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

Ha, whoops! You know, I've made that mistake for years, and I have no idea why. I always, always think of it as a Stevie song, and always have. I even have "McVie" right there on my spreadsheet staring me in the face. In any event, I apologize to Ms. C. Perfect for the snubbing! Let's try that again:

#20: "Little Lies" (Stevie Nicks, 1987) - 325 points, 15 votes, 1 number one vote

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_uIHP5F8KLg/TrcTmUNShxI/AAAAAAAAD2I/YZzjbtOHDz8/s1600/LittleLies45.jpg

ARGH.

#20: "Little Lies" (CHRISTINE MCVIE, 1987) - 325 points, 15 votes, 1 number one vote

"Do me a favor. Just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all. Kick my ass. Enjoy. Come on. I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my ass."--Marty Fufkin

^shouldn't that be Stevie Nicks?

hahaha it's Artie

Shit. I'm better at this when I'm hung over!

wow. quite a 'do on Stevie!

In any case, an effortlessly amazing song. It also has the exquisite status of being the first Fleetwood Mac song ever released as a cassingle.

Now I might have to start a band called Exquisite Cassingles.

btw being a 12 year old boy and hearing these two distinct voices behind the lead going TELL ME LIES/TELL ME TELL ME LIES, one of which is weirdly nasal, was a bizarre experience

I loved hearing "Little Lies" every time it came on the radio.

I was overexposed to this song thanks to my mother's adoration of it. Its position as track one side two meant I could expect the occasional rewind in the car for a second play. At least her obsession eventually resulted in her taking me to see the Tango tour as a kid!

Double shot of Christine Tango masterpieces to start the day:

#19: "Everywhere" (Christine McVie, 1987) - 336 points, 14 votes, 1 number one vote

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/252691/Fleetwood+Mac.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/ThbMaq8hDEo

x-post: I'm so ridiculously envious of anyone who got to see Fleetwood Mac in the '70s or '80s... How many did? (Did anyone here see them in the '60s?!)

I fully expected "Everywhere" to be in the top ten with ease.

Is there another band who are as 'tactile' as the Mac, nearly every photo they're draped around each other?

It's my birthday, I've just been taken to lunch, and we're doing the Fleetwood Mac top twenty. I gotta say, today is a good day.

Hot Chip covered "Everywhere" a couple weeks ago

I like "Everywhere," but it has a generic adult-contemporary vibe such that I sometimes forget it's a Fleetwood Mac song.

If most adult-contempo was as nuanced and melodically graceful as "Everywhere," I'd submit immediately.

Happy Birthday, IK

Those squishy synths and bop-a-bop Muppet harmonies are the bomb

Thank you nbs. And I've got a Sopranos end-of-season for later. Now just waiting for Everybody Finds Out at no.1 and it'll be perfect.

You didn't even have to use your A-K!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IobDug0Ht1g

bop-a-bop Muppet harmonies

^ this!

Harmonies and backing tracks in Fleetwood Mac and especially solo Buckingham are so precise, right down to the stereo separation, that they sound like Synclavier samples.

i hear everywhere at so many parties

"Little Lies" was my #1, "Big Love" was my #4, and "Everywhere Was My #5". Other than that Cut Copy ripoff (which I've listened to a few times, starting with excitement but ending with an empty feeling), I don't know much else that sounds so utterly flawless and integrated and satisfying in the way that these tracks do.

"Everywhere Was My #5"

This reads like a fIREHOSE song.

http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/happy-birthday-stevie-nicks.34595/

If most adult-contempo was as nuanced and melodically graceful as "Everywhere," I'd submit immediately.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:38 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

F'real

Christine turned 69 two weeks ago.

I don't know much else that sounds so utterly flawless and integrated and satisfying in the way that these tracks do.

the apex of sleek eighties pop

BAWM BAWM BAWM BAWM BUH BUH BAWM

#18: "Second Hand News" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1977) - 338 points, 16 votes, 1 number one vote

http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/biographies/lindsey1.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/p6Fdm3-dnr0

Yes, that is young Buck

the apex of sleek eighties pop

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:06 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Speaking of... Last night, I had a dream in which I was at a very small coffeeshop, and sitting on stage playing solo (yet with full-band sound) was Sir Phil Collins. He played a few of his hits, but I remember him playing a particular song that I thought was undeniably his best one (and I thought of it in explicitly that ILM-poll sense of "oh yeah, this is the one I'm voting for"). The thing was, it wasn't an actual Phil Collins song. My sleeping brain was somehow composing my Platonic ideal of a Phil Collins song and he was right there performing it for me and maybe 25 other people.

Two songs in a row here I want to say TOO LOW to.

i hear everywhere at so many parties

― just sayin, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:51 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

has that balearic sheen, great set-ending qualities. was my number 3 and astonished it's not top 10.

As a kid -- by which I mean an 8- or 9-year-old -- I thought "lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff" was both exciting (because it was obviously about SEX) and gross (because ditto).

That's one of my favorite lyrics ever.

I honestly thought "Everywhere" was going to place higher, too...

#17: "Over and Over" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 342 points, 15 votes, 1 number one vote

http://blog.schoolofrock.com/Portals/19575/images/Christine-McVie-cwhitebw.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/X5YHRcG-GJg

Here's the point where Tusk worshipers are going to begin annoying me.

There's my number one. Happy at least that it didn't end up in the lower 2/3s of the poll. The first Fleetwood Mac thing I ever really listened to was Camper Van Beethoven's recording of Tusk. I came back to this song more than all the others and it really spurred me to seek out the original album. So much sweetness in this song. That single repeated guitar note at the end that hits at the same time as the snare. Those surprising fills that Mick whips out at the end.

It's a mighty song. The acoustic guitar sounds so damn thick on this.

This song pulls off one of my favorite sounds effortlessly: sun-dappled melancholy.

hear everywhere at so many parties

― just sayin

Is this a Britishes thing, or a hipster thing, or...? Seriously asking, cuz nobody I know spins 80s pop at parties,or knows the meaning of the word balearic.

that's a shame. over and over is lovely, the way it builds toward the end and goes up a notch is what really makes it for me.

'Everywhere' was a staple of every club night/house party I went to as an undergrad (2008-2011) in London.

The way the last lines don't go back into the chorus and just sort of disintegrate into the outro.