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This song came up today as I was listening to my iPod on shuffle. I hadn't realized before how beautiful it is. Christine's voice is particularly great and full of understated beauty, especially considering what an early song it is. The simplicity of the arrangement also really serves to bolster Christine's vocal. The repeated guitar figures are almost hypnotic, and the drum fills very gently push the song forward when Chris isn't singing.
This song has a very late-60s-pop vibe to it, like a Mamas & Papas song without the harmonies. I almost get a (very subtle) psychedlic feel from this song too, although the lyrics are just your typical (typically wonderful, that is) Christine love ballad.
Anybody else care to share some thoughts on this song, what you like about it, what you don't? It's on the Madison Blues set, for those who haven't heard it or don't remember it.
jbrownsjr
04-26-2006, 01:09 PM
I couldn't have said it better my self....
macfan 57
04-26-2006, 05:39 PM
I LOVE "Gone Into The Sun". The Chicken Shack songs that she wrote were blues songs, but this is a pop song. It's probably one of the first pop songs she ever wrote. Her voice is beautiful, kind of haunting. She really struggled with her live vocals around this time, but in the studio her voice was really great. And of course, the lyrics are wonderful(I'm guessing they were about John). I really wish this song had gone on a Fleetwood Mac album, Bare Trees maybe?
By the way, when I first got the Madison Blues box set & heard "Gone Into The Sun". I played it over and over and over, must have been at least 20-30 times initially.
ThePenguin
04-26-2006, 06:12 PM
By the way, when I first got the Madison Blues box set & heard "Gone Into The Sun". I played it over and over and over, must have been at least 20-30 times initially.
I did the same thing!! I was hypnotized by it!
I wrote a bit about it in my john/chris thing-- what the heck did i say, let me find it--
"Her response to John's comment made it heartbreakingly clear that even after a year of living this way, it wasn’t getting any easier: “It always destroys me when John’s away. It’s like having my right arm missing. I pad about the flat feeling lost... He’s my best friend.” She movingly expressed the resigned sadness of their frequent goodbyes in her lovely song from this period, called “Gone Into the Sun”—‘Just one last look before you leave me, just one last look before you go; be careful now, the light is fading… and I'm so scared of being alone/Hold me closely in the darkness, let me feel that you are near…just one last look and you'll be gone… oh, gone… into the sun. ’ I adore this song; it’s so melancholy…you can almost see the airplane disappearing into the sunset."
so yes, I am a huge fan of this song, and I think it was actually quite personal.
-Lis
GypsySongbird
04-27-2006, 02:59 PM
i want this song so much!!! ive never heard it! & im not likely to be able to get madison blues any time soon :( but the lyrics are absolutely beautiful!!! some of christines best i think! god i want to hear the song!!!!!!
i want this song so much!!! ive never heard it! & im not likely to be able to get madison blues any time soon :( but the lyrics are absolutely beautiful!!! some of christines best i think! god i want to hear the song!!!!!!
Okay, okay, but only because you begged.
Just make sure you're sitting down when you listen to this:
http://download.yousendit.com/8517F97F3E7980D9
GypsySongbird
04-27-2006, 05:02 PM
Okay, okay, but only because you begged.
Just make sure you're sitting down when you listen to this:
hehehe, not that i was hinting or anything :rolleyes:
thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou sooo much! its beautiful!!! :xoxo:
profjohn
04-28-2006, 07:23 AM
I did the same thing!! I was hypnotized by it!
I wrote a bit about it in my john/chris thing-- what the heck did i say, let me find it--
"Her response to John's comment made it heartbreakingly clear that even after a year of living this way, it wasn’t getting any easier: “It always destroys me when John’s away. It’s like having my right arm missing. I pad about the flat feeling lost... He’s my best friend.” She movingly expressed the resigned sadness of their frequent goodbyes in her lovely song from this period, called “Gone Into the Sun”—‘Just one last look before you leave me, just one last look before you go; be careful now, the light is fading… and I'm so scared of being alone/Hold me closely in the darkness, let me feel that you are near…just one last look and you'll be gone… oh, gone… into the sun. ’ I adore this song; it’s so melancholy…you can almost see the airplane disappearing into the sunset."
so yes, I am a huge fan of this song, and I think it was actually quite personal.
-Lis
Christine makes me cry whenever I hear her sing about someone going away, a lover not there, lonliness, etc. I never heard this one before. What else is there she did before Rumours in that vein? I want to get sad again!
Christine makes me cry whenever I hear her sing about someone going away, a lover not there, lonliness, etc. I never heard this one before. What else is there she did before Rumours in that vein? I want to get sad again!
"The Way I Feel" is a beautiful piano ballad about feeling helpless in the face of a missed opportunity. "Come A Little Bit Closer" is also a great one. Of course, if you truly want to have your heart broken, there's always the greatest song Fleetwood Mac ever recorded: "Why."
You really can't go wrong with anything Christine recorded with Fleetwood Mac in the pre-Buckingham/Nicks years, though. Not all of her songs are sad, of course, but nearly every one of them is a miniature masterpiece. "Show Me A Smile," "Spare Me A Little Of Your Love," "Prove Your Love," "Believe Me," "Remember Me"... and the list goes on.
Gailh
04-28-2006, 10:41 AM
Of course, if you truly want to have your heart broken, there's always the greatest song Fleetwood Mac ever recorded: "Why."
Amen!
