The Buckingham McVie album! Out June 9th, 2017!!!

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Nope not Isn't It Midnight. It's Behind The Mask. You can sing that song right over most of Carnival Begin. They're practically the same songs.

wait, do you mean Make Me a Mask? Because now that you made me think of it, the plonking guitar under the screaming solo (parts of which sound like the IIM solo to me) totally sounds like that plonking (sorry can't think of a better word) in Make Me a Mask slowed down a bit.....
I think for me that's what sounds so dam familiar about it. thanks for that!

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

Am I losing my mind or is the NPR thread gone?

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/530271...ntent=20170505

[button-lip]

http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires...icle-1.3223170


Review: Buckingham-McVie album is nearly all Fleetwood Mac


From Associated Press
June 05, 2017 12:20 PM EST


The first duet album from Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie is nearly Fleetwood Mac, with only Stevie Nicks missing from the band's classic lineup.

Its development began even before McVie rejoined the band after 16 years for the 2014-2015 "On With the Show" tour, when Buckingham recorded several songs with the Mac rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, who also contribute to the finished album.

More layers were added when Buckingham worked on snippets of chords, lyrics and melodies he was sent by McVie and a couple of their writing collaborations — the vocals-soaked pop of "Red Sun" and "Too Far Gone," with a Knopfler-esque, bluesy guitar riff and pounding drums — are among the highlights of the self-titled album.

"Game of Pretend" is a trademark McVie piano-led ballad which starts with great promise but turns to mush on the refrain. The other track she penned alone on the 10-song album is the excellent closer "Carnival Begin," her best vocal wonderfully framed by Buckingham's production touches and his typically yearning guitar solo that fades away too soon.

If the album was meant to be part of a full Fleetwood Mac comeback at some point, the Buckingham tunes have more of a solo album feel.

Still, the track sharing a name with the last Mac tour reveals both the beauty and apparent inescapability in the life of a musician like Buckingham — "As long as I stand, I will take your hand, I will stand with my band/There's nowhere to go, but on down the road, let's get on with the show."

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by button-lip

http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires...icle-1.3223170


Review: Buckingham-McVie album is nearly all Fleetwood Mac


From Associated Press
June 05, 2017 12:20 PM EST


The first duet album from Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie is nearly Fleetwood Mac, with only Stevie Nicks missing from the band's classic lineup.

Its development began even before McVie rejoined the band after 16 years for the 2014-2015 "On With the Show" tour, when Buckingham recorded several songs with the Mac rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, who also contribute to the finished album.

More layers were added when Buckingham worked on snippets of chords, lyrics and melodies he was sent by McVie and a couple of their writing collaborations — the vocals-soaked pop of "Red Sun" and "Too Far Gone," with a Knopfler-esque, bluesy guitar riff and pounding drums — are among the highlights of the self-titled album.

"Game of Pretend" is a trademark McVie piano-led ballad which starts with great promise but turns to mush on the refrain. The other track she penned alone on the 10-song album is the excellent closer "Carnival Begin," her best vocal wonderfully framed by Buckingham's production touches and his typically yearning guitar solo that fades away too soon.

If the album was meant to be part of a full Fleetwood Mac comeback at some point, the Buckingham tunes have more of a solo album feel.

Still, the track sharing a name with the last Mac tour reveals both the beauty and apparent inescapability in the life of a musician like Buckingham — "As long as I stand, I will take your hand, I will stand with my band/There's nowhere to go, but on down the road, let's get on with the show."

Wow just about every critic has panned Game of Pretend ..it does take a turn for the worse with the chorus.I also agree that the Lindsey songs have more of a solo feel and that Carnival Begin is a great song ..from what Mick and Lindsey were saying beforehand I expected that the entire album was going to be up to that standard.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

Wow just about every critic has panned Game of Pretend ..it does take a turn for the worse with the chorus.I also agree that the Lindsey songs have more of a solo feel and that Carnival Begin is a great song ..from what Mick and Lindsey were saying beforehand I expected that the entire album was going to be up to that standard.

What else were they going to say? "Meh . . . It's okay. It's not Rumours, but it's better than Time."

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

What else were they going to say? "Meh . . . It's okay. It's not Rumours, but it's better than Time."

Well yes that it is

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

Well yes that it is

Water is wet, too.

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

Wow just about every critic has panned Game of Pretend ..it does take a turn for the worse with the chorus.

The chorus of GoP is literally my favorite thing in the whole album--and I love everything about this album.

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

What else were they going to say? "Meh . . . It's okay. It's not Rumours, but it's better than Time."

You can speak positively of it without going overboard.

[seanthompson]

'Game of Pretend' is like 'Songbird' meets 'Farmer's Daughter'. Took me a few listens, but I got it. At first, I thought it was over-produced sugar. Now, it's actually very lovely.

[KenB]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

wait, do you mean Make Me a Mask?

I agree with the original poster who said Carnival Begin sounds like Behind the Mask. Not Make Me a Mask.

[lennonfan]

Originally Posted by seanthompson

'Game of Pretend' is like 'Songbird' meets 'Farmer's Daughter'. Took me a few listens, but I got it. At first, I thought it was over-produced sugar. Now, it's actually very lovely.

I feel the same way.

[Street_Dreamer]

Was at Target earlier today and they played an ad for the upcoming album. It was a pleasant surprise.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Street_Dreamer

Was at Target earlier today and they played an ad for the upcoming album. It was a pleasant surprise.

I heard Friend in Best Buy about a week before the release.

[button-lip]

http://www.kshe95.com/news/real-rock...wood-mac-again


Lindsey Buckingham told Christine McVie she couldn't leave Fleetwood Mac again



Upon Christine McVie re-joining Fleetwood Mac again in time for their 2014 tour, she sniffed the band out about coming back after a 16-yer hiatus. Lindsey Buckingham revealed to The Guardian that he offered his bandmate a pointed ultimatum upon her return to the Mac, recalling, "I don’t think she assumed we’d necessarily be okay with it -- we had been doing quite well as a four-piece. I think she was trying to nose around to see if there was any openness to it before she got too assertive or specific about it. I had to have a conversation with Christine and say: 'Well, we’d love you to come back, but you can’t leave again.'" The pair's first album as a duo -- Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie -- will be released on Friday (June 9th).

Almost immediately new music began blossoming amongst the Fleetwood Mac bandmates: "She told me she’d been reconnecting with her creative muse and had some rough ideas she sent to me -- I, of course, took great liberties with them in my studio. And she was interested in these songs I’d been working on, and Mick (Fleetwood) and John (McVie) thought it would be good to bring her over early and cut tracks on some of these things. It was unbelievable. We only expected to do it for a couple of weeks but we stayed for a month. Nobody was saying it was a duet album -- we didn’t care what it was."

Although Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have only collaborated on a total of five songs in the years working together, the pair found themselves coming together to form a new partnership with the new album: "There was more co-writership on this than we've ever done before. Part of that was a function of her openness and even what you might call her vulnerability coming back into the band and the creative process again. Part of it was something she was asking for in a larger sense from me than maybe she had thought about doing before. Part of it was, again, me applying my own growth and perhaps, even being pro-active about taking -- if you wanna use the word -- liberties."

Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie will perform on Thursday (June 8th) on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.