1971) - 87 points, 3 votes, 1 number one vote
#51: "Not That Funny" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 87 points, 5 votes
#50: "I'm So Afraid" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1975) - 90 points, 4 votes
#49: "Keep On Going" (Bob Welch, 1973) - 96 points, 4 votes
#48: "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" (Christine McVie, 1972) - 102 points, 4 votes
#47: "Monday Morning" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1975) - 109 points, 5 votes
#46: "Book of Love" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1982) - 109 points, 5 votes
#45: "Don't Stop" (Christine McVie, 1977) - 111 points, 6 votes
#44: "Woman of 1000 Years" (Danny Kirwan, 1971) - 113 points, 6 votes
#43: "Dust" (Danny Kirwan, 1972) - 114 points, 4 votes, 2 number one votes
#42: "Crystal" (Stevie Nicks, 1975) - 117 points, 6 votes
#41: "Sentimental Lady" (Bob Welch, 1972): 123 points, 5 votes
#40: "I Don't Want to Know" (Nicks, 1977) - 124 points, 6 votes
#39: "Songbird" (McVie, 1977) - 133 points, 8 votes
#38: "Honey Hi" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 143 points, 7 votes
#37: "Never Forget" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 145 points, 8 votes
#36: "Man of the World" (Peter Green, 1969) - 155 points, 7 votes
#35: "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green, 1968) - 158 points, 8 votes
#34: "Beautiful Child" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 161 points, 8 votes
#33: "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" (Peter Green, 1970) - 168 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote
#32: "Future Games" (Bob Welch, 1971) - 168 points, 8 votes
#31: "I Know I'm Not Wrong" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 185 points, 8 votes, 1 number one vote
#30: "Over My Head" (Christine McVie, 1975) - 217 points, 11 votes
#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
#26: "What Makes You Think You're the One" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 252 points, 11 votes

That could be said of a lot of his drumming. I heard an interview once where Mick gave all the credit for the bands tightness to John for being able to keep up with his random, intuitive playing style.

xp

Stevie's gonna clean house tomorrow.

Amazing story, how's... Imagine how cool a duo record of Mick and Buck would be.

Starting to fear my favorite Buckingham cut from Tusk won't make it. ;_;

Mick's always drummed on at least one Buck solo track; the two are tight.

until I read the Zollo interview a few years ago I assumed the manic drumming was Buck's.

I've gotta run out and show a customer some wines (so I can pay for my internet and keep this poll going, ha), but I'll roll out #25-21 in about an hour or so.

Fleetwood Mac ILM poll...brought to you by WINE!

http://www.mickfleetwoodprivatecellar.com/

I've gotta run out and show a customer some wine

Bring us a bottle and we'll be like teh Mac in '79.

That's Gallo For Everyone

Explain to the customer that Mad Dog 20/20 has a much higher alcohol content than Boone's Farm

Riojannon

Pour Me

The Green Nerveltliner (with the screw-off cap).

Corkscrew Turning

Lots of mine in this run. Man of the World was my #3 - one of the saddest songs in the world.

I'm back! They took three out of the four things I showed them, so it looks like I'll be able to keep this going after all...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/7558852046_cc09e49b4a_m.jpg

(This shop is actually a client of mine!)

"You can grow your own grapes"

You win!

I wish I could go back in time and unlearn that Mick Fleetwood wines exist...

He makes his wine in a private cellar where there is no Christine or anybody putting any constraints on what could or couldn’t be done.

#25: "Storms" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 276 points, 15 votes

http://tarnishedlady.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/stevie_nicks_wallpaper.jpg

Track link: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/7558852046_cc09e49b4a_m.jpg

He makes his wine in a private cellar where there is no Christine or anybody putting any constraints on what could or couldn’t be done.

― cwkiii, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lindsey is his oenologist.

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

yeat I was trying to think what the characteristics of each FM member's wine would be. Like Lindsey's wine would probably never make it out of his cellar because most batches would fail to meet his exacting requirements

i wish i didn't sleep through all of this (lolunemployment) but a bunch of mine just popped up

Never Going Back Again was my #1, tho it was basically interchangeable with my #2. picked it over that one bc i figured it might need the help. i don't really have a good reason to love it except that it's one of those songs that i have to listen to 5+ times in a row whenever i hear it, and i just fall for it so deeply each time. it's so simple, just gorgeous guitar + lindsey's biting vox. love the way he makes his 'k' and 'g' sounds so vicious, and the pure brattiness of the line "you don't know what it means to win." rumours was seriously such a bratty record.

I Don't Want to Know was my #3. i also listen to it on repeat whenever it comes on. if i were in a band we would cover it at every performance. the whole thing is so damn light but the chorus! that weird rising tension that just keeps going and going and getting more breathless until it plateaus back to I DON'T WANNA KNOW...

jon via chi, you can't really go wrong with any fleetwood mac album up to and including 'tango in the night' imo. the best thing about grabbing all of those albums is if you didn't know any better you'd think you were listening to 4 different bands.

....sometimes on the same record!

also gave points to I Know I'm Not Wrong, 100% because of that sound (harmonica? fiddle) that makes the song sound like it escaped the Sandinista! track listing and burrowed into Tusk.

And Storms! I love Stevie's tendency to build entire songs around one melody repeated over and over again (Sara and Gypsy also placed on my ballot duh). it's so meditative and calm and sad but there's that that tension again, and it seems perfect that the lyrics that hinge on "I have always been a storm" when the arrangement sounds, at most, like heavy rainfall. stevie's voice changes everything.

^"fiddle?" i have no idea what that is, probably not a fiddle

This next one is one of my absolute all-time favorite... Chills city...

#24: “Brown Eyes” (Christine McVie, 1979) – 280 points, 12 votes

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/31413403/Christine+McVie+Chris+tusk.jpg

Track list: http://youtu.be/OIKkveUcBPc

Peter Green plays on this track! (Which was just pointed out to me the other day on the lead-up thread...)