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
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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry, that should be #13, not #15...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:51 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, I'm a song behind with my post, but that line.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
She never did! (and that's what makes that line so great)
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Exactly exactly exactly.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:57 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Also, it elevates stalker-dom to supernatural heights. xp
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh I forgot Wascally Watchel. godDAMN he's ugly
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty much everyone has baggage that they bring into a relationship. Just what exactly do you call what Lindsey Buckingham brings into his relationship?! (He's been married for a while now...)
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Wiki on Stevie Nicks' marriage:
Her only marriage was to Kim Anderson, the widower of her friend Robin Anderson, soon after Robin died of leukemia while Bella Donna was on the top of the charts. Stevie and Kim were soon divorced: "We didn't get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything."[27][58]
In the Timespace liner notes, she mentions that on while driving to the hotel on their wedding night, Anderson & Nicks heard Prince on the radio for the first time, inspiring Stevie to write "Stand Back" that very evening.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
i walk a thin line is the song this poll really made me go back and reevaluate and fall in love with after not listening to tusk in probably a few years, to my regret. was my number 2 almost from out of nowhere.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
it is almost regally slow, like a deranged procession march
― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
and the harmonies are sickkkkkkkk
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, July 26, 2012 9:58 AM
actually if you read the interview Josh linked your faith may be restored. imo she really just loves musicians.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Buckingham's treatment of vocal harmony on Tusk seems almost mystical, religious.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
#12: "Oh Well" (Peter Green, 1969) - 359 points, 14 votes, 2 number one votes
http://www.johntherevelator.nl/uploads/fullsizeImage_titel_32315d3c70ec0b6f6baeea0c50083b01.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/oNsFVoLzNsc
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, July 26, 2012 11:58 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:58 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
FWIW, I seem to recall an interview she did w/Rolling Stone when one of her later solo things was happening where she boasted/claimed that she hadn't had a boyfriend or had sex since the early '90s, and felt fine about it.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:55 PM (2 minutes ago)
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:56 PM (1 minute ago)
Now we're two songs behind, but that line, as well as "I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you" were both literal, not figurative. They were directed at Buckingham of course, and were a reference to how the '75 album had a pair of now-classic hit songs written and sung by Nicks ("Rhiannon", "Landslide") that assured frequent future radio airplay, and even if Lindsey breaks up with her there will always be some random chance on any given day years in the future that he'll be driving around with the radio on and they'll play a Nicks song. My voice will follow you wherever you go! You'll never get away from me! She's said in interviews she want LB to hear her songs on the radio, and wanted him to be bugged by it. But all that was merely prophecy in 1977 when "Silver Springs" was first released. By the late '90s when they played on MTV, her dreamed-of scenario had come true. Lindsey never did get away from Stevie. That's why I love that live MTV clip with SN staring at LB during the final lines of the chorus so much. You'll NEVER GET AWAY! NEVER GET AWAY! NEVER GET AWAY!
He never did....
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Buckingham's knowing smirk was priceless.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
That's easily my alltime fave live Mac performance
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link