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Christine said in an interview that she quit in 1984. I always wonder if she completely quit doing cocaine cold turkey or if she kept doing it just sporadically while doing her own thing with her solo album and tour. I mean it was still the early-mid 1980s everyone else around her was still doing it. Surely she partook occasionally after she "quit." |
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I couldn't agree with you more. I remember how excited I was for the release of Mirage. It seemed like those three years between albums was forever. I had Belladonna and Law & Order to hold me over but was really missing the fab 5. I can't wait for 2015! |
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DAMN THEM for not learning it for OWTS.
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Christine McVie- she radiated both purity and sass in equal measure, bringing light to the music of the 70s. RIP. - John Taylor(Duran Duran) |
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Let's not forget the Hold Me video! MTV played that video in a high rotation and Stevie Nicks looked amazing. |
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True, Feather Blade. I love the album as well, just saying most of the public in general seem to hold the album in lower regard than the other four from the Rumours lineup. Mirage is actually the album I spin the most even though it's probably my 4th favorite of the 5. Go figure...
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Huge irony between Tusk and Mirage
Tusk got bad reviews for being way too experimental Mirage got bad reviews for being too safe and conventional You cant please them all I love both equally. The harmonies on Mirage are hard to beat! |
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Without a doubt Mirage was a reaction record to how Tusk was received. I think Mac did play it safe, and I think that did temper their fire in an over-all sense, however, being Fleetwood Mac moments of brilliance still shine through "Gypsy" definitely being one.
As I've said before, I think the massive success of Rumours has had a lingering effect on them. Chris wasn't meeting her usual pop song standards on Tusk. Lindsey played it too safe on Mirage. And Stevie's coke addiction finally brought down the quality of her songwriting on Tango. Each of those albums had one of the 3 off their game, and since then we've had the Lindsey-less Behind The Mask and the Christine-less Say You Will, neither of which can be considered a "classic Mac lineup" album. |
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I love the album....well, a little more than HALF the album, which is still much better than most bands. Gyspy, Hold Me, Love In Store, Only Over You, Wish You Were Here, Straight Back, Eyes of the World, and Book of Love. I wish Goodbye Angel had been included, as well as Teen Beat. I really do not like Empire State or Oh Diane. Can't Go Back sounds like an LB solo song. And That's Alright, though a great song, sounds much better in its demo form from the mid-70s. |
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I have learnt never to read album reviews, esp. in that ****e rag, Rolling Stone Magazine, wh., in its review of Joni Mitchell's The Hissing of Summer Lawns, described the final track, "Shadows and Light," as sounding like, 'one long continuous fart.'
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These days I get up real early in the morning, like 1 or 2 a.m. If you're a "creature of the night" like me, the music on Fleetwood Mac's XM channel is a perfect blend of haunting, atmospheric songs. A lot of old FM and fewer newer, pop stuff (which I love during the daytime hours.). Reminds me of old-time FM (frequency modulated) radio. Check it out...kiddies and smoke a joint if you're into that kind of stuff. Oh, my those were the old days!
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RS was so disgustingly, blatantly misogynistic in those days it's amazing. Bunch of smug-a$$ douchey guys pontificating self-importantly.
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The last album where all 3 writers were at 100% was 'Rumours'. McVie was off on 'Tusk' - her songs just don't have the pop hooks they normally had. Buckingham was off on 'Mirage', and Nicks was off on 'Tango'. |
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Well that makes two of us.
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I love Only Over You.
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