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

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Rhiannon
Sara
The Chain
What Makes You Think You're The One
Go Your Own Way
Don't Stop
Walk A Thin Line
Say You Love Me
Caroline
Dreams
Landslide
Tango In The Night
Gypsy
Tusk
You Make Loving Fun
Not That Funny
Hold Me
Storms
Gold Dust Woman

This poll got me going through a bunch of live shows, and there's this interesting period right after Buckingham/Nicks join where the band is half in the past and half in the future. In particular, this King Biscuit thing where they open with Station Man and close with Hypnotized, but then Rhiannon is in the middle, etc. It's on Wolfgang's Vault. A very odd listen...

So Kiln House was one of the records I had not heard before this poll and did not have a chance to listen to before voting but man "Jewel Eyed Judy" is really something. Wish I voted for it/surprised pretty much no one else did.

Did anyone do a Spotify playlist yet?

As I discovered when preparing my ballot most of the Welch and Kirwan albums are missing from Spotify.

This was really really great Clarke; thanks so much.

Sara
Dreams
Silver Springs
Hold Me
Say You Love Me
You Make Loving Fun
Oh Well
Landslide
Walk a Thin Line
Future Games
Brown Eyes
I'm So Afraid
Woman of 1000 Years
That's All for Everyone
Never Make Me Cry
Gold Dust Woman
Albatross
Go Your Own Way
The Chain
The Ledge

Clarke, so pro of you to do this revision. It's a blessing in disguise, AFAIC, because it just prolongs the life of this thread. Thanks again for your work.

Sincerely my pleasure, and thank you! If you ever stumble across this record, pick it up--Jeremy Spencer's solo record after he disappeared during the Kiln House tour:

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

> So Kiln House was one of the records I had not heard before this poll and did not have a chance to listen to before voting but man "Jewel Eyed Judy" is really something. Wish I voted for it/surprised pretty much no one else did.

"Jewel Eyed Judy" was the Kiln House track I most strongly considered. I like the verses much better than the chorus which to my ears doesn't fit the song well which is why it didn't make my ballot.

> This poll got me going through a bunch of live shows, and there's this interesting period right after Buckingham/Nicks join where the band is half in the past and half in the future. In particular, this King Biscuit thing where they open with Station Man and close with Hypnotized, but then Rhiannon is in the middle, etc. It's on Wolfgang's Vault. A very odd listen...

Not to mention live shows like this, which combine ppl who were never in the band at the same time, like this show with Welch, Nicks, and Fleetwood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX_N2WxFDC0

Same song a few years later still with Stevie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSlx4CAAMCw

I'd never seen those! Good stuff. BTW is that Stevie's shortest skirt ever? (in the second clip)

I'm can't listen to half of the top ten with fresh ears. So much overplay and baggage with some of these songs.

Asking me if "Don't Stop" is a good song is like asking me if I like the taste of water. At this point it's like "I don't know. It just is what it is."

I think the lesson of this poll is, if you have a good rhythm section, name your band after it and see what happens.

The Farndon Chambers might have had a better fate.

the roland moogs is a p good name

Condorito are you actually Chilean?

My nickname in school growing up in Santiago was Huevoduro (or simply "Huevo", especially when playing futbol).

ha no, just a connoisseur of comics

PLOP!

nice recondite reference!

water kicks ass tho

I think the lesson of this poll is, if you have a good rhythm section, name your band after it and see what happens.

The story goes that Green named the band Fleetwood Mac because he always planned to leave the band and pass it on to Mick and John.

i think it was a joke: "peter green's fleetwood mac featuring jeremy spencer"--you've got every member of the in the name right there.

of the band

What a difference some Bucky studio finesse makes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh4CKzmsnVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxdJLw9C830&feature=related

Another one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uWar8ggX_Q&feature=related

And here's Bucky, before the focus of the band is brought to bear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avoOcZZWigo&feature=relmfu

sounds fine to me, though maybe i'm hearing the full arrangement in my head.

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Buckingham Nicks first public performance of "Rhiannon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4EGaNrAp4

Much better lyrics on the released version!

I'd love to find that Feb. '75 newspaper article "Buckingham Nicks reveal future plans"

http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/articles/archive/BNart001.html

Ha, they totally reversed the picture for that article; his Tele is backwards.

I am now going to admit that I read through most of this thread wondering who 'Buck' was.

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1162

1977 Nashville show online....

shit, i should have dl'd before posting it here....just slowed down ALOT (you're welcome btw!)

thx Mr. Snrub

Buckingham Nicks all feel they have been overlooked by their recording label, Polydor. "Hopefully we can get our name known, instead of being buried within the name Fleetwood Mac. People will hear the difference in the music and take notice," hopes Lindsey. "It would take us years to build up the reputation they have. And Warner Brothers is really into Fleetwood Mac. They're not a monster or a giant act, but they consistently sell more albums than they did the last time.

Anyone notice any difference in the music after Buckingham and Nicks joined? :-) Even if they're "not a monster or a giant act" - guess they weren't expecting Rumours alone would sell over 40 million....

In the liner notes to the s/t album, it's mentioned that Warners felt the album would do 300,000 sales, which was 50 thou more than any previous Mac lp.

What other mysterious folky rock should i check if i love "Woman on 1000 Years", "Future Games" and "Sands of Time"?

"Sands of Time" feels very Fairport to me.

Haha I always knew my consistent failure to properly investigate Fairport Convention ultimately would prove my undoing.

Yeah totes! Sands of Time, Woman, Morning Rain all feel like they have serious debts to Unhalfbricking

ian matthews/plainsong also on a similar vibe

I third the Fairport Convention recommendation... Although FC feels more arch and less fluid.

I fourth it. Particularly the first three albums (s/t, Holidays, and Unhalfbricking) and the Heyday comp collected from that era which IMO may be better than any of their "real" albums. A sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzsreQdc2GE

Also, the first two Jefferson Airplane albums (Takes Off and Surealistic Pillow - note: the two Grace Slick-sung hits from the latter are not representative of their early sound). Try "Come Up The Years", "Comin' Back To Me", "Today", "Blues From an Airplane".

For fun, a BREAKDOWN BY SONGWRITER of the Top 60:

Christine McVie: 18 songs
Lindsey Buckingham: 16 songs
Stevie Nicks: 13 songs
Peter Green: 6 songs
Bob Welch: 4 songs
Danny Kirwan: 3 songs
(other): 2 songs

This was one of my picks that had absolutely no shot, but I love this faithful cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuVPhIj6Wg

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1641869-1245575981.jpeg

Christine was dating Dennis Wilson when that was recorded btw. He often wore Fleetwood Mac t-shirts at concerts around that time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/trackaghost/DennisChristineboat.jpg

I think Christine was to provide backing vocals on Dennis's unfinished 2nd solo album, not sure if any of them made it on the eventually-released material.

There is at least one tune out there with the songwriting credit Lindsey Buckingham/Brian Wilson

she sings background on "Love Surrounds Me"

“Well we’d split up before all that but yes, obviously, I’ve had to ask myself the same question. Why do people stay with people? ‘Cos they love them, I guess. And I loved him for a while. he was very charismatic, great looking, very charming, very cute -- if you can call a guy with a beard and voice like Satan’cute’. He used to draw people into his life, strangers off planes and off the streets, and they’d become his best friends. I think I mothered him, to be honest. He used to go off and I wouldn’t see him for days, and days, and then he’d come back and I’d mother him and get him all nice and sober and then he’d go off and go crazy again. It’s one of those things. Opposites attract.”

> He used to draw people into his life, strangers off planes and off the streets, and they’d become his best friends.

i won't name names or anything....