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

Hold Me is an okay song, but top ten? idgi

"Hold Me" is so amazing... Great to see it and other Mirage tracks getting some love here ("Book of Love", "Gypsy")... these three songs are as great as any of their earlier work. The Hold Me demo sounds like it could be on 1975 s/t and then the final version is so much more minimal and lush.

I like the song Tusk, but why "tusk"? What's the tusking about.

"Hold Me" = ok
"Hold Me" The Arrangement = mind-boggling

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The reason behind the title of Tusk is actually something I've never known...

There's at least three different guitar lines running through the last minute, topped off by that magnificent, unexpected Fleetwood drum roll.

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

WTFFFFFFFFFF

if it were actually on rumours it would've been top 5

in my dreams

> 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, July 26, 2012 11:35 AM

oh i dunno about that. the first verse nails the plain sense in what it is to be alone, again, that the more oppositional stuff can't touch. the truth of a self in the absence of an alter. the real things that remain when the shared fantasy melts away - a room, a floor, some lace and paper flowers. or something like that.

ok kinda getting it now....

your breakups must have been alot simpler and less traumatic than mine.....

penguins don't have tusks. nor do dogs.

the obtuse, inscrutable title (the perennial jester Mick Fleetwood's l'il joke, 'tusk' being his personal slang for the male sex organ)

35 years ago, they should've taken into account when deciding whether or not to include it how it would place in our 2012 poll. THE FOOLS! xps

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).

― Lee626, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I FORGOT ABOUT THIS. that she saw a sign for silver spring. i'm going to be driving there in an hour looool (it gets in my head every time)

#6: "The Chain" (L. Buckingham, M. Fleetwood, C. McVie, J. McVie, S. Nicks, 1977) - 544 points, 22 votes, 2 number one votes

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Track link: http://i43.tinypic.com/a5ylu.jpg

xp If they had to cut one song to make space on Rumours, it should have been "Oh Daddy" instead of "Silver Springs"

Yay! My number one.

Also, TOO LOW.

seriously SHAME ON ILX silver spring is the best, maybe the saddest song ever written. stevie's voice in this song, dear jesus.

Most of John McVie's "simple" bass lines are really incredibly difficult to play: his one super famous "YEAH! DUDE RULES!" bass moment, the one in The Chain, is something anyone could play within ten minutes of picking up a bass for the first time.

Silver Springs was a b-side for most of its life, but the way it got launched into the limelight in 1997 and was subsequently added back on to the Rumours running order makes not being familiar with it a fairly weak excuse. Yet, people...even those voting in this poll...are hearing it for the first time today. Weird.

xp If they had to cut one song to make space on Rumours, it should have been "Oh Daddy" instead of "Silver Springs"

― Lee626, Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i still don't see how it didn't fit in the first place! there'd be a minute to spare if they kept it.

Johnny Fever would make a fearsome boss

"Hold Me" = ok
"Hold Me" The Arrangement = mind-boggling

I have always loved how the chorus is this cascade of evaporating voices, accompanied by the basso "come on and..." underneath.

Cannot deal with "Tusk" and cannot believe it is in the top ten. Also, how is "The Chain" not in the top three???

Hold Me has some really amazing deliberately out-of-tune guitar in it.

<i> Also, how is "The Chain" not in the top three???</i>

I'M SAYIN'!!!!!

Well, 4 of my top 5 are going to be in the top 5. Squarely in the canon camp, I am.

This won't give too much away, but the #3 song actually got fewer total votes than "The Chain"! If that placates y'all at all...

I heard "Silver Springs" on the radio several times even way back in '77. The first time I heard it the DJ announced it beforehand and I thought Fleetwood Mac couldn't about Silver Spring and assumed it was a coincidence, and the opening lyric convinced me I was right. I only later learned the name did indeed come from Silver Spring, the city.

Stevie Nicks usually says in interviews that she saw a road sign for Silver Spring when she was in Virginia. Silver Spring is in Maryland, a state which borders Virginia although Silver Spring itself is a few miles inward and doesn't itself border Virginia. I keep trying to guess where in Virginia she'd come across a sign giving mileage or directions to Silver Spring - probably traveling eastward on the DC Beltway, or perhaps northward on interstate 95 from Richmond or Alexandria.

"The Chain" neatly sums up Rumours in one song

This ruined 'The Chain' for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z-dJ35fOiM

Only one of my top 5 is yet to come (it might be #1, though, so I ain't mad at y'all).

Most of John McVie's "simple" bass lines are really incredibly difficult to play: his one super famous "YEAH! DUDE RULES!" bass moment, the one in The Chain, is something anyone could play within ten minutes of picking up a bass for the first time.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:19 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Interesting point... Doesn't mean it's not perfect ;-)

I've always maintained that John's bass break in "The Chain" sounds like a Peter Hook bassline...

guess "Caroline" is gonna miss the countdown? fab song, too bad

Would love to hear a bootleg of 'Dead Souls' and 'The Chain'.

Interestingly, we begin our TOP 5 with the first track in the countdown since #13 not to have received any number one votes...

#5: "You Make Loving Fun" (Christine McVie, 1977) - 548 points, 23 votes

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Track link: http://youtu.be/vFZMgf6M5KM

"Doesn't mean it's not perfect"

Yup. That kinda was my point. If there was a witch in Fleetwood Mac, I think it was John.

I've always maintained that John's bass break in "The Chain" sounds like a Peter Hook bassline...

Ha! First comment for Billy's youtube is indeed 'sound's like Joy Division...'

intersting

I always remember You Make Loving Fun as such a minor track, until I listen to it and revel in its raditude.

xp It's not really high up enough on the neck.

I just picked up my guitar (since I don't have a bass) and tried playing "The Chain" bass break. Not finding it all that easy. I'm not much of a guitarist or bassist, but I don't think someone who picked up a bass for the first time could play it within 5 minutes

Fleetwood Mac and Formula One is a perfect match btw, I've given up fighting it

xp silver spring md is invariably the least stevie nicks city ever, tho i don't know what it was like in the 70s. feel immense pride about it tho.

it would've only been a 4 point difference but i wish i made SS my #1

It's always sounded more like "Transmission" in vibe/tempo/urgency to me

Stevie Nicks usually says in interviews that she saw a road sign for Silver Spring when she was in Virginia.

I think on the "Classic Albums" DVD re Rumours, she says they were in Maryland.

She probably could have done something with "Crystal City", come to think of it.

The Chain was my #1, Silver Springs my #2...so I really couldn't have helped it a whole lot. (In fact, Silver Springs is probably my actual #1 irl, but there was some discouraging talk of The Chain in the voting thread and I wanted to give it a bump.)

You Make Loving Fun won the Rumours poll. ya?

Love those clavs and the rhodes in unison...

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xp I've heard her say both Virginia and Maryland, but more often Virginia.

I'm guessing she was traveling through Silver Spring en route to the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland on the '75-76 tour.

yeah i was actually worried Never Going Back Again wasn't going to make the list, wtf me xp

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