Christine Songs you Dislike

[GypsySorcerer]

Just like the thread in the Stevie forum, we're listing Chris songs we don't like.


Hate:
Only Over You

Dislike:
Easy Come, Easy Go
Anything is Possible
Bad Journey
I'm the One

[ontheEdgeof17]

-Only Over You
-Wish You Were Here
-Never Make Me Cry
-Don't Stop (just dislike a little)
-Sooner or Later
-All of '84 except LWSUH, Got a Hold on Me, So Excited, The Challenge
-All of ITM except Friend, You Are, Northern Star, Anything is Possible


....I like her better with Fleetwood Mac

[GypsySorcerer]

-Don't Stop (just dislike a little)


I thought about putting that one in, but is a good, upbeat song. I'm just sick of it.

[ontheEdgeof17]

I thought about putting that one in, but is a good, upbeat song. I'm just sick of it.

Ditto. Overplaying it made me hate it.


Oh...I forgot about her first solo album....I don't like any of that. :sorry: Christine fans.

[GateandGarden]

I love everything I've heard from the Christine Perfect album, but I haven't heard the 1984 album, so I can't comment.

Dislike:

Oh Daddy :shocked:
Sugar Daddy
Liar
Bad Journey

EDIT: Forgot one--Honey Hi

Hmmmmm...shorter than my Stevie list. And there aren't any that I hate, unlike with Stevie. But then again there are fewer Christine songs out there, right?

EDIT again: Had to remove "Songbird" and "Hollywood (Some Other Kind of Town)" because I like them both now. :woohoo:

[GypsySorcerer]

I love everything I've heard from the Christine Perfect album, but I haven't heard the 1984 album, so I can't comment.

Dislike:

Oh Daddy :shocked:
Songbird :shocked:
Sugar Daddy
Liar
Bad Journey
Hollywood (Some Other Kind of Town)

Hmmmmm...shorter than my Stevie list. And there aren't any that I hate, unlike with Stevie. But then again there are fewer Christine songs out there, right?

Hillary


I forgot about "Bad Journey." I need to go back and add that one in. I think "Oh Daddy" is probably her best. I didn't always like it, though.

[ontheEdgeof17]

I think "Oh Daddy" is probably her best. I didn't always like it, though.


Listening to live boots and hearing the Reissue version made me love it. It is honestly my favorite Chris song now. I can listen to it every day.

[macfan 57]

I can honestly say there are no Christine McVie songs that I truly dislike. I can usually find something to like somewhere. However, there are a few songs that I would say are so so. I wouldn't miss them if I'd never heard them.

One More Night(Her only song that she ever wrote in the third person)
Skies The Limit(The title is grammatically incorrect, very annoying)
I Do

Easy Come Easy Go used to be in this category, but now it's grown on me. There are just a few songs that she wrote on the Christine Perfect album that I would describe as subpar(the songs themselves), however I'll give her a pass since this was so early in her career & I LOVE her keyboards & vocals on the whole album.

[Claudia]

As in the Stevie thread, there aren't many Christine songs that I truly dislike, it very much depends on my mood. These are the ones I don't like much:

- Sugar Daddy
- Never Make Me Cry
- One More Night
- Love In Store :shrug:
- Everywhere - I've grown tired of it :(
- So Exited - bleh
- Easy Come, Easy Go

[NicksIllume]

Christine Perfect album

For You

Self Titled 1984 album

I love it all!

In the Meantime

I only love a select few, but I can't say I dislike or hate any.

[GateandGarden]

Skies The Limit(The title is grammatically incorrect, very annoying)
I haven't heard that one yet, but yeah, that title is annoying.

Hillary

[ontheEdgeof17]

I haven't heard that one yet, but yeah, that title is annoying.

Hillary



It's a good song. Her songs carry Behind the Mask. They are all good, IMO. Hillary, I think you will be adding Stevie's BTM songs to your dislike list. You won't like them. :cool:

[GypsySorcerer]

It's a good song. Her songs carry Behind the Mask. They are all good, IMO. Hillary, I think you will be adding Stevie's BTM songs to your dislike list. You won't like them. :cool:

I agree about Chris and BTM. "Behind the Mask" itself is a phenomenal song.

