Tango in the Night POLL (Fleetwood Mac)

kicking myself for not picking up a nice-looking LP of this one last week (came back to the store a couple days later but it was gone, alas). Haim alone is gonna cement it as the 2010s' essential Mac album.

I in 2014 or most other years would out in Tusk before Mirage or Tango, but Tango and Mirage are both awesome and the only reason I might not reach for either is that they are so fussy and trebly it hurts. Which on other days is a pair of good things! Love Buckingham's stuff.

At least a third of "Say You Will" is the Bucky solo show, too. I love how the band just can't do anything without him at this point, and he has to reluctantly sacrifice solo tracks to the Mac gods.

Yeah, a lot of stuff (well some stuff) that was on the Gift of Screws bootleg wound up on Say You Will. I really wish "Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind" had...not that the solo LB version is weak in any way, but I might've liked to have heard it fleshed out even a little more by Fleetwood Mac.

I love Say You Will. It's got some of Nicks' very best performances and songs.

In the interview I linked Nicks insists the idea of letting Buck take over the song was intentional

ooh, which song alfred - I'm confused

"When I See You Again"

Ah, gotcha - thanks

Am I missing a bit? I don't think that song's mentioned in the piece you linked.

Then Play Long on the mysterious case of the disintegrating band: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/fleetwood-mac-tango-in-night.html

That's really great!

ooh

― föllakzoidberg (electricsound)

missionary

This has, weirdly, developed into my favourite Fleetwood Mac record. Even 'Caroline' and 'You and I, Part II' have grown on me.

9. "Welcome to the Room...Sara" (Nicks) – 3:37 7

How did seven wonders get no votes

Was wondering that myself, the two mcvie masterpieces are impossible to deny, though

Family Man sorta robbed here

"Isn't it Midnight" is an astonishingly brilliant song. Can't believe it got no love here.

Yeah, the votes for Welcome To The Room are baffling. Probably Stevies worst song on a Fleetwood Mac album.
Undeniable as Christine's two mega hits are Ive probably listened to Caroline or the title track most by choice. Tango (the song) is just so fantastically overblown with those long held chorus notes and the I'm So Afraid pt 2 outro solo.

"Welcome to the Room...SARA!" reminds me of this all-time thread: A thread for Steve n.'s list of songs that his boss sings

FRONTLINE BAYBY

All the songs that got 0 votes are incredible, IMO.

I remember listening to Tango In The Night (the song) as an eleven year old and wondering if that was what heavy metal sounded like

Also the version of I'm So Afraid on the sublime 1980 live LP

*etta james voice* at last

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/fleetwood-mac-unearth-rare-tracks-for-tango-in-the-night-reissue-w462942

yessssss

TAAAAANNNNGOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

hoping the remastering here is as revelatory as mirage's

Kind of a dick move to make the 12-Inches exclusive to the big box.

Still, YAY!

At least I'LL have remastered versions of "Down Endless Streets" and Y&I Pt. 1.

There seems to be a combined version of both parts of 'You & I', which I'm eager to hear.

http://pitchfork.com/news/71658-fleetwood-mac-share-unreleased-early-version-of-seven-wonders-listen/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

hey Brad Nelson, nice review of the Tango re-ish.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22976-tango-in-the-night-deluxe-edition/

"Big Love" FTW. What a weird song. I've heard five interviews with Lindsey where he can't even describe the damn thing. The Pitchfork description of it as austere and detached gets closer. This is a man way removed from real life and emotions trying to reconnect from his mansion. Usually that kind of thing probably results in total crud but here it's fascinating.

I don't know if this has been linked elsewhere but I happened to watch it last night and it's amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBSWt0b4K8E

OOOH
AH

That Pitchfork review was excellent

yeah great stuff, Brad. beautiful writing

also ty for this great trivia

She howls her way through “Seven Wonders,” a song written mostly by Sandy Stewart. (Nicks receives credit because she misheard “All the way down you held the line” as “All the way down to Emmiline”; for Nicks—and I don’t disagree—sometimes accident and authorship are indistinguishable.)

Stevie mishears a lot of things. "Edge of Seventeen" exists because she misheard Tom Petty's wife say "age of seventeen."

lmao love u stevie

also thanks y'all

I love the idea that Nicks deserved a writing credit.

Stevie mishears a lot of things. "Edge of Seventeen" exists because she misheard Tom Petty's wife say "age of seventeen."

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever),

cocaine in her ears iirc

cool stuff in the deluxe edition that got cut from the review

- the reconstituted "you and i" is awesome and had it ended tango it'd probably be my favorite fleetwood mac record even with the disintegrating stevie songs
- i've had the extended remixes for years but i still get really surprised when i hear a long lost stevie backing vocal woven into them, especially in "big love" and "family man" which i always thought of as (and which, afaik, are) solitary lindsey affairs

or the TELL ME LIES. WHOA. SWEET LITTLE LIES. OH NO NO YOU CAN'T DISGUISE that suddenly appears as a mixing decision in the "Little Lies" 12-inch.

Reissue's not out until the end of the month, right? That's a pretty early review.

I love the idea that Nicks deserved a writing credit.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 13, 2017 3:26 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's like something straight from the Mike Love school of earning writing credits.

/Then Play Long/ on the mysterious case of the disintegrating band: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/fleetwood-mac-tango-in-night.html🔗

That said, I don't think stuff that sounds like Nicks on "Little Lies" is Buckingham.

The three are on "Little Lies" – that's the beauty of the chorus, where each gets a line (and the beauty of the 12" is exposing listeners to the rest of Nicks' vocal).

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I'd probably go as far as saying that it ranks as one of Nicks' worst ever vocal performances on record.

the christine/stevie/lindsey tradeoff in the chorus is the most they ever feel like a band on the record and it's also just really sharp arranging, it's the part of the song that's like burned into my memory forever xp