Gail
macfan 57
04-28-2006, 05:41 PM
"The Way I Feel" is a beautiful piano ballad about feeling helpless in the face of a missed opportunity. "Come A Little Bit Closer" is also a great one. Of course, if you truly want to have your heart broken, there's always the greatest song Fleetwood Mac ever recorded: "Why."
You really can't go wrong with anything Christine recorded with Fleetwood Mac in the pre-Buckingham/Nicks years, though. Not all of her songs are sad, of course, but nearly every one of them is a miniature masterpiece. "Show Me A Smile," "Spare Me A Little Of Your Love," "Prove Your Love," "Believe Me," "Remember Me"... and the list goes on.
I could have written this post, since I agree with everything you said.:nod:
By the way, there are several more tracks from the Madison Blues box set which are similar...."It's You I Miss", from the Christine Perfect Band session & "Lonely Without You", which is a live Fleetwood Mac track. I love both of these songs, although neither is as good as "Gone Into The Sun".
goldustsongbird
04-28-2006, 07:22 PM
I could have written this post, since I agree with everything you said.:nod:
By the way, there are several more tracks from the Madison Blues box set which are similar...."It's You I Miss", from the Christine Perfect Band session & "Lonely Without You", which is a live Fleetwood Mac track. I love both of these songs, although neither is as good as "Gone Into The Sun".
I haven't heard Lonely Without You! I really like It's You I Miss. It's got... a certain feel to it that I can't really pinpoint. Hippy-ish, I guess? I don't know.
As for Gone Into The Sun, everything that's been said, I agree with. It's a very smooth sort of song.
aleuzzi
04-29-2006, 12:12 AM
Coming a little late to this thread on "Gone into the Sun" I just want to reiterate what a good little tuune it is! She performs it very well. No frills. The song is ridiculously simple--and that's its virtue, I think.
In terms of style, the arrangment and performance remind me a little of early Traffic songs like "No Face, No, Name No Number" and "Don't Be Sad." There's that same blend of innocence and cleverness.
ragandbone
04-29-2006, 02:02 AM
Thanks Jyqm for the download. I really love this song, especially the climb in "just one last look" and the fall into her velvet-suede low "gone into the sun".
Also, I am a sucker for jangly guitar and tambo.
In terms of style, the arrangment and performance remind me a little of early Traffic songs like "No Face, No, Name No Number" and "Don't Be Sad." There's that same blend of innocence and cleverness.:wavey: I am a Traffic fan.
cliffdweller
05-03-2006, 11:42 AM
there's always the greatest song Fleetwood Mac ever recorded: "Why."
Woa with the hyperboles! Do you really stand behind this statement 100%? Are you willing to be your life on it? :laugh: Just matching drama for drama...
Woa with the hyperboles!
It's not a hyperbole.
Do you really stand behind this statement 100%?
Sure do.
There's nothing "dramatic" about it, I just think that "Why" is the best track in the Fleetwood Mac studio catalogue. Dramatic is, "OMG I can't ever imagine not being totally in love with Stevie, she has touched my life and manhandled my soul like no other, I don't think I could live without her music or her twirls!!!"
chiliD
05-03-2006, 12:30 PM
... Dramatic is, "OMG I can't ever imagine not being totally in love with Stevie, she has touched my life and manhandled my soul like no other, I don't think I could live without her music or her twirls!!!"
You forgot...
"I just DREAM for the day that she & Lindsey get back together romantically".
David
05-03-2006, 01:10 PM
I LOVE "Gone Into The Sun". The Chicken Shack songs that she wrote were blues songs, but this is a pop song. It's probably one of the first pop songs she ever wrote. Her voice is beautiful, kind of haunting. She really struggled with her live vocals around this time, but in the studio her voice was really great.I wish fleetwood mac c. 1970 to 1974 had recorded christine's vocal like this & none of that stupid doubletracking.
cliffdweller
05-03-2006, 02:13 PM
It's not a hyperbole.
yes it is.
There's nothing "dramatic" about it, I just think that "Why" is the best track in the Fleetwood Mac studio catalogue. Dramatic is, "OMG I can't ever imagine not being totally in love with Stevie, she has touched my life and manhandled my soul like no other, I don't think I could live without her music or her twirls!!!"
It IS dramatic to be able to pick out a song from a band's catalogue as extensive as Fleetwtood Mac's and then profess that it's "the best" song in Fleetwood Mac's recording history. I would say that to anyone saying that about any F.M. song. Maybe I'm just boondoggled because I don't know how one can do that, it's impossible for me. Oh and by the way, there's nothing inherently wrong with being dramatic either--I just noticed your grand sweeping statement about Chris's song and it hit me as just that, so I had to rib you for it a bit. I make dramatic statements about my favorite things all the time---no big.
Oh, and the last part of your post is just silly and ridiculous. I guess that's just more of your priceless sarcasm?
yes it is.
A hyperbole is an exaggeration. I'm not exaggerating, I sincerely think "Why" is the best thing Fleetwood Mac has laid to tape.
It IS dramatic to be able to pick out a song from a band's catalogue as extensive as Fleetwtood Mac's and then profess that it's "the best" song in Fleetwood Mac's recording history.
I normally wouldn't, and in most cases if you asked me to name a single favorite song by one of my favorite artists, I'd say I couldn't possibly. But "Why" comes out way ahead of any other Mac song for me.
Oh, and the last part of your post is just silly and ridiculous. I guess that's just more of your priceless sarcasm?
It wasn't sarcasm, it was straightforward silly and ridiculous.
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