[GateandGarden]

Hillary, I think you will be adding Stevie's BTM songs to your dislike list. You won't like them. :cool:Uh-oh. :o :o

[NicksIllume]

I haven't heard that one yet, but yeah, that title is annoying.

Hillary


I <3 Skies the Limit especially the first 20 or 22 seconds before it kicks in, the use of restitute, the chorus, Stevie's vocals, and the whole 3 minutes and 45 seconds of the song.

[Hawkeye]

Hate

Never Make Me Cry
Only Over You
I Do

Dislike

So Excited
Keeping Secrets
All of ITM except Friend, You Are, Northern Star, Anything IS Possible,So Sincer and Forgiveness

[GateandGarden]

Hate

Never Make Me Cry
Only Over You
I Do
I feel like Curtis because I honestly LOVE all of those. :laugh: Just like his fave Stevie songs are on everyone's dislike or hate lists. :laugh:

Hillary

[NicksIllume]

Hate
Only Over You


For the love of an English accent, I forgot Only Over You. Add that to my list of dislike!

[Johnny Stew]

Just two that I really dislike for Christine:

One More Night

Do You Know

Everything else I love or at least like considerably. :nod:

[takenbythesky]

Oops...Must have missed this one somehow.

-"Wish You Were Here"--this song just doesn't interest or affect me at all emotionally, it's flat somehow.:shrug:
-Justin

[ontheEdgeof17]

Just two that I really dislike for Christine:

One More Night



Yeah. That one is pretty stinky, too. :(

[HomerMcvie]

Blah:
One More Night


So so:
Only Over You
Oh Daddy


PS- I love Wish You Were Here. :)

[face of glass]

I don't hate or dislike any of them. Even "Do You Know" and "Everywhere" go through the eardrums nicely during the holiday eating competitions.

[Gailh]

There are no Christine songs that I hate.

I didn't used to to like Honey Hi because I thought the lyrics were lazy. But then I heard the demo on the Tusk remaster and I liked it a lot more.

Gail

[ThePenguin]

I don't have any that I hate-- but one that always makes me cringe is from her 1st album, the C Perfect album-- Let Me Go (Leave Me Alone)-- yikes, her voice just doesn't seem to be able to navigate that song very well! :shocked:

More recent ones that don't grab me all that much.... hmm maybe a few on her 1984 solo album are a little bland...nothing that I really despise though.

-Lis

[skcin]

Listening to live boots and hearing the Reissue version made me love it. It is honestly my favorite Chris song now. I can listen to it every day.

I agree with Curtis (again.) I used to despise Oh Daddy - I would skip it every time. But the harmonies on the reissue are amazing. And it's much better live. :nod:

Now, I really don't care for:

Warm Ways
Don't Stop (due to overplay)
One More Night
Only Over You
Mystified

[macmar71]

Sugar Daddy
Don't Stop
Only Over You
Ask Anybody
I'm The One
Mystified
Ricky
Nights in Estoril
Save Me

[MACFAN]

Anything from the Time album

[Hawkeye]

I'm The One


OK you HAVE to explain that one to me. I can't see how anyone could dislike that absolute masterpiece?

[Miss Vicky]

Dislike:
Everywhere
Only Over You
Over My Head
Over and Over
(She needs to quite with the "Over" songs, I just don't like them)


Hate:
Honey Hi

Can't really comment on the solo work. I love pretty much all of the 1984 album, especially The Smile I Live For. But I haven't really listened to Christine Perfect or In the Meantime. I had a cassette copy of a Chicken Shack record at one point, but I don't know what I did with it. :(

[Cristian]

Oh I hate so much "Only Over You". Must be her only Fleetwood Mac song that I skip. On her solo tunes,

When You Say
So Excited
Easy Come, Easy Go

And a couple more from her 1984 which are, I agree, rather bland. The rest of her Fleetwood Mac catalogue is fine with me. :)

[saraforscarlett]

To be honest, the only one I can come up with right here is "Only over you".

