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

Oh there we go.

I'm Mystified as to why my #1 isn't even going to make the top 60.

Wow, Stevie's heel could kill a man! (Re that picture)

I've never cared much for Christine McVie's air-freshener tones.

Damn you Reynolds.

I was the number 1 vote for "Rhiannon." Wouldn't have expected that when I started to think about the poll, but I realized that when I think "Fleetwood Mac" the first thing that comes to mind is the snaky little "Rhiannon" riff.

"Go Your Own Way" seems to mainstream Mac dilletante to be ILM's #1, but who knows?

All of the long 70s live versions of Rhiannon are essential

As this poll winds down, can I just say... what a band.

I had no idea 'go your own way' was that popular over here. I don't think I even voted for it.

It'll be neck-and-neck

It's funny because in junior high at the height of my mania I thought as Dreams as the sequel to Rhiannon, although today I might like it more. The song I really cared about was I Don't Wanna Know. My favorite Buckingham was Second Hand News. And my favorite favorites were always the Christine songs anyway.

yin and yang xp

I hate playing an open string if I can avoid it

Just catching up...still don't really get the love for Sara, but Rhiannon is great (I scored it low because I knew it wasn't in any real danger of missing the top ten).

Marcello's no McVie fan either. What's with the Britcrit allergy to her?

Just catching up...still don't really get the love for Sara, but Rhiannon is great (I scored it low because I knew it wasn't in any real danger of missing the top ten).

In total agreement, Johnny. Sara is just sort of "meh" for me...

"I hate playing an open string if I can avoid it"

Difference btw. Ismael and John McVie no. 347.

'Rhiannon' is the song that got me into the band in the first place, one of my all-time favourites.

Chicken Shack residue? xpsts

Take out Stevie's vocal on Sara and you've got incidental music from Hill Street Blues.

Haha xp! Admittedly it does sound better on two strings.

It's very "Mike Post".

Take out Stevie's vocal on Sara and you've got incidental music from Hill Street Blues.

incidental music from Hill Street Blues that would get the composer canned

#2: "Go Your Own Way" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1977) - 678 points, 26 votes, 2 number one votes

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l80zn5I9QI1qchkeoo1_500.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/6ul-cZyuYq4

TOO LOW

wouldn't have been my #1 but damn. count me in the "still don't get the love for Sara"/"could live without McVie" camp. but hey, the Mac's got something for everyone.

Take out Stevie's vocal on Sara and you've got incidental music from Hill Street Blues.

Well, you know what Lindsey always says about FM: "a whole greater than the sum of its parts"...

NO! SHOULDA BEEN NUMBER ONE

that pic is amazing

GYOW slays me on drumming alone.

one of my favorite karaoke duet songs (the other being dont you want me by human league)

Yeah, drumming, lyrics, phrasing, everything. Don't know the point differential yet, but if I find out making this #1 vs. The Chain would've helped it, I'll be sad.

3 out of the 4 top songs by Stevie Nicks is.... go on, douse me with belladonna.

dreams strikes me as a weird #1

THE WINNER!

#1: "Dreams" (Stevie Nicks, 1977) - 707 points, 28 votes, 4 number one votes

http://www.teesforall.com/images/Fleetwood_Mac_Penguin_Black_Shirt.jpg

Track link: http://youtu.be/oNavPWHmfI0

"Dreams" is Fleetwood Mac's only number one in the US. Also, it is not as good of a song as "Go Your Own Way"

Dreams is a perfectly acceptable number one.

one of my favorite karaoke duet songs (the other being dont you want me by human league)

YES!!! I love that for karaoke too - I just grab any girl I can find for the second verse. When she protests she can't sing, I tell her it's not a prob

Dreams is nice. Not #1 nice. Not even "I think I'll vote for it" nice. ILM is weird.

Well done Dreams! I didn't think it'd win, but when we did the Rhiannon vs Dreams vs Sara vs Gypsy poll I was surprised to conclude that it was definitely the best.

ILM goin back to its pop-lovin' roots.

i mean it's a great song but maybe i'm just sick of it in a way i'm not sick of GYOW, and there are def better stevie ballads

much like someone said upthread about rhiannon, this is the song i think of when i think of fm.

If the #1 song has to be a Stevie Nicks song at least it was "Dreams".

It is really really good. So common I didn't think about it for years, and then noticing that I hadn't ever gotten sick of it, it was still really good, that always impresses me when an overexposed record can do that.

Simon Reynolds' take on Sara (and Tusk) - probably the key piece that led me to become a disciple

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:54 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know, i'd forgotten this in the interim but this is absolutely true of me too.

dreams p undeniable, still a little surprised to see it take this tho, thought it would be a bit, idk, ubiquitous.

i mean it's a great song but maybe i'm just sick of it in a way i'm not sick of GYOW, and there are def better stevie ballads

100% OTM

That Penguin logo shirt is another of those tiny things that gave me a little nudge towards The Mac btw - Danny Goffey wears an impossibly cool green-and-white three-quarters-sleeve number in Supergrass's video for 'Moving'

More well-written songs with vibes and Fender Rhodes, please.

yeah the penguin logo is pushing me closer and closer to breaking my 'never buy band shirts' rule

The Classic Albums sequence in which the band listens to the playbacks of "Dreams" is -- well.