If Buckingham Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie weren't self-titled albums...

[sanders8323]

What would you have named them? Long Distance Winner, Landslide, Got a Hold on Me?

Here's another question not related to the thread topic: If the Tusk album had sold the same or even more than Rumours, do you think that the Mirage album would have turned out differently? It seems that Warner Bros. sort of pushed the band back into a box when it came time to make that album.

[Jondalar]

Buckingham - Nicks - Long Distance Winner

Fleetwood Mac - World Turning

Christine McVie - Who is Dreaming this Dream?

[TrueFaith77]

Genius thread idea!

Fleetwood Mac = Happy Couples
Buckingham Nicks = This One's For You, Alabama!
Christine McVie = The Other Girl in the Band

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by sanders8323

What would you have named them? Long Distance Winner, Landslide, Got a Hold on Me?

Fleetwood Mac - Over My Head
(since John is playing a midget looking UP at the crystal ball on the cover; plus the title song was the lead single off the album)

Christine McVie - One In A Million
(a very UN-Christine like title would've been perfect (yes, pun intended)

Buckingham Nicks - Without A Leg To Stand On
(they're photographed from chest up; but, I don't think EITHER of them have the type of humor that would let that title go out.)

Originally Posted by sanders8323

Here's another question not related to the thread topic: If the Tusk album had sold the same or even more than Rumours, do you think that the Mirage album would have turned out differently? It seems that Warner Bros. sort of pushed the band back into a box when it came time to make that album.

Oh definitely. 1) Their entire FUTURE would've been different. 2) There most likely wouldn't have been the time lapse between Tusk & it's follow-up studio album. 3) Seriously doubt there would've been solo albums until much, much later, if at all.

[secret love]

Originally Posted by sanders8323

What would you have named them? Long Distance Winner, Landslide, Got a Hold on Me?

Here's another question not related to the thread topic: If the Tusk album had sold the same or even more than Rumours, do you think that the Mirage album would have turned out differently? It seems that Warner Bros. sort of pushed the band back into a box when it came time to make that album.

If I had to rename the LPs

Buckingham Nicks becomes Frozen Love

Fleetwood Mac becomes I Need a Sugar Daddy nah, how about Who's to Say What's Right? - I kind of like the idea of naming an album after the line of a song, rather than adopting a song title as the name of an LP as was done with TITN, BTM and SYW. Particularly in the context of Fleetwood Mac I think posing the question, "Who's to Say What's Right?" as an album title in 1975 would have been very appropriate.

Christine McVie becomes Love Will Show us How

Now, the perceived commercial failure of Tusk...the album really wasn't a failure, unless your previous album was a mega-seller and your band name was Fleetwood Mac! But I think the fact that it sold poorly in comparison to Rumours definitely influenced the musical direction Fleetwood Mac took from that point on, and the 1982 project that is Mirage suffered as result, in my view.

I believe Say You Will is the closest Fleetwood Mac has come to pushing the envelope and trying anything truly alternative in sound since Tusk...and I give Lindsey most of the credit for that (let's not discount Stevie's "Illume"). Christine really did hold the band together as a writer and studio singer/player with her efforts on Mirage, Tango in the Night, Behind the Mask and Time. I dislike Lindsey's contributions to Mirage except Eyes of the World (though I do get a chuckle out of his Elvis-y voice on Oh Diane lol).

I do appreciate his TITN work...however, the fact is he wasn't there for two albums, because he did not want to be.

[becca]

Buckingham Nicks - Crystal Visions
Fleetwood Mac - Over Our Heads
Christine McVie - Shows Us How

[holidayroad]

Buckingham Nicks- Frozen Love

Fleetwood Mac- Crystal

Christine McVie- Who's Dreaming

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

Buckingham - Nicks - Long Distance Winner

Fleetwood Mac - World Turning

Christine McVie - Who is Dreaming this Dream?

Yes!!! I agree with all

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Yes!!! I agree with all

Thank you for actaually having some taste, So many on this sigh plainly wreck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ejb1969]

Here's mine (props to chiliD on the alternate eponymous title):

Buckingham Nicks - If We Could Start Over Again
Fleetwood Mac - Over My Head
Christine McVie - Sings Songs

[applebucked]

Buckingham Nicks would be Frozen Love
Fleetwood Mac would be Over My Head

No idea for what Chris' album would be called.

[CADreaming]

Buckingham Nicks: San Francisco Here We Come! .

[nicole21290]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Buckingham Nicks: San Francisco Here We Come! .

And of course the sequel, made in a castle in Wales, naturally - Buckingham Nicks II: San Jose, We'll Be Back

[Neal]

Buckingham Nicks - "Frozen Love"

Fleetwood Mac - "World Turning"

Christine McVie - "The Challenge"

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by nicole21290

And of course the sequel, made in a castle in Wales, naturally - Buckingham Nicks II: San Jose, We'll Be Back

Buckingham Nicks III: Gypsies of Los Gatos