Songs you would freak out over if they played live.

[Mr Scarrott]

The return of Green Manalishi, Why and Spare me a little of your love would be fantastic and would echo the original tour of this version of the band.

I can't say I would want to hear anything from BTM or Time although Behind the Mask and Sooner or Later are amongst Christine's best IMO- I just don't think they would work live...

For an absolute curveball, how about Somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonite? I think Lindsey would enjoy being Earl Vince. I can see him in gold lamé....

[louielouie2000]

Chris:
Warm Ways
Oh Daddy
Over & Over
Think About Me
Brown Eyes
Never Forget
Only Over You
Hold Me
Wish You Were Here
Isn't It Midnight
Mystified
(anything pre 1975)

Stevie:
Straight Back
Seven Wonders
Destiny Rules

Lindsey:
Walk A Thin Line
Big Love (non acoustic)

My Stevie & Lindsey lists are pretty short because they have both been breaking out the rarities during the past 10+ years both in Fleetwood Mac & their solo tours.

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by elle

Angel and Hold Me they really should do, no excuse not to (but i'm sure they'll come up with some).

not RTTG, but Destiny Rules should make a comeback!

I'll take it! I also forgot to list Walk A Thin Line.

[wheart]

I forgot one: Honey Hi from Tusk. I love that song!!!

[WildHearted]

Crystal.

I Don't Want to Know.

Think About Me.

[pauls90]

I actually wish they would do "Thrown Down"

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by wheart

I forgot one: Honey Hi from Tusk. I love that song!!!

That would be a great tune live for all three of them.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

I feel like station man should be freak out worthy. I mean it's not been played since 76.

Yeah, it would be a surprise, but it's been done. (as have "Tell Me All The Things You Do" & "Sunny Side Of Heaven") So, "freak out"?? No, I would grin widely as possible through it, however.

How about "Dragonfly", or "Jewel-Eyed Judy"? or "Child Of Mine"? or "Woman Of A 1000 Years"?

Any of those get played and I'd probably wet myself.

[olive]

anything that hasn't been in any of their Set Lists for the last 20 years

[StreetAngel86]

S T R A I G H T B A C K


**hails***

[lovethemac1]

Crystal
Django
Storms
Beautiful Child
Tango in the Night Set---someone else said this and I love this idea.
Twisted----for sure, definitely
Albatross
Angel
Blue Denim--Stevie singing it to Lindsey, just like she does Silver Springs
Countdown
Don't Look Down
Hold Me
Peacekeeper
Rooms on Fire
Songbird
Save Me
Slabo Day---I know it's a Peter Green song, but I'd love to hear it!!!!!

[secret love]

Originally Posted by lovethemac1

Crystal
Django
Storms
Beautiful Child
Tango in the Night Set---someone else said this and I love this idea.
Twisted----for sure, definitely
Albatross
Angel
Blue Denim--Stevie singing it to Lindsey, just like she does Silver Springs
Countdown
Don't Look Down
Hold Me
Peacekeeper
Rooms on Fire
Songbird
Save Me
Slabo Day---I know it's a Peter Green song, but I'd love to hear it!!!!!

I am obviously coming into this discussion quite late so sorry if I repeat other people's ideas a lot. Haven't read the whole thread.

Songs I would freak if the Fleetwood Mac five-some played them live:
- Don't Stop. For someone like me who has never seen Fleetwood Mac live before? Wow...to see it with Christine McVie on the keys and singing lead with Lindsey would be heaven.
Pretty sure that I'll get my wish on that one - if I can afford the concert ticket and flights to America - you lucky Yanks!
- Next: Landslide - one song (unlike Dreams) that Stevie still sings very, very well.
- The Tango in the Night mini-set idea. Not the whole album necessarily. That's 12 songs (half a setlist) gone in one shot. 6 TITN songs:
Seven Wonders, Little Lies, Isn't it Midnight, Big Love (united band effort!!!), Caroline, You and I (parts I and II) if Lindsey and Christine's vocals can manage the strain of an 8 minute duet.

-Steal Your Heart Away, Bleed to Love Her, Thrown Down and Everybody Finds Out, plus You Are or Friend (from Christine's ITM solo album - but performed as a band song).

My last advice to the band even though I know they are not reading this and would never listen anyway is: Cut the filler songs! Christine would understand what this means - she talked in 2004 about her ITM album being great due to lack of filler (I watched the vid last week).

Don't play:
Dreams is not a hit anymore. It was a hit in 1977 -Stevie come on your vocal range has tightened! You've lost the ability to sing Dreams well - just that particular song.
Everywhere: look sure lets take advantage of the opportunity offered by Shetland pony in the 3Mobile/Vodafone commercial! But if it's a choice between Everywhere and Little Lies/Isn't it Midnight both of the later two should prevail
Big Love solo version: that would send the wrong message. The message to send to us fans is: we are a united team who love working together lovey dub dub etc.
Silver Springs: this used to be my favourite song, honestly. Someone wrote on this website the other day, jokingly, that Silver Springs should be dropped for I Don't Want to Know. The more I thought about it, I actually agreed. Stevie can't sing Silver Springs like she did in 1997 or 2003, let alone when it was recorded in 1977
-Do something interesting with a few of the staples. Eg this 1987 remixed studio take of Little Lies adapted to a modern, Live setting:


Lindsey in developing this setlist with his colleagues, should look to their latter back-catalogue of work because this will mean avoiding rewriting songs in different keys for all three singers (not just Stevie and Lindsey...Christine's voice is probably in the best shape but she has been and as a far as I know still is a smoker...).

If Fleetwood Mac takes one thing on board from all the noise us fans are making: focus on your latter back-catalogue. Do a good chunk of TITN - at least 6 maybe more songs. Do a song or two from The Chain boxset. Does the band know how well The Chain - 25 years (1992) is selling in my home country right now, in 2014? It hit the top ten in the charts recently - and stayed there.
So: I think I will cut this post short and start a new "This setlist would be the best one ever - who agrees?" thread because this band, while very talented, are also very silly people. Read your fanbase, ask them what they want and act on it. Not just if your name's Lindsey by the way.



Here's to exciting times ahead in the music industry,

secret love.

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by secret love

Read your fanbase, ask them what they want and act on it. Not just if your name's Lindsey by the way.

The "fans" want to hear the hits. The majority of the people in these arenas will be casual fans not die hards. They don't stick to the hits because that's what they prefer to play....and if they do prefer to play them it's because of the response they get from playing them. It's not indifference. Not only that, but they're definitely not going to really shake it up when to them and I'm sure most of the people in the arena, adding Christine into the mix is change enough. They've pretty much said as much.

[Macfanforever]

I,m still so happy that FM played SOTM last year.
I just be happy to hear Chris's songs on this upcoming tour.

[louielouie2000]

How in the world could I forget the title track from Tango In The Night?!