Fleetwood Mac: Classic or Dud

hm! it's kind of a weird mid-period mac album, no? (post-peter green, pre-buckingham/nicks)

if it leans poppier, like sentimental lady, i'm gonna investigate.

Bare Trees is the best!! Bob Welch era is my fav...Future Games rules too

his hair the worst though

His solo album covers are worse than the worst

ummm guys CHRISTINE FUCKING MCVIE IS BACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fleetwood Mac between Peter Green and Buckingham/Nicks

yeah that might be the period of mac that i relate to the most. mystery to me, bare trees and future games are all fantastic

kiln house is good too

i need to hear mystery to me

they just did a box set with all this era stuff on vinyl

http://www.amazon.com/Fleetwood-Mac-1969-1972-4xLP-7-22/dp/B00DB624CC

One of the things I love most about Fleetwood Mac is all these previous iterations of the group, each different from the last though many showcasing some of the same qualities that would stick around for decades. And best of all, bar a song or two, at most, pre-Buckingham/Nicks Mac is never in any danger of over-exposure, which leaves it packed with surprises to discover and explore.

i don't have data to back this up, but fleetwood mac must be the second most ubiquitous band next to the beatles these days. i hear them everywhere i go. more ubiquitous than pizza.

don't make me choose between FM and pizza

Rock on Gold Crust Woman...

sell me pies, sell me sweet little pies...

Save Me A Slice

Dough Your Own Way

stop this at once.

The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Fork)

i don't have data to back this up, but fleetwood mac must be the second most ubiquitous band next to the beatles these days. i hear them everywhere i go. more ubiquitous than pizza.

And it's all from three or four records, right? And even then mostly S/T and "Rumours."

Anyway, depends what station you listen to, I guess. Fleetwood Mac is a deep well from which to draw, but stuff from the first Boston and Cars records, in terms of sheer density, I hear even more than the Mac. I actually don't hear that much Beatles on the radio these days. I hear the Aerosmith cover of "Come Together" as much as the real thing. Hey, look, three bands from Boston, dominating classic rock radio.

Formally reunited with Christine. Tour dates announced for this fall 33 cities. They're calling it the "On With The Show" tour.
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goota say, this is one of the first time LB seems to start showing his age

oh sheeeit

So I guess John McVie came through the cancer okay then?

omg they're playing in Sac

psyched! man i might shell out for this

mick lookin fly as hell

John looks sad. Glad he's well enough to tour though.

John always looks sad. Ever seen the Fleetwood Mac episode of Rock Family Trees? He's like a glum sealion wearing UGGs.

Working on a new album:

"This has kind of been a project in slow motion, that's the only way I can put it," Buckingham tells Billboard. "We got in the studio not knowing what to expect, and the chemistry was just unbelievable... We got eight tracks very far along, like, 75 percent done. It just played out really organically in a way that seemed appropriate." Buckingham says the new songs came from ideas McVie brought into the band, and coupled with material he worked on previously with Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, the group has "about 14 or 15 things, and some other things we want to get to down the line" even before Nicks begins making contributions.

"We're all very excited about it. Knowing me, I'm going to be pushing for a double album," Buckingham says with a laugh.

Describing the new songs -- which include "Carnival Begin," "Red Sun" and "Too Far Gone" -- McVie says, "There's a wide variety, starting from sort of blues-based songs to very commercial songs. It's very, very exciting. We get chills when we hear them. They sound really fresh. There's an element, I guess, that hasn't really existed so much in the past although it has been there in the fact Lindsey and I have been collaborating more. We've been working very closely together, so there is a freshness and obviously there are parts for Stevie to sing on all of these songs, which she will do eventually."

I do hope someone (Stevie?) steps in and challenges Lindsey's desire for a double lp. Say You Will is too long (and Tusk is too, tbh).

SYW felt long because it lacked McVie's connective tissue, but there are few duds; it's got some of Buck and Nicks' very best material.

i can't think of any songs on tusk i would cut

i mean being big and sprawling and overblown is kind of the whole thing of tusk

at the risk of losing my FM fan card, I agree Tusk is too long. Fleetwood Mac tend to succumb to the White Album syndrome really hard, with each member just doing their own thing and using the others as a back-up band.

I'd cut:

Buckingham: That's Enough For Me
McVie: Honey Hi
Nicks: Angel

But the band itself was at the peak of its powers, so it's hard to fault them as songs. Plus, Haim's "Honey and I" has warmed me to "Honey Hi."

Wouldn't cut a sneeze from "Tusk." Alfred OTM re: Say You Will, it just feels long - well, I mean, it is long - without McVie, but the material is pretty great.

FM should just release two albums, several months apart.

McVie: Honey Hi

blasphemy

"Honey Hi" is beyond essential.

i understand the feeling behind "this album is too long" but yeah, damn, i can't think of a single song i'd get rid of.

"Honey Hi" is beyond essential.

― Tim F, Wednesday, May 7, 2014

totally.

i don't think i'd particularly cut anything from say you will either. in fact i'd make it a third longer (mcvie songs natch)

being big and sprawling and overblown is kind of the whole thing of tusk

otm.

i don't particularly like "that's enough for me" either. and yet i think the album would be worse, not better, without it.

maybe tusk is like the white album in that lots of people think it could stand to lose a bunch of songs, but no one can agree on what those songs are.

and "Think About Me" is its "Savoy Truffle."

at the risk of losing my FM fan card, I agree Tusk is too long. Fleetwood Mac tend to succumb to the White Album syndrome really hard, with each member just doing their own thing and using the others as a back-up band.

― Dominique, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 4:18 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't usually stan for late Beatles, but the White Album is good enough that I don't really think it makes sense to ascribe to it a "syndrome," unless the primary symptom of that syndrome is "makes a pretty damn good double album in which even some of the filler engages"

Being big and sprawling and overblown in kind of the whole thing of double albums in general IMO. The sprawl, the oddball bits and pieces and curios that would never make the cut on a single album. Stuff that would ordinarily be relegated to outtakes that emerge 15 years later on a bootleg.

"not that funny" and the title track are the only ones I sometimes skip but they're also both p good and funny and I'm glad they're on there

and I've spent afternoons listening to only "honey hi"!

here this willl change your mind:

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