It's all Behind the Mask and Time from hereon in
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
"Landslide" is also not a fave of mine!
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
This is what happens too when you have a band that's just too freaking good... Too much greatness outside the top ten.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
I love lindsay's solo on it, very restrained
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
(WmC, if you could repair this error and my earlier one crediting "Little Lies" to Stevie, that would be wonderful.)
got em
― Neil Jung (WmC), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
I first heard it as a Billy Corgan cover!
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
same here. How much airplay did "Landslide" get before 1994?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Stevie make man cry.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
"Landslide" is also not a fave of mine!― Clarke B., Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:41 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI first heard it as a Billy Corgan cover!― Clarke B., Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (1 minute ago)
― Clarke B., Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:41 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Clarke B., Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:44 AM (1 minute ago)
explains a lot... too much in fact. :-p
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
"Oh, no, not again ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
while John burrows under his cap
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
LAUNCHING: TOP TEN...
#10: "Albatross" (Peter Green, 1969) - 430 points, 18 votes, 1 number one vote
http://www.raw-tcsd.com/fleetwood%20mac%20fr249.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/8scHKFwr0og
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
That song is like listening to water flow down a river.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
Come to think of it, it would fit well on "Another Green World."
That photo explains why John and Mick live in Hawaii.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
That's a pretty postpunk looking cover.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
No kidding. Down to the title.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― cwkiii, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
How much airplay did "Landslide" get before 1994?
Lots, in the US anyway, from the '70s onward. I was amazed to learn the studio version was not actually released as a single; I always assumed it was a major hit.
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
I should stop boosting MC today on ILM, but this is great:
"Albatross" conjures to mind a sadder and wiser Shadows; the brushstrokes now slower, more delicate, more lament than anticipation. The rhythm is down to unison, deep tom-tom and bass guitar, throbbing like an anginal heartbeat, quiet and quieter by the second.
I saw a German TV performance of "Albatross" recorded at that time, and there was neither land nor shore to be envisaged; merely five introverted, long-haired chaps in scruffy jumpers and scuffed jeans who might still have been mourning Robert Johnson in the pungent basement of a Dutch strip bar post-lock-in. The life of the mind, such as it still existed; and at its cynosure, the doomed bastard Peter Green, responsible for not only Fleetwood Mac's most successful year in terms of hit singles, but also for the most numbing and disturbing series of hit singles by anybody in any year.
With “Albatross” in particular, however, I think of Syd Barrett's "Baby Lemonade" - Jerry Shirley on drums doing his best to follow Syd's implausible tempo and mood changes, David Gilmour's lead guitar fortunate enough just to be keeping up – and realise that subsequent Fleetwood Macs represent an absolutely necessary running away from this utter darkness; though of course they always kept it somewhere in the middle of their minds; "A landslide will bring it down," and so, play on, just like those tender eight notes Peter Green sneaked onto the end of “Brown Eyes” on Tusk; the past is also allowed to run, if not quite catch up.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
"Albatross" is put to very good use in the film Man On Wire, if you've seen it.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
In contrast to "Landslide", I have never heard "Albatross" on US radio.
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
That's a fantastic piece of writing.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
"Albatross" is also used prominently in Fassbinder's World on a Wire.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
#9: "Gypsy" (Stevie Nicks, 1982) - 470 points, 19 votes, 1 number one vote
http://www.everythingunderthemoon.net/images/stevie/stevie-nicks-witch.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/3oWIF2n4ZLs
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
At the time, "Albatross" was out, with all the reverb on guitar. So we said, ‘Let’s be Fleetwood Mac doing Albatross, just to get going.’ It never really sounded like Fleetwood Mac… but that was the point of origin.- George Harrison, referring to the Beatles' "Sun King"
- George Harrison, referring to the Beatles' "Sun King"
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5crvsP9GW98
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
I first heard "Gypsy" on a car radio, when we were driving east from LA on my very first trip to the US. Musically, it's a perfect cruising-along-the-highway song and I'll always associate it with that experience. Didn't pick up on the lyric until much later.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
I like the album version fine, but the demo is <3<3<3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKIC_Kza4Ek
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
surely a conteder for POX: breakup songs
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
coming on the heels of Belladonna "Gypsy" demonstrated how differently solo Stevie would have her songs arranged.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, that demo's revelatory...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
the first verse is really a tour de force. lyrics and phrasing both.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r3ls8TVm9Dw/TZRSEMipp3I/AAAAAAAAAkA/Zb7CWrZeEXA/s1600/CCF27112010_00002.jpg
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Her demos have consistently shown that Buck patronizes her or underrates her melodic sense. Chords are a different story...
No way do I prefer the demo to the original "Gypsy" though.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
GRIM UP HERE INNIT... I never really associate Mac with that vibe, but I love the idea that they've been running from it for over 40 years (at least John and Mick have)...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
But less of one than "Gold Dust Woman" or "Silver Springs" (both of which are actually on my most recent "Breakup Songs" iPod playlist)
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
everything sounds better played on a Fender Rhodes
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:32 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No way I do either... The original always slays me.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
They're almost two different songs, except not.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
#8: "Tusk" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1979) - 491 points, 22 votes, 2 number one votes
http://991.com/newGallery/Fleetwood-Mac-Tusk---Set-of-4-V-372889.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/MT7W8xJFl_g
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Having played tuba for seven years as a kid, this song is truly an inspiration...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
Is there anyone else who was first exposed to Albatross by the Chill Out album of The KLF? It was years before I finally heard it on its own apart from the context of 'ambient dj mix', and my mind was blown to discover the artist!
― Killer of Shrimp (Spectrist), Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link