There used to be many that I disliked earlier, like "Oh Daddy", "I wish you were here", "Think about me", "Hold Me" etc... But I've grown to like all of these, although some more than others.

[dissention]

Temporary One

That song is bloody awful. Hurts my ears.

[amber]

Temporary One

That song is bloody awful. Hurts my ears.
:distress: :distress:
It's one of the (relatively) few of hers that i like quite a bit. :D

[dissention]

I think "Oh Daddy" is probably her best.

Ditto. Oh Daddy and Behind the Mask. :wavey:

[Hawkeye]

Temporary One

That song is bloody awful. Hurts my ears.

I LOVE Temporary One.

[ThePenguin]

I LOVE Temporary One.

Same here. Great beginning, great energy, great bassline, catchy chorus....love everything about it. The first time I heard it, I felt like I knew it already because I could sing along w/ the chorus so quickly. :woohoo: Sort of sweet how the lyrics tie in to FM also.

On The Dance, after the song ends, doesn't someone yell out, "Do it again!" ?? :p

However I don't really like Only Over You, or Wish You Were Here.

-Lis

[Brwn_eyes0511]

I LOVE Temporary One.

I agree! Temporary One is great! Love Stevie/Lindsey harmony on the chorus.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Same here. Great beginning, great energy, great bassline, catchy chorus....love everything about it. The first time I heard it, I felt like I knew it already because I could sing along w/ the chorus so quickly. :woohoo: Sort of sweet how the lyrics tie in to FM also.

On The Dance, after the song ends, doesn't someone yell out, "Do it again!" ?? :p

However I don't really like Only Over You, or Wish You Were Here.

-Lis

Is that what that person is yelling out? I have always heard someone saying something...lol....that is funny "Do It Again!" :D

[Hawkeye]

I agree! Temporary One is great! Love Stevie/Lindsey harmony on the chorus.

YES, The Harmonies on it are amazing.

[aleuzzi]

I'm not really sure "I hate" lists apply for me here. I really don't think any of CM's songs provoke that kind of reaction.

I'm not wild about "Wish You Were Here," "Mystified," or a number of bland offerings from the '84 solo record (most of those not written by her), but even when she isn't blowing me away, the atmosphere is pleasant.

Incidentally, I LOVE many of the songs that were listed as least faves: "Only Over You" and "Temporary One" are quite good, I think. And "Sugar Daddy" ranks with the entire band's all-time best moments.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

I'm not really sure "I hate" lists apply for me here. I really don't think any of CM's songs provoke that kind of reaction.

I'm not wild about "Wish You Were Here," "Mystified," or a number of bland offerings from the '84 solo record (most of those not written by her), but even when she isn't blowing me away, the atmosphere is pleasant.

Incidentally, I LOVE many of the songs that were listed as least faves: "Only Over You" and "Temporary One" are quite good, I think. And "Sugar Daddy" ranks with the entire band's all-time best moments.

Finally someone who agrees that Sugar Daddy is an awsome song! I LOVE Chris' little laugh and giggle at the end of the song...so cute! :nod:

[DrummerDeanna]

I rarely post in here - don't know why - I love Chris :D

Anyway I also dislike some of her songs....

Sugar Daddy (blah)
Oh Daddy (blah)
Say You Love Me - I hate the word "woo" don't know why :laugh:

Those are the only three I really can't stand :shrug:

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Say You Love Me - I hate the word "woo" don't know why :laugh:



LOL...I have always felt the word "woo" is a strange word too! I LOVE "Say You Love Me" But I understand what you mean about the word "woo"....it is a bit odd! lol :laugh:

[HomerMcvie]

Finally someone who agrees that Sugar Daddy is an awsome song! I LOVE Chris' little laugh and giggle at the end of the song...so cute! :nod:
I've ALWAYS defended Sugar Daddy! It's one of my favorites. I love the feel of the music. Who cares if the words are a little ..........hokey?

[dissention]

Who cares if the words are a little ..........hokey?

