Top 10 Most Iconic Mac Songs

[TerraRhiannon]

I think all we have to do here is look at their "greatest hits" album that came out in '88.

Rhiannon
Don't Stop
Go Your own Way
Hold Me (I hear this played greatly on the rock station here)
Gypsy
You Make Loving Fun
Dreams
Say You Love Me
Little Lies
No Questions Asked ... Actually, replace this with Landslide

[moon]

I think we have more than 10 here...

01. Albatross
02. Black Magic Woman
03. Sentimental lady
04. Landslide
05. Dreams
06. Go your own way
07. Tusk
08. Gypsy
09. Big Love
10. Little Lies

Special mentions to: Oh Well, Everywhere, Sara & You Make Loving Fun

[elle]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

I don't. Little Lies far surpasses Gypsy in youtube hits.

i was curious about youtube hits... so i searched by Fleetwood Mac, number of views 1,000,000 and above per video.

i added the views over 1,000,000 for the same song. this would probably change somewhat or maybe even substantially if you added some videos with less than 1,000,000. for example, second Songbird has 917,370 views, so if you add that with the first one, Songbird has 2,781,772 views and switches place with Oh Well. but i had to put a cut somewhere.

some results seemed surprising, while others not so much (two commercials put up by Budweiser give Landslide ~15,000,000 hits, for example). this is the order:

1. GYOW - 28,688,193
2. Landslide – 26,739,270
3. Dreams - 23,466,090
4. Black Magic Woman – 12,860,278
5. Little Lies – 9,358,701
6. The Chain – 9,273,761
7. Sara – 6,750,668
8. Gypsy – 6,089,784
9. Don't Stop - 5,229,043
10. Everywhere – 4,8857,384
11. Rhiannon – 4,121,840
12. Oh Well - 2,475,971
13. Songbird - 1,864,402
14. Trouble - 1,626,144
15. Seven Wonders - 1,465,473
16. Angel - 1,394,488
17. Tusk - 1,272,029
18. You Make Loving Fun - 1,177,526
19. Like it This Way - 1,170,597

honorable mentions with 900,000 views plus:

• Need Your Love So Bad - 985,262 views
• Gold Dust Woman - 948,988 views
• Albatross - 936,198 views
• Silver Springs - 933,430 views

also interesting that LB's solo Trouble comes up in FM search, while his solo Big Love which also has over 1,000,000 doesn't; i guess depends whether FM is mentioned somewhere in the text.
EDIT: seems that Big Love from Bass Hall that was put up on youtube by Gibson guitars has been taken down.

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by elle

i was curious about youtube hits... so i searched by Fleetwood Mac, number of views 1,000,000 and above per video.

i added the views over 1,000,000 for the same song. this would probably change somewhat or maybe even substantially if you added some videos with less than 1,000,000. for example, second Songbird has 917,370 views, so if you add that with the first one, Songbird has 2,781,772 views and switches place with Oh Well. but i had to put a cut somewhere.

some results seemed surprising, while others not so much (two commercials put up by Budweiser give Landslide ~15,000,000 hits, for example). this is the order:

1. GYOW - 28,688,193
2. Landslide – 26,739,270
3. Dreams - 23,466,090
4. Black Magic Woman – 12,860,278
5. Little Lies – 9,358,701
6. The Chain – 9,273,761
7. Sara – 6,750,668
8. Gypsy – 6,089,784
9. Don't Stop - 5,229,043
10. Everywhere – 4,8857,384
11. Rhiannon – 4,121,840
12. Oh Well - 2,475,971
13. Songbird - 1,864,402
14. Trouble - 1,626,144
15. Seven Wonders - 1,465,473
16. Angel - 1,394,488
17. Tusk - 1,272,029
18. You Make Loving Fun - 1,177,526
19. Like it This Way - 1,170,597

honorable mentions with 900,000 views plus:

• Need Your Love So Bad - 985,262 views
• Gold Dust Woman - 948,988 views
• Albatross - 936,198 views
• Silver Springs - 933,430 views

also interesting that LB's solo Trouble comes up in FM search, while his solo Big Love which also has over 1,000,000 doesn't since this depends on whether FM is mentioned somewhere in the text.

wow thanks for doing that

Can you do that for Stevie's solo songs?

[elle]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

wow thanks for doing that

Can you do that for Stevie's solo songs?

lol. sorry, i really don't care that much for Stevie's solo songs, but i think i've done it for LB solo before. he has only two over a 1,000,000 - Holiday Road and Trouble. of Steve's, i would assume EO17 and maybe Talk To Me should have well over a million.

EDIT:

OK LB also comes up in We Are The World .

SN solo has 3 songs over 1,000,000:

• EO17 ~ 3,600,000 views
• Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - 1,837,882 views
• Rooms On Fire - 1,649,392 views

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by elle

lolol. sorry, i really don't care that much for Stevie's solo songs, but i think i've done it for LB solo before. he has only a few over a 1,000,000 - Holiday Road, Trouble, and Big Love solo i believe. of Steve's, i would assume EO17 and maybe Talk To Me should have well over a million.

So did you only include videos that have Fleetwood Mac in the title/description?

Because I know there are some versions of stuff like Rhiannon, Sara etc that Stevie performed on solo tours that have over a million views.

Interesting concept but I think it'd be hard to get a truly accurate number because of things like that w/ Big Love not coming up, etc... too dependent on search keywords and such.

[elle]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

So did you only include videos that have Fleetwood Mac in the title/description?

Because I know there are some versions of stuff like Rhiannon, Sara etc that Stevie performed on solo tours that have over a million views.

