http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/happy-birthday-stevie-nicks.34595/
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
If most adult-contempo was as nuanced and melodically graceful as "Everywhere," I'd submit immediately.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:38 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
F'real
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Christine turned 69 two weeks ago.
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know much else that sounds so utterly flawless and integrated and satisfying in the way that these tracks do.
the apex of sleek eighties pop
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
BAWM BAWM BAWM BAWM BUH BUH BAWM
#18: "Second Hand News" (Lindsey Buckingham, 1977) - 338 points, 16 votes, 1 number one vote
http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/biographies/lindsey1.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/p6Fdm3-dnr0
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, that is young Buck
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:06 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Speaking of... Last night, I had a dream in which I was at a very small coffeeshop, and sitting on stage playing solo (yet with full-band sound) was Sir Phil Collins. He played a few of his hits, but I remember him playing a particular song that I thought was undeniably his best one (and I thought of it in explicitly that ILM-poll sense of "oh yeah, this is the one I'm voting for"). The thing was, it wasn't an actual Phil Collins song. My sleeping brain was somehow composing my Platonic ideal of a Phil Collins song and he was right there performing it for me and maybe 25 other people.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Two songs in a row here I want to say TOO LOW to.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
i hear everywhere at so many parties
― just sayin, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:51 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
has that balearic sheen, great set-ending qualities. was my number 3 and astonished it's not top 10.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
As a kid -- by which I mean an 8- or 9-year-old -- I thought "lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff" was both exciting (because it was obviously about SEX) and gross (because ditto).
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
That's one of my favorite lyrics ever.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
I honestly thought "Everywhere" was going to place higher, too...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
#17: "Over and Over" (Christine McVie, 1979) - 342 points, 15 votes, 1 number one vote
http://blog.schoolofrock.com/Portals/19575/images/Christine-McVie-cwhitebw.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/X5YHRcG-GJg
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Here's the point where Tusk worshipers are going to begin annoying me.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
There's my number one. Happy at least that it didn't end up in the lower 2/3s of the poll. The first Fleetwood Mac thing I ever really listened to was Camper Van Beethoven's recording of Tusk. I came back to this song more than all the others and it really spurred me to seek out the original album. So much sweetness in this song. That single repeated guitar note at the end that hits at the same time as the snare. Those surprising fills that Mick whips out at the end.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
It's a mighty song. The acoustic guitar sounds so damn thick on this.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
This song pulls off one of my favorite sounds effortlessly: sun-dappled melancholy.
― Killer of Shrimp (Spectrist), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
hear everywhere at so many parties― just sayin
― just sayin
Is this a Britishes thing, or a hipster thing, or...? Seriously asking, cuz nobody I know spins 80s pop at parties,or knows the meaning of the word balearic.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
that's a shame. over and over is lovely, the way it builds toward the end and goes up a notch is what really makes it for me.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
'Everywhere' was a staple of every club night/house party I went to as an undergrad (2008-2011) in London.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
The way the last lines don't go back into the chorus and just sort of disintegrate into the outro.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
The first Fleetwood Mac thing I ever really listened to was Camper Van Beethoven's recording of Tusk
Wow. Well, at least it sent you back to the source!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
I rolled with the CVB album for about a year before I got ahold of the original Tusk though. I was a huge CVB fan anyway, and although it was sort of slapdash, it's not the worst thing they've done.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
What hubris to start an album with a ballad.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
#16: "Hypnotized" (Bob Welch, 1973) - 344 points, 14 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bYaTwpX-8ZM/T9I7P-Y8ktI/AAAAAAAABnM/h_ziyHKe6vk/s640/bob-welch-fleetwood.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/r3SqYMgKhsk
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
What hubris to start an album with a ballad.― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:47 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:47 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
People always say this about this song, but really? I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head, but it ballads are something FM had been doing really well for a while.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
'Everywhere' was the last track played at a beach festival I went to recently. It's totally a Balearic staple.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:47 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've thought this before myself... I love it, though, love the pacing and almost impossibly gracefulness of it.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head
Of earlier albums that start with a ballad. "Box of Rain" is sort of close, a mid-tempo song about mortality.
― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
Hypnotized is so good. But Clarke's Phil Collins dream is better. I wish there was a way to capture dreamsongs.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
So do I... I've had quite a few of them semi-recently, actually. Even if you kept a microphone and recorded beside your bed or something, you couldn't really capture the way the song felt, the fullness of it. Oh well.
But yeah, "Hypnotized" is my version of your "Green Manalishi" phenomenon, Ismael--that one song that does something no other Fleetwood Mac song (or song from anyone, for that matter) quite does. It's such a specific, eerie, amazing mood that it captures.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
I had it on in the car earlier and was reflecting on how they've always done dreaminess so well, even though there's often no writers and barely any personnel in common - Albatross, Dragonfly, Hypnotised, Sara...
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
re: everywherei've seen everywhere played from generic clubs, parties where music's been played by people with very middle-ground music tastes, hipster parties and even by the dj at my local pub, so i think in the uk it's kind of been accepted by pretty much all 'indie' possible scenes, in my experience anyway.
― nathey, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
#15: "Gold Dust Woman" (Stevie Nicks, 1977) - 346 points, 16 votes
http://blog.needsupply.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/stevie-nicks-1981.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/VGO9jNHH5Lw
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
There's my no.2 - Green Manalishi, this and I'm So Afraid were my all-paranoia top three.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
This probably won't make the list, so for anyone who has yet to delve into some of those "lesser" Mac albums, here's Bob recreating that eerie "Hypnotized" vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNycYnn3oAE
Totally cool with "Everywhere" at parties, btw, just more accustomed to old soul music for the most part.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Everywhere was on in a shop I was in earlier too - it seems to have become ubiquitous lately, I keep hearing it in different places.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
One of the all-time-best album closers
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
omg after years of only knowing the truncated 'sara' i've just heard the proper long version, REVELATORY, as if it wasn't already perhaps my fave f mac song.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
I hear "Everywhere" frequently in the US too
― Lee626, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAJluWEBGzk
great re-edit of everywhere for parties.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
I started a DJ set with "Hypnotized" a few months back. I love how it goes a full eight measures with just Mick's machine-like 6/8 beat.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
"gold dust woman" is the first one I can say with certainty would have been higher if I'd got a ballot in.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Heretical, but I've never been much of a fan of "Gold Dust Woman"... To echo Peter Griffin of Family Guy's epic criticism of The Godfather, "it *insists* upon itself."
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
I even like Hole's version
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
What a spooky song, and a great album closer.
http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/archive/spin.htm
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Everywhere and Over and Over are way too low! My #1 and #2 respectively. In what kind of misbegotten universe does the featherweight Second Hand News beat those two?
I love how Everywhere has become a DJ staple now. When Hot Chip covered it at Lovebox recently most people in the too-young-for-the-80s crowd seemed to know the words.
― Get wolves (DL), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
omg after years of only knowing the truncated 'sara' i've just heard the proper long version, REVELATORY, as if it wasn't already perhaps my fave f mac songWow. I'd say 'now go check out the even longer demo version on the 2CD Tusk reissue', but your brain might blow a fuse ;-)
― Jeff W, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
#14: "Silver Springs" (Stevie Nicks, 1977) - 354 points, 15 votes
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/278589357_6f35d1acd4.jpg
Track link: http://youtu.be/pOcE5ARKT2E
― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
TOO LOW
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link