Yeah, really. If that was an issue, Stevie would have zero fans.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

I've ALWAYS defended Sugar Daddy! It's one of my favorites. I love the feel of the music. Who cares if the words are a little ..........hokey?

lol...yea! I still love her little laugh at the end, and the car horn! It's classic "cute" Christine! ;)

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Yeah, really. If that was an issue, Stevie would have zero fans.

:lol:

to funny.

[golddustwoman77]

Well, I don't really dislike any of Christine's songs, but if I had to pick one, there is something about "Everywhere" that I just don't like. It is one of my least favorite Mac songs. :o

[mondaymornin1]

Well, I don't really dislike any of Christine's songs, but if I had to pick one, there is something about "Everywhere" that I just don't like. It is one of my least favorite Mac songs. :o


What she said. I liked The Dance version better than TITN, if I have to choose!

I have to tell my story about Temporary One, though. My 7-year-old daughter called it the "ol' sissy" song. I was like...???? She thought that when they sing "and the sea that divides us is a temporary one..." they were singing "ol sissy" instead of "us is a." I rolled.

"The river flows on and on and the sea that divides ol' sissy temporary one and a bridge will bring us back together." :laugh: Try it, you'll see. Of course, now that song will forever be called the "ol' sissy" song at my house.........

[GypsySorcerer]

I need to add "One More Night." I've tried to get into it, but it's just blah.

[The Tower]

I need to add "One More Night." I've tried to get into it, but it's just blah.

I've always been quite fond of "One More Night". It's a great sunset song, if ya know what I mean.

As far as I'm concerned, Christine's worst songs are:

"Little Lies" (AWFUL!!!!)

and

"Everywhere"

I also loooooooooooovvvveeeee "Only Over You". I don't understand the dislike for that one.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

I've always been quite fond of "One More Night". It's a great sunset song, if ya know what I mean.

As far as I'm concerned, Christine's worst songs are:

"Little Lies" (AWFUL!!!!)

and

"Everywhere"

I also loooooooooooovvvveeeee "Only Over You". I don't understand the dislike for that one.

I agree about "Only Over You" GREAT SONG (except for the HORRIBLE quality on the Mirage CD *remaster, remaster, please*...and it like skips right before the song starts)

But I GREATLY DISAGREE about Little Lies....this is IMO FM at its BEST in the 1980's...every memeber can be felt on this song! GREAT POP PERFECTION! :D

[michelej1]

Hollywood-Elsewhere.com by Jeffrey Wells

[many people defend the song in the Comments section]

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2013/08/sure-feels-nice/

Loathe to Admit

Music is a very intimate thing. The best songs seep right into your soul but the connection often evaporates if you share it. (Although sometimes it doesn’t.) Last night I was flipping through a magazine in Century City and came upon a piece called “Great Summer Songs,” and one of the respondents mentioned Fleetwood Mac‘s “Over My Head.” Fleetwood Mac was never a hip band, but they became fatally uncool after “Don’t Stop” played at the finale of the 1992 Democratic National Convention. And yet some kind of “Over My Head” memory turned a switch (I hadn’t listened to it in years) and to my everlasting shame I immediately bought it on iTunes.

I played it twice in the car on the way home. Schmucky as this sounds it sank right into my system like a Lemmon quaalude. Musical elitists like Glenn Kenny tend to sneer at such admissions, but a lot of people succumb to semi-sappy tunes of this sort on a car radio, especially at night. But as I listened to Christine McVie sing “you can take me any time you like, I’ll be around if you think you might,” I knew I couldn’t be having this moment if my sons Jett and Dylan were in the car. They would be mortified, and so would I. Keep it to yourself. Nobody else’s business.

My favorite McVie-Mac track is the raggae-flavored “Did You Ever Love Me?“

[aleuzzi]

Great way to revive a thread from 2004-05!

[michelej1]

Great way to revive a thread from 2004-05!

I favor doing that, but in moderation. I don't like several of them at once in the same forum, as I realize it's confusing. But the way I read the boards is to start from the last page first and I can limit myself to the new posts that way if I choose.

But I'd rather use existing threads than start a new one, when I can. I saw some threads regarding "Over My Head" specifically, but they were older ones too.

