Fleetwood Mac -- Search/Destroy

i seem to remember smog doing a great cover of it for a peel session once, but i can't find it right now.

Listen to John on the outro to "Say That You Love Me"! Listen to that fucker start to get all "rococo" and shit yet bet completely 100% in that fucking beat. God, he was unbelievably great. Him and Mick. What a rhythm section. Unreal in their kick-assness.

Tusk is one of the five greatest rock and roll albums of all time, probably only second to After the Goldrush and maybe Radio City.

Then Play On is also great - I bought that record a few years ago and to this day it is the ONLY record my girl has ever stolen from me. "It's mine," she said, plainly, and it remains in her collection as we speak.

Rmours is also brilliant, duh. Search the "Classic Albums" DVD of Rumours (Aja too, while you're at it, but that's another thread). Search all the Peter Green era records.

After Mirage, the records are all spotty but ALL contain a few songs worth the dollar or two you'll pay for the vinyl. Lindsey Buckingham is one of my all time favorite guitarists - so imaginative, ambitious, and just a tad insane.

you are right about the production. I think I could write a whole book about it, had I a flair for language. But, allow me to highlight (these are a couple PRODUCTION highlights [as Jim said]; I take the technical musical performances of Mick, John, Christine and Lindsey as read):

- the backing vocals. It's like some kind of psychedelic doo-wop!! Seriously, those voices that start low in the mix, and come in and go "Come .. on .. and" "Hold me!" Wow.

Like, Lindsey is all like, yeah, I've got your doo-wop right here! How do you like THESE backing vocals?

- but, the ultimate point in the song, both song-writing and production-wise, is the breakdown that occurs at about the 2:30 mark, after Linsey's brilliant solo ends .. a total breakdown, with nothing but Christine's pristine piano and Lindsey beautiful acoustic guitar. WOW!!!!!!!

(actually, an even better thing about the pure PRODUCTION of this cut, is the way that acoustic guitar sort of creeps into the mix at about the 2:00 mark --- just listen to that acoustic guitar start strumming those chords behind Lindsey's solo ... and seconds later, there comes that great breakdown with the piano/acoustic-guitar bliss)

and then of course Lindsey's great finger-picking outro solo .. and boo-yah

best band ever

Played "Trouble" from Lindsey's solo Law and Order a few weeks back and it sounded damn good....

Once was going through donations for the Record Fair and had SO many copies of Tusk I actually made a Box of Tusk! 3 bucks a pop and they all went too, so, there ya go.

I did enjoy that "Classic Albums" look at "Rumours". In fact, I've got this elaborate theory that rock 'n roll record production was at its creative zenith back aroound '76-79, until the digital age came along and spoiled everything. I don't really know what the hell I'm talking about though....

Obviously it took lots of coke to be able to play at that moderate a tempo.

how about the coda to "Say You Love Me" -- "falling falling faaaaallling", perfect

' falling falling faaaaaling'

Sara really is one of the best songs ever.

Bare Trees
Heroes are Hard to Find
Kiln House
Penguin
Mystery To Me
Future Games

I have Bare Trees but haven't listened in a while. I remember liking it though; very mellow record. My local classic rock radio station actually played a track off it last weekend! I was randomly scanning the dial and checked them out for a bit -- they were in the midst of a "deep cuts" weekend.

Haven't heard the rest, but Mystery to Me has the totally awesome single "Hypnotized" -- definitely seek out that song if you haven't heard it, just beautiful. written by Bob Welch. And also further proof that Mick Fleetwood was a great drummer!!

i agree, but not *that* much shorter. there's really only two or three songs i would have jettisoned..

i like a lot of the stuff off of "mirage"

really, what's to destroy?

ba-da-dum. *cymbal crash*

Here's a question for people more knowledgable about the Mac than I (ie, everyone): where is the awesome "Ricky" that Lovefingers posted way back from? I can't find it on any FM album, at least not with Allmusic.

b-side of little lies?

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/fleetwood_mac/little_lies___ricky/?rate

I've read good things about this new Buckingham live album.

Now watch - some freakshow will come out of the fleetwoodwork and tell us we're missing out on the good vibrations from Behind the Mask.

The two McVie singles from BTM are decent boilerplate ("Save Me" was actually a Top 40 hit).

xpost. There's this video on Youtube of the Burnette and Vito band doing "Oh Well" that's kind of hard to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fId2ZithE88&f

Have we seen this?
I firmly believe this is the best thing McVie gave the universe.

Yeah that's nice. Sounds even more sad & desperate than the album version. I just wish they'd let us see her face, though.

A pretty wonderful late Peter Green era concert has just popped up on Wolfgang's Vault. Early '70 in London. It sort of freaks me out how much neat stuff has surfaced on that site.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkxv93JvR5/