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

wouldn't you?

Sure, but I'd look a bit happier about it than he does!

#46: "Book of Love" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1982) - 109 points, 5 votes

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

deep track! Love those harmonies and Bucky's solo

I was amped to see it place like it did!

It's a track I feel like I only recently discovered / gave the time of day to... It was only when I found myself singing the chorus to myself almost constantly that I realized what a strong song it is.

#45: "Don't Stop" (Christine McVie, 1977) - 111 points, 6 votes

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Track link: http://youtu.be/Tm0nopK1BQM

Well I don't like this one

Neither do I! In fact, I considered doing what you did for the U2 poll and allowing everyone a "subtract 20 points" H-bomb... This would've been my target.

I don't necessarily hate this song, but I think I like it less every time I hear it.

I like this song, but it didn't make my twenty.

Book of Love is constantly in my head. I put it on my ballot based on that. Lindsey's mental illness is catchy.

Good image choice. I'm pretty sure it's Bill Clinton who ruined it for me.

"Don't Stop" certainly isn't the most imaginative or exciting of their songs, but come on, crankies. It's fine.

pretty sure Stevie's hat ruined it for me

Yeah, I can't remember if I already kinda hated "Don't Stop" before Clinton, or if that cinched it for me. Either way, it feels out of place on Rumors, too bouncy, too much a "Have a nice day" cartoon of '70s Cali good vibes. Also, since Lindsey's so prominent on it, it was years before I realized it was a Christine song.

that's partly why it works, no? Smiling through tears.

It totally has the slipping-into-vapidity major-key bouncy thing that Christine's songs at their least inspired have...

btw I kinda love the version on The Dance, especially when Mick loses it in the last fifteen seconds and bangs a gong.

"Yesterday's gone, YEEEESSSSSTTTEEEERRRRRDAAAAYYYY'S GAAAAAHHHHHNNNN!"

It's a great song for anyone else, but subpar for THE MAC

Interesting single here: A-side is McVie in self-caricature mode, B-side is Nicks in self-caricature mode...

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love that big moon

It's actually Mick's gong

Back to the old Mac...

#44: "Woman of 1000 Years" (Danny Kirwan, 1971) - 113 points, 6 votes

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Track link: http://youtu.be/z-PVWrjAdQ0

It says "Suck it, Bonham!" on the back. xpst

Why not think about times to come,
And not about the things that you've done,
If your life was bad to you,
Just think what tomorrow will do.

could almost be an abba lyric

"Woman of 1000 Years" is so beautiful.

I feel like "Woman of 1000 Years" nails that ethereal vibe I think a lot of Stevie's songs are reaching for.

But like, without even trying.

Danny's etheral is a blissed-out transcendent ethereal, Stevie's is a darker more desperate ethereal... I don't think she does blissed-out very well!

I think maybe what I was getting at is that I wish Stevie did blissed-out well. :)

Christine does it though! Listen to "Warm Ways."

I think "Don't Stop" is just kind of treacly and simpleminded in sentiment and lyric, and was surprised to find myself thinking that about most of Christine's songs as I went through the catalogue. Coming into this poll, I would have ranked LB >> CM >> SN, but now I'd put Stevie ahead of Christine because her songs don't reduce down to swoony Moon-June-Spoon platitudes and cliches -- at least not as often. #stonetheheretic

No way is she as interesting a lyricist, let alone a personality, as Buck-Nicks, but she's such an attractive singer.

I'll give you that, yep.

I listened to the Christine Perfect album last night while I was drifting off to sleep. I think I'd heard it before then, but if so I didn't remember anything about it. Pretty plain, imo. Especially for something dubbed "The Legendary Christine Perfect Album".

all the live versions of "i'm so afraid" are blistering

i heard the version on the dance before i ever heard the album version and i'm kind of ruined

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrtLxsqSic

Moreover, as the Normal Person among the songwriters she's the ideal foil.

Thing about Christine is she's been churning out high quality stuff like clockwork forever. I'm kind of amused that my highest ranked nu-Mac song did so poorly. It makes me think I was on to something....

Moreover, as the Normal Person among the songwriters she's the ideal foil.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:10 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's very true...

Yay "Woman of 1000 Years"! My 2nd track to make it!

Remember Stevie saying when Lindsey first told her he'd been asked to join FM, she went out and bought all the FM albums and listened to them in order, noting a ethereal-mystical thread that ran through them that appealed to her. There's no question in my mind that this song was one of the ones that appealed to her.

(not why I voted for it, of course--it's just achingy pretty. Future Games, as an album, has a really sweet Zep III/Zoso vibe to it. Except with more appealing vocals.)

After my son was born I walked home from hospital at three in the morning and ramped up I'm So Afraid on repeat for about an hour. I don't think it was a comment on my mental state or anything, it's just an epic jam.

Also, I would never include "Don't Stop" in my 20 favorite FM tracks but I don't hate it by any means. I think its place in Rumours gives it depth, makes it sound more desperate than it otherwise would: I don't hear it as "smiling thru tears" so much as "clutching for dear life on the hope of tomorrow to get us thru this pit of tumult and despair"

can we go back to discussing how awesome Buckingham's arrangement for "Seven Wonders" is?

Danny K. straight-up killin' it!

#43: "Dust" (Danny Kirwan, 1972) - 114 points, 4 votes, 2 number one votes

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Track link: http://youtu.be/f2ncrkgeM0g

I discovered "Dust" last week.

So did I! It's great!

Future Games, as an album, has a really sweet Zep III/Zoso vibe to it.

I have to think CSN had an impact, too. "Future Games" the song sounds quite a bit like "Wooden Ships" to my ear.

It's a little intense to think of Kirwan writing Dust when he's like 22 years old. That's his last track on a Mac album, right?