Michele

[jbrownsjr]

^^^ Glad you did. I sometimes don't remember the thread.

[Villavic]

Temporary One
Save me

I do like Don't Stop. But yes sometimes I get sick of it, as of Dreams. But I think the point is not about saturation but what we really like or think it's a great song.

[WatchChain]

"KEEPING SECRETS"

The rest of her body of work is phenomenal!

[chiliD]

"When You Say" just sucks. Sucked when Fleetwood Mac did it, sucked even more when Christine covered it.

That's all.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program already in progress.

[jbrownsjr]

"When You Say" just sucks. Sucked when Fleetwood Mac did it, sucked even more when Christine covered it.

That's all.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program already in progress.

La, la, la lalala
la la la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa;)

[goldustsongbird]

La, la, la lalala
la la la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa;)

Four minutes of this would have been better than Wheeennnnn.....

*nine hours later*

yooooou...

*wakes up in the year 2525*

saaay....

[holidayroad]

I love almost anything Christine has done. The one song I typically skip is 'So Excited'. Something about it just gets on my nerves.

[jbrownsjr]

Four minutes of this would have been better than Wheeennnnn.....

*nine hours later*

yooooou...

*wakes up in the year 2525*

saaay....

allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyysssssssssssss beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

2725* youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu andddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Dex]

Shush, you guys. When You Say is awesome! Awesome, I tell you!

But I seem cursed/blessed with the ability to enjoy absolutely anything Danny Kirwan writes.

[chiliD]

Shush, you guys. When You Say is awesome! Awesome, I tell you!

But I seem cursed/blessed with the ability to enjoy absolutely anything Danny Kirwan writes.

"When You Say" is his major clunker. Everything else he did with Fleetwood Mac is top notch. Like they say, "you can't win 'em all" (unless you're the UCLA basketball team in the late '60s/early '70s, that is.)

Maybe it would've fared better had he waited & put it on Second Chapter...seems like it would fit that album better than Then Play On.

[becca]

I love Only Over You and find myself singing it sometimes, but I never cared for Sugar Daddy. :shrug:

When You Say is something Danny Kirwan did originally in the Spanish guitar style with Chris accompanying. I thought for some reason they decided they needed a track quickly for the album and just had her overdub her own vocals. The Danny version is likable but the one with Christine vocals they should have left on the shelf, not sure which one actually came out first, it might've been Christine's.

[Dex]

Mm, Becca. Yeah... I listened to When You Say again and I think I need to retract my "awesome" adjective. "Likeable" is a much more honest word to use. I still stick by it, though.

[UnwoundDreams]

- Sugar Daddy
- Songbird
- Oh Daddy
- Little Lies
- Over My Head

[goldustsongbird]

allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyysssssssssssss beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

2725* youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu andddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

*snort* Wha--?! Did you say something? Dozing on my hovercraft again... Sweet beard, Moses.

Shush, you guys. When You Say is awesome! Awesome, I tell you!

But I seem cursed/blessed with the ability to enjoy absolutely anything Danny Kirwan writes.

I love Danny, but that song is just painful. It's his Secret Love demo. Clunkity-clunk. :lol:


- Sugar Daddy
- Songbird
- Oh Daddy
- Little Lies
- Over My Head

Oh Daddy is nice when you listen to the center-channel mixes like they did on Classic Albums. It's just an uncomfortable song to sing along to.

Songs I don't like:
- Morning Rain
- Over My Head (Just on the album; I like the Rosebud performance)
- Oh Daddy
- Warm Ways ("Make me a woman tonight" :shocked: )
- Over and Over
- So Excited
- Ask Anybody
- Wheeennnn Youuuu Saaaay
- Keeping Secrets
- Bad Journey and the majority of In The Meantime.

