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

"He [Peter Green] has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."--B.B. King

"Songbird" is not a very interesting song, it's true. But Christine's singing on it is so, so appealing, that I enjoy it anyway. Is there a song out there that Stevie wrote, but Christine sang? That would be a really cool thing to hear, since Christine is by far a better singer, but Stevie's songwriting has some teeth that Christine's don't. I would love to here her smoothness over something gritty.

Better singer in the Glee sense, not necessarily in the "feel" sense...

Songbird was on this killer mixtape that my cousin made for me that had Love and Rockets and The Verve and the first Big Star song I'd ever heard on it; usually inclusion on said mixtape is enough to make any poll ballot I draw up, but space was v v v limited, but I will still pledge fealty to that song forevermore

Is that PG's first entry? I can't recall whether he even has an album in our chart.

I really like the Honey Hi on the Tusk bonus disc - just Christine & Rhodes as I recall it

They Play On made the albums list. xp

Circling back to "I Don't Want to Know," I love the sustained harmony all the way through. I guess it's pretty slight, songwise, but it's a great bit of singing.

<3 peter green

And the Cut Copy remix of Never Forget takes flight nicely.

Isamel, Then Play On was 8th place in the albums ranking...

But yeah, this is the first Peter Green song to appear... Beautiful track.

I'd never even heard of "Man of the World" a week ago, but it leapt onto my ballot after the first listen.

There are three Peter Green songs that I expect to see higher, plus Brown Eyes, but that's it for him.

Ask and ye shall receive...

#35: "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green, 1968) - 158 points, 8 votes

http://991.com/NewGallery/Fleetwood-Mac-English-Rose---Se-451586.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/6pT3OaV0g64

I love Songbird, and a sparsely arranged, melodically straightforward composition like that is a perfect interlude amidst the multi-tracked feast of popcraft ambrosia that is Rumours.

I agree with others though, that "Don't Stop" is the relative dud on the LP. I actually like the verse sections plenty; it's just the chorus that annoys me.

Exactly it. Say You Will shows what's missing when you take that out.

<i>the multi-tracked feast of popcraft ambrosia that is Rumours.</i>

Nice! Beautiful turn of phrase.

English Rose is the most horrifying album cover of all time.

Nah, it's funny.

I love it!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9PUi1S3XRPo/T8pRybwEfqI/AAAAAAAAAXo/PoH_zMKckNQ/s1600/583J.jpg

"Black Magic Woman" rules, though... Dig John's bass!

"Don't Stop": assumed when the poll was announced it would be a shoe-in for my ballot, but in the end I thought "nah"

"Songbird": used to think "nah" but it's grown on me a lot lately; in the end it was a late cut.

Does anyone agree btw that Rumours is not well sequenced? Don't Stop-->GYOW-->Songbird really doesn't work for me, perhaps because they could all be the Side 1 closer. Not that I have a better sequence in my head.

Ah, that should have been a side question to the poll: Sequence your own Rumours

lol

Haha... I do agree though that the above-mentioned trio doesn't quite click.

#34: "Beautiful Child" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 161 points, 8 votes

http://oystermag.com/sites/default/files/stevie_nicks_saucer_eyes.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/MDTTI2UVcMQ

Really miss her curls. When did those go? The 80s?

Yep... Same decade her voice went! (ducks)

I love this song. It takes a hell of a band, instrumentally speaking, to sustain that much tension and drive in a song this slow... (Is this their slowest song ever?) The way the harmonies build, interlock, then stagger is lovely. Lindsey's shading is some of the best guitar work on the record--so subtle, but so perfectly placed.

Really miss her curls. When did those go? The 80s?

she mistook them for coke and snorted them

Clarke is your numbering off at Black Magic Woman?

This one...man, it's way beyond the pale for me. I find it to be totally lugubrious. Could be my least favorite Mac track ever.

maybe rumours' song were deliberately in a jumbled order and 'go your own way' was actually a foretelling song of the times to be had with mp3s and cds where we could skip, burn and produce our own order of songs for albums.

Good catch, Spectrist, my bad... Should be:

#35: "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green, 1968) - 158 points, 8 votes
#34: "Beautiful Child" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 161 points, 8 votes

I went a little nuts on my leftover wine samples yesterday evening.

If a mod feels like fixing it, that would be amazing

This one...man, it's way beyond the pale for me. I find it to be totally lugubrious. Could be my least favorite Mac track ever.

― JessFlip, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:48 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guess you haven't listened to "When I See You Again" lately...

So much prefer the Mac "Black Magic Woman" to the Santana one. Not that I mind Santana, but there's no tension in his, it's just groove.

Really miss her curls. When did those go? The 80s?

she mistook them for coke and snorted them

Haha, just said something similar about that god awful perm she had in the 80s: that maybe all the coke she did came out of the pores in her scalp and made her hair crazy.

http://festiva.themonitor.com/files/2011/06/stevie-nicks.jpg

#33: "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Prong Crown)" (Peter Green, 1970) - 168 points, 7 votes, 1 number one vote

http://kenwilsonelt.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/fleetwoodmacpetergreens.jpg?w=500&h=374

Track link: http://youtu.be/kTvKaLW5bu8

Sidetrack for a second, if anyone cares to indulge me. I didn't vote because I know nothing about Fleetwood Mac that isn't contained on Rumours, Tusk, or Tango. I've been wanting to dive in, but the pre-Buckingham/Nicks stuff is tough to find and almost all the comps I see seem to pretend the band only came around in '75. Are there any good, more comprehensive comps out there?

Green has explained that he wrote the song after experiencing a drug-induced dream, in which he was visited by a green dog which barked at him. He understood that the dog represented money. "It scared me because I knew the dog had been dead a long time. It was a stray and I was looking after it. But I was dead and had to fight to get back into my body, which I eventually did. When I woke up, the room was really black and I found myself writing the song."[2] He also said that he wrote the lyrics the following day, in Richmond Park. Supposedly, he was unable to record Robert Johnson's 'Hellhound On My Trail' following the incident; having conflated Johnson's hellhound with the green dog-demon of his dream.--Wikipedia entry

There are comps for the Peter Green years, not the Bob Welch years. xp

As another aside, I found one of the rare never-released-on-CD Jeremy Spencer & The Children solo LPs the other day!

The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a pretty good one for the Peter Green years.

Green Manalishi is my no.1! Like I said on the other thread, I'm not even entirely sure that I *like* it, but it does what it does so brilliantly that I had to give it its due.

It's an amazing track... I first heard it via the famous Judas Priest cover version.

I was unaware of the Priest until this poll. Still haven't heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnOJXIvu6s