Mostly would like to hear Billy Gibbons and Marianne Faithful's tracks.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13773-think-about-me-fleetwood-mac-cover/
― omar little, Monday, 18 June 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
Mentioned it on my "Tusk" thread, but I'm not sure the New Pornographers cover works, as much as I appreciate the stab at making it different.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 June 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
That's disappointing. "Think About Me" has with great stealth become my favorite Mac single.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 June 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
^feeling this
― mousy dong (electricsound), Monday, 18 June 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
don't like that track at all (I am an NPs fan in general). hate all the squiggly farty keyboard junk on there.
― dmr, Monday, 18 June 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
Zactly. When I want the Cars I'll take the Cars, not NP doing the Cars doing the Mac.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 June 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
hate all the squiggly farty keyboard junk
^^^ yeah, this. But without it, the NP's version could pretty much be any bar band with competent harmonies. I want to hear Billy Gibbons too.
― Mafia-owned bar for transvestites (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 June 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
wau @ that album art
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Monday, 18 June 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
how did the crystal ark get dragged into this shit show
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Monday, 18 June 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Best Coast – Rhiannon
hahahaha
― Lamp, Monday, 18 June 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
"Rhiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-verrrrb."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
her version of storms is really beautiful
a live version of the crystal ark track is on youtube, i don't love it
― mousy dong (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i don't even really care about best coast but i heard her do "storms" on morning becomes eclectic and was pretty wowed.
― thumbs.db (get bent), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
How could you mess up such a pretty song?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
11. Super Wolf – Storms
i think this could be great.
~peter
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
Have you ever sat around wondering, "I wonder what Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon' would sound like if someone re-harmonized it for a major rather than minor key?" I know I have! Well, wonder no more!
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
ewwwww
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
So many things wrong with that cover, but the piano comping is seriously wack.
― Mafia-owned bar for transvestites (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
like it's been retrofitted to be done by christine mcvie instead
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
speaking of covers I don't even like yo la tengo but this is all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnGRtiKyO_A
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
after hearing her excellent 'storms' i had high hopes for the BC cover but that sucked
― beater drummer (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
Even the Fleetwood Mac guy who *wrote* this great song couldn't cover it well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSWMMO4LeU
― dlp9001, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
dig the tame impala doing 10cc doing fleetwood mac thing
some of the more faithful versions aren't bad.. the lykke li & will oldham ones could grow on me.. but the ones trying to be 'different' are almost uniformly crap
― we know about this ---˃ (electricsound), Thursday, 9 August 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Fleetwood Mac didn't spend all that time and money making something perfect for some shitty indie band to come along and prove how hard it is to be that good.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 August 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
Something to effect of that line needs to be in EVERY review of this compilation.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 August 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
saw this on UK TV when I was like 9 or something, made me a Mac fan for life. they are on severely awesome form here, spitting mad and totally frenetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUKvMO_wgE
― a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
Actually this is my test band. If someone doesn't like Rumours Tusk or the S/T one, out he/she goes. :-)
LOL. I wouldn't really do that. Not then, not now. But I still play Rumours quite a bit (in the car mainly).
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
Seeing Buckingham tomorrow night. I've seen the Mac once. This will be the fourth or fifth time seeing Bucky solo.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Really digging "Mystery to Me" lately.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 August 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
That making of Rumours book is great. Like how he divides the factions into pot and alcohol/cocaine, with poor Stevie (with nothing to do most of the time) dabbling in everything. It's a wonder that album got made, it's a greater wonder that it does not sound like it was made under duress.
I get the impression that today's producers and engineers are slightly less indulgent of such, well, indulgences. The sheer amount of time/money wasted when someone is too drunk, too high, or everyone is too drunk or too high ...
Read the Mick book, too, which is more like a mini-coffee table book. It's worth it for his dedication by ending with several pages of the Buckingham-free "Behind the Mask" era as yet another fresh start (ha!). Also for the picture of Lindsey sitting in what I think is called his artificial rain room. Looks like a greenhouse with water constantly sprayed on the glass from the outside.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 September 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
whatever for?
