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

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...)

Thank you for introducing me to "Sit On My Face Stevie Nix"

"Brown Eyes" devastates me. DEVASTATING

It was my first favorite song on Tusk back when I discovered the record.

#23: "The Ledge" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 281 points, 13 votes, 1 number one vote

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Track link: http://youtu.be/8fVPUoUJ8nQ

COUNTING ON MY FINGERS COUNTING ON MY TOES

Love "The Ledge" so much. One of the most paranoid-sounding songs I've ever heard.

Numbering edits done.

It's so ridiculously manic.

The backing vocals are terrifying!

"The Ledge" gives me agita... But I like it. Only Lindsey could make such a strange, busy melody so catchy.

The Ledge is a perfect reintroduction to lindsey, he sounds so much YOUNGER than he does when you last hear him on rumours.

#22: "Think About Me" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 291 points, 12 votes, 1 number one vote

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Track link: http://youtu.be/4xjNTJK6N6o

My favorite Buck-McVie duet.

I really dig the guitar work on "Think About Me"--busy and creative without at all getting in the way.

a masterpiece of treble too

Haha, Storms-Brown Eyes-Ledge is a great run-of-three! One evening in 2003 I set The Ledge on repeat for hours and tried being paranoid and daring myself to go down to Brixton and score some coke. I didn't of course, it'd've been most unlike me, but I did get to feeling rather *on edge* and it was hard to get to sleep afterwards.

My only Tusk vote

"The Ledge" gives me agita... But I like it. Only Lindsey could make such a strange, busy melody so catchy.

^^^

Why it was my top-ranked Tusk track.

Yeah, Tusk is ripping it up today! That's a hilarious anecdote...

(To Ismael)

BABY ONCE IN A WHIIIIILE

The relative commercial failure of the "Think About Me" single puzzles me - this is one song on Tusk that could have easily fit on Fleetwood Mac or Rumours, and is catchy as all hell, and can't figure as to why it wasn't a big hit.

It was the third single.

Lindsey strikes me as someone who probably mutters, hums, talks, exclaims, etc, to himself all the time... Like creatively productive Tourette's Syndrome.

still glad that "Tusk" and "Sara" made the top ten on career momemtum.

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.

For years I had no idea, but the remaster made it pretty clear it was a harmonica. Lindsey's been playing this live lately.

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Last one for today, class... Fitting for "Christine's day":

#21: "Say You Love Me" (Christine McVie, 1975) - 320 points, 15 votes

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Track link: http://youtu.be/YAhwY3FuM1Y

Good day, but still not a lot that I voted for. Either my taste in Fleetwood Mac songs is really common, or I'm an obscurist.

One more wrap-up today:

#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
#25: "Storms" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 276 points, 15 votes
#24: “Brown Eyes” (Christine McVie, 1979) – 280 points, 12 votes
#23: "The Ledge" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 281 points, 13 votes, 1 number one vote
#22: "Think About Me" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 291 points, 12 votes, 1 number one vote
#21: "Say You Love Me" (Christine McVie, 1975) - 320 points, 15 votes

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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.

Thanks, I think I'll just dive in and grab whatever ones I happen to come across.

Loving the Tusk-heavy stretch tonight! 'Brown Eyes' has always been my favourite from that album so had hoped it might be higher but never mind.

are there any more green/welch/kirwan songs that could make it or is it the lindsey and stevie (and maybe a little christine) show from here on out?

There are two Green songs and at least one Welch still to come

I can think of one Green and one Welch for sure. Not sure what the other Green song Ismael is thinking of might be.

Their only UK #1 single is yet to come, and features the original line-up.

I voted for all three!