― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax!, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 16 January 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
But no, she is in no way as good as Nicks I'm afraid ("Dreams", "Sara" and "Gypsy" are some of the greatest songs e-vahhhhh!!!!).
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 January 2003 05:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 05:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Most non-intuitive great sequencing decision ever: opening _Tusk_ with "Over and Over."
― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 16 January 2003 05:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 16 January 2003 07:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 16 January 2003 07:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David Gunnip, Thursday, 16 January 2003 09:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J (Jay), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Please tell me that changes your answer, Dan!
(BTW, I say that "Hold Me" cuts "Little Lies" any frickin' day of the week)
― J (Jay), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
My feelings on this matter evident here - Lindsey Buckingham: C o' D?
― James Blount, Friday, 17 January 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 17 January 2003 00:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 11 April 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link
I swear to god. I mean, that's it. I've heard probably 10,000 albums and then some at this point. But THAT song. It's arrangement, production, performance ... nothing has stopped me in my tracks, compelled repeated re-listenings, enraptured me ... nothing has bewitched me like that damn "Hold Me". The funny thing is Christine didn't even write it entirely; some LA-lifer named Robbie Patton helped her. Whatever. I love her voice too. So so good.
Also she apparently has a new solo album coming out in June!! I read this on some other message board! ILM is behind!
― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 11 April 2004 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
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― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 11 April 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 11 April 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
It's the coolest goo-goo love song I can think of.
― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
i fucking love you christine
― creme1, Saturday, 19 May 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
everyone knows I'm a christine mcvie junkie here, so I'll take offense at this provocation.
In the meantime, Mr. Creme1, I had earlier predicted you to be Max instead, and I claim my 500 pence if that isn't what you are. Cheers.
― Bimble, Saturday, 19 May 2007 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought the double-disc comp over Xmas just so's I could own the remastered hits. I must say, "Love in Store," which I never really cared for, sounds great in this context.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 19 May 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"Over and Over" takes it for me. But I'm still taking Lindsey Buckingham, way before either of the chicks.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 19 May 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
What a weird thread...unless I missed something it's as if she joined the band in 1975 or something. Her only real flaw is her consistancy.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I know, what's wrong with these people who don't care about '73 and '74 Fleetwood Mac??
"Prove Your Love" is her best song. (Um, but there are a few on Tusk I'd put right beside it)
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to have to give early and mid-period Mac a rest soon, 'cause it's starting to get excessive, but was just overwhelmed by the brilliance of McVie's "Spare Me A Little Of Your Love" earlier today. "Boring" and "restrained"? Bah!
― dlp9001, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
NOW YOU HAVE MADE ME PULL OUT MY COMPILATION MCVIE DISC. IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT.
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
BTW, "Spare..." is quite good, you are right.
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
But I left Sugar Daddy off it because I didn't have enough room. *weeps*
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's my tracklisting:
1. Morning Rain 2. Show Me A Smile 3. Remember Me 4. Dissatisfied 5. Did You Ever Love Me 6. Spare A Little Of Your Love 7. Homeward Bound 8. Believe Me 9. Just Crazy Love 10. The Way I Feel 11. Why 12. Heroes Are Hard To Find 13. Come A Little Bit Closer 14. Bad Loser (this one reminds me of the evil of George W. Bush for real) 15. Prove Your Love To Me 16. Warm Ways 17. Over My Head 18. World Turning (I'm a sucker for this one, I don't know why) 19. Think About Me 20. Never Make Me Cry 21. Never Forget 15.
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
"Come A Little Bit Closer" drives me to tears.
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
But "Prove Your Love" remains her best, and one of the few things in this whole wild world that could be better than the Cocteau Twins.
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"Warm Ways" is the very definition of gorgeous.
Not much love for her solo work here, alas. "Got a Hold On Me" is one of my favorite solo Mac tracks.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I know...the solo work...ahem *cough cough*
we'll not mention that. :)
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Though I do love her first solo album, but aside from that, um... *polite smile*
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Hint: her first album wasn't in the 80's. It was 1970.
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, everyone should know that Warm Ways rules.
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
She's definitely playing the handful of synth parts on the 1975 album and Rumours, probably played less of the programmed stuff by the time of Tango.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
My favorite video of Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks blasted all the way to mars pic.twitter.com/dpFloDpemo— erb (@bentleyliz2) November 30, 2022
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
Xtine kinda stuck with organ and piano, huh? does anyone know if she fucked with synths on any of the records? Seems to me that the intros for "Little Lies" and "everywhere" would be Lindsey or Dashut or someone like that? Or am I wrong?
― veronica moser, Thursday, December 1, 2022 3:20 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, December 1, 2022
She's credited with ARP as far back as Heroes Are Hard to Find.
She could also kick out the jams on accordion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5HQ2sEqZZE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
Steve Winwood on FB:
“Christine was a lovely lady. I knew her briefly in the early days of the blues and folk scene in Birmingham, then later in the mid 80s when she lived in L.A., and shortly after I was lucky and privileged to play on one of her solo albums. She had a beautiful alto voice that had elements of blues and church choral music, which in many ways set her apart from some of her melismatic contemporaries. Her beautiful, syllabic style was a joy to listen to. Together with her engaging, heartfelt songs she will be greatly missed. R.I.P. Christine” - SW
She had a beautiful alto voice that had elements of blues and church choral music, which in many ways set her apart from some of her melismatic contemporaries. Her beautiful, syllabic style was a joy to listen to. Together with her engaging, heartfelt songs she will be greatly missed. R.I.P. Christine” - SW
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
...some of her melismatic contemporaries OTM. Listening to the Christine Perfect album yesterday for the first time in a long time, it struck me that while she was of the British blues boom, she's never exactly emulating Etta James or Tina Turner on the songs of theirs she covered. She replaced the overemoting of many of her contemporaries with a sort of "coolness" that served her well as Mac became a pop band.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 1 December 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
That's the best thing Winwood's ever written, including "Valerie."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 December 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
There are definitely some good tracks on Chicken Shack's "Blue Horizon Sessions" collection.
