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

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

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.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, July 26, 2012 9:58 AM

actually if you read the interview Josh linked your faith may be restored. imo she really just loves musicians.

Buckingham's treatment of vocal harmony on Tusk seems almost mystical, religious.

#12: "Oh Well" (Peter Green, 1969) - 359 points, 14 votes, 2 number one votes

http://www.johntherevelator.nl/uploads/fullsizeImage_titel_32315d3c70ec0b6f6baeea0c50083b01.jpg

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

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.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:58 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FWIW, I seem to recall an interview she did w/Rolling Stone when one of her later solo things was happening where she boasted/claimed that she hadn't had a boyfriend or had sex since the early '90s, and felt fine about it.

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

― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:55 PM (2 minutes ago)

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

― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:56 PM (1 minute ago)

Now we're two songs behind, but that line, as well as "I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you" were both literal, not figurative. They were directed at Buckingham of course, and were a reference to how the '75 album had a pair of now-classic hit songs written and sung by Nicks ("Rhiannon", "Landslide") that assured frequent future radio airplay, and even if Lindsey breaks up with her there will always be some random chance on any given day years in the future that he'll be driving around with the radio on and they'll play a Nicks song. My voice will follow you wherever you go! You'll never get away from me! She's said in interviews she want LB to hear her songs on the radio, and wanted him to be bugged by it. But all that was merely prophecy in 1977 when "Silver Springs" was first released. By the late '90s when they played on MTV, her dreamed-of scenario had come true. Lindsey never did get away from Stevie. That's why I love that live MTV clip with SN staring at LB during the final lines of the chorus so much. You'll NEVER GET AWAY! NEVER GET AWAY! NEVER GET AWAY!

He never did....

Buckingham's knowing smirk was priceless.

That's easily my alltime fave live Mac performance

Got a link?

Clarke posted it with the poll result.

I actually posted the studio version (in keeping with my previous links)... Here's the '97 version:

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

I put Oh Well pts I & II on the headphones to lull me to sleep last night, but I think they wrecked my mood because I woke at 4:30, all tensed up. I conclude that this band could never do easy listening, and have probably been epically miscategorised in a million record stores.

oh, I must have just watched it on youtube right after that. sorry.

One last great thing about "Silver Springs" - Lindsey Buckingham on the backing vocals. "Hi Lindsey, this is Stevie. Here's my new record, it's called Silver Springs, and it's my kiss-off to you. And you're going to sing harmonies on it!"

I had it on in the car earlier and was reflecting on how they've always done dreaminess so well, even though there's often no writers and barely any personnel in common - Albatross, Dragonfly, Hypnotised, Sara...

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:59 AM (33 minutes ago)

Part II of "Oh Well" would qualify too.

Trying to think which Christine song is the "dreamiest". "Warm Ways" maybe?

"Oh Well" Part II=Fleetwood Morriconne

bingo

"Oh Well" Part II=Fleetwood Morriconne

― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain)

^ this

Also too damn low.

The Silver Springs performance in The Dance is a great piece of theater. I think 20 years removed from the breakup, they were able to play on the audience's sentiment for a moving performance (even though they'd buried all the bitterness about it years and years ago).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Muybien.jpg

Based on interviews over the years with both of them, I don't think their on-stage affectations are faked. I can't put a word on it right now, but there's def something between those two they can't hide.

#11: "Landslide" (Stevie Nicks, 1975) - 389 points, 17 votes, 1 number one vote

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/29957011/Stevie+Nicks+hotSN.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/SIh-amV-dVs

Everywhere, Silver Springs and Landslide outside the top ten. ILM be trippin.

Landslide far too low, ilm

Nah. Muy bien outside the top ten is more heinous.