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
^^^ this is good
― iatee, Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
OH yeah, damnit. Oh yeah. She can kick the shit out of any rock and roller that happens to get into a 400 mile radius. Just sayin'.
― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I've just had a complete and total Fleetwood Mac moment. Thanks iatee. Can't believe some of the original "Gypsy" video is in that. It's almost too much.
― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
And then you can play the studio version of Gyspy and almost triumph over the whole of life. You can almost transcend death. You know I went to a graveyard this morning in the sunshine and it was so beautiful it's like pins & needles in my heart.
But yeah, Fleetwood Mac.
― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Madness.
― Sundar, Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Inconceivable alternate reality, from that article linked above:
"Well, "Tusk" wasn't MY album. "Tusk" was mainly Lindsey's conception, dream, everything he ever wanted to do. Everybody just figured that for whatever his reasons were, it was important that he do that and we just sort of sat back and let him do it. I don't mean to sound blase or anything. I was there. I just didn't have very much to do with it. Because if I had had much to do with it, it wouldn't have been a double album and it wouldn't....it wouldn't have been crazy."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I pledge allegiance to the Buckingham guitar solo at the end of Gypsy, I promise. He can get an honorary Brit award or something, for that. Right?
― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Dreams > Gypsy > Rhiannon > Sara
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:45 AM (1 year ago)
starting to think Gypsy=Dreams>Rhiannon>>>>>>Sara
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 March 2011 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I just listened to gypsy! like 3 seconds ago!
― iatee, Friday, 11 March 2011 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
what the hell is wrong with sara!!
― max, Friday, 11 March 2011 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckin nothing is wrong with sara
― I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs (stevie), Friday, 11 March 2011 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Monday, 11 May 2009 03:09 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― just sayin, Friday, 11 March 2011 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4EGaNrAp4
― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ first public performance of "rhiannon"
<3 you forever for this!
― Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
It's amazing that on the demo she already found the right vocal melody for "Gypsy." It's almost identical to the released one.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
omg @ rhiannon right there
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
dreams and rhiannon both all time faves of highest order, while sara and gypsy both bore me to no end. think Fleetwood Mac only band to really hit these extremes for me
― Dominique, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
never saw this thread but i would've voted for "Gypsy." never really occurred to me but i'm not that big on Stevie Mac -- generally prefer both the FM hits by other singers and her solo stuff
― hoovers like jagger (some dude), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think i voted, but dreams
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
i would have voted for "gypsy." it's something in her delivery.
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
you know:
"so i'm backto the velvet
uuuunderground"
little lifts of smoke
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh hell, "rhiannon" for all time. wish i'd voted.
and thanks for that live version, aero! too fast & tough, but still so great.
― Looking for that #Swagu? (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
i voted for sara and id do it again in a heartbeat
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
id do it a thousand times over
never change
― caek, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Tuesday, July 5, 2011 5:01 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
People slag the bridge in that tune, but for me what makes the song is the way that Stevie ends on a lower note for each line of the first half while Lindsey's arpeggios imply the rest of the band is climbing for something; then in the second half, she ends on the same note three times before reaching for that last high one. It's spine-chilling.
― Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
now i am reading hilariously written interpretations of the lyrics to "sara" online
Though the years were hard, her years with Lindsey, at least at the start, were basked in a joyful love, one that shined and gave off this promised light of happiness. Behind this light, though, was another source, this one more emotional and intense, such as the flames of a fire.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKIC_Kza4Ek
^^ this version of gypsy almost makes me want to vote for it. but, no, its sara! sorry guys!
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
i was watching Stevie duet w/ one of the competitors on The Voice last week and she flutters her fingers while performing even more than any impression of her could ever hope to convey
― hoovers like jagger (some dude), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
dreams vs. sara was tough for me
― Last Friday Night (G.T.F.O.) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
okay maybe "sara" is correct. i have been listening to "storms" a lot lately, too; the quality of stevie's voice on it is so ;_;
― horseshoe, Thursday, 7 July 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
I believe the Rhiannon youtube revive proves that song #1
― Muttley vs. Mumbly (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link