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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An extra 50 goes to FR!
“You would need to add something to that.”
Oh please. If the song was “Brown Sugar”, I don’t think I would have to add The Rolling Stones.
Horace Silver
“Figure where this RIFF was stolen, you get 1,000 points.”
By a stroke of luck, I just happened to listen to that album last night. On vinyl even. I don’t know if it’s ever been released on cd.
LOL!
I’m not sitting in a bar.
Here is the “new” riff from Steely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA
He did well with it.
Ridiculous list. At most, FM has maybe half a dozen great songs after 1974. How can they leave songs like Going Your Way, Searching for Madge, or anything off Kiln House?
God is walking around. You see it.
One of my favorite groups. Seen them live about a half dozen times as well as Stevie solo an equal number. So many memories.
You are an honest man.
Feel good about it,
Yes. you got it but sonny beat you.
The knowledge of FR is unlimited. I am impressed.
I mis-spelled the name it is Sunny!
^this^
I also like Buckingham’s “Go Insane”
Steely Dan was much better.
Not if one highly values excellent vocal harmonies.
Tusk stank. Rhiannon needs to move up the list as well as Over My Head.
Agreed. Agreed and agreed.
My top five:
1. Rhiannon
2. Go Your Own Way
3. The Chain
4. Dreams
5. Over My Head
The Grammy Award for Best Record is given for artistic and technical excellence, regardless of sales or rankings.
In that sense, I consider Rhiannon their closest to a perfect record - much as Brian Wilson has always considered California Girls as The Beach Boys’ best record (not necessarily his favorite single or song by them): Everything works just right.
It’s on the list at #19.
FWIW, I concur. The Welch and Kerwin era is my favorite, Future Games my favorite album; ‘Future Games’, ‘Sometimes’, ‘Show Me Your Smile’. I still listen to most of that era probably once a month, newer stuff much less often.
Totally professional and obsessed with the sound.
Amazing how they hired the best LA studio musicians to get the sound just right.
“The best Fleetwood Mac to me was the Bob Welch years. No Hypnotized??”
I really enjoy Mystery to Me LP. Welch’s Emerald Eyes is a keeper along with Hypnotized.
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