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

None of my top three placed!

1. Mystified
2. Oh Diane
3. Never make Me Cry
4. Little Lies
5. Hold Me
6. Family Man
7. Dreams
8. Big Love
9. Man of the World
10. Tusk
11. Albatross
12. Songbird
13. Gypsy
14. Empire State
15. Oh Well
16. Rhiannon
17. Brown Eyes
18. Everywhere
19. Only Over You
20. The Ledge

are you cosigning me there ismael? if so, you should have voted for something off it!

anyway, here's mine:
1. sara
2. i walk a thin line
3. everywhere
4. say goodbye
5. you make loving fun
6. big love
7. that's all for everyone
8. silver springs
9. little lies
10. brown eyes
11. dreams
12. goodbye baby
13. beautiful child
14. storms
15. hold me
16. gypsy
17. bleed to love her
18. tusk
19. over and over
20. family man

Would just like to note that "Thunder only happens when it's raining" is NOT TRUE. Which makes me wonder how much to trust the rest of the song.

My ballot -- too bad the Bob Welch "Angel" didn't make top-60. Numbers at right are release year.

1. That's All For Everyone 79
2. Go Your Own Way 77
3. Walk a Thin Line 79
4. Albatross 69
5. Angel (1974) 74
6. Over & Over 79
7. Beautiful Child 79
8. Oh Well 69
9. Man of the World 69
10. Black Magic Woman 68
11. Over My Head 75
12. Storms 79
13. Rattlesnake Shake 69
14. Dreams 77
15. Save Me a Place 79
16. Crystal 75
17. Green Manalishi 70
18. Station Man 70
19. Woman of 1000 Years 71
20. Sands of Time 71

It's only dreams! xpost

I voted for Everybody Finds Out xp

oh yeah, i'm blind. we should have voted for the same say you will songs.

I voted for Welch's "Angel" too

Great poll, nice work Clarke.

1. Hold Me
2. Brown Eyes
3. Rhiannon
4. Go Your Own Way
5. Book of Love
6. Little Lies
7. Think About Me
8. You Make Loving Fun
9. Dreams
10. That's All for Everyone
11. What Makes You Think You're the One
12. I'm So Afraid
13. Storms
14. Gypsy
15. The Chain
16. Tusk
17. Beautiful Child
18. Love in Store
19. Blue Letter
20. Never Forget

http://cache.vevo.com/Content/VevoImages/video/EB9541EC105204730D4C2044F74E0945.jpg

My Ballot

Tracks

Oh Well
Never Going Back Again
The Chain
I Loved Another Woman
Albatross
Hypnotized
Sara
Coming Your Way
Rhiannon
The Ledge
Tusk
Keep on Going
Without You
Man of the World
Black Magic Woman
Second Hand News
Dreams
Rattlesnakee Shake
That's All for Everyone
Silver Springs

Albums

Tusk
Then Play On
Mystery to Me
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac (1968)

I used to own that penguin shirt in baby blue. Know I've posted this elsewhere, but I'm old enough to have been around when "Dreams" was a hit; restaurant downstairs from me used to play it repeatedly, LOUDLY, after hours as they were cleaning up. The thump of McVie's bass is permanently seared into my brain. Wonderful song (and wonderful poll, great work!)

Agreed, wonderful poll. Thanks Clarke! Too bad it had to end.

fab factoid: Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits (1988) was the last album ever from a major label to be released on 8-track cartridges!

What do we think of "As Long As You Follow" and "No Questions Asked"? They do a decent job of simulating a Buck sound.

prefer the Nicks song though

There was a major label release on 8 track in 19-fucking-88?!!!

FM Greatest Hits last 8-track cartridge (wrong pic showing 1971 release of same name)

http://www.discogs.com/Fleetwood-Mac-Greatest-Hits/release/3514866
"A number of sources state that this album was the last to be commercially released as an 8 track tape by a major label"

The last 8-track cartridge was FM's Greatest Hits

List of late 8-track Cartridges

i didn't even know about this poll until the results started rolling in, but i guess my #1 would have been "man of the world," #2 maybe "book of love," #3 maybe "spare me a little of your love," #4 "go yr own way."

in general i think peter green era--esp. then play on, probably their best record after the 3 buck/nicks classix-- was kind of robbed here. i would've placed stuff like "rattlesnake shake," "coming your way," "closing my eyes,"

also were people allowed to vote for buck/nicks duo LP??