― Number None, Saturday, 1 September 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
in which faction was Buck?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure this has been posted, but this 1975 concert is pretty illuminating. An odd transitional period from blues rock to Buckingham/Nicks, I believe well before the self-titled album had taken off. Christine is really into this, Buckingham/Nicks have yet to become the "stars."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDskCL-EHk&feature=related
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Buckingham was really into pot c. "Rumours." Clearly his interests ... expanded.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
The producers and engineers have to strike a balance. They can't abstain, because it would kill the mood, but they can't drink, because it hampered their skills. One would always have to get high with Lindsey, the other one tried to limit his smoking for the sake of stability. Coke was in and out of the scene around then, but at least so far in the book is doesn't seem to be as much of a problem as alcohol, which in particular turned McVie from the nicest guy in the world into a big asshole, which would spark fights with Christine, which would set off Lindsey and Stevie ...
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
I really liked that Rumours book a lot. John McVie's daily studio routine (come in early and already drinking hard, get surly hammered by the time everyone else is in their groove and go home early, yet still lay down killer tracks) boggled me.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
seriously though, what was the rain room for? Just a vibes thing?
― Number None, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
Never explained!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
From a 1984 Rolling Stone piece:
Lindsey Buckingham is standing in the "rain room." This is his favorite room in the house --- other than the recording studio. The room has a glass ceiling. Flip a switch and a gentle shower of water begins pitter-pattering against the roof --- as if it were raining. "It's great for freaking people out," he says, smiling. "You just turn it on without saying anything, and you're in here talking, and suddenly they think it's raining." the room also contains an immense pine tree growing right out of the floor and up through a hole in the ceiling.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 September 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
Here's the whole thing, which I guess is interesting: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hVgyDFYMEVEJ:bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php%3Fpage%3Dindex_v2%26id%3D60%26c%3D9+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 September 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
How did he keep rain from coming in around the edges of the tree trunk? Was there some kind of huge gasket?
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 1 September 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
xpost. I've heard both a million times before, but while watching that Capital Center video realized that the intro to Station Man could just as easily have gone into Think About Me. Also, for some weird reason I never noticed that Lindsey (with beard and 'fro) looks a hell of a lot like Peter Green! Has anyone ever remarked on that? So weird...
― dlp9001, Saturday, 1 September 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.streamingoldies.com/content-images/streamingoldies.com/0524-Peter-Green.jpg
― dlp9001, Saturday, 1 September 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckAlbum.JPG
Maybe that's why Lindsey ditched the Les Paul!
Coke turning up more and more in this book. The producers are such doofuses here. "I hear a hit!" "I smell a Grammy!" "Let's make some magic!" "Let's kick some ass!"
Also, not surprised to hear that Lindsey is basically a control-freak dick. Somewhere at the start of the book the author actually writes "I found (and still find) Lindsey to be extraordinarily talented, extraordinarily opinionated, and extraordinarily annoying."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
I couldn't imagine dating that man.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Also, not surprised to hear that Lindsey is basically a control-freak dick.
I never understood why the accusations of violence against LB in Carol Ann Harris’ book were just sort of left out there on the table. AFAIK LB was never asked to confirm/deny it, and you would think accusations of that kind against any kind of public or semi-public figure would have been picked up by someone in the media, even if it was just some blogger. Maybe (as you suggested) there’s an assumption of that kind of thing coming with the territory among creative types (but I think that’s inaccurate, or at least shouldn’t be excused), or maybe there’s an ‘he’s not a major star anymore, so no one cares about it’ (but if no one cares, how did CAH get a book deal?) effect. Anyway, both the allegations and the non-response to it kind of bugged me,
I'm not saying it's just you, Josh -- I mean, to my knowledge no journalist has so much as asked Lindsey about this. And I don't think it ultimately changes how I feel about his music. But I'm really kind of stunned at how people can kinda just write this shit off -- as if he's just some kind of spastic artist who sometimes just couldn't control himself. It's pretty clearly a lot more than that -- and wholly indefensible.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 2 September 2012 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
I want a "rain room" in my house.....
― Lee626, Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:39 (eleven years ago) link
<I>The producers are such doofuses here. "I hear a hit!" "I smell a Grammy!" "Let's make some magic!" "Let's kick some ass!"</I>
Haha, yes, the behind the scenes stuff and the delving into the specifics and mechanics of making the record are terrific, but after reading the book there's little doubt that someone as corny and silly as Ken Caillat fathered someone as dull as Colbie Caillat. (Who gets mentioned in the book far more than an editor should have let him get away with.)
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:16 (eleven years ago) link