I rolled with the CVB album for about a year before I got ahold of the original Tusk though. I was a huge CVB fan anyway, and although it was sort of slapdash, it's not the worst thing they've done.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
What hubris to start an album with a ballad.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
#16: "Hypnotized" (Bob Welch, 1973) - 344 points, 14 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bYaTwpX-8ZM/T9I7P-Y8ktI/AAAAAAAABnM/h_ziyHKe6vk/s640/bob-welch-fleetwood.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/r3SqYMgKhsk
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
What hubris to start an album with a ballad.― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:47 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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People always say this about this song, but really? I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head, but it ballads are something FM had been doing really well for a while.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
'Everywhere' was the last track played at a beach festival I went to recently. It's totally a Balearic staple.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:47 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've thought this before myself... I love it, though, love the pacing and almost impossibly gracefulness of it.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head
Of earlier albums that start with a ballad. "Box of Rain" is sort of close, a mid-tempo song about mortality.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Hypnotized is so good. But Clarke's Phil Collins dream is better. I wish there was a way to capture dreamsongs.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
So do I... I've had quite a few of them semi-recently, actually. Even if you kept a microphone and recorded beside your bed or something, you couldn't really capture the way the song felt, the fullness of it. Oh well.
But yeah, "Hypnotized" is my version of your "Green Manalishi" phenomenon, Ismael--that one song that does something no other Fleetwood Mac song (or song from anyone, for that matter) quite does. It's such a specific, eerie, amazing mood that it captures.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
I had it on in the car earlier and was reflecting on how they've always done dreaminess so well, even though there's often no writers and barely any personnel in common - Albatross, Dragonfly, Hypnotised, Sara...
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
re: everywherei've seen everywhere played from generic clubs, parties where music's been played by people with very middle-ground music tastes, hipster parties and even by the dj at my local pub, so i think in the uk it's kind of been accepted by pretty much all 'indie' possible scenes, in my experience anyway.
― nathey, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
#15: "Gold Dust Woman" (Stevie Nicks, 1977) - 346 points, 16 votes
http://blog.needsupply.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/stevie-nicks-1981.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/VGO9jNHH5Lw
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
There's my no.2 - Green Manalishi, this and I'm So Afraid were my all-paranoia top three.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
This probably won't make the list, so for anyone who has yet to delve into some of those "lesser" Mac albums, here's Bob recreating that eerie "Hypnotized" vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNycYnn3oAE
Totally cool with "Everywhere" at parties, btw, just more accustomed to old soul music for the most part.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Everywhere was on in a shop I was in earlier too - it seems to have become ubiquitous lately, I keep hearing it in different places.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
One of the all-time-best album closers
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
omg after years of only knowing the truncated 'sara' i've just heard the proper long version, REVELATORY, as if it wasn't already perhaps my fave f mac song.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
I hear "Everywhere" frequently in the US too
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAJluWEBGzk
great re-edit of everywhere for parties.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
I started a DJ set with "Hypnotized" a few months back. I love how it goes a full eight measures with just Mick's machine-like 6/8 beat.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
"gold dust woman" is the first one I can say with certainty would have been higher if I'd got a ballot in.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
Heretical, but I've never been much of a fan of "Gold Dust Woman"... To echo Peter Griffin of Family Guy's epic criticism of The Godfather, "it *insists* upon itself."
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I even like Hole's version
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
What a spooky song, and a great album closer.
http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/archive/spin.htm
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Everywhere and Over and Over are way too low! My #1 and #2 respectively. In what kind of misbegotten universe does the featherweight Second Hand News beat those two?
I love how Everywhere has become a DJ staple now. When Hot Chip covered it at Lovebox recently most people in the too-young-for-the-80s crowd seemed to know the words.
― Get wolves (DL), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
omg after years of only knowing the truncated 'sara' i've just heard the proper long version, REVELATORY, as if it wasn't already perhaps my fave f mac songWow. I'd say 'now go check out the even longer demo version on the 2CD Tusk reissue', but your brain might blow a fuse ;-)
― Jeff W, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
#14: "Silver Springs" (Stevie Nicks, 1977) - 354 points, 15 votes
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/278589357_6f35d1acd4.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/pOcE5ARKT2E
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
TOO LOW
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
and it's all my fault
I know I could have polled you, but you would not let me
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Forgot about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYT8TzUarI
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Never heard this one. xps
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Going back to Hypnotized (which I'm happy to see place so high) I've often found that Welch reminds me a bit of Paul Simon in the way he sings, especially w/r/t phrasing across strict beats. One of those little things that won't really ever matter, but it's slightly interesting...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you Stevie Nicks for immortalizing my hometown of Silver Spring, Maryland in song! (the song has nothing whatsoever to do with the town, but it is indeed named for it).
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
The seven-minute "Sara" is a masterpiece. The demo is worth only hearing once.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I know it's stagey, but when Lindsey and Stevie are staring each other down doing this during "The Dance" ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2XKt2N8fs
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
man remember when that "Silver Springs" clip played 24-7 on MTV?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
silver springs is a great old song
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
"Silver Springs" was destined to be part of Rumours but got yanked last-minute due to time constraints (which I don't entirely understand, given how short the album is). It ended up as the B-side to "Go Your Own Way", and they put a killer live version on The Dance much later. Their engineer Richard Dashut called it "The best song that never made it to a record album"...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Silver Springs not in the top ten?! RE-DO
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
this would be the place where i mention that of all the things i love about stevie nicks, her frank and unshakeable groupieness is up there. the lady just loves musicians. always has, always will.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, her phrasing is probably number one, but her weakness for guitar players and the occasional drummer is maybe like number 3.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
everyone really ought to read that Love/Nicks interview Josh posted
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
I bet she's currently married to a stock broker or some real estate agent or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't think she'd ever been married, but she was briefly in the early 80s. I always view Stevie Nicks as kind of asexual like Morrissey.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'll explain later downthread why "Silver Springs" was my #2 and almost my #1. Stevie's "NEVER GET AWAY! NEVER GET AWAY!" whilst staring at Lindsey on that MTV clip is a major part of the reason....
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
i think jerry brown is the only non-musician she's ever dated. and i bet he's fair-to-middling on bongos.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
If you believe the (classic) liner notes to Timespace Nicks has fucked Buckingham, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, and Brett Michaels.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
#13: "Walk a Thin Line" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 355 points, 15 votes
http://www.gregdroman.com/slideshows/buckingham2.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/l9_JLOjy_7M
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Tusk sure does have quite a few really great, really slow songs, doesn't it?
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link