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

Explain to the customer that Mad Dog 20/20 has a much higher alcohol content than Boone's Farm

Riojannon

Pour Me

The Green Nerveltliner (with the screw-off cap).

Corkscrew Turning

Lots of mine in this run. Man of the World was my #3 - one of the saddest songs in the world.

I'm back! They took three out of the four things I showed them, so it looks like I'll be able to keep this going after all...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/7558852046_cc09e49b4a_m.jpg

(This shop is actually a client of mine!)

"You can grow your own grapes"

You win!

I wish I could go back in time and unlearn that Mick Fleetwood wines exist...

He makes his wine in a private cellar where there is no Christine or anybody putting any constraints on what could or couldn’t be done.

#25: "Storms" (Stevie Nicks, 1979) - 276 points, 15 votes

http://tarnishedlady.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/stevie_nicks_wallpaper.jpg

Track link: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/7558852046_cc09e49b4a_m.jpg

He makes his wine in a private cellar where there is no Christine or anybody putting any constraints on what could or couldn’t be done.

― cwkiii, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lindsey is his oenologist.

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

yeat I was trying to think what the characteristics of each FM member's wine would be. Like Lindsey's wine would probably never make it out of his cellar because most batches would fail to meet his exacting requirements

i wish i didn't sleep through all of this (lolunemployment) but a bunch of mine just popped up

Never Going Back Again was my #1, tho it was basically interchangeable with my #2. picked it over that one bc i figured it might need the help. i don't really have a good reason to love it except that it's one of those songs that i have to listen to 5+ times in a row whenever i hear it, and i just fall for it so deeply each time. it's so simple, just gorgeous guitar + lindsey's biting vox. love the way he makes his 'k' and 'g' sounds so vicious, and the pure brattiness of the line "you don't know what it means to win." rumours was seriously such a bratty record.

I Don't Want to Know was my #3. i also listen to it on repeat whenever it comes on. if i were in a band we would cover it at every performance. the whole thing is so damn light but the chorus! that weird rising tension that just keeps going and going and getting more breathless until it plateaus back to I DON'T WANNA KNOW...

jon via chi, you can't really go wrong with any fleetwood mac album up to and including 'tango in the night' imo. the best thing about grabbing all of those albums is if you didn't know any better you'd think you were listening to 4 different bands.

....sometimes on the same record!

also gave points to I Know I'm Not Wrong, 100% because of that sound (harmonica? fiddle) that makes the song sound like it escaped the Sandinista! track listing and burrowed into Tusk.

And Storms! I love Stevie's tendency to build entire songs around one melody repeated over and over again (Sara and Gypsy also placed on my ballot duh). it's so meditative and calm and sad but there's that that tension again, and it seems perfect that the lyrics that hinge on "I have always been a storm" when the arrangement sounds, at most, like heavy rainfall. stevie's voice changes everything.

^"fiddle?" i have no idea what that is, probably not a fiddle

This next one is one of my absolute all-time favorite... Chills city...

#24: “Brown Eyes” (Christine McVie, 1979) – 280 points, 12 votes

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/31413403/Christine+McVie+Chris+tusk.jpg

Track list: http://youtu.be/OIKkveUcBPc

Peter Green plays on this track! (Which was just pointed out to me the other day on the lead-up thread...)

Thank you for introducing me to "Sit On My Face Stevie Nix"

"Brown Eyes" devastates me. DEVASTATING

It was my first favorite song on Tusk back when I discovered the record.

#23: "The Ledge" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 281 points, 13 votes, 1 number one vote

http://gometric.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83508c19a69e20162fff6b4ec970d-800wi

Track link: http://youtu.be/8fVPUoUJ8nQ

COUNTING ON MY FINGERS COUNTING ON MY TOES

Love "The Ledge" so much. One of the most paranoid-sounding songs I've ever heard.

Numbering edits done.

It's so ridiculously manic.

The backing vocals are terrifying!

"The Ledge" gives me agita... But I like it. Only Lindsey could make such a strange, busy melody so catchy.

The Ledge is a perfect reintroduction to lindsey, he sounds so much YOUNGER than he does when you last hear him on rumours.

#22: "Think About Me" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 291 points, 12 votes, 1 number one vote

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VIt42ZwDrR4/S50jl9-wy0I/AAAAAAAADoM/q6JT5PBmof0/s400/fleetwood+mac+trod+nossel+1975+Front.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/4xjNTJK6N6o

My favorite Buck-McVie duet.

I really dig the guitar work on "Think About Me"--busy and creative without at all getting in the way.

a masterpiece of treble too

Haha, Storms-Brown Eyes-Ledge is a great run-of-three! One evening in 2003 I set The Ledge on repeat for hours and tried being paranoid and daring myself to go down to Brixton and score some coke. I didn't of course, it'd've been most unlike me, but I did get to feeling rather *on edge* and it was hard to get to sleep afterwards.

My only Tusk vote

"The Ledge" gives me agita... But I like it. Only Lindsey could make such a strange, busy melody so catchy.

^^^

Why it was my top-ranked Tusk track.

Yeah, Tusk is ripping it up today! That's a hilarious anecdote...

(To Ismael)

BABY ONCE IN A WHIIIIILE

The relative commercial failure of the "Think About Me" single puzzles me - this is one song on Tusk that could have easily fit on Fleetwood Mac or Rumours, and is catchy as all hell, and can't figure as to why it wasn't a big hit.

It was the third single.

Lindsey strikes me as someone who probably mutters, hums, talks, exclaims, etc, to himself all the time... Like creatively productive Tourette's Syndrome.

still glad that "Tusk" and "Sara" made the top ten on career momemtum.

also gave points to I Know I'm Not Wrong, 100% because of that sound (harmonica? fiddle) that makes the song sound like it escaped the Sandinista! track listing and burrowed into Tusk.

For years I had no idea, but the remaster made it pretty clear it was a harmonica. Lindsey's been playing this live lately.

BTW: http://www.citywinery.com/chicago/after-show-wine-reception-with-lindsey-buckingham-8-27.html