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

There are two Green songs and at least one Welch still to come

I can think of one Green and one Welch for sure. Not sure what the other Green song Ismael is thinking of might be.

Their only UK #1 single is yet to come, and features the original line-up.

I voted for all three!

I seriously was expecting to see Storms in the top 5.

The other one was a UK no.2 and they still do it in concert. It's also in two parts, but only the first is likely to place.

"Albatross," mais oui

That's the one I was counting on, but even though I'm partially familiar with the Green era I can't think of what the other one is.

xp 'still' = it's on the 1980 live album. I thought it was on The Dance, but actually it's not.

I'll give you a hint: it starts, "duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh"

Figured it out by looking at chart placements on wiki. I like that track okay, but...oh well.

Part II is this weird pastoral thing, sort of like an instrumental first-half-of-stairway-to-heaven. There must have been something in the air in 1970.

Apparently due to some sort of studio/mastering error, there's an inadvertently repeated one-minute section of part 2. Never noticed it.

Also, there's four different track listings of Then Play On that have been issued, some with tracks not on the currently-available CD.

pretty sure "eyes of the world" won't make it at this point... but here's a live version from 2004! it cooks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TV6BEwJEKI

sad to see think about me (my #1) so low

and this performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1siQIq6CGEg&feature=related

Stevie looks great!

I love The Ledge so much. I've always thought of it as Lindsey's hommage to rockabilly.

can't wait for the top twenty (please don't shout out your guesses for top five, three, etc, when we get there!)

god this thread is tasty.

I am listening to the Buckingham Nicks album for the first time right now. REALLY good album! They had a beautiful sound from the beginning. That's "The Chain" right there at the start of "Lola My Love". And "Monday Morning" is pretty much a rewrite of "Don't Let Me Down Again." Ditto "Never Going Back Again" and "Stephanie." Hard to believe it was such a commercial flop, these are great pop songs! It got a great review in Rock Magazine. Music business sure was weird back then. Can you imagine what would've happened if Mick Fleetwood had never discovered Lindsey, if the album's producer didn't happen to be in the same studio as Mick was scoping out places to record their new album? And if the producer didn't happen to play Mick "Frozen Love" to showcase the amazing production his studio could get? Suppose Buckingham Nicks had recorded their second album with "Rhiannon" and "Monday Morning" on it; would it have been a hit? would it have been a flop like the debut was? Would we be talking about Buckingham Nicks in the same way we talk about Big Star, like "Oh, what might have been..." kinda thing with writeups in Unknown Legends of Rock and Roll? Ah well. Fantastic job on this poll, btw. Where do you get so many awesome pictures? I can never get enough bearded Lindsey pictures.

^ Stevie would have gone back to school. Lindsey would have joined The Weirdos.

Special mention for the piano-banging Arthur Baker remix of Big Love - a Balearic classic.

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

I love that. Is that really Stevie at 3:21? Where'd that line come from?

Anyway, I can easily imagine a warm afternoon watching Italia '90, that on in the background. Perfect.

Does Mick Fleetwood ever look like he's not having the best time ever when he's playing drums?

Is that really Stevie at 3:21

yep!

Does Mick Fleetwood ever look like he's not having the best time ever when he's playing drums?

SO otm.

TOP 20 TODAY... Let's get to it:

#20: "Little Lies" (Christine McVie, 1987) - 325 points, 15 votes, 1 number one vote

http://i53.tinypic.com/2mdf0jp.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/kyE4CLM0QIA

Mr. Snrub, thanks for the kind words, and happy for you to have discovered the joys of Buckingham/Nicks... I'm finding the pics basically through Google image searches both semi-creative and straightforward. There's a trove of Mac-related pics out there, and they're such a great, odd looking bunch of people.

I've never heard the Stevie Nicks version.

"Little Lies" (Stevie Nicks

???

I listened to "Little Lies" again last night. What a perfect single. For many of us it was a sonic update of their signature sound.

and, again, the 12" version has more Stevie interjections ("Tell me lies...OH!...Sweet little li-i-es...").

a sonic update of their signature sound.

Yeah, it was my only vote from Tango.

Ha, whoops! You know, I've made that mistake for years, and I have no idea why. I always, always think of it as a Stevie song, and always have. I even have "McVie" right there on my spreadsheet staring me in the face. In any event, I apologize to Ms. C. Perfect for the snubbing! Let's try that again:

#20: "Little Lies" (Stevie Nicks, 1987) - 325 points, 15 votes, 1 number one vote

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_uIHP5F8KLg/TrcTmUNShxI/AAAAAAAAD2I/YZzjbtOHDz8/s1600/LittleLies45.jpg

ARGH.

#20: "Little Lies" (CHRISTINE MCVIE, 1987) - 325 points, 15 votes, 1 number one vote

"Do me a favor. Just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all. Kick my ass. Enjoy. Come on. I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my ass."--Marty Fufkin

^shouldn't that be Stevie Nicks?

hahaha it's Artie

Shit. I'm better at this when I'm hung over!

wow. quite a 'do on Stevie!

In any case, an effortlessly amazing song. It also has the exquisite status of being the first Fleetwood Mac song ever released as a cassingle.

Now I might have to start a band called Exquisite Cassingles.

btw being a 12 year old boy and hearing these two distinct voices behind the lead going TELL ME LIES/TELL ME TELL ME LIES, one of which is weirdly nasal, was a bizarre experience

I loved hearing "Little Lies" every time it came on the radio.

I was overexposed to this song thanks to my mother's adoration of it. Its position as track one side two meant I could expect the occasional rewind in the car for a second play. At least her obsession eventually resulted in her taking me to see the Tango tour as a kid!

Double shot of Christine Tango masterpieces to start the day:

#19: "Everywhere" (Christine McVie, 1987) - 336 points, 14 votes, 1 number one vote

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/252691/Fleetwood+Mac.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/ThbMaq8hDEo

x-post: I'm so ridiculously envious of anyone who got to see Fleetwood Mac in the '70s or '80s... How many did? (Did anyone here see them in the '60s?!)

I fully expected "Everywhere" to be in the top ten with ease.

Is there another band who are as 'tactile' as the Mac, nearly every photo they're draped around each other?

It's my birthday, I've just been taken to lunch, and we're doing the Fleetwood Mac top twenty. I gotta say, today is a good day.