Interesting concept but I think it'd be hard to get a truly accurate number because of things like that w/ Big Love not coming up, etc... too dependent on search keywords and such.

yeah as i said, it's really just a snapshot, and not very accurate.

both LB and SN perform their FM songs solo, but those didn't come up in FM search. when i did Stevie solo search just now, Budweiser's Landslide comes as her top viewed song. same with Lindsey, GYOW comes at the top. i didn't count any of these in solo stuff.

btw, only Sara live solo comes up at more than 1,000,000 views when you put SN in the youtube search. who knows, maybe others you were thinking of have been taken down.

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by elle

btw, only Sara live solo comes up at more than 1,000,000 views when you put SN in the youtube search. who knows, maybe others you were thinking of have been taken down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyWq25O2RbI

[elle]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyWq25O2RbI

ha, missed it! maybe you can find that Big Love for me too?

[bethelblues]

Also of note from YouTube, Say You Love Me has at least four separate videos of over 500,000 views.

[cantgoback]

1. Go Your Own Way
2. Landslide
3. The Chain
4. Don't Stop
5. Oh Well
6. Dreams
7. Rhiannon
8. Hypnotized
9. Little Lies
10. Silver Springs

[seekerj]

Originally Posted by michelej1

It truly is. SYLM is everything beautiful this line up has to offer.

Little Lies is iconic, but not in a good way, I don't think. In fact, I consider it more infamous than anything else.

I like Little Lies, for myself. At home, in the privacy of my own bedroom. I don't like the association it left in the public's mind about what this band is. I think Little Lies has had such a strong hand in shaping the perception of what kind of music these people put out. It's amazing what one little song can do. Well, Little Lies and Don't Stop too. That's a one-two punch that it's hard to recover from.

I like those two songs and am so thrilled about what the Clinton campaign did to reintroduce the world to FM and to each other, but I don't want FM to be defined by Little Lies and Don't Stop to the extent that it has been.

They're both iconic songs, no doubt. Michele

I think I get what you are saying (although I like "Little Lies", and I mean publicly [lol... why do you feel you can only listen to it in the privacy of your bedroom?]), but...

How can you not include "Everywhere" with these other two????!!!! It made many people I know start thinking FM made elevator music. And I can't even listen to it alone in any room!

[MacShadowsBall]

Very smart thinking, elle, about youtube hits/counts!

Intriguing converstation about what are Fleetwood Mac's most iconic songs. For me its about the story and message behind the song that makes a song iconic. Also the instant recogination a song brings about to the average music listener. Songs that are still played on radio also add to a songs iconic status, meaning it passed the test of time.

Three songs that definitely are deemed iconic are Don't Stop, Go Your Own Way, and Dreams. Very popular hit songs, each possessing their own story of how they came to be and the message behind the songs, also representing Christine, Lindsey, and Stevie.

After those three, it can be a great number of songs...

Albatross - Mac's only #1 hit in the UK

Black Magic Woman - Santana, anybody!

Oh Well - #2 hit in the UK, oldest Mac song still performed today

Sentimental Lady - solo version big hit for Bob Welch

Hypnotized - perhaps Bob Welch's most iconic, memorable song

Over Me Head - their first US top 40 hit, #20

Rhiannon - story behind the song, set up Stevie's "witchy" persona

Say You Love Me - top selling single, helped to send the new Mac into stardom

Landslide - Budweiser, anybody!

Songbird - sad, simple just Christine's iconic voice and piano

The Chain - how the song came to be, representing Mac's most iconic album

Silver Springs - dropped from Rumours, epic/iconic 1997 performance

Gold Dust Woman - added to Stevie's persona, covered by other artists

You Make Loving Fun - top 10 hit, incredible beat, still sounds fresh today

Tusk - Lindsey's answer to Rumours, marching band and all(I heard a local high school band play it a year back)

Sara - story behind the song that we don't really know

Gypsy - incredible production and video on the new MTV , Stevie's last big, memorable Mac song

Hold Me - top 10 hit, vocal chemistry between Christine/Lindsey, like Gypsy one of the first video's on MTV

Big Love - Lindsey's last hit Mac song, very '80s

Little Lies - another 10 hit from Christine, covered my artists today

Everywhere - recent popularity spike in Europe, the Mac's last big hit

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by seekerj

I think I get what you are saying (although I like "Little Lies", and I mean publicly [lol... why do you feel you can only listen to it in the privacy of your bedroom?]), but...

How can you not include "Everywhere" with these other two????!!!! It made many people I know start thinking FM made elevator music. And I can't even listen to it alone in any room!

I don't have that idea of Everywhere. It seems kind of substantive to me. I will say though that Christine's voice kind of makes me feel things a lot deeper than the actual words and music would dictate. When she says, "You know that I'm falling and I don't know what to say . . ." to me her voice almost has that fullness you get when tears are forming, coming up in your throat, making your words a little thick. Just the sound of her can do that. If someone else sang Everywhere, maybe I would think it was just elevator music. I don't know.

I don't want anyone to know I like Little Lies, stash it away at the bottom of my sock drawer, where no one else can see -- actually, that's not true. I was at Olive Garden sitting at the counter during lunch and the bartender started singing Little Lies and I went out of my way to start a conversation about FM like I was some deranged person. So, I claim possession of all FM songs, there are just some I am more proud of than others.

I think Little Lies is deeper than it seems on the surface though. It's a treasure for what it is, I just wish people didn't think that's what FM is. I don't want them to be ABBA. And you ABBA fans, lay off. I am sure that they are great if you go far enough into their catalog, but the songs of theirs that are the most popular kind of make me flinch and that's what Little Lies does to the perception of FM.

Michele

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by MikeInNV

I would agree that it was (past tense) the biggest hit in the 80s, but 25-30 years later, I think Gypsy is a much bigger song, at least in the US.

It's not unusual, not only Little Lies but several songs (from many bands) that made a big impact at its moment, now are not so remembered as iconic.