[applebucked]

I found out that if I skip When You Say, I can listen to the rest of the Christine Perfect album. :lol:

Others:
Only Over You
Warm Ways (can't really listen to this all the way)
Over and Over

*Bad Journey is actually a guilty pleasure of mine among the ITM tracks. :P

[jbrownsjr]

I found out that if I skip When You Say, I can listen to the rest of the Christine Perfect album. :lol:

Others:
Only Over You
Warm Ways (can't really listen to this all the way)
Over and Over

*Bad Journey is actually a guilty pleasure of mine among the ITM tracks. :P

I love Bad Journey!! You me and about zero other people... :laugh:

[applebucked]

From my lurking here, I figured that it's not a very popular track. That duet with herself in the bridge is my favorite part of that song.

[teedeerocks]

Temporary One

That song is bloody awful. Hurts my ears.

LOVE TEMPORARY ONE!!!!

[secondhandchain]

I always love the songs people hate the most.
Love:
Mystified (amazing harmonies and a island feel)
Honey Hi (closing harmonies are sublime)
You'll Never make me cry ...simply beautiful
One More night....love it, and Stevie and Lindsey's yearning harmonies
Only over you...I'm a sucker for FM's harmonies, they are awesome on the fade out
Wish You were here....love it

Don't love, but don't hate

Sugar Daddy
Don't Stop...just am sick of it, that's all
Some of the stuff from Behind the Mask..eh..except for the song BTM...it's GREAT.
Never heard Time...couldn't bring myself to listen

[jbrownsjr]

I always love the songs people hate the most.
Love:
Mystified (amazing harmonies and a island feel)
Honey Hi (closing harmonies are sublime)
You'll Never make me cry ...simply beautiful
One More night....love it, and Stevie and Lindsey's yearning harmonies
Only over you...I'm a sucker for FM's harmonies, they are awesome on the fade out
Wish You were here....love it

Don't love, but don't hate

Sugar Daddy
Don't Stop...just am sick of it, that's all
Some of the stuff from Behind the Mask..eh..except for the song BTM...it's GREAT.
Never heard Time...couldn't bring myself to listen

Wow, we have so much in common!! spot on.. spot on!!

[applebucked]

I actually love most of the songs on your list. Except maybe Only Over You, but the others I love.

[seekerj]

Yeah, really. If that was an issue, Stevie would have zero fans.

:mad:

....

[seekerj]

I need to add "One More Night." I've tried to get into it, but it's just blah.

Almost all of her songs are this way for me. Or maybe, they're just too lightweight for me from a lyrics or subject matter perspective. I especially hate "Everywhere" for this reason, plus because the music is so "blah" and wimpy. That's ok for a song here or there, but most of hers are that way. Lightweight lyrics plus wimpy music is just not what I listen to music for.

The others I really just cannot stand for the same reasons are "Save Me" and "Got A Hold On Me", and especially "Skies The Limit", which I think I can safely say is my least favorite ever, or at least it's tied with "Everywhere".

There are exceptions, though.

I always liked "Oh Daddy", but when I heard her say that she's being sarcastic in it, then I started really, really loving it! It's one of my favorite songs on Rumours. And I love "Over My Head", and "Wait and See" from the first solo album, and "The Smile I Live For" from the 1984 solo album.
And I don't get the hate for "Little Lies". At least she has something to say in that one, other than the usual "I'm so in love and life is just so wonderful and I'm just Suzy Sunshine" theme.

[goldustsongbird]

I always love the songs people hate the most.
Love:
Mystified (amazing harmonies and a island feel)
Honey Hi (closing harmonies are sublime)
You'll Never make me cry ...simply beautiful
One More night....love it, and Stevie and Lindsey's yearning harmonies
Only over you...I'm a sucker for FM's harmonies, they are awesome on the fade out
Wish You were here....love it

Don't love, but don't hate

Sugar Daddy
Don't Stop...just am sick of it, that's all
Some of the stuff from Behind the Mask..eh..except for the song BTM...it's GREAT.
Never heard Time...couldn't bring myself to listen

I love Never Make Me Cry! I'll fight anyone who doesn't. It's one of the best parts of the Tusk doc. http://youtu.be/C-caXvJUOrk?t=37m31s

[michelej1]

And I don't get the hate for "Little Lies". At least she has something to say in that one, other than the usual "I'm so in love and life is just so wonderful and I'm just Suzy Sunshine" theme.

