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macfan 57
08-03-2005, 07:15 AM
Thanks to bretonbanquet's tie breaking vote, The City (despite Christine's stellar piano) is gone.

The City-6
For Your Love-5
Somebody-3
Forever-2

Now it's on to round 3. Here are the remaining songs:

Emerald Eyes
Believe Me
Just Crazy Love
Hypnotized
Forever
Keep On Going
Miles Away
Somebody
For Your Love
Why
GateandGarden
08-03-2005, 07:40 AM
I'm going to keep this up until it's gone. Then I don't know what I'll vote for. It's like choosing between children.
Mari
08-03-2005, 10:45 AM
Often skip this one.
chiliD
08-03-2005, 11:32 AM
Well, since it IS a cover, albeit a FANTASTIC re-arrangement by Bob Weston, I guess it is the logical choice as the next one to say goodbye.

This is going to get really ugly...apprehension of the nastiness looms.
Hawkeye
08-03-2005, 12:29 PM
The Bass line in Miles Away is 50 times better danme it!
HomerMcvie
08-03-2005, 12:52 PM
I think it sounds more dated than the rest.
Hippocampus
08-03-2005, 01:05 PM
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CreepingDeath
08-03-2005, 02:10 PM
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face of glass
08-03-2005, 04:08 PM
Pretty usual '70s string arrangements on it, if you ask me.
wondergirl9847
08-03-2005, 04:11 PM
I don't really wanna vote for this one, but strategically, I will.
macfan 57
08-03-2005, 04:21 PM
Well, I'll follow the crowd this time & vote for For Your Love, even though I like it better than "Miles Away" & "Somebody".
chiliD
08-03-2005, 04:35 PM
"Keep On Going" : Pretty usual '70s string arrangements on it, if you ask me.

Well, let's see..the album was released in 1973...so yeah, it WOULD have your "usual '70's string arrangement". ;)
ThePenguin
08-03-2005, 05:36 PM
okay, For Your Love.

-Lis
ontheEdgeof17
08-03-2005, 05:49 PM
For Your Love, I guess.
shackin'up
08-03-2005, 06:49 PM
damn. i love The City.
bretonbanquet
08-03-2005, 07:12 PM
Possibly the most needless post I ever made :p
macfan 57
08-04-2005, 06:21 AM
This round was a landslide. :D After just barely hanging on the first 2 rounds, For Your Love finally got the boot.

For Your Love-12
Forever-1
Keep On Going-1

Here are the remaining songs for round 4:

Emerald Eyes
Believe Me
Just Crazy Love
Hypnotized
Forever
Keep On Going
Miles Away
Somebody
Why
Mari
08-04-2005, 06:23 AM
Somebody has to go!
bretonbanquet
08-04-2005, 08:14 AM
I'll go along with that - not one of my faves at all :shocked:
GateandGarden
08-04-2005, 08:15 AM
I do love it, but I had to pick something.
ThePenguin
08-04-2005, 09:40 AM
Somebody....bye bye.

-Lis
chiliD
08-04-2005, 10:48 AM
...and don't let the door hit you on the a$$ on the way out. :D
wondergirl9847
08-04-2005, 11:49 AM
We seem to all be in agreement on this album, for the most part.
Hippocampus
08-04-2005, 12:02 PM
You gotta belieeeeeeeeeeeeve....
HomerMcvie
08-04-2005, 01:17 PM
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shackin'up
08-04-2005, 01:33 PM
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face of glass
08-04-2005, 03:02 PM
Too bad about "Somebody".
macfan 57
08-04-2005, 04:10 PM
I'll get back on the Somebody bandwagon again in this round.
jbrownsjr
08-04-2005, 05:04 PM
you might need somebody
ontheEdgeof17
08-04-2005, 05:20 PM
Somebody-voting club member here. Get rid of it. :wavey:
David
08-04-2005, 06:38 PM
You're all a bunch of damned morons. Voting off "Somebody" & "Keep On Going"?!

What a bunch of stupid loons. What a bunch of rank, spur-galled dewberries ... a bunch of venomed, fly-bitten varmints ... a passel of clouded, dizzy-eyed barnacles ... wayward, folly-fallen pumpions ... tottering, clapper-clawed moldwarps!!!

