#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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
One of the all-time-best album closers
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:08 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
I hear "Everywhere" frequently in the US too
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:09 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
I even like Hole's version
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:18 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
TOO LOW
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:27 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Forgot about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYT8TzUarI
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Never heard this one. xps
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:29 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
silver springs is a great old song
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:35 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Silver Springs not in the top ten?! RE-DO
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:39 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
xpost alfred that doesn't even come close. she's like the winona ryder of laurel canyon. i really mean this though. like, she's about talent way before looks or money or fame. i mean, waddy wachtel!
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
Hurray! I was beginning to worry IWATL wouldn't make it. Just extraordinary double drumming on this.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sorry, that should be #13, not #15...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
(WmC, if you could repair this error and my earlier one crediting "Little Lies" to Stevie, that would be wonderful.)
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, I'm a song behind with my post, but that line.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
She never did! (and that's what makes that line so great)
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Exactly exactly exactly.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
if I had voted, walk a thin line would've been my number one
― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
You guys are ruining my (totally under-researched and frankly little thought-about) image of Stevie Nicks as an artist who is too good for sex.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
Also, it elevates stalker-dom to supernatural heights. xp
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link