Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie - June 9, 2017

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

hell yea

Dave Fizdale is the name Lindsey used to check into hotels in the '80s.

New Lindsey song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpxhQ_C6INQ

god he's such a fucking weirdo. i love it

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/417Uh6gp8IL.jpg

Ooh, not long now to go! New Fleetwood Mac... yay!

promo video for the album, has clips of more of the tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVsqngf9yE

damn they all sound fantastic

surprised this hasn't leaked

Christine sounds like she'd be an acerbic joy after a glass of wine.

The production makes them sound like the younger bands who are inspired by them. The three new songs on Spotify sound like a Captured Tracks band's new EP!

oh: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/530271657/first-listen-lindsey-buckingham-christine-mcvie

damn they all sound fantastic

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, June 1, 2017 5:57 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kinda weird that this thread went dead when the album was actually, you know, released.

yeah :(

I'm listening to it as I type.

I'm not as high on it as Brad but about half of it consists of keepers. McVie sounds magnificent on "Carnival Begin."

This was a bit anticlimactic for me -- my favorite song is still Christine's "Feel About You". I'd agree w/the above that about half of it I'd want to hear again, but that's not exactly my description of a great record.

quality of this feels v even to me, don't know what to tell y'all

shouts out to "sleeping around the corner" for kinda sounding like prefab sprout at first, thereby closing a loop

Keepers: Sleeping Around the Corner, Red Sun, On with the Show, Carnival Begin, Love is Here to Stay, Game of Pretend. Well, I guess that's more than half the album.

i think "too far gone" is maybe the only misstep but that's only bc i haven't decided how i feel conceptually about "'world turning' but less good"

that's one where the production is too spare to do it justice; the track sounds cramped.

I by and large like this, but they sound like hi-fi home demos. Which can be cool! But not always here, imo.

In My World is my favorite, still. Feel About You is a bit cloying?

this is adorable (ragged voices notwithstanding):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rqLQ05AVNo

Gonna have to take some sedatives before I can bear watching that.

buckingham unable to stop making his guitar face even while playing ukulele

Can imagine that's not that far off from Tusk sessions. Where's ?uest?

Feel About You is cute, but in such an old fashioned, sunshine pop kind of way, that I can't help but like it. These days, I am taken off guard when I hear a I vi IV V progression.

Sounds more like a Lindsey record with some songs featuring Christine McVie who, sadly, is not in great shape, delivering mostly weak, clumsy, schmaltzy songs ('Too Far Gone' being the exception) and unimpressive vocals lacking the beautiful tone and strong presence of her earlier work

while the modern efx (including mild autotune) work fine with Lindsey's more aggressive style, the production does not serve her well

'Sleeping Around the Corner' and 'In My World' are really good songs though

oh I love "Carnival Begins"!

that's a song that somewhat succeeds in establishing an interesting sonic environment but ultimately I don't find the narrative captivating

I don't mean to be negative, I'm just slightly disappointed bcz I love Christine McVie

anyone catching them on the tour?

haha, this first track uses a "motown" drum loop that's packaged with logic pro (and probably some others, but i recognize that one bc i've used it before). its also at the beginning of a tame impala song.

It's a good record, it's great to have Fleetwood Mac back.

yeah did you see rage against the machine are also on tour

saw them at the greek theatre in la tonight. buckingham is such a dominating stage presence that it felt more like a buckingham show with mcvie helping out than a buckingham mcvie show. also, her voice was not in a good place. she sounded like she was struggling all night. a little sad. it was still really nice to hear her give "wish you were here" a go. he talks too much and is boring and plays "never going back again" as a frighteningly slow dirge. the backing band (two guitarists who are longtime buckingham/mac regulars and a rhythm section who are not mick and john) came out after four songs and breathed some life onto the stage. "sleeping around the corner" from the new album was great in a way that made me wish they had totally fleetwood mac'd it up in the studio. that was my highlight of the night, along with a fully credible and fun go at "tusk." the set was about half fleetwood mac, half buckingham/mcvie, and two buckingham solo tunes thrown in. they ended quietly, with mcvie on piano singing a good ballad from the new album called "game of pretend," which she introduced by saying "this is not 'songbird,'" which was either a joke or an apology, i couldn't tell. glad i went. not sure what i was expecting. probably pretty much what i got.