Tango in the Night POLL (Fleetwood Mac)

C.McVie pwns all.

The only surprise is how well "Welcome to the Room...Sara" did.

Correct winner :)

"Seven Wonders" got NO VOTES?!

Oh shit I forgot to actually vote for "Isn't It Midnight".

Seriously, seven people think "Welcome to the Room... Sara" is the best song on this album? Surely these people have not actually heard it and are just assuming any Stevie song with the name "Sara" in it must be good?

It is awful.

Shame to see "Family Man" getting no love.

just picked this up for £1 + i love it even more than i remembered but wtf at 7 votes for welcome to the room sara!?!!

2. "Seven Wonders" (Stewart, Nicks) – 3:38 0

This is one of the fuckedest things in the history of ILM polls.

otm

wtf at 7 votes for welcome to the room sara!?!!

The seven core members of ilm's Stevie stans, innit.

Yeah but what's weird is that it's the worst of her three songs on there. Voting for it seems terribly perverse.

exactly!! it cant just be abt stevie nicks fans

It's NOT worse than "When Will I See You"!

WASSA MADDA BABY....BABY...BAY-BEE....BABY!

i also picked this up recently and was surprised at how amazing it still sounds. "caroline" in particular deserves more love

i think this could be stevie nicks' worst contributions to any record she's been involved with imo

i wonder how many of the people who voted for "welcome.." are mixing it up with "sara" from tusk

" "caroline" in particular deserves more love"

this is spot on.

My issue with "Welcome To The Room... Sara" is that it sounds like a parody song, like something from that French & Saunders send up of Fleetwood Mac. It actively undermines all of Stevie's signature tricks. "When Will I See You" is merely weak.

Nicks' songs are amazingly strong on Say You Will, but then I've not heard the stuff she's done between the two albums.

Like Bella Donna, Trouble in Shangri-La, etc? If you like Nicks, you'll love the albums, but outside maybe one or two tracks (Nomad, maybe?) nothing really knock-out there.

I know Bella Donna, The Wild Heart and Rock Little, just none after that.

But then I rarely listen to those ones much. What's interesting about Nicks is that she really does work so well as a group player, even though her songwriting style would never suggest it. The half of Say You Will she contributes is possibly as much Nicks as I'd really want in one sitting.

CAROLINE

all the "ooh ah"s in "big love" are still bizarre

Seven Wonders is pretty good, deserved a vote imo.

Yes "Everywhere" is brilliant. I was very annoyed when someone made a swirly house-pop cover version

Tiiiiiiim, who did this?

think i've heard it

basically they looped bits of it so it's longer and added some helpful echoes

theres def a balearic disco edit that jaxon posted on the noize board FM thread iirc.

You've all heard this, I hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ovcZKmMpw

There is no way the Little Lies voters have heard the whole thing.

jeez al i didnt know you thought honey hi was a dud

feel like i dont even know you and i cant trust your opinion anymore

you talkin' to me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zbCuD1ulA

???

Duds on Tusk: "Honey Hi" (McVie), "Angel" (Nicks), "I Know I'm Not Wrong" (Buckingham)

Duds on Mirage: "Straight Back" (Nicks), "Wish You Were Here" (McVie), "Empire State" (Buckingham).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh yeah, I'll still stand by that.

h8 you

HONEY HOOO-NEY HI

No sacred cows stand in the way of McChallops.

stfu and listen to the "Seven Wonders" 12", heathens.

how did seven wonders get 0 votes and mystified get only 1??

The correct question: how did "Welcome to the Room....Sara" get seven votes?

Late to thread but I gotta agree with Tim above about "Oh Diane" being more of a dud than "Empire State" - I get what he's trying to do with it but it's still one of my least favourite Mac songs ever, whereas I really quite like "Empire State" even while realizing it's not top-drawer. But y'know, it's all taste.

Probably a good thing that I never voted on this because I realized that I've only ever heard the singles here. I really should get me a copy of the full album - I think I've given up on Rhino actually bringing out Mirage and Tango in their reissue series, what with the long gap since the first batch.

TITN is their best seller post-Rumours too.

The correct question: how did "Welcome to the Room....Sara" get seven votes?

yeah that song is such a chore

A+ 4Eva: "Caroline", "Everywhere", "Isn't It Midnight"
A: "Seven Wonders", "Big Love", "Tango In The Night", "You & I"
A-: "Little Lies", "Mystified"
B: "Family Man"
...
D-: "When I See You Again"
...
F: "Welcome to the Room... Sara"

"isn't it midnight" is the only one i can't remember how it goes

all the arthur baker club mixes that came with the 12" singles are solid gold

"family man" is the underrated gem on this album. such a simple song packed with so many little details. and lindsay's flamenco guitar solos are immense

the cover art for this album is just so perfect

you know EXACTLY what its going to sound like

just sayin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIn-pUYMBg4

Just got around to listening to some "Tango" demos, and man, is Stevie's "Joan Of Arc" weird/spooky. Destroyer could /should cover this.

Here's the demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Ocjnf7Tng&feature=watch_response_rev

And here's the "finished" version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9btTlkvIP9c

God, I love "wassa madda baby"

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Monday, January 25, 2021

Baby!

Baby!

Didn’t realise Quintela had credits on Isn’t It Midnight

“Isn’t it Midnight” is among the very best songs to ever be recorded by Fleetwood Mac. Unbelievable vocals and guitar

He does shred.

God, I love "wassa madda baby"

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Monday, January 25, 2021

They actually snapped a photo of Stevie working on this track in the studio:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkR4wATWsAAl7S0.jpg

BABY

still blows my mind that "little lies" won this poll it's like when "the macarena" or w/e would win pazz & jop

"Everywhere" is the one I'm sick of.

Here's another amazeballs Buckingham-McVie outtake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr4eRRd1v8g

still blows my mind that "little lies" won this poll it's like when "the macarena" or w/e would win pazz & jop

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, April 15, 2025 11:47 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Everywhere" is the one I'm sick of.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, April 15, 2025 11:54 AM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hated these both at the time because I was dumb and they were all over the radio and MTV. Now I love them both. Bouncy and immaculate fun.

"everywhere" is my favourite but "little lies" is wonderful too. no votes for "seven wonders" is surprising

https://www.salon.com/2017/04/02/he-could-be-brash-he-could-be-harsh-he-was-very-motivated-the-real-story-behind-fleetwood-macs-tango-in-the-night/

i'd never read about how weird the recording process was before - buckingham was recording everything at half-speed and then overdubbing further takes of each part at different speeds. very unsurprising to hear that buckingham was very influenced by kate bush

I think he still uses super old digital reel to reel multi tracks literally no one else uses.