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Your Thoughts Fleetwood Mac EP?
It's sad that the four song EP is almost certainly the last Fleetwood Mac studio material with Lindsey and quite likely the last new material from the band period. For me, Lindsey's contributions on the EP are better than his Say You Will material. Sad Angel is an all-time great Fleetwood Mac song and one of my favorite songs ever.
I'm also a huge fan of Miss Fantasy although I can see why it might not fit everyone's taste. I also love It Takes Time. It's unlike anything Lindsey has ever done in or out of Fleetwood Mac. Without You is straight garbage and it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it's a Stevie song. The song is so lifeless and dull and uninspiring. Lindsey deserves some blame for not getting more out of it but at the same time Stevie has a history with songs like this. Without You is right there with Second Time. They're two of the dirt worst songs in the history of Fleetwood Mac. |
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Wrong.
The last FM album was Buckingham McVie. Which(imo) is the best thing they've done since Mirage. And best of all, that bitter old hag wasn't on it. It's a happy, joyous album!
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I agree Buckingham/McVie was the last Mac album
Disagree and thought the EP was crap Disagree and think Say You Will is brilliant. Its so Lindsey. I don't understand how if you are a Lindsey fan you don't appreciate Say You Will. But if you wanted real....Mirage is really the last Mac album that included the Rumours 5 working together on real songs. In many ways after Mirage, Fleetwood Mac jumped the shark once the solo careers went full tilt and someone's drug use over took their talents. Once the Mirage tour ended, it was like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.
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I love Sad Angel
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I love Extended Play-and I love that it was put out w that title, I do think it was an intentional spin on the 'EP' format terminology.. very tongue in cheek, very Lindsey.. Fleetwood Mac at play, nothing to prove, just creating in their late career.
Could Stevie have actually contributed more than a 40+ year old song and made it much better? Absolutely. But Sad Angel is classic Fleetwood Mac, I love Miss Fantasy in all its mellow, breezy glory & we finally got a Lindsey piano ballad w It Takes Time |
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It's good but no, not as good as Say You Will. Nothing remotely close to the order of Steal Your Heart Away, Murrow, Everybody Finds out, Destiny Rules.
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I think it’s possible to be a Lindsey fan and not appreciate all kinds of stuff, even Tusk. I happen to like Say You Will, but he’s done lots of things that I don’t “get” or I once got, but then got way over it. Luckily, he has given us a lot of variety to pick and choose from.
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Just saying Say You Will is vintage Lindsey. He worked so hard on the album and each track really shows his musical and production talents. I was over-reacting to the majority on this forum who appear to not appreciate Say You Will. I hear him on every note and production value. While some may say Tusk is under produced, Say You Will is produced perfectly IMHO. IMHO, some don't get the musical genius of Lindsey. There are several tracks on Say You Will that are Lindsey at his finest. Perhaps because I listened to Say You Will a million times with headphones, I hear things some may not. Gosh remember before I-pods, there was the carrying case for a portable CD player? LMAO well, I jogged many miles down Miami Beach listening to Say You Will probably a million times with my CD player carrying case LOL.
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I agree.....Say You Will is another Buckingham masterpiece and followed by another masterpiece the BuckMcVie album. It just sucks that the three songwriters never seem to be on the same page. |
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How you were able to jog without the CD skipping is beyond me.
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That’s odd, because I only claim to be a fan of 2/3 of the stuff he writes. But I consider him a great producer, artist, musician and screamer and that's all I need.
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His music philosophy is also close to my heart: the way he's compelled to labor over every track with the firm conviction that even subtle variations in formal characteristics (like sonics or effects) make listeners feel different. There are other people like that in rock, but the mainstream rock approach is just the opposite: set up your equipment, power through something, and record it transparently. It's fine—that approach has its place in music. But there's also the equally valid Lindsey Buckingham approach. It's for him as much as for us. He learns something new about his own tendencies and skills when he spends weeks on the back-and-forth experimentation on a single track. "I like what I just did, but what if I try it this way, irrespective of what we ultimately plan to do with the track?" It's a critique of the more superficial, immediate method, where you don't spend days tweaking barely noticeable rhythm guitar lines or workstation effects because it isn't "cool." Yes, there's stuff of his that sounds labored right off the bat, but some of Lindsey's most lasting work is the sort that sounds more superficial, yet reveals its thought complexities over time. We've mentioned a lot of those elements on the Ledge, like the reference to the old Max Steiner movie music in You Do or You Don't, or the way the motif of Stephanie is drawn out and used foundationally in Eyes of the World to support a track that's both boppy and desperate. We could have a million conversations about track choices and ideas in Lindsey's work, but imagine having even one such conversation about Stevie's. Stripped of her vocals and lyrics, those tracks would mean nothing to anyone.
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You talked about the triumph of Lindsey debuting the new arrangements of Big Love (and Go Insane) for his solo show. I wish he'd done more of that. We have outtakes here and there, with Gift of Screws and with the FM album releases we have gotten. But we haven't had the chance to track transformations in his solo work as much as I would like, because they would reveal, what I would like to perceive as, the transformations in him. |
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I'll buy that. Tango was mostly Lindsey and his tricks.
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