"Stand Back" vs every other Fleetwood Mac-associated song

Probably the best F Mac-associated video, isn't it?

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In the spirit of fair competition and all.

It's the video for "Love Will Show Us How." If I'm not mistaken, Paul Bartel played the video "director."

prince played keyboards on this. who knew.

everybody iirc

Not sure if any of those synths remain.

On second thought "Stand Back" > "Leather and Lace"

"Stand Back" is the best karaoke song of all. This is a fact.

you know, this is a great song, but what the fuck is she singing about? it's probably second only to "the reflex" in terms of coked-up nonsense lyrics.

no one knows how she feels, what she says unless you snort some lines.

How do you all about Edge of 17? I feel p great about it myself.

i feel glad i'm no longer on the edge of it.

Just like a white-winged dove

Still think "I Can't Wait" is underrated: this booming mid eighties production that squeezes every sonic trick and synthesizer known to man in '85, with Stevie's coke-voice at its most batshit.

I've loved "Stand Back" for as long as I have memories (I was born in '80). My mom used to take me record shopping every few weeks when I was really small, and she'd buy me a couple of 45s each time, which I'd play on my Fisher Price joint--or, once in a while, mom's big giant speakers and "grown-up" turntable (when she'd let me). I got "Stand Back" back then, and I still have it; it's probably one of my most played 45s ever. I love Bella Donna and The Wild Heart in nearly their entireties, too.

Okay so I was always familiar with this version of the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwdDVZsz2es

But thanks to this actually interesting listicle I find out:

"Stand Back" was the first and last time Stevie Nicks wrote a video. She picked a Civil War scenario, using Gone With the Wind as her inspiration, but the house that was rented as a set (located in Beverly Hills, not rural Georgia) caught on fire, and Nicks was filmed riding a horse, which promptly galloped into a grove of trees with the singer on board. "I almost got killed," Nicks says. The video "was so bad, it was almost good." Still, she decided to shelve it and pay for a completely new video. Her manager, Nicks recalls, called her "an idiot."

That original version, with commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC5YWPTCNEQ

"'Take me home'...what the heck does that mean?"

Whys it this all makes perfect sense to me.
FafiLPDoll 3 months ago

It would have been fun to ride that horse naked with her sitting on my lap facing me.
alwaysopen 3 months ago

still want to know.