Most Overlooked - #23 - Bare Trees

desertangel · #1 08-13-2006, 12:03 AM

One of Portland's adult contemporary stations is doing a "Deep 6 summer" program/most overlooked albums of all time... Bare Trees is in 23rd place and has been the featured album today. So far I've caught Sentimental Lady, Child of Mine, Sunny Side of Heaven and Bare Trees. Actually, this station plays the title song quite frequently anyway. Someone is a fan.

I love it when this album gets recognition. Everything on it is flawless, in my opinion... including the cover art!!!

There's something extra special about hearing these songs over the airwaves thirty some odd years later.

Does anyone know which songs were released as singles?

Laura

carrie721 · #2 08-13-2006, 12:10 AM

I love Bare Trees. I believe Spare Me A Little and Sentimental Lady were the singles.

bretonbanquet · #3 08-13-2006, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

I love Bare Trees. I believe Spare Me A Little and Sentimental Lady were the singles.

I think that's right. Sentimental Lady was a single in the US, but not the UK. It was also released in Japan as well, and also some other places.

Spare Me was apparently a single in the UK, although I've never seen it. I'm not sure it was a single in the States. Sunny Side of Heaven was the B-side in all cases, I believe

macfan 57 · #4 08-13-2006, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

I think that's right. Sentimental Lady was a single in the US, but not the UK. It was also released in Japan as well, and also some other places.

Spare Me was apparently a single in the UK, although I've never seen it. I'm not sure it was a single in the States. Sunny Side of Heaven was the B-side in all cases, I believe

That is correct, as per the Penguin discography.

http://fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/albu...ingles_70s.htm

brightfire · #5 08-13-2006, 02:41 PM

I love Bare Trees. It was the first Fleetwood Mac album I heard.

shackin'up · #6 08-13-2006, 05:24 PM

I just feel it as totally unreal that I'm watching this board together with Trackaghost and Jeremy Spencer. Love you both!!!

desertangel · #7 08-13-2006, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by macfan 57

That is correct, as per the Penguin discography.

http://fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/albu...ingles_70s.htm

Thanks for posting that link... I knew it had to be here somewhere. I looked but not real hard.

Sunny Side of Heaven gives me the same feeling as Albatross when I hear it, warm and fuzzy. Like a large meadow of wildflowers bending to and fro from a light breeze on a warm summer day. Stops me dead in my tracks... sit up and listen. Sigh...

joshywashy377 · #8 08-13-2006, 06:56 PM

Bare Trees is the very first pre-Linds and Stevie album i ever bought, i love almost all the songs on there. Danny K was prbly my personal fav pre-rumours era Macster musically

aleuzzi · #9 08-13-2006, 11:35 PM

Bare Trees is filled with great music--not least one of my all-time favorite songs: "Dust." Kirwan set the first two stanzas of a canonized poem (Rupert Brooke's "Dust") to music and came up with a hauntingly beautiful song. many singer-songwriters have done the same, but never--I think--achieved the same degree of excellence.

macfan 57 · #10 08-14-2006, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Bare Trees is filled with great music--not least one of my all-time favorite songs: "Dust." Kirwan set the first two stanzas of a canonized poem (Rupert Brooke's "Dust") to music and came up with a hauntingly beautiful song. many singer-songwriters have done the same, but never--I think--achieved the same degree of excellence.

"Dust" is my favorite Danny Kirwan song & "Sunny Side Of Heaven" is one of my 2 favorite FM instrumentals. I LOVE the 2 singles, "Spare Me A Little Of Your Love" & "Sentimental Lady". The only song on the album that I don't like is "Danny's Chant". I don't even mind poor Mrs. Scarrot's poem at the end.

chiliD · #11 08-14-2006, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by desertangel

Sunny Side of Heaven gives me the same feeling as Albatross when I hear it, warm and fuzzy. Like a large meadow of wildflowers bending to and fro from a light breeze on a warm summer day. Stops me dead in my tracks... sit up and listen. Sigh...

And, being a bright sunny day in 1976 in Santa Barbara, California, I was on the football field at UC Santa Barbara, 20 yards in front of Christine McVie when Fleetwood Mac opened their set with "Sunny Side Of Heaven". (it was the concert that was filmed and bits of pieces included in the Rosebud promo video).

bretonbanquet · #12 08-14-2006, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

And, being a bright sunny day in 1976 in Santa Barbara, California, I was on the football field at UC Santa Barbara, 20 yards in front of Christine McVie when Fleetwood Mac opened their set with "Sunny Side Of Heaven". (it was the concert that was filmed and bits of pieces included in the Rosebud promo video).

Full jealousy overload from me

"Dust" is just perfection as far as I'm concerned - I just can't find fault with it. I always thought it appropriate that it was Danny's final word on a Fleetwood Mac album. Bare Trees is an awesome album, and I even love "Danny's Chant", I think Mick does a great job on there. The one song I am much less keen on is "Sentimental Lady", but then no album is perfect.