Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie - June 9, 2017

The album sleeve looks really naff, definitely. It looks like it was knocked up in a couple of hours by a record label art department in 1988.

does it matter whether two musicians whose collecive age is over 140 years approved a naff sleeve?

Maybe if they expect anyone under the age of 70 to pick it up and give it a listen?

those listeners will likely stream it

Or would, if they hadn't wussed out from calling it a Fleetwood Mac record. They must be seriously expectng to make a lot of money on this forthcoming "final" tour.

why didn't they call it a fleetwood mac record

why

Well, it's clear to me that the rest of the band wanted to make a record but Stevie didn't. Stevie is going to be joining the band for a potentially lucrative tour and obviously they don't want to fuck that up, so in order to prevent hurt feelings and to ensure said lucrative tour goes ahead as planned they wussed out from calling this a Fleetwood Mac record/were forced to put this out as something other than a Fleetwood Mac record, thus denying the record the audience it could have had if it were actually being released as what it is.

Personally, I would have released this as a Fleetwood Mac record and stuck a sheep adorned with a Madonna mic onstage.

Nicks has also said it costs too much fucking money to record an album in 2017, which is a strange remark considering they got several home studios and produce themselves.

Absolutely! Also she said something along the lines of "people don't buy albums anymore", but the demographic that Fleetwood Mac would mostly appeal to in 2017 would actually buy the physical product. I can just picture those at the Steve Hoffman Retirement Home for Lovers of Talking About Pet Sounds arguing over which is the best pressing.

Besides, she would only have needed to contribute three songs, or be in the studio for a fortnight like she was on Tango in the Night. The press about it being the first album from the five-piece Mac line-up for 30 years would have phenomenal and led to far more exposure than this record's gonna get. A wasted opportunity.

Lindsey saying this could be their last album definitely intensifies the wasted opportunity

does it matter whether two musicians whose collecive age is over 140 years approved a naff sleeve?

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, April 15, 2017 2:59 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe if they expect anyone under the age of 70 to pick it up and give it a listen?

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, April 15, 2017 3:20 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

josh otm, i haven't bothered checking out any of LB's recent solo albums just because of the awful covers. a stupid reason, for sure, but not uncommon.

They're great! The covers, too. OK, maybe not Seeds We Sow, which is very much akin to this one:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Seedswesow.jpg/440px-Seedswesow.jpg

But I like this one, especially that it is out of focus:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b2/Lindseybuckingham_giftofscrews.jpg/440px-Lindseybuckingham_giftofscrews.jpg

josh otm, i haven't bothered checking out any of LB's recent solo albums just because of the awful covers. a stupid reason, for sure, but not uncommon.

― flappy bird, Saturday, April 15, 2017 2:32 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the hell? check them out ffs

i know...

yeah they are both really great

anyway, is Mac touring this year outside of this stupid East/West coast mega show with the goddamned Eagles?

This isn't nearly as shit as I was expecting when I pressed play on that video. Also, nice nod to the classic 87 AH! "Big Love" samples in the track.

haha it's so sad this isn't a FM release when will that band ever get a commercial breakthrough :O

song is good

Looking forward to this but my god that is cover is crap.

The album cover I mean.

It's a really good song with all the tasty rhythm section work we've come to expect from Fleetwood Mac, the bass and drums in this case having that lovely 'Dreams' groove.

I just love that this song scans as "classic" Mac (late '70s imperial phase production/rhythm work) but is also just this weird-ass Lindsey thing

Everyone's talking about Lindsey, but this is also Christine's first significant studio recording in a very long time. Looking forward to it.

I just love that this song scans as "classic" Mac (late '70s imperial phase production/rhythm work) but is also just this weird-ass Lindsey thing

― bunny slopes, Sunday, April 16, 2017 1:39 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Everyone's talking about Lindsey, but this is also Christine's first significant studio recording in a very long time. Looking forward to it.

― Lee626, Sunday, April 16, 2017 5:55 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. It's also the first Fleetwood Mac album for over a decade, which is all the more reason to get excited.

love love love the single. puzzled/alarmed by the tour announcement, which currently has the buckingham mcvie tour skipping la (and ny), maybe because la (and ny) have the classic west east thingy at baseball stadiums with the eagles, but that's going to make me jealous of the rest of the country which gets to see them in not-a-baseball-stadium. please fix this, lindsey and christine, once you are done fixing the album cover kthxbye.

yeah, wish they were coming to the bay area.

also, there WAS a Mac EP (download only) a few years back. It was good. It was completely overlooked.

yeah weird that this is never mentioned (although I cannot remember anything about it myself)

"Sad Angel" is a fine song that I listen to often.

yeah it was a good ep.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/hear-buckingham-mcvies-bubbly-new-song-feel-about-you-w478996 this one is really nice, love the backing vocals

that's great

aw that's a good one, a bit of Mirage feel

yeah, Mirage via McCartney, maybe. It's good! Starting to feel like this album's gonna be great

nice "Magnet and Steel" reference too

goddamn, another great song. this album is gonna rule i can't believe it

Yeah, this Fleetwood Mac album is going to rule.

eh the first song was at best OK – a bit enervated.

after a month of listening to Lindsey's first solo album nonstop, it was revelatory. you can put 'in my world' and 'trouble' on a 45 and it would make sense

they're both good songs alfred

but i can def believe this album is gonna rule, it's not like any recent lindsey solo record sucks

they're both good songs alfred

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson),

I haven't heard the second. I didn't hear much Christine on the first.

...then you might really dig this new one!

GODDAMN THIS NEW ONE IS FIRE EMOJI!!

no fuckin kidding wow. what amazing songwriting

It's not the right therad, but can I mention how much I love this unknown album closer. It's a stunner. I love her solo after the first chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43ZTRVZjfc

yelling dave fizdale sounds like fucking bernie sanders

lmao wrong thread

respectfully disagree, that post in this thread was the right post at the right time

i think i enjoyed this more than any mac show i've seen tbh

Have you seen Bucky solo? Because it was pretty much like every solo Bucky show I'd seen, plus special guest Christine doing her songs.