The thing is, Christine is very, rarely Suzy Sunshine at all. So, I don't get that criticism. A song like YMLF or Love in Store are exceptions. To me, most of her songs are about loss and yearning or accepting less than the heart wants and needs. I wouldn't even call Songbird a happy song. It's more about release after great pain than it is about joy.

Michele

[applebucked]

True. Almost all of her songs have this rather dark undertone to it amidst all the seemingly happy, upbeat melodies.

And quite a few really showcase her sense of humor a lot, like Sugar Daddy for example.

[jbrownsjr]

True. Almost all of her songs have this rather dark undertone to it amidst all the seemingly happy, upbeat melodies.

And quite a few really showcase her sense of humor a lot, like Sugar Daddy for example.

I like when she says, "Gots to get outta here" at the end of Hollywood..

[redbird]

Fleetwood Mac was never a hip band, but they became fatally uncool after “Don’t Stop” played at the finale of the 1992 Democratic National Convention. And yet some kind of “Over My Head” memory turned a switch (I hadn’t listened to it in years) and to my everlasting shame I immediately bought it on iTunes.

All this hand-wringing about what will happen to one's cred if one dares to like the "wrong" kind of music ... I'll never understand it.


Anyway. There aren't a lot of Christine songs I hate, actually I can't think of any, even some that bug me (like her Mirage songs and "Everywhere") can do so because they're so close to being songs I could love. But "Never Make Me Cry" might be the one song that's just the hardest for me to give any kind of **** about. Some of her 90's stuff feels very bland but makes me seriously wonder if maybe different production would help? Although I think "Skies the Limit" is just not for me.

OTOH ... at one point -- specifically, when I was a teenager and didn't know Fleetwood Mac beyond the radio hits -- "Don't Stop" would've been my first answer. I thought it was so ineffective and had no interesting angle. Now I think it's a lot of fun especially to sing along to. I've also come around on "Brown Eyes" a total 180 degrees.

I generally like Christine Perfect (I dig the guitar on "When You Say") and In the Meantime (there's two or three I skip but I still like them more than the stuff I skip from the 80s and 90s) but I've never listened to Christine McVie or the entire Chicken Shack albums so that should qualify my opinion.

[michelej1]

All this hand-wringing about what will happen to one's cred if one dares to like the "wrong" kind of music ... I'll never understand it.



I know. As a kid I was always mocked for liking uncool music. Even by my own mother. I used to wash the dishes with an oldies station playing and my mom would come in and say, "Why are you listening to that? That's before MY time?" And people who didn't even know me thought they had the right to comment on my musical tastes, saying I needed "to grow out of that." It was annoying, to say the least.

Michele

[aleuzzi]

In my high school, kids were still worshipping Zeppelin and cheering on the metal acts, like Judas Priest and Black Sabbath. The girls liked Journey and Def Leopard. Rush was acceptable. My obsession with Fleetwood Mac made me an easy target for ridicule. But I held my ground. I especially caught heat for buying the Stevie solo albums. So uncool for a guy, unless he was gay, and I was, so I was pretty much a freak anyway. Funny thing is' today' so many of my childhood friends text me or email me or facebook me to say they think of me anytime they hear the Mac. I think that's a complement.

There's very little Christine I don't like. A handful of bland numbers from the 84 solo album, Skies the Limit, All Over Again, the vocals on Morning Rain and Homeward Bound...

[HomerMcvie]

In my high school, kids were still worshipping Zeppelin and cheering on the metal acts, like Judas Priest and Black Sabbath. The girls liked Journey and Def Leopard. Rush was acceptable. My obsession with Fleetwood Mac made me an easy target for ridicule. But I held my ground. I especially caught heat for buying the Stevie solo albums. So uncool for a guy, unless he was gay, and I was, so I was pretty much a freak anyway. Funny thing is' today' so many of my childhood friends text me or email me or facebook me to say they think of me anytime they hear the Mac. I think that's a complement.



We had the exact same experience, growing up!