I've always thought Christine's take on "I'd Rather Go Blind" was very beautiful and definitely shows the laid back coolness of the delivery. I got to think she liked some Dusty Springfield and maybe in a different set of circumstances, you could see some US label signing her like they did Rod Stewart out of that scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao9HpsXfuzY
― earlnash, Thursday, 1 December 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
I remember Sony sneaking that track on to The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac CD from 2002. A cheat, but a welcome one.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 1 December 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
Lindsey has now posted a handwritten message:
Christine McVie’s sudden passing is profoundly heartbreaking. Not only were she and I part of the magical family of Fleetwood Mac, to me Christine was a musical comrade, a friend, a soul mate, a sister. For over four decades, we helped each other create a beautiful body of work and a lasting legacy that continues to resonate today. I feel very lucky to have known her. Though she will be deeply missed, her spirit will live on through that body of work and that legacy.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 1 December 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
rip :(
― dyl, Friday, 2 December 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
so sad :'(
― flopson, Friday, 2 December 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
My obit: https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/christine-mcvie-dead-appreciation-fleetwood-mac-1235179553/
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 December 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
Erin Osmon with some grand thoughts
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2022-12-01/fleetwood-mac-christine-mcvie-stevie-nicks
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
There's a picture in that LA Times article of Christine onstage in 1977 playing a tom-tom, what song could they be performing?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 December 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
That's a good question. Supposedly Atlanta GA, 1977. She would step out front for World Turning, but usually with maracas.... for the jam sesh portion Mick would come out with a talking drum or whatever so that's my first guess- an unusual jam part of World Turning.
My only other guess is it could be a proto Sisters of the Moon.... what? I looked for some more pictures of this show by the same photographer, and one of the results is a shot of Lindsey with short hair and no beard, playing a Les Paul. He went with his new look when they started Tusk in 78, but stopped playing Les Pauls by 79, IIRC. Assuming the city is correct this could be from 8/29/78. Sisters is the only new song in that setlist and it is a song that Stevie holds a cowbell for. Maybe C hadn't worked out her part yet?
― majorairbro, Friday, 2 December 2022 05:17 (one year ago) link
the 16 songs she takes lead vocal on (15 of which she wrote) from their 1971-1974 period would make a classic double LP.
probably someone more knowledgeable than me might know this: how often did the band revisit those tracks after buckingham/nicks arrived? so many of those tracks could have fit in beautifully on the s/t or rumours or tusk. it remains sort of a lost era (for the entire band, really.)
― omar little, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
There are live takes of "Why", "Spare Me A Little of Your Love" and "Station Man" (among other early tracks) on the deluxe S/T album box, but I think the Christine stuff from that era didn't last much longer as concert material once Rumours came along.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
Hadn't seen this before. Paul Bartel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuKxTff55s
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:47 (one year ago) link
Even for 1984 that's a lot of makeup.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 December 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
I love when Fleetwood Mac (as a band and solo) goes country.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 December 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
I saw that in 1984 on my local video show! Obviously someone thought that it could be of interest to an audience of 12-year olds. That was before the advent of "mature" rock videos for older artists and audiences.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 3 December 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
If you can believe it, "Got a Hold On Me" was in heavy rotation in early 1984.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
Even for 1984 that's a lot of makeup shoulder pads.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 5 December 2022 04:57 (one year ago) link
It was either make that video, or do a six episode arc as Lady Christine Thistlewick on Dynasty.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjH84W_-V1c
Bob Welch w/Christine & Mick in '81
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2022 07:05 (one year ago) link
Brown Eyes is the best FMac song
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 8 December 2022 10:08 (one year ago) link
I recoil from that breathy tone Welch uses.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 December 2022 10:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah, Soto otm re: Mick's gifts. And John, he's pretty great, too, of course; iirc Mike Mills had a "what would John McVie do?" maxim. I think in their case as a rhythm section, it could be the result of all those formative years woodshedding, which helps them swing and shuffle through stuff like "Over My Head."
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 00:12 (one year ago) link
I missed this good bit from the L.A. Times obit:
Her grounding presence was a welcome contrast to Nicks’ nymph-like persona, not because it positioned the two against each other, but because it offered two very powerful frameworks for womanhood and female friendship within the same chart-topping band. The idea that women must choose — that one is either a Christine or a Stevie — is an outmoded and reductive binary in the year 2022. Instead, the fruitful pairing of McVie and Nicks, how their writing and personalities elegantly commingle and reflect back on one another, offers an antidote to the notion that women can be only one thing.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link
Nice
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
And yet, they sure didn’t seem to work together much the last 25 years.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
And where were all these Nicks/McVie partisans when Behind the Mask came out?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
Blasting "Save Me."
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
Or, like Rolling Stone, saying "the addition of Rick Vito and Billy Burnette is the best thing to ever happen to Fleetwood Mac".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
This is my favorite song from the 1988-1990 era. Nicks, McVie, and the ringers harmonize well, and the woozy synths complement them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtAFOlNSDP8
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
I feel like I said this somewhere else but man, “Prove Your Love” is a terrific song. The wordless refrain with the sawing violins is just magic. Anyone who thinks she needed Lindsey never heard this.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 8 April 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link