Posted on 05/20/2022 10:46:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Entrancing, sensual and opaque, it’s apparently about Nicks’ friend marrying Mick Fleetwood, but could just as easily be about a passionate affair ending.
4. Don’t Stop (1977)
A glimmer of optimism amid Rumours’ romantic angst? Maybe. McVie’s Don’t Stop is actually the sound of a departing wife blithely telling her ex-husband to buck up, but its cantering rhythm and chorus are so impossibly, infectiously buoyant, the song so flawless, that it cancels out the unhappiness that provoked it.
3. Everywhere (1987)
With Nicks largely out of action, McVie’s songwriting went into overdrive on Tango in the Night. Everywhere is just an incredible song, its enduring power bolstered by the fact that, on an album with a very late-80s production, its sound still cleaved close to that of Rumours.
2. Go Your Own Way (1976)
Perfect pop distilled from passive aggression and, according to Buckingham, the Rolling Stones’ Street Fighting Man. The verses build tension, the choruses and the fantastic guitar solo are an angry, cathartic release. Nicks, however, was not pleased by her ex’s depiction of her: “I wanted to go over and kill him.”
1. Dreams (1977)
The crowning glory of Fleetwood Mac’s oeuvre and the apotheosis of a certain super-smooth 70s LA studio sound; supposedly rendered terminally unhip by punk, it has been endlessly imitated over the past 20 years. Of course, the melody is irresistible, but a chunk of Dreams’ lasting power comes from the way the lyrics, essentially Go Your Own Way told from a different angle, are at odds with everything else in the track – Nicks’ drowsy delivery, the laid-back rhythm, the hazy combination of acoustic strumming, spare lead guitar and electric piano – transforming their anger into a dismissive screw-you shrug, turning rancour and bitterness into something exquisite.
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One of them was renamed the Rush Limbaugh show.
Huh? You mean the song by the Pretenders? Not FM.
Right. My mistake.
That was the Pretenders.
FM was a drug addled band with some decent riffs.
Steely Dan was much better.
Figure where this RIFF was stolen, you get 1,000 points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA
I’ll give you 100,000 points.
Tusk stank. Rhiannon needs to move up the list as well as Over My Head.
Don’t Stop is it!
They’re all ranked last.
A sickening memory of my younger life was election night 1992, James Carville in the middle in a throng of Clinton supporters all dancing in celebration to that cloying Fleetwood Mac song, all dancing joyously yo that song blared over and over.
Made me sick.
Horrible song made even worse, ushering in the current age of corruption and depravity.
Not Quatloos?
There is a clue.
It is a Jazz Band
Clover EWF
“Song For My Father”
As I grow older I appreciate them more.
You would need to add something to that.
Two that I would have rated higher:
"Over My Head" (1975)
"You Make Loving Fun" (1977)
I like the chain song.
Whoops - on further review, it is listed (Hypnotized). My bad.
You Win!
1000 and 100 points!
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