Shouldn't "The Chain" be in here too? Just a thought.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Nah. These feel of a piece - The Chain and even Gold Dust Woman are a different category.
The thing about dreams is it's all (gently) downhill from the first verse.
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Dreams > Gypsy > Rhiannon > Sara
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going for Sara, but hey, if Dreams wins, it's not like a big deal or anything. I think I've got more childhood nostalgia around Dreams, anyway. Gypsy is an excellent track, but certainly at the bottom of this ranking. I'm glad mark cl has discovered them! I often talk to music fans about them and you'd be surprised how many people scratch their heads as though actively investigating them is the weirdest idea in the world.
― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Toughie - either Sara or Dreams.
Both are so perfectly excuted. Dreams for it's pop-ness appeal but Sara for the tingles felt on each hearing; Sara creates such a tense mood but so beautiful!
I voted Dreams 'cos I ain't too deep,
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Either Dreams or Sara, I can't decide!
― ENBB, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Great poll. I don't know 'Gypsy' either, so treat for me. WIll report back.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Lindsey doesn't look well in those first couple of clips. Great guitar at the end on Gypsy. I seem to remember Rhiannon having some blistering guitar too. This is hard.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I have only ever heard Fleetwood Mac on the radio. Which ever song has the 'thunder only happens when it's raining' lyric is the one i'd vote for.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
^^"Dreams"
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
just searched my library and discovered that I do have one FM track in my collection. Little Lies (Dub Mix). Good little mix too.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I got Tango In The Night at the weekend. It's better than I expected (and I was expecting it to be pretty good)
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was surprised at how much I liked TITN when I first heard it a year ago -- I think I had assumed that FM were solid for a few years in the late '70s and useless thereafter, but there are some fantastic pop songs on that album.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I usually like Christine's stuff least, but her songs on it are impeccable
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm voting for "Tusk."
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:59 AM
Me too.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
'tusk' isn't even a stevie nicks song, so you might as well vote for 'hey jude'
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Listen, you wrote "best song" and cited four Fleetwood Mac tunes.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
On TITN? Hells yeah. "Big Love" aside, McVie saves the album.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I still don't understand this poll, though. Why omit the TITN and Say You Will Nicks singles? Or "Fireflies"?
cause only a crazy person would vote for them over these 4
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Nah, I'd put "Thrown Down" and "Say You Will" up against them. I'd at least want to read what people write about'em.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
those are great songs, but cmonnnnnnn
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
'say you will' can stand up to 'dreams'??? I mean really
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I probably love Rhiannon most, and I really like the guitar at the end of Gypsy, but the Dreams that get bent posted upthread is so beautiful that I voted for that in the end.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
No. I'm just (again) wondering by what criteria where those four poll options picked. Whatever. We can create a Say You Will post.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I think they stand pretty clearly as the massive Stevie Nicks songs of the classic era (Self-titled / Rumours / Tusk)
See: SN songs on this album -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(1988_Fleetwood_Mac_album)
I feel like if I should have added anything else, it should have been 'Landslide'
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait, gypsy's on mirage...err...I'll just go w/ the greatest hits explanation then
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I think the poll makes sense - these songs strike me as anthems in a way that the Say You Will songs aren't. I think "Thrown Down" and "Destiny Rules" and a couple of others on that album are amazing, but they feel more like album tracks (whether or not they were actually released as singles). Maybe the purpose of Nicks' songs on Say You Will was to prove that she could do astonishing album tracks, something I'd say she hadn't managed previously since "Beautiful Child".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i have a cousin named after rhiannon
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
hey, me too! i just met a woman who named her daughter "aja". remember that guy on the real world named "yes"? the world is a funny place. if i ever have a son i'm naming him "supertramp"
― chocolatepiekid, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
if i ever have a son i'm naming him "supertramp"
You're setting him up to be this guy though.
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless
Haha met a beautiful chick named aja a couple weeks ago - don't repost to braggin thread tho :-/
― autogucci cru (deej), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
The girl I know who was named Rhiannon after the FM song now (understandably) hates it.
Rather than try to reflect my own music tastes, should I have children I'd rather bestow names that position them to host their own reality tv show as teenagers - I'm thinking "Status" for a boy and "Cachet" for a girl.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
rhiannon"this is a song about an old welsh witch..."
love the rotating camera during the solo.
― sknybrg, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I suppose a peak period McVie poll is next, no?
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
no "brown eyes" or "you make loving fun," no credibility
― MRSA Marchant (get bent), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Rhiannon >> Dreams >>>>>>>>>>>>> Sara >> Gypsy
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Silver Springs
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't wanna be a cleaning lady...
― wallabout eve (donna rouge), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
now here you go again you say, you want your freedom
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
hey, me too! i just met a woman who named her daughter "aja".
Was she a Mission of Burma groupie?
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
okay I decided I'm going w/ dreams
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Dreams.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Dreams is also the most awesome driving song ever
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:13 PM
― iatee, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:01 PM
Changing vote to "Hey Jude."
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
dreams is such a wonderful song to sing along with
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
and it's one of those songs too where i can almost feel the rain
I already said this, but the playing (guitar especially, but really all instruments) on the version upthread is just exquisite.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted for "Sara," of course – my favorite Mac ballad.
I was a bit stunned to read this. Not because I think it's wrong but because I never thought of it as a ballad. Then again, I suppose I've never had the opportunity to call it anything. What type of song do y'all call it?
In any event, I voted for "Sara" with a "Dreams" chaser.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
okay maybe "sara" is correct. i have been listening to "storms" a lot lately, too; the quality of stevie's voice on it is so ;_;
― horseshoe, Thursday, 7 July 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I believe the Rhiannon youtube revive proves that song #1
― Muttley vs. Mumbly (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i have been listening to "storms" a lot lately, too; the quality of stevie's voice on it is so ;_;
"storms" is my favorite fleetwood mac song and is better than any of these okay sorry
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this poll is vicious but right now i could listen to the little ascending guitar bits in the chorus of 'gypsy' forever.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
well not the chorus. whatever that section is. the 'to the gypsy that remains' bit. what is that! why does it only appear once!
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda think these are the four best fleetwood mac songs
― marcos, Friday, 13 October 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Thursday, July 7, 2011 12:49 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hey me, you're an asshole and an idiot. the answer is either "sara" or "gypsy"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
Sara for sentimental reasons but gypsy would be my pick as that song is so uplifting and great to sing along to. Silver springs is up there too
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
sara vs dreams for me. very difficult
― marcos, Friday, 13 October 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link