Nope, just strictly Fleetwood Mac recordings.

You were away from ILX for a while, right? We've been doing a series of single-artist ballot polls for the last year and a half or so. See Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls for details.

surprised but not disappointed 'dreams' won

my ballot

tracks

1 hold me
2 albatross
3 keep on going
4 hypnotized
5 go your own way
6 tusk
7 brown eyes
8 big love
9 gold dust woman
10 green manalishi
11 silver springs
12 oh well
13 walk a thin line
14 rhiannon
15 sentimental lady
16 everywhere
17 that’s all for everyone
18 future games
19 say you love me
20 dragonfly

albums

1 rumours
2 tusk
3 mystery to me
4 then play on
5 bare trees

My ballot!

1. Sara

2. Warm Ways

3. Go Your Own Way

4. The Chain

5. Little Lies

6. Hold Me

7. Monday Morning

8. Book of Love

9. Seven Wonders (12" extended mix)

10. Not That Funny

11. What Makes You Think...

12. Second Hand News

13. Brown Eyes

14. Blue Letter

15. Silver Springs

16. Thrown Down

17. Bleed To Love Her

18. Gold Dust Woman

19. Eyes of the World

20. Bare Trees

ALBUMS

Rumours

Tango in the Night

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

Bare Trees

super grateful for this thread, lot of pre-buckingham/nicks material to check out and album tracks to single out (will admit i love throwing my 2LP of Tusk on but haven't spent a lot of time matching title to hook). Thanks Clarke B and everyone who contributed!

Thanks for running this Clarke!

i just realised i didn't vote for the top two. there were too many good options.

Short ballot:

1. “Landslide” (23)
2. “One Together” (22)
3. “Mystified” (21)
4. “Albatross” (20)
5. “Hold Me” (19)
6. “Go Your Own Way” (18)
7. “Everywhere” (17)
8. “Over My Head” (16)
9. “Silver Springs” (15)
10. “Dreams” (14)
11. “Rhiannon” (13)
12. “Songbird” (12)

As I mentioned when I sent this in, I know I should have given Tusk (which I have on vinyl) a complete listen, but I didn't.

1. Over and Over

2. What Makes You Think You’re The One

3. Over My Head

4. Sara

5. Storms

6. Never Forget

7. Go Your Own Way

8. You Make Loving Fun

9. Honey Hi

10. Dreams

11. Brown Eyes

12. Warm Ways

13. Songbird

14. Second Hand News

15. Think About Me

16. Crystal

17. Gold Dust Woman

18. Beautiful Child

19. Blue Letter

20. Rhiannon

i didn't vote, therefore not complaining, just surprised: "saved me a place" not in the top 60???? i always assumed that was a huge fan favorite and i assumed it would be top 10! hmmm.

"SAVE me a place." d'oh.

My ballot. I'm genuinely surprised that Rattlesnake Shake didn't place at all. When I first saw that they used to stretch it out to 20 minutes plus live, I wasn't expecting much, but the long versions go to some really interesting places.

Rattlesnake Shake
Dust
Miles Away
Don't Stop
Just Crazy Love
Worried Dream
Future Games
The City
Believe Me
Sands of Time
Oh Well (Part 1)
Bare Trees
Danny's Chant
Woman of 1000 Years
Child of Mine
Sandy Mary (Live At The BBC Version)
Man of The World
Brown Eyes
Station Man
Go Your Own Way

in case this hasn't been posted:

soundboard of nashville show in 77

Oh, and wanted to mention that it's not complete or anything, but The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac CD is a really nice intro to some of the more interesting stuff the Green group did, without being too much blues all in a row. Tracklisting follows. I could live without the last two:

1. Albatross
2. Black Magic Woman
3. Need Your Love So Bad
4. My Heart Beat Like A Hammer
5. Rollin' Man
6. Green Manalishi
7. Man Of The World
8. Something Inside Me
9. Looking For Somebody
10. Oh Well (Parts 1&2)
11. Rattlesnake Shake
12. Merry Go Round
13. I Loved Another Woman
14. Need Your Love Tonight
15. Worried Dream
16. Dragon Fly
17. Stop Messin' Around
18. Shake Your Moneymaker
19. I Would Rather Go Blind
20. Albatross (Chris Coco Remix)

"too much blues all in a row" is the number one reason why I haven't delved into the green years.

