I do kind of wish I felt the same way now about "Don't Stop Believin'" as I did when I first heard it.
― nxd, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
You stopped belevin'!
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Believin' too!
Feel like a poll of the same people 10 years ago would have led to far higher placement for Don't Stop Believin
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Expecting a few more Detroit shout-outs before poll is through
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
this is still one of my favorite viral videos ever (it is also from, like, 2000, pre-viral)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCWD1PFkFQ
― maura, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
2001 iirc!
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Probably no more for South Detroit, tho.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
shout out to windsor ontario
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
ehh, I love both big universal sentiment songs and concept albums, I'm kind of an outlier.
― campreverb, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
I still love this song, have never gotten burned out on it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
93/900 seems about right
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
lets drag out another hit....
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kti9OJu.jpg
93. (tie) Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty – Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around834 points, 16 votes
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" has a particular statistical significance to the poll that I will explain later in the week...
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
I love this woman and like this guy but this song bores the hell out of me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
good song! I didn't vote for it though.
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
The Chain and SDMHA are two of the few times I can tolerate Stevie Nicks, obv because they aren't her dopey songs.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
she wrote most of "The Chain."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Ugh so fun to listen to twice and sing one part each time. I do the TP part best. Love the lyrics too, esp the stuff about knocking on the door. Who hasn't known, etc. Excellent song!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmfc67NfwOw
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Thing I always notice about the video is that TP doesn't show up until 45 seconds in: http://youtu.be/6UD0c58nNCQ
― pplains, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
sorry for the youtube embed, I meant to link it but didn't realize the https thing had been fixed
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
I thought she only wrote the lyrics to The Chain, and even Christine helped with those.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Looks like our bits of biographical ephemera are spliced, much like the song itself:
According to interviews on the writing of Rumours, the final section of "The Chain"—beginning with a bass progression—was created by John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Stevie Nicks had written the lyrics separately and thought they would be a good match; she and Christine McVie did some reworking to create the first section of the tune. Other elements were worked in from an early project of Christine's called "Keep Me There".[1] The blues-style piano motif was removed, and the remainder combined with a bridge from yet another piece manually using a razor blade to cut and splice the tapes. To complete the song, Buckingham recycled the intro from an earlier song from a duet with Nicks, "Lola (My Love)", originally released on their self-titled 1973 album.
Due to the spliced nature of the record - the drums and guitar were the only instruments actually recorded in each other's company - and its sporadic composition and assembly from different rejected songs, "The Chain" is one of only a few Fleetwood Mac songs whose authorship is credited to all members of the band at the time.[1]
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Well then, to be on the safe side, I hate The Chain, too.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
>:(
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
a personal favorite coming up here
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ZqkOgqM.jpg
93. (tie) The Knack – My Sharona834 points, 13 votes
too low
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
i'd imagine a lot of voters cut it from their ballots under some "too new-wave" criteria?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
Woo I love that song. Also fun trivia: it was the number one song the day Jeff was born.
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
lol at all the boozecentric jpegs up in here
"My Sharona" was kinda the new wave meeting classic rock halfway (Bonham drums) same as the Cars' debut xpost
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
baby, you aint seen nothin' yet
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
Hey, I did vote for one FM song! One of Lindsey's!
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
I prefer "My Bologna"
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, we could probably fill out a good Weird Al playlist based on the parodies just from these results.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
I had a relatively 80s-, and by extension, new wave-friendly ballot here. Had it at 79 here.
― campreverb, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
These images are fantastic.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/A9kgZPL.jpg
92. Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side837 points, 16 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Due to the spliced nature of the record - the drums and guitar were the only instruments actually recorded in each other's company - and its sporadic composition and assembly from different rejected songs, "The Chain" is one of only a few Fleetwood Mac songs whose authorship is credited to all members of the band at the time.
apologies for dragging the beatles into this, but one of the things i've always liked about "the chain" is that it's like one of those true lennon/mccartney co-writes where you really can't tell whose song it is. it sounds like it's expressing the essence of the band, not one of its three fron people. and that chorus has always sounded to me like the central thesis of all of rumours, lyrically, emotionally, and especially in the way the three voices don't harmonize with each other so much as they wrap around each other.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Still not buying this one as a CR radio staple, but maybe that's just the case where I'm from. Many of y'all had never even heard Shambala before, so I get it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
I first heard "Walk On The Wild Side" through CRR, but IME it's in super light rotation
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
and/or a song that stations will throw into medium rotation for a month or two and then remove from the playlist for years
I know that it was (and Vicious too) because it's how I first heard Lou Reed and his songs being on the radio helped me find VU's greatest hits at the library and I am really trusting my own personal memory not to fail me on this particular salient detail of my life.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
greatest hits = best oflol
anyway i am glad he made it!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
CR radio was where I first heard (and was baffled by) "Walk on the Wild Side". I will always associate with that format and I didn't even vote for it.
― Vinnie, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
associate it*
Classic rock radio is the place where she said hey baby...
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
Correct about it being in very light rotation. I remember after hearing it for the first time, waiting to hear it for months just to learn who/what it was.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link