Honest to Christ ... what is with you artless, witless, fat-kidneyed gudgeons?
GateandGarden
08-04-2005, 06:41 PM
You're all a bunch of damned morons. Voting off "Somebody" & "Keep On Going"?!

What a bunch of stupid loons. What a bunch of rank, spur-galled dewberries ... a bunch of venomed, fly-bitten varmints ... a passel of clouded, dizzy-eyed barnacles ... wayward, folly-fallen pumpions ... tottering, clapper-clawed moldwarps!!!

Honest to Christ ... what is with you artless, witless, fat-kidneyed gudgeons?You're a fool for trying to get rid of one of FM's best tracks EVAH! That's it. I have no fancy insults. :shrug:


Wait, wait--I do have a lame one I got from my brother's Shakespearean Insults Magnetic Poetry. You Lord of Mildew! (That was the best we could make with the stuff we were given). :distress:
David
08-04-2005, 07:21 PM
You're a fool for trying to get rid of one of FM's best tracks EVAH! That's it. I have no fancy insults. :shrug:
[/COLOR]do you really like "Miles Away" that much? Hmmm. . . maybe I should go back & listen to it.

But Christine McVie singing "Keep On Going" -- that's the very essence ... the QUINTESSENCE, if you will ... of Fleetwood Mac!

"Quintessence" is a interesting word, by the way. First seen in writing sometime in the fifteenth century, it meant "substance latent in all things, the extraction of which was one of the objects of alchemy"; thus, by extension, it acquired the meaning, by the sixteenth century, "most essential part."

The Latin is, of course, "quinta" ("fifth") "essentia" ("essence") -- referring, in mediaeval alchemy, to the fifth primary body besides the base four elements: earth, fire, air, water. So the "quintessence" was the fifth essence: the chemical essence derived from earth, fire, air, & water.

To extend the trope connotatively in Fleetwood Mac's direction, the four base elements (John, Mick, Lindsey, Stevie) remain the base essences; but Christine McVie is the "fifth" essence, derived from the other four in such a way as to alchemically generate the splendor & magic of the separate parts -- for without the fifth essence, the other four remain base.
GateandGarden
08-04-2005, 07:42 PM
do you really like "Miles Away" that much? Hmmm. . . maybe I should go back & listen to it.Yes! I have a CD I made of my all time favorite Fleetwood Mac songs and that one is included.

But Christine McVie singing "Keep On Going" -- that's the very essence ... the QUINTESSENCE, if you will ... of Fleetwood Mac!Well, there was no way I was voting that one off so early.

"Quintessence" is a interesting word, by the way... You see that's where I stopped reading. :laugh:
chiliD
08-04-2005, 07:49 PM
do you really like "Miles Away" that much?

Damned straight! :eek: Best bass line McVie ever played...EVER!

Killer lead guitar work by Bob Weston, great lyrics, vocal delivery & acoustic guitar work by Bob Welch, great harmonies from Christine & Weston, and Mick was definitely on his game throughout this entire album. "Miles Away" one of the HIGHLIGHTS of the Mystery To Me album.
jbrownsjr
08-04-2005, 08:28 PM
You're all a bunch of damned morons. Voting off "Somebody" & "Keep On Going"?!

What a bunch of stupid loons. What a bunch of rank, spur-galled dewberries ... a bunch of venomed, fly-bitten varmints ... a passel of clouded, dizzy-eyed barnacles ... wayward, folly-fallen pumpions ... tottering, clapper-clawed moldwarps!!!

Honest to Christ ... what is with you artless, witless, fat-kidneyed gudgeons?


I agree with you! (see post about Keep On Going in CM forum)

i voted Somebody because it was simply gone by the time i got here

as i said, "You might need Somebody" oooooohhooooooohooohhhohh
GateandGarden
08-04-2005, 08:48 PM
Killer lead guitar work by Bob Weston, great lyrics...Those are probably my two very favorite things about that song. One of them is why I was annoyed when people were so eager to vote him off of that damn FM members survivor game. Had those people heard Mystery to Me?
SteveMacD
08-04-2005, 11:05 PM
I love "Miles Away." It has that artsy/college/indie rock vibe that I absolutely love.
macfan 57
08-05-2005, 06:41 AM
Round 4 is history as is Somebody.

Somebody-10
Keep On Going-2
Believe Me-1
Miles Away-1