Gypsy > Sara > Dreams > Rihannon
― NoTimeBeforeTime
I'll go with this.
― Hazy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Gypsy: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" seems a curious opening line for a Fleetwood Mac song - they're not a very reference-y kind of band
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
listening to this in chronological order right now at work
― carne asada, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
The Velvet Underground was a head shop, I think.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
she's referencing a store, IIRC
xpost
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
she means the novel
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought she was referencing a goth club in Toronto.
― Sundar, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
She's talking about her privates.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
"Rhiannon" all the way (because "Landslide" isn't an option). "Sara" actually seems like the slightest of these. I think I prefer "Storms".
― Sundar, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
"Dreams" is a close #2, obv.
― Sundar, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, def "Storms" > "Sara"
― Sundar, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
This article has this quote about the velvet underground lyric:
"In basic ways, I haven't changed," she says. "In material ways, of course, I've changed a lot. Because I'm not starving now and I don't have to worry where my rent's coming from and that makes it a lot easier on my blood pressure. I still love all the same things. Every place I live still looks pretty much like my apartment in San Francisco."The clothes I wear...that doesn't change. I love long dresses. I love velvet. I love high boots. I never change. I love the same eye make-up. I'm not a fad person. I still have everything I had then. That's one part of me...That's where my songs come from. There's a song on the new FM album that says, "Going back to the velvet underground/Back to the floor that I love," because I always put my bed on the floor." She quotes from the song again. "To a room with some lace and paper flowers/Back to the gypsy that I was.' And that's San Francisco. That's the velvet underground. Those are the things that I can't give up."
"The clothes I wear...that doesn't change. I love long dresses. I love velvet. I love high boots. I never change. I love the same eye make-up. I'm not a fad person. I still have everything I had then. That's one part of me...That's where my songs come from. There's a song on the new FM album that says, "Going back to the velvet underground/Back to the floor that I love," because I always put my bed on the floor." She quotes from the song again. "To a room with some lace and paper flowers/Back to the gypsy that I was.' And that's San Francisco. That's the velvet underground. Those are the things that I can't give up."
― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
well there ya go
― mark cl, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
For the sake of completeness:
"Beautiful Child" > "Sara" > "Gypsy" > "Dreams" > "Crystal" > "Landslide" > "Storm" > "Silver Spring" > "Rhiannon" > "Gold Dust Woman" > "That's Alright" > "I Don't Want To Know" > "Sisters of the Moon" > "Angel" > "Straight Back"
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I cant believe people are putting Rhiannon at the bottom of their list for this poll. Maybe I like it best because it's the most rocking of the choices?Rhiannon > Gypsy > Dreams & Sara
― Mulvaney, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I think you mean <
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
different kicks for different tricks I guess
― Mulvaney, Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
No "Welcome to the Room...Sara" at the bottom...?
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
no reason to drag Swans into this
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha, Amen to that!
― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
That list is just the four albums from the same period as the songs in this poll. "Welcome To The Room... Sara" would go in at the bottom, "Seven Wonders" probably after "Rhiannon", and I don't know about the other one.
― Tim F, Thursday, 30 April 2009 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
The world waits for the results of this poll.
― I was still more rock and roll than anyone needed for the album (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 08:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Also Dreams is fantabulous, folks but if you don't vote Sara, there's something terribly wrong, here.
― I was still more rock and roll than anyone needed for the album (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
why can't you see the old time MTV Gypsy video on You Tube? do you have to pay upwards of $99 for a DVD to see that damn thing again?
― I was still more rock and roll than anyone needed for the album (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 08:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Buckingham picks like a good ol' UK-er on the end of Gypsy doncha know! Got the Brits right where he wants 'em, I reckon!
― I was still more rock and roll than anyone needed for the album (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"thunder only happens when it's raining""lightning strikes, maybe once maybe twice"
― I was still more rock and roll than anyone needed for the album (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
'Sara' is probably my least favourite of the four, actually. But it was my introduction into the real Fleetwood Mac via this piece on Tusk from Melody Maker's 'Unknown Pleasures' book, so I'll be eternally grateful to it.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 9 May 2009 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahah her hair is to die for at the top of that link! Imagine how much money your average awful 80's hair metal band would pay to have just had her hairdresser! LOLOLOLOLOL
First person to mention Bon Jovi gets a great big fart in their face.
― I was still more rock and roll than anyone needed for the album (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link
iatee, you were right, Landslide was your only mistake of omission, here. Don't worry, we can do the poll again.
― I was still more rock and roll than anyone needed for the album (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 09:59 (fifteen years ago) link
this poll is a fucking joke; Sara.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Saturday, 9 May 2009 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, see, if you don't have the second bonus Tusk CD of alternate versions including SARA, then you just don't have the hipness. Forget it. You will never be cool again. Sorry.
― I was still more rock and roll than anyone needed for the album (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 10:06 (fifteen years ago) link
6 minute Sara>>10 minute Sara imo
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Saturday, 9 May 2009 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I changed my mind: Sara > Dreams
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Saturday, 9 May 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay but people, what other band mentions the fucking VELVET UNDERGROUND SO FURTIVELY?
Gypsy is going to make everyone gay. All of a sudden, everyone will turn gay, because of that song.
But that isn't going to help you when the mafia for "Dreams" comes knocking on your door. Nope.
Better be safe and go with Sara.
― More Goth Than Your Grandmother (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, Rhiannon can pretty much suck it. I've decided Gypsy is better than Rhiannon, sorry.
"I Don't Wanna Be A Cleaning Lady"
― More Goth Than Your Grandmother (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
O T M
yes landslide is the only song that the logic of this poll calls for that is absent. and the answer is, when it's all said and done, dreams. as much as we love sara, we must conclude that dreams is the better song - for its dynamics, the thunder crash of the chorus, the unity of lyrical theme and music, and of course a hook for the ages.
― uptown churl, Saturday, 9 May 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha! BLASPHEMER!
― More Goth Than Your Grandmother (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 9 May 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Going for dreams because of the harmonies in the chorus. But neither of these are among my favourite Fleetwood songs.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 10 May 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 10 May 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
wow! Justice is done...but look how close!
― More Goth Than Your Grandmother (Bimble), Sunday, 10 May 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
not close enough. ILM, this time your Tusk stanning has gone too far.
― jesus is the man (jabba hands), Monday, 11 May 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ohno! rhiaaaaaaaaannnnnnnon
― cnn and the holograms (daria-g), Monday, 11 May 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Seriously Tusk is beyond stanning. If anything its better than its ILM rep.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Monday, 11 May 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I have Gypsy on my new iPod. It is almost enough to feel complete as a human being. Almost.
― More Goth Than Your Grandmother (Bimble), Monday, 18 May 2009 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
This is one of the best threads on the entirety of this board, just saying. I'll be quiet now, but this one is a doozy.
― More Goth Than Your Grandmother (Bimble), Monday, 18 May 2009 05:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay last post for tonight, but Fleetwood Mac are the best band in the universe. I don't care if it's Lindsay or Christine or Stevie singing. It doesn't fucking matter. It just doesn't fucking matter at all. I've made a special exception for New Order just to do this post, because everyone knows New Order are Bimble's fave band. I made a special exception. I even overrid the Beatles. THANKING U.
I want lots of friends who love Fleetwood Mac. If you don't like them, well...
― More Goth Than Your Grandmother (Bimble), Monday, 18 May 2009 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Had I seen this poll I would've voted Rhiannon, just because I've been playing it quite a bit recently.
― DavidM, Monday, 18 May 2009 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link