Mirage: Favorite Non-Hits
Enough worrying about what's gonna happen to the Ledge and lets get started voting for your favorite non-hits from Mirage!
Vote for 2 songs as your favorite non-hits from Mirage. Poll closes in 4 days. :cool: |
Well nothing on this album really does ANYTHING for me except Eyes of the World.....so that's it.
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I chose Can't Go Back and That's Alright. Can't Go Back is just a really neat song. I love the "brightness" in the guitar - phonics maybe? Is that the word I'm looking for? Anyway, I love that sound. And the lyrics, "a face as soft as a tear in a clown's eye". That's just a great line. And, of course, I love That's Alright - BN throwback. It's not as great as the demo but the change in Stevie's voice sort of makes it (or her) sound a little harsher than in the demo. But, I love this song no matter the version. It's a foot tapping country song and it's catchy. Love the harmonies as usual.
I really do love Eyes of the World, but I prefer the live version over the recorded version. Thanks to whoever pointed out to me in the LB section a while back that EOTW is indeed "Stephanie". Really cool to finally hear that. |
Ugh, another poll that I can't choose. Love them all so much, and really That's Alright is probably my favorite. But even Empire State sounds incredibly brilliant to me at times.
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Straight Back and That's Alright. Not because it's Stevie but these are the 2 songs I'd listen to first, probably.
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Empire State & That's Alright are my favorites on this album, and really the only tracks I listen to other than Gypsy and Hold Me.
Yeah, so what, I like Empire State. :shrug: :laugh: |
Oh Diane and Can't Go Back!
But I love the whole album. |
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That's Alright is among my top five songs by Stevie. Guess what I chose?
Matt |
Again, I'm dumb and didn't read before I voted. So I only voted for one: That's Alright. Definitely my favorite non-hit from Mirage by a landslide, and actually one of my favorite non-hits period. I cover it all the time at open mic night haha.
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That's Alright is one of my favorite FM songs, period, hit or otherwise. The second choice was hard, but I ended up going with Can't Go Back.
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Well, for me, Book of Love and Can't go back. I know I could say Oh Diane, you know I have a special love for this song, but I think these are amazing. As McTrouble said above, I love the whole album! Regards |
Where's all the love for Straight Back? It's one of my favorite FM-Stevie songs.
Well it is in 2nd place, so that's great!!!! |
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I love all of Mirage, too(yes, even Empire State). Not sure why they consider it a red headed step child...(the whole album, not Empire) |
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But do you ever cover Nightbird? |
I love Straight Back, & i think it could of easily been a hit if given the chance on radio at that time. I also went with That's Alright
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That's Alright and Straight Back, although Eyes of the World veeeeery nearly beat Straight Back. The rest of them, apart from Empire State, are just.... blech.
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My two votes go to Wish You Were Here and Straight Back. When I make a FM favorite playlist, both of the songs are on it. :cool:
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I love Mirage as a whole, warts and all.
The release of Mirage was a big deal at the time. and the press deemed it as the "reunion" of Fleetwood Mac, since it had been almost three years since their last album! How times (and expectations) have changed! I wasn't crazy about Lindsey's retro-style songs at the time, but they've really grown on me over the years. I'm not ashamed to say I like Empire State! The line "Big Apple, taking a bite of me" is very witty. |
BLECH! I can't believe how many votes there are for 'That's Alright' and 'Straight Back.' Those two can go in the 'Street Angel' bucket for me. Lindseys songs on this album are highly underrated. I have huge admiration for 'Eyes of the World,' Can't Go Back,' and 'Book of Love.'
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I can't believe Straight Back has almost twice as many votes as Eyes Of The World! :distress:
I think I'm the only person who's not entirely crazy about Can't Go Back. I don't remember if I posted what my votes were... I went for Eyes and Wish You Were Here. I do love almost all of Mirage though. |
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I'm really rooting for Christine for TITN, esp Isn't It Midnight. :nod: |
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I guess the cream just always rises to the top. ;) :laugh: (Sorry, I couldn't resist teasing after the "however crappy" zing. ;) ) |
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again, look at the overall breakout of the voters: Christine McVie 18 Lindsey Buckingham 26 Stevie Nicks 64 in this current poll, you have one stellar/fun song (EOTW), one song that many FM fans seem to claim is great (BOL), one highly hated song (OD), one song that SN fans seem to love a lot (That's Alright), and then the rest of the songs should probably get about equal split (yeah i'm biased but still c'mon)... and which two songs are in overwhelming lead? :lol: EDIT: that said, people are supposed to vote for their favorite songs, and if they strongly prefer one of the songwriters, it makes sense that they are voting for that person's songs. |
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Yeah, I want people to vote for their favorite and not be afraid to. We're just discussing trends and such!
One thing I do is look back on my corresponding polls in 2010 fav song contest and last years least fav song contest. For example in 2010, Christine won favorite song from Tango in the Night, Little Lies. As far as Mirage is concerned, Stevie killed it in 2010 with Gypsy while Lindsey won least favorite Mirage song last year. FYI, just click on my profile and view my threads then you can sort them from back to 2010. :cool: |
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^So would you have preferred that instead of pitting the songs against each other, we first grouped by writer first, and then put the results from THOSE polls against each other? I think we'd end up with the same result, though, in the end.
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that's why we started doing polls in LB forum - they have less voters, but i learned a lot about the actual songs in the course of doing them. |
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Also with songs being removed as "hits", a lot of the polls would just have two options, kinda a waste in my opinion. Of course on the Pre-Rumours forum they think all my polls are a waste! :lol: |
Eyes of the World, That's Alright, and Straight Back move on the Mirage finals. :cool:
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