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

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

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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

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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.

^^ Si.

It's all Behind the Mask and Time from hereon in

"Landslide" is also not a fave of mine!

This is what happens too when you have a band that's just too freaking good... Too much greatness outside the top ten.

I love lindsay's solo on it, very restrained

xpost Actually, if you watch closely, you can see Stevie look his way a few times before she finally catches his eye. She knew what she was doing.

It always rubbed me the wrong way when the Dixie Chicks did "Landslide," which sounds weird coming from a trio of BFFs. It's a solo song.

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

got em

I first heard it as a Billy Corgan cover!

Among a dozen little things that pointed me in their direction over the years was a grainissimo clip of John Frusciante doing this acoustic at some tiny club gig. Terrible quality, and probably a terrible performance (not seen since 99), but the greatness of the song shone through.

I first heard it as a Billy Corgan cover!

same here. How much airplay did "Landslide" get before 1994?

Stevie make man cry.

"Landslide" is also not a fave of mine!

― Clarke B., Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:41 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I first heard it as a Billy Corgan cover!

― Clarke B., Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (1 minute ago)

explains a lot... too much in fact. :-p

Yeah, I think Lee's right about the "The Dance" performance of Silver Spring -- they went there. Christine shoots them a worried look toward the end.

"Oh, no, not again ..."

while John burrows under his cap

"Landslide" was my #1. The gorgeous melody, the guitar picking, the lyrics, the way the song never uses a major I chord (the key it's written in) until almost halfway through, all from a then-unknown who had just joined up, whom Mick Fleetwood didn't even intend to be in the band and wouldn't have been had it not been for Lindsey's insistance.

Well, the RS cover story from '97 recounted how during the Tusk tour McVie marched up to Buck, threw a glass of wine in his face, and slapped him after he donned a black shawl and mimicked Nicks' movements on stage, making her cry. "Don't you ever do that in front of a paying audience again!" she supposedly said.

LAUNCHING: TOP TEN...

#10: "Albatross" (Peter Green, 1969) - 430 points, 18 votes, 1 number one vote

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Track link: http://youtu.be/8scHKFwr0og

That song is like listening to water flow down a river.

Come to think of it, it would fit well on "Another Green World."

That photo explains why John and Mick live in Hawaii.

That's a pretty postpunk looking cover.

No kidding. Down to the title.

Green had been working on the piece for some time before the addition to the band of 18-year-old guitarist Danny Kirwan. Slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer was not generally inclined to work with Green, who had felt unable to realise the overall effect that he wanted. With Kirwan's input, Green completed the piece and it was recorded just two months after Kirwan joined, without Spencer present.

This is probably the most appropriate point in the countdown for a brief aside to mention that this poll inspired me to track down those Danny Kirwan solo albums, and I've been listening to Second Chapter on repeat throughout the day and it's a very, very good record! It has a similar post-McCartney vibe to that first Emmit Rhodes record. Definitely worth seeking out!