1) Dust
2) Dragonfly
3) Purple Dancer
4) Man Of The World
5) Future Games
6) Sands of Time
7) Sentimental Lady
8) Oh Well Part 1
9) Although the Sun Is Shining
10) Trinity
11) Bare Trees
12) Albatross
13) Sometimes
14) Morning Rain
15) Sunny Side of Heaven
16) Woman of 1000 Years
17) Child of Mine
18) Hold Me
19) Danny's Chant
20) Earl Gray

is there a final list?

You guys, I'm slightly mortified by this, but I need to come clean. Billy Dods: when you wrote, "I'm Mystified as to why my #1 isn't even going to make the top 60," I thought to myself, "Hmm, I don't remember "Mystified" getting a number one vote..." I went back to the master spreadsheet and, sure enough, I didn't have the song down as getting a number one. Then, in a panic, I counted the number of songs entered onto the master and realized that it was actually *missing* two ballots. When dlp posted his list a bit later, I knew his was the other one missing, as I didn't have "Rattlesnake Shake" down as having received a top billing on the master either.

In the interest of transparency and honesty, I went back and did it all over again. I just spent about seven hours re-entering every single ballot, going over everything with a fine-toothed comb, and sweating bullets that the rollout I did would turn out to have been completely and utterly inaccurate. Thankfully, it wasn't all that different. The top spots are all the same; those songs whose rankings changed did so generally by one or two placements; and only three songs toward the bottom of the original ranking were pushed out of the top 60.

Rather than do it all over again, I'd like to roll out the three songs that snuck into the top 60 after the revised and corrected round-up. I will do that immediately below, and then I will post the revised top 60, in groups of 20 (mirroring the original rollout), showing the accurate rankings with the rankings given in the initial rollout--which, as I mentioned, are all either the same or extremely close.

I sincerely apologize to Billy and dlp for having omitted your polls originally; it was a careless oversight on my part. And I apologize to all of you guys who so closely followed and contributed to this amazingly fun and great countdown. Tomorrow I will retabulate and re-assess the albums rankings.

Wow, you went the extra mile for sure. It is just an internet poll, but diligence is appreciated. :D

The NEW and CORRECT #60: "Never Make Me Cry" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 73 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIZHU74SCsE

The NEW and CORRECT #59: "Oh Diane" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1982) - 75 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U22-fl_aDug

"too much blues all in a row" is the number one reason why I haven't delved into the green years.

― how's life, Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah the albums can get kind of thick on the jimmy reed impersonations etc. but the "then play on" LP is nicely paced and a good mix of blues and other, weirder stuff.

also i recommend a boot called "london underway" to all. just google it.

Happy to see this one sneak in, too (and this is the third and last of the tracks to appear on this revised rollout that didn't appear on the initial incomplete one; the others are just a matter of slight differences in rankings, as will be revealed)...

The NEW and CORRECT #55: "Rattlesnake Shake" (Peter Green, 1969) - 85 points, 4 votes, 1 number one vote

Live version here for dlp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaTd_oItViI

Great version that I hadn't seen, thanks!

Albatross
Oh well
Over and over
Dreams
What makes you think you're the one
Before the Beginning
Second hand news
Sara
Everywhere
Brown eyes
Say you love me
Hypnotized
Jewel eyed judy
Coming Your Way
Big love
Never going back again
Honey hi
You make lovin fun
Over my head
Rattlesnake Shake

my ballot:

01 tusk
02 gold dust woman
03 rhiannon
04 spare me a little of your love
05 gypsy
06 angel
07 future games
08 silver spring
09 hypnotized
10 you make loving fun
11 sara
12 blue letter
13 searching for madge
14 songbird
15 can't go back
16 (i'm a) road runner
17 what makes you think you're the one
18 morning rain
19 hold me
20 little lies

Looks like "Save Me a Place" is only well loved among us opinioated non-voters. Oops.

Clarke, thanks for redoing these. It's ridiculously easy to slip up with so much data to juggle. Out of interest where did 'Mystified' place.?