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

I hear "Everywhere" frequently in the US too

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

great re-edit of everywhere for parties.

I started a DJ set with "Hypnotized" a few months back. I love how it goes a full eight measures with just Mick's machine-like 6/8 beat.

"gold dust woman" is the first one I can say with certainty would have been higher if I'd got a ballot in.

Heretical, but I've never been much of a fan of "Gold Dust Woman"... To echo Peter Griffin of Family Guy's epic criticism of The Godfather, "it *insists* upon itself."

I even like Hole's version

What a spooky song, and a great album closer.

http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/archive/spin.htm

Everywhere and Over and Over are way too low! My #1 and #2 respectively. In what kind of misbegotten universe does the featherweight Second Hand News beat those two?

I love how Everywhere has become a DJ staple now. When Hot Chip covered it at Lovebox recently most people in the too-young-for-the-80s crowd seemed to know the words.

omg after years of only knowing the truncated 'sara' i've just heard the proper long version, REVELATORY, as if it wasn't already perhaps my fave f mac song
Wow. I'd say 'now go check out the even longer demo version on the 2CD Tusk reissue', but your brain might blow a fuse ;-)

#14: "Silver Springs" (Stevie Nicks, 1977) - 354 points, 15 votes

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/278589357_6f35d1acd4.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/pOcE5ARKT2E

TOO LOW

and it's all my fault

I know I could have polled you, but you would not let me

Forgot about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYT8TzUarI

Never heard this one. xps

Going back to Hypnotized (which I'm happy to see place so high) I've often found that Welch reminds me a bit of Paul Simon in the way he sings, especially w/r/t phrasing across strict beats. One of those little things that won't really ever matter, but it's slightly interesting...

Thank you Stevie Nicks for immortalizing my hometown of Silver Spring, Maryland in song! (the song has nothing whatsoever to do with the town, but it is indeed named for it).

The seven-minute "Sara" is a masterpiece. The demo is worth only hearing once.

I know it's stagey, but when Lindsey and Stevie are staring each other down doing this during "The Dance" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2XKt2N8fs

man remember when that "Silver Springs" clip played 24-7 on MTV?

silver springs is a great old song

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"Silver Springs" was destined to be part of Rumours but got yanked last-minute due to time constraints (which I don't entirely understand, given how short the album is). It ended up as the B-side to "Go Your Own Way", and they put a killer live version on The Dance much later. Their engineer Richard Dashut called it "The best song that never made it to a record album"...

Silver Springs not in the top ten?! RE-DO

this would be the place where i mention that of all the things i love about stevie nicks, her frank and unshakeable groupieness is up there. the lady just loves musicians. always has, always will.

i mean, her phrasing is probably number one, but her weakness for guitar players and the occasional drummer is maybe like number 3.

everyone really ought to read that Love/Nicks interview Josh posted

I bet she's currently married to a stock broker or some real estate agent or something.

I didn't think she'd ever been married, but she was briefly in the early 80s. I always view Stevie Nicks as kind of asexual like Morrissey.

I'll explain later downthread why "Silver Springs" was my #2 and almost my #1. Stevie's "NEVER GET AWAY! NEVER GET AWAY!" whilst staring at Lindsey on that MTV clip is a major part of the reason....

i think jerry brown is the only non-musician she's ever dated. and i bet he's fair-to-middling on bongos.

If you believe the (classic) liner notes to Timespace Nicks has fucked Buckingham, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, and Brett Michaels.

#13: "Walk a Thin Line" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 355 points, 15 votes

http://www.gregdroman.com/slideshows/buckingham2.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/l9_JLOjy_7M

Tusk sure does have quite a few really great, really slow songs, doesn't it?

xpost alfred that doesn't even come close. she's like the winona ryder of laurel canyon. i really mean this though. like, she's about talent way before looks or money or fame. i mean, waddy wachtel!

Hurray! I was beginning to worry IWATL wouldn't make it. Just extraordinary double drumming on this.

I'm sorry, that should be #13, not #15...

#13: "Walk a Thin Line" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 355 points, 15 votes

(WmC, if you could repair this error and my earlier one crediting "Little Lies" to Stevie, that would be wonderful.)

You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.

Sorry, I'm a song behind with my post, but that line.

She never did! (and that's what makes that line so great)

Exactly exactly exactly.

if I had voted, walk a thin line would've been my number one

You guys are ruining my (totally under-researched and frankly little thought-about) image of Stevie Nicks as an artist who is too good for sex.

Also, it elevates stalker-dom to supernatural heights. xp

oh I forgot Wascally Watchel. godDAMN he's ugly

Pretty much everyone has baggage that they bring into a relationship. Just what exactly do you call what Lindsey Buckingham brings into his relationship?! (He's been married for a while now...)

Wiki on Stevie Nicks' marriage:

Her only marriage was to Kim Anderson, the widower of her friend Robin Anderson, soon after Robin died of leukemia while Bella Donna was on the top of the charts. Stevie and Kim were soon divorced: "We didn't get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything."[27][58]

In the Timespace liner notes, she mentions that on while driving to the hotel on their wedding night, Anderson & Nicks heard Prince on the radio for the first time, inspiring Stevie to write "Stand Back" that very evening.

i walk a thin line is the song this poll really made me go back and reevaluate and fall in love with after not listening to tusk in probably a few years, to my regret. was my number 2 almost from out of nowhere.

it is almost regally slow, like a deranged procession march

and the harmonies are sickkkkkkkk