Extended Play Reviews

[elle]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Right now (just checked), it is number 6 on the iTunes album chart.

For those who may not know, these are iTunes sales charts - not Billboard rankings or anything like that.

However, with iTunes being the largest (in terms of volume) music retailer in the world, being number 6 in the U.S. late in the day after release, is very impressive.

it's #6 on overall album sales chart, and #1 on the rock album chart. so TerraRhiannon is also correct.

all this is itunes US, not Aus, UK, NZ, etc. so whoever said #50something was not looking at the itunes US.

[elle]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

It says to me that it's selling units to more than just internet fans. If this were not available online, and only a CD release in brick-and-mortor stores, I doubt it would have charted. Just my opinion, of course - I'm no sales analyst.

Of course, it might very well fall to 139 tomorrow.

agree. same if it was available on both amazon and itunes - it would be split. of course, top of itunes promotional banner plus the price helps too.

[michelej1]

Perez Hilton

http://perezhilton.com/2013-04-30-fl...sten-sad-angel

We didn't want to believe the Rumors (ughh we couldn't resist!) in case they proved to be false…

But huzzah! Fleetwood Mac really DID record new music and it's all available for your listening pleasure RIGHT NOW in the form of their Extended Play EP!

Take a listen to Sad Angel, one of their brand new tunes written by Lindsey Buckingham (above)!

Now, we've already heard this track before as Stevie Nicks and co. have been playing it while on tour, but the legitimate studio recording gives us a FAR better sense of what this song is about than the muddled live version.

Extended Play is the band's first collection of unheard tracks since 2003's Say You Will, and amongst its freshly penned melodies is Without You, a rediscovered song from the Buckingham Nicks project that was never officially released.

Yaaaay for more Fleetwood Mac! Our ears will never tire of their supreme musical talent and soul-stuffed creations!

[Christopher]

"Extended Play" just inched up to #5 on the US Itunes album chart!

[Jondalar]

Very Awesome.

[elle]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/fleet...medium=twitter

FLEETWOOD MAC, ‘SAD ANGEL’ – SONG REVIEW

by Dave Lifton April 30, 2013 8:52 PM
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Earlier today (April 30), Fleetwood Mac released a four-song EP, ‘Extended Play,’ their first new studio material since 2003′s ‘Say You Will.’ While the EP is available for purchase exclusively at iTunes, you can stream the lead track and first single, ‘Sad Angel,’ below.

Written by Lindsey Buckingham, ‘Sad Angel’ opens with some typically kinetic, percussive Buckingham rhythm guitar before his vocals come in, and joined later by the whole band. The rhythm section of John McVie and Mick Fleetwood chug along in typical no-nonsense, muscular fashion, with some keyboards and a few layers of guitars to fill it out.

Even though she sings in tandem with Buckingham for all but the opening 15 seconds, Stevie Nicks is largely invisible. She takes her lines well and the two still blend together very well, but there’s little of her trademark personality on display. Maybe that’s a little harsh, but for a band that has traded so frequently on the duo’s history together, ‘Sad Angel’ doesn’t offer much in the way of tension between its two lead singers.

Not that that’s a bad thing, of course. Throughout the run-up to the release of ‘Extended Play,’ we’ve heard about how those past issues are behind them – note how they’re posed in the press photo above – so what better way to prove it than with a nice, poppy song that is, lyrically, light years removed from their famously autobiographical work.

Or is it? The ambiguous lyrics could be Buckingham acknowledging that he and Nicks need each other, and are never better than when they’re together. “We fall to Earth together / The crowd calling out for more / Hello, hello sad angel / Have you come to fight the war?” they sing in the chorus. It’s hard to tell, because we usually associate Nicks with gypsies or witches, not angels.

If ‘Sad Angel’ is about her, then it’s a nice peace offering as the two of them prepare to write the newest chapter in their incredibly long history together. If not, then it’s still a welcome return to form for one of rock’s most enduring bands.

7 of 10

[michelej1]

^Oh come on. She's been an angel for a long time.

Michele

[ShangriLaTroubl]

When I first heard this song I kind of thought it was about Stevie coming back to Fleetwood Mac. "Hello, Sad Angel, have you come to fight the war?" Make sense in that respect.

[streetangel27]

Originally Posted by ShangriLaTroubl

When I first heard this song I kind of thought it was about Stevie coming back to Fleetwood Mac. "Hello, Sad Angel, have you come to fight the war?" Make sense in that respect.

That's what I thought too

[secondhandchain]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,4251800.story

[estranged4life]

it would be released on disc, don't care for iTunes

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by michelej1

^Oh come on. She's been an angel for a long time.

that's "ayn-jell"

[michelej1]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,4251800.story

By Mikael Wood
May 1, 2013, 8:30 a.m. Los Angeles Times

The four songs on the new Fleetwood Mac EP -- which the legendary pop-rock outfit put up for sale on iTunes on Tuesday morning with little advance warning -- arrive steeped in echoes of the past, in at least one case quite literally: "Without You," a strummy acoustic number overlaid with harmony vocals by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, reportedly dates back to sessions for the two singers' 1973 album as a long-haired vocal duo deeply opposed to shirts.


But the other tunes on "Extended Play," newly composed by Buckingham and co-produced by him and L.A. studio pro Mitchell Froom, feel no less rooted in earlier iterations of this on-again/off-again institution.

"Miss Fantasy" has some of the folky back-porch guitar action of "Never Going Back Again," while the stripped-down "It Takes Time" could be Buckingham's version of Christine McVie's big piano ballad, "Songbird." And opener "Sad Angel," which you can hear below, shimmers with the glossy textures of 1987's "Tango in the Night." (Incidentally, if you want to get a sense of Fleetwood Mac's enduring influence on synthed-up young rock acts like Phoenix, go straight to "Tango" -- it looms larger these days than the vaunted "Rumours" does.)

Nothing about this self-reference surprises, of course, especially given that Fleetwood Mac is in the midst of a giant arena tour that will bring the band to the Hollywood Bowl on May 25 and Anaheim's Honda Center on May 28. Old hits are what the members are playing onstage -- "Don't Stop," "Dreams," "Go Your Own Way," "Silver Springs" -- so old hits are what the members are hearing in their heads.

And yet "Extended Play" -- Fleetwood Mac's first studio output since "Say You Will" in 2003 -- doesn't sound stale or overworked; indeed, the songs have an impressive crispness (after only a handful of spins, anyway) that makes their familiarity seem less like evidence of a tapped creative supply than like proof that this is simply the kind of music Fleetwood Mac writes.

"I remember you," Buckingham sings over and over again near the end of "Miss Fantasy," and he might be addressing his own melody. But it's a good one. You'll remember it too.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Unrelated:
Gosh, the projects Stevie could do if she embraced the internet.

Reminds me of my mother... even she won't sit down in front of a computer.

[michelej1]

Mostly Junk Food, April 30, 2013

http://www.mostlyjunkfood.com/stream...ended-play-ep/


No, you didn’t read that wrong. Fleetwood Mac is actually back with new material for the first time in ten years and no one can be disappointed about it. They quietly released it on iTunes earlier today and is actually a strong EP for only being fifteen minutes long. However, they could’ve come up with a better title than “Extended Play” but they’re old so they get a pass. In related news: Steely Dan just announced a summer tour.

Here’s what Lindsey had to say about the project:


“It’s still evolving, and that’s the beauty of it too. I’ve known Stevie since high school. We were a couple for many, many years, and we’ve been a musical couple forever,” Buckingham said. “After all this time you would think there was nothing left to discover, nothing left to work out, no new chapters to be written. But that is not the case – there are new chapters to be written.”