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

This won't give too much away, but the #3 song actually got fewer total votes than "The Chain"! If that placates y'all at all...

I heard "Silver Springs" on the radio several times even way back in '77. The first time I heard it the DJ announced it beforehand and I thought Fleetwood Mac couldn't about Silver Spring and assumed it was a coincidence, and the opening lyric convinced me I was right. I only later learned the name did indeed come from Silver Spring, the city.

Stevie Nicks usually says in interviews that she saw a road sign for Silver Spring when she was in Virginia. Silver Spring is in Maryland, a state which borders Virginia although Silver Spring itself is a few miles inward and doesn't itself border Virginia. I keep trying to guess where in Virginia she'd come across a sign giving mileage or directions to Silver Spring - probably traveling eastward on the DC Beltway, or perhaps northward on interstate 95 from Richmond or Alexandria.

"The Chain" neatly sums up Rumours in one song

This ruined 'The Chain' for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z-dJ35fOiM

Only one of my top 5 is yet to come (it might be #1, though, so I ain't mad at y'all).

Most of John McVie's "simple" bass lines are really incredibly difficult to play: his one super famous "YEAH! DUDE RULES!" bass moment, the one in The Chain, is something anyone could play within ten minutes of picking up a bass for the first time.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:19 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Interesting point... Doesn't mean it's not perfect ;-)

I've always maintained that John's bass break in "The Chain" sounds like a Peter Hook bassline...

guess "Caroline" is gonna miss the countdown? fab song, too bad

Would love to hear a bootleg of 'Dead Souls' and 'The Chain'.

Interestingly, we begin our TOP 5 with the first track in the countdown since #13 not to have received any number one votes...

#5: "You Make Loving Fun" (Christine McVie, 1977) - 548 points, 23 votes

http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/vFZMgf6M5KM/0.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/vFZMgf6M5KM

"Doesn't mean it's not perfect"

Yup. That kinda was my point. If there was a witch in Fleetwood Mac, I think it was John.

I've always maintained that John's bass break in "The Chain" sounds like a Peter Hook bassline...

Ha! First comment for Billy's youtube is indeed 'sound's like Joy Division...'

intersting

I always remember You Make Loving Fun as such a minor track, until I listen to it and revel in its raditude.

xp It's not really high up enough on the neck.

I just picked up my guitar (since I don't have a bass) and tried playing "The Chain" bass break. Not finding it all that easy. I'm not much of a guitarist or bassist, but I don't think someone who picked up a bass for the first time could play it within 5 minutes

Fleetwood Mac and Formula One is a perfect match btw, I've given up fighting it

xp silver spring md is invariably the least stevie nicks city ever, tho i don't know what it was like in the 70s. feel immense pride about it tho.

it would've only been a 4 point difference but i wish i made SS my #1

It's always sounded more like "Transmission" in vibe/tempo/urgency to me

Stevie Nicks usually says in interviews that she saw a road sign for Silver Spring when she was in Virginia.

I think on the "Classic Albums" DVD re Rumours, she says they were in Maryland.

She probably could have done something with "Crystal City", come to think of it.

The Chain was my #1, Silver Springs my #2...so I really couldn't have helped it a whole lot. (In fact, Silver Springs is probably my actual #1 irl, but there was some discouraging talk of The Chain in the voting thread and I wanted to give it a bump.)

You Make Loving Fun won the Rumours poll. ya?

Love those clavs and the rhodes in unison...

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xp I've heard her say both Virginia and Maryland, but more often Virginia.

I'm guessing she was traveling through Silver Spring en route to the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland on the '75-76 tour.

yeah i was actually worried Never Going Back Again wasn't going to make the list, wtf me xp

Best Song on Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours"
How can it be that we have never polled RUMOURS by Fleetwood Mac?!

xp or maybe Fleetwood Mac played a surprise show at my high school that's been lost to history....

The "aah aaah aaah" three part harmonies on YMLF are celestial.

"I just picked up my guitar (since I don't have a bass) ..."

No disrespect, but I really did mean bass when I said bass. There's something about that line that just rolls off the fingers on a long-scale four string.

There were at least 15 great songs that wouldn't fit on my ballot (including what I think will be #1) and "Never Going Back Again" and "You Make Loving Fun" were amongst them.

There were at least 15 great songs that wouldn't fit on my ballot (including what I think will be #1) and "Never Going Back Again" and "You Make Loving Fun" were amongst them.

― Lee626, Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:44 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ditto

Open strings, Ismael.

Bassists never get any disrespect, do they?

Big, BIG ILM fave here... I thought I might take first before I ran the poll:

#4: "Sara" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) 608 points, 21 votes, 5 number one votes

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QMWTTLMm2oU/Tepqg4yqbHI/AAAAAAAAWJE/_f2yoGeE2Yo/s400/Fleetwood%252BMac%252BTusk.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/RHJb87nNsGY

love sara, didn't think it'd be this high at all

xp or maybe Fleetwood Mac played a surprise show at my high school that's been lost to history....

Or a very early demo of Tusk w/ your school's marching band.

Muy Bien fuera del top 10 no es muy bueno.

I thought Sara would win this.

I am surprised it's not higher

I could have easily made an all-great-stuff ballot from the first three B/N albums alone, but i'm glad i left some space for Kirwan and Welch

So, we've got Rhiannon, Dreams, what else?

Wow, I expected "Sara" to take it as well. Not just their best, one of THE best of all-time imo.

I guess that means Go Your Own Way or Rhiannon will take this?

You guys know what's coming if you think about it...

Love the brushwork with which Mick ushers in the band right after Stevie's "but you never told me about the fire")...

Oh ,GYOW, of course. Got it.

You make loving fun? has it placed yet?

my guess is
3 Dreams
2 Go Your Own Way
1 Rhiannon

GYOW, or as I like to call it, GTFO

always figured GYOW would take this

I will say this: there is a bigger number-of-votes gap between "Sara" and the next song than between any other two consecutive songs in the poll... The top three really earned their places.

#3: "Rhiannon" (Stevie Nicks, 1975) - 642 points, 26 votes, 1 number one vote

http://readhardordie.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/stevie_nicks.jpg?w=600

Track link: http://youtu.be/U_aYibUx1B8