Fleetwood Mac 1975: Your favorite songs, grouped by singer

[Villavic]

Let's see what happens with the 1975 "white" album. If you had to choose one group of songs that you like the most, which will you choose? Lindsey’s songs? Stevie’s songs? Christine's songs?

[bwboy]

I went with Stevie here. I mean, Landslide, Rhiannon, and Crystal are hands down some of my all time favorite FM songs ever, and they’re all on this album.

Warm Ways and Blue Letter are also two of my all time favorite FM songs. Over My Head, Monday Morning, and I’m So Afraid are fantastic as well. But I don’t care for Say You Love Me and I really dislike Sugar Daddy and World Turning. So that’s why I gave the win for this album to Stevie.

[Macfan4life]

This is very close between Chris and Stevie. Its a Sophie's choice. I will vote for Chris simply because there are more of her songs. I love all their songs. Flame me all you want but I love Warm Ways too.

Bwboy is under a one week ban for not liking Say You Love Me and Sugar Daddy. I dont know about you but I remember those rules when I signed up.
Rules are rules.

[HomerMcvie]

I guess it's Christine by a nose? My favorite three songs are Sugar Daddy, World Turning, and Rhiannon.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

This is very close between Chris and Stevie. Its a Sophie's choice. I will vote for Chris simply because there are more of her songs. I love all their songs. Flame me all you want but I love Warm Ways too.

Bwboy is under a one week ban for not liking Say You Love Me and Sugar Daddy. I dont know about you but I remember those rules when I signed up.
Rules are rules.

I'm with you re SYLM and SD. Not a huge fan of Warm Ways, it's mostly ok but that "you made me a woman tonight" line is just
Over My Head is great. World Turning isn't my favorite but it's a nice part of the flow of the album.

Landslide and Rhiannon are stellar. Crystal I love for personal reasons, and for the ending with John's bass and Chris's intertwining keyboards. So it's a Stevie song but I love it in large part for Chris's contribution. This is where picking favorite songs by songWRITER is tricky, because with this band everyone plays such an integral role in making anyone's songs rise to an even higher level than they would on their own.

I'd kind of peg Lindsey's songs as my least favorites on this album. I do skip over them a lot. To me it's a Stevie and Chris album, with the strong foundation going to Chris, with Stevie adding in more of the highlights.

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

I'm with you re SYLM and SD. Not a huge fan of Warm Ways, it's mostly ok but that "you made me a woman tonight" line is just

This is where picking favorite songs by songWRITER is tricky, because with this band everyone plays such an integral role in making anyone's songs rise to an even higher level than they would on their own.

I'd kind of peg Lindsey's songs as my least favorites on this album. I do skip over them a lot. To me it's a Stevie and Chris album, with the strong foundation going to Chris, with Stevie adding in more of the highlights.

I guess I just really relate to Warm Ways because that song was playing in the background all five times I lost my virginity, while at the same time, I hate Sugar Daddy because I’ve never had or been one . Seriously, that line about becoming a woman is pretty cringy, but the song is just so beautiful, I’m able to overlook it.

Your point about the songwriting is valid, too. I love Crystal and always thought it was written by Lindsey until I bothered to look at the credits. I love the song just as much for his vocals as I do the words, but ultimately, since Stevie wrote it, I put it under her name. But boy is his voice beautiful on it. I also love how you describe the album, with Christine being the foundation. Maybe I’d add Lindsey is the frame, and Stevie is the paint or wallpaper.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by bwboy

I guess I just really relate to Warm Ways because that song was playing in the background all five times I lost my virginity, while at the same time, I hate Sugar Daddy because I’ve never had or been one . Seriously, that line about becoming a woman is pretty cringy, but the song is just so beautiful, I’m able to overlook it.

Your point about the songwriting is valid, too. I love Crystal and always thought it was written by Lindsey until I bothered to look at the credits. I love the song just as much for his vocals as I do the words, but ultimately, since Stevie wrote it, I put it under her name. But boy is his voice beautiful on it. I also love how you describe the album, with Christine being the foundation. Maybe I’d add Lindsey is the frame, and Stevie is the paint or wallpaper.

You lost your virginity FIVE TIMES?

[aleuzzi]

I chose Christine (surprise, surprise!) because of the one-two punch of Say You Love Me and Sugar Daddy. Man, both of those songs are great! Of course, Over My Head and Warm Ways are good, too. Close call with Stevie though. Rhiannon is Rhiannon. Landslide is Landslide. Crystal has a jaw-dropping organ outro.

I doubt many would chose Lindsey here. Monday is fun. So Afraid has a great backing track with a weak vocal. But his best song is the collaboration with Christine.

I’ve said it before: Say You Love Me is as iconic, in a different way, than Rhiannon.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by bwboy

I guess I just really relate to Warm Ways because that song was playing in the background all five times I lost my virginity,

Ummmm…..an explanation might be in order

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by bwboy

I guess I just really relate to Warm Ways because that song was playing in the background all five times I lost my virginity, .

I am calculating towards how many body parts a virginity can be lost. I only find 3.

[WalkAThinLine.]

This is the first time I voted for Stevie Nicks, although I could have easily gone with Christine McVie. "Crystal", "Rhiannon", and "Landslide" are all great, although the latter two might be victims of overexposure. I wasn't sure whether to count "World Turning" as a Lindsey song or a Christine song, but I should have just counted it as both when I made my decision. I also decided to only rate the album versions of the songs as opposed to the single mixes. Had the single mixes been factored in, I would have likely given it to Christine McVie instead. There aren't any songs from her that I dislike, although the album version of "Over My Head" is quite underwhelming compared to the single remix. Even album cuts like "Warm Ways" and "Sugar Daddy" have grown on me slightly. As s the case with several of these votes, I am feeling compelled to switch my vote to Christine McVie, but my first instinct was to vote for Stevie.

Lindsey has hardly gotten a mention here, but his songs are fine as well, but he was only given two with sole- songwriting credits, so it didn't feel right giving him the edge over the other two songwriters. The studio version of "I'm So Afraid" often gets cast aside, but I find the understated and restrained playing to be appealing. "Monday Morning" was a fine album opener and could have worked well as a single, but alas, it was not meant to be.

[mitzo]

Stevie wins this one. She was what was new and unique with this album. Also, Christine created the commercial hit and Lindsey worked hard in the background.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by mitzo

Stevie wins this one. She was what was new and unique with this album. Also, Christine created the commercial hit and Lindsey worked hard in the background.

Lindsey crafted the arrangements of the Stevie material (which to be overly technical wasn't new at all... though I take your point that it was new to FM). Her songs sparkled the way they did in significant part because Lindsey had worked on them already ... certainly at least as part of the second BN album which they were working on. Now, John and Chris and Mick added magic to those songs, but what was handed to them to work on was a much more polished and beefed up product than whatever they were like in Stevie's songwriting demos. So his contribution includes her songs for sure.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

So his contribution includes her songs for sure.

I made this comment about Soldier's Angel once and was called a misogynist

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

I made this comment about Soldier's Angel once and was called a misogynist

Yes, you Soldier'ed on!