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Originally Posted by gldstwmn
To me Destiny Rules sounds different than the rest of the album. It's got that distinct Fleetwood Mac sound.
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Yes! It's shot through with Fleetwood Mac.
There's a seventies Fleetwood Mac sound (mountain folk music and Byrds harmonies) and there's an eighties Fleetwood Mac sound (androgynous harmonies and adult contemporary [AC] music), and
Destiny Rules is one of the few examples I can think of after 1979 of the seventies Fleetwood Mac sound. It's why I love it so much. It's that roots country sound mixed with a little psychedelia and flower-child melodicism (like
One Tin Soldier or Teresa Kelly's
Johnnie from the
Billy Jack soundtrack, or Fleetwood Mac's own
World Turning,
Over My Head,
The Chain,
I Don't Want to Know, and
That's All for Everyone).
It's the Fleetwood Mac image of the inner-sleeve photo of
Rumours—the Fleetwood Mac of cutoffs, wine bottles, suede boots, beards, and greasy facial skin.