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

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

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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

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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.

Can't remember where, but a few years ago, Marcus wrote something to the effect that "Dreams" was a forgotten song and that "Go Your Own Way" was more alive than ever. No problem with the second half of that, but disagreed, then and now, with the first half--nice to see this poll bear that out.

My ballot looked like this

The Chain - 40
Silver Springs - 36
Everywhere - 33
Go Your Own Way - 30
Second Hand News - 28
Hypnotized - 26
Gypsy - 25
Albatross - 24
Walk a Thin Line - 23
Big Love - 22
The Green Manalishi - 21
Songbird - 20
Tusk - 19
World Turning - 18
Rhiannon - 17
Seven Wonders - 16
Landslide - 15
Remember Me - 14
Heroes Are Hard to Find - 13
Red Rover - 12

Five didn't make the top 60.

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Der, FOUR didn't make the top 60.

Reynolds has a reference in that piece to 'the number of pristine copies clogging up second-hand bins' - after reading that it was off to Missing Records and Lo! They were indeed plentiful.

nothing from say you will tho? ;_;

"GYOW" also immaculately arranged. I'm amazed that such a famously dysfunctional band could be so adept at recording stuff so perfect and slick, especially with drugs in the mix.

Current solo Lindsey has been doing ripping versions of this one. It's such an incredible contrast of tones. Wistful, angry, anthemic ...

Like the volume swells on the guitar, but "Dreams" is one of the few, if not the only, radio Mac song that I skip. Pretty played out, to my ears.

I like "Dreams", but there's easily 20+ Mac songs I like better and didn't vote for it. Maybe because overfamiliarity has breeded something less than love, or maybe because i knew it would place high anyway, or maybe because of that odd pronunciation of "washes".

Thanks Clarke. Have loved listening to wall-to-wall Fleetwood Mac this past week thanks to this poll.

lol every song i voted for made it in, sry stans

What is it about Dreams? It's easy today to feel somewhat blah with its overexposed sticky sweet sound, but I remember how this song sounded in '77 (I was 13) when it first came out, so beautiful, otherworldly, viscerally revelatory.

tho if i had a redo i'd include 'save me a place' definitely xp

nothing from say you will tho? ;_;

1. Green Manalishi
2. Gold Dust Woman
3. I'm So Afraid
4. Rhiannon
5. Go Your Own Way
6. Dreams
7. Landslide
8. The Chain
9. Storms
10. Brown Eyes

11. Oh Daddy
12. The Ledge
13. Over And Over
14. Big Love
15. Honey Hi
16. Everybody Finds Out
17. Tusk
18. Dragonfly
19. Never Forget
20. Sisters Of The Moon

Haha yes Lee, "washés" xposts

I had "Dreams" on my ballot, but not very high. Voted for it for Mick and John's contributions only.

Great poll! I wish GYOW had won, but I try not to be results-oriented in these things. Thanks for running this one, Clarke!