And high school friends still call me too, after hearing FM on the radio.

[jbrownsjr]

My favorites were Christine McVie and Joni Mitchell. And I was on the football team. I had to endure Motley Crue, Guns and Roses, and a bunch of other horrible music that did not interest me in the least. :rolleyes:

[nicepace]

I generally like Christine Perfect (I dig the guitar on "When You Say")

Hey! Somebody make a note of it: on this day, someone on the Ledge said they liked something about "When You Say" (a rare occurrence indeed!).

[nicepace]

There's very little Christine I don't like. <snip> ... the vocals on Morning Rain and Homeward Bound...
I agree about the vocal on "Morning Rain," but I've never had any objection to the vocal on "Homeward Bound" (the song that in my opinion is Christine's lost classic). What is it about the vocal on "HB" that you don't like?

[jbrownsjr]

Hey! Somebody make a note of it: on this day, someone on the Ledge said they liked something about "When You Say" (a rare occurrence indeed!).

I know Chili hates that song. I love it for whatever reason.

[He's So Unusual]

I've never been fond of Never Make Me Cry.

[~*BellaDonna*~]

Sugar Daddy
Don't Stop (overplayed)

[mitzo]

We had the exact same experience, growing up!

And high school friends still call me too, after hearing FM on the radio.

How can any gay male not be a Stevie fan?

[jbrownsjr]

How can any gay male not be a Stevie fan?

Some of us have taste. :xoxo:

[Macfanforever]

We had the exact same experience, growing up!

And high school friends still call me too, after hearing FM on the radio.

I got friend that do the same too.

Sugar Daddy
Don't Stop (overplayed)

I agree Don't Stop is a staple on the classic rock stations and its gets overplayed.

[~*BellaDonna*~]

I got friend that do the same too.



I agree Don't Stop is a staple on the classic rock stations and its gets overplayed.
Exactly. It got overplayed when it was first new. My excitement with Don't Stop faded away rather quickly. I always change the station if I find it on the radio, and boy, I find it quite often!

[Wdm6789]

Only Over You is a great song, I don't get why people don't like it.

[Macfan4life]

Only Over You is a great song, I don't get why people don't like it.
I agree...its one of her best.

If I was a moderator of this board, I would have to pull this entire thread because I don't see any Christine songs that are not great songs :eek:

[sanders8323]

Only Over You is a great song, I don't get why people don't like it.

Totally agree. I could listen to the last bit, the instrumental with those heavenly ooohs and ahhhs for an eternity. Mirage has my favorite batch of CM tunes, especially Hold Me and Love in Store.

I don't dislike any of her songs, but some of the lesser ones for me are Sugar Daddy, Oh Daddy, Never Make Me Cry (though the alt. takes on Tusk are amazing), One More Night, Wish You Were Here and Love Shines.

[FuzzyPlum]

I wouldn't rate anything Christine has ever done with Fleetwood Mac below 7 out of 10. Generally her weaker ones are a couple of the BTM and Time songs. She has a couple of solo songs that I'd go down to 6 for. Most of her music is strong 7, solid 8 and some 9's. Why, You Make Loving Fun and Brown Eyes might be the only ones I'd put as really genuine 10's though.

[~*BellaDonna*~]

I wouldn't rate anything Christine has ever done with Fleetwood Mac below 7 out of 10. Generally her weaker ones are a couple of the BTM and Time songs. She has a couple of solo songs that I'd go down to 6 for. Most of her music is strong 7, solid 8 and some 9's. Why, You Make Loving Fun and Brown Eyes might be the only ones I'd put as really genuine 10's though.
Over and Over is another strong song of Christine's! I'd rate it a solid 8.

[bwboy]

Poor Don't Stop... a good song but overplayed.
Oh Daddy
Sugar Daddy
Behind the Mask
Temporary One
One More Night
Honey hi

[SpyNote]

I'd give most of her Fleetwood Mac songs a strong 7 and up. Some of her solo material hovers around 5 or less. "Friend" is the only song I like from In the Meantime, and it's only because it reminds me of "You Make Loving Fun." :laugh: