The FM Game: If I never hear this song again it will be too soon

[vivfox]

These are songs by Fleetwood Mac that you like or that you love but you are simply burnt out on hearing them.

Don't Stop
Go Your Own Way

[Artemis]

Don't Stop. Don't Stop. Don't Stop.

I need to be in a very particular mood to want to listen to that song, otherwise I just can't handle it. Don't get me wrong, it's a great song... it just makes me get violent. :laugh:

[elle]

These are songs by Fleetwood Mac that you like or that you love but you are simply burnt out on hearing them.

Dreams
Rhiannon

[gretchen]

Definitely Don't Stop.

[McTrouble]

^

Same two as elle chose - Dreams and Rhiannon

[bangdrum]

Dreams.

I will never understand why this is the ONLY FM song (other than the occasional EO17) they will EVER play on the radio... :shrug:

Actually, throw in Landslide too. The Dance version, of course.

[beccamorrisfift]

Don't Stop.
Sara.
And maybe Landslide? Stevie said it herself, it's all the TV exec's want her to sing.
My mum ruined Sara for my by singing 'Sara, sara, sara.' over and over and over again in such an off key voice I had to resort to earplugs.

[KarmaContestant]

Hmm..

I am definitely sick of Rhiannon in every incarnation - live, demo, album, single - they're all tiresome to my ears. I will turn off the radio, skip the track, change the channel, go get a beer - anything to avoid hearing it one more time.

I think that's really the only one I can't endure, although Sara is getting there. Very close. Just thinking about it makes me want to play something loud, male and British to ensure I don't have Sara stuck in my head.

[bluefox4000]

The Entire Rumours album...Plus Rhiannon and I'm all Set:D oh and Brown Eyes...moreover I'm sick of hearing what a brilliant song it is.......it's not....lol

Mick

[aleuzzi]

Brown Eyes is brilliant. Don't know what prompted me to type that.:D

Anyway, I'd say Dreams (any version), Landslide (the Dance), and Don't Stop (the Dance) are at the top of the list.

And let's be honest--most of the band's live setlists since 1978 onward are pretty tired.

[Silver Springs]

At the moment Landslide is a pretty sore note.

[WildHearted]

Don't Stop, mostly.

[MacFan92]

Landslide. It's a great song, but gets too much exposure. I understand everyone being sick of Dreams, but I've been playing that song alot more recently for whatever reason.

[bombaysaffires]

GoldDust Woman.

I don't hear Sara that much anywhere anymore. : (

[mylittledemon]

Don't Stop is always a skipper for me, even though it's a great song. Landslide usually gets skipped also just because it puts me in a mood ;)

[Dodfather]

Yup - it's gotta be Don't Stop. I'm just sick of it!

[mylittledemon]

I opened up iTunes and noted of late that I've been skipping Sisters Of The Moon and most of the rest of Tusk as well. :shrug: :sorry:

[Dodfather]

I opened up iTunes and noted of late that I've been skipping Sisters Of The Moon and most of the rest of Tusk as well. :shrug: :sorry:

Sisters Of The Moon isn't a favourite of mine either. I love some of the live versions but the studio version isn't the best. The mixing is dreadful - Stevie's voice is muffled and la bit ost in the track.

[chriskisn]

Pretty much anything by the Rumour's era crew except Stevie's stuff off of Tusk.

Couple of exceptions to that of course (I can still listen to songs like Isn't It Midnight, The Chain, Murrow, Miranda, Seven Wonders, etc) but in the main, I am so over the Rumour's FM right now that I tend to skip them when they play on my iPod.

I'm much more inclined to listen to solo albums or the Welch/Weston/Walker era.

:(

[SortaSavageLike]

I work at a grocery store that insists on subjecting it's customers and employees on a near-daily basis to a never-ending stream of 70s AM radio schlock (read: sappy ballads, the occasional decent classic rock song, and lots of ****ty disco). So yeah, you can imagine I'm dead tired of Rumours. I was tired of it before I started working there, and really, I wouldn't mind hearing something from one of their other 17 studio albums just once.

At this point I'm like "so you went through awful breakups...during the Ford Administration. Cry me a river, won't you!" :rolleyes:

[holidayroad]

Save Me a Place...I've never cared for it and I file it under 'What was Lindsey thinking?!!!'. The lyrics are fine. Maybe he'll totally change it with a very different live version at some point.

Also, The Second Time....why Stevie ever thought this was okay is beyond me!

[seekerj]

Everywhere.

Wimpiest song ever. Talk about running to hear something with balls after that.

[jbrownsjr]

Landslide (live, or by another artist) the studio version is still beautiful to me..

[MacShadowsBall]

I haven't listened to the The Chain since August 21st. :eek: Its just not one of my favorites.

Also Rhiannon, Everywhere, and Tusk I just don't care for that much.

I know everybody's tired of Don't Stop but I still get soooo excited when that song comes on. :cool:

[Ashley]

Don't Stop for sure. I love that song and everything, but I can only take so much of it.

[Neal]

"Landslide", with "Don't Stop" a close second...

[PenguinHead]

At this point I'm like "so you went through awful breakups...during the Ford Administration. Cry me a river, won't you!" :rolleyes:

Great quip!:D

[Villavic]

I think we have played this long ago.

To me it's always temporary. There are periods when I get sick of Dreams, Silver Springs, Little Lies, so I choose not to hear them for 3 or 4 months, and then I enjoyed them a lot.

I even try not to listen Fleetwood Mac, but no 3 or 4 months, just 2 or 3 weeks and then I really enjoy them

[MacShadowsBall]

I even try not to listen Fleetwood Mac, but no 3 or 4 months, just 2 or 3 weeks and then I really enjoy them

What!!! I can't go two days without Fleetwood Mac. I'm still quite early in my love(addiction) of them, so perhaps that colors my judgement.

[Regina]

Don't Stop (please do--I've hated it since Clinton campaigned and it was playing endlessly on the compaign trail)
Dreams (there is just nothing that interests me in this anymore...no nuance, nothing)
Landslide (as someone said, it's a great song. A song that was one of my favorites and still is, if I'm in the right mood. But, I'd just rather hear something else and have a chance to miss it! Can't do that if it never goes away)
I'm So Afraid...unless I'm right by Lindsey's feet--then, it's kind of mesmerizing and...even if I'm in the line of fire to get kicked by those ratty old shoes.
Big Love...I just have had enough of that house of the hill. I know it means a lot to him but...I just don't love it.

[Macfanforever]

I'm probably the odd one here.I never get tired of FM/Stevie/Lindsey tunes.But now its the off season of touring here and I do slack off on playing them by going back to country tunes ,oldies and lite rock tunes.
now holiday tunes.Time to time I'll play them but not every minute of the day like in the mitz of their touring season.And I'll play them to reference of comments from this forum to see what the poster is talking about.

[GoldDustGypsy]

I think I get tired of a lot of songs after I wear them out by playing them over and over and over.....but all I do is not listen to them for about a month or so and then I can start obsessing over them again :thumbsup:

[McTrouble]

What!!! I can't go two days without Fleetwood Mac. I'm still quite early in my love(addiction) of them, so perhaps that colors my judgement.

Well, I'm certainly not in the first flush of love with them, being a fan for over 30 years, and I still can't go more than a couple of days without them!!!

I can't go ONE day without Lindsey solo! :distress:

[TheSorcerer]

Don't Stop - have never really cared for it all that much
Everywhere - always skip it

[bluefox4000]

Well, I'm certainly not in the first flush of love with them, being a fan for over 30 years, and I still can't go more than a couple of days without them!!!

I can't go ONE day without Lindsey solo! :distress:

That's me too. I have not listened to a whole Mac album in month and months. I listen to Lindsey every day. no joke.

Mick

[McTrouble]

That's me too. I have not listened to a whole Mac album in month and months. I listen to Lindsey every day. no joke.

Mick

I love your dedication to him! :thumbsup:

[louielouie2000]

Don't Stop. It's just cheesy.

[GypsySorcerer]

Another vote for Don't Stop. The only version I like anymore is the one from the Dance.

[AliceLover]

Weird, I think Don't Stop is one of the better choices to hear on the radio.

My vote goes to Dreams. Such a snoozefest.

[chiliD]

The Second Time
No Questions Asked
When You Say
Not That Funny (the studio version)
Running Through The Garden
Thoughts On A Grey Day (apologies to Mrs Scarrott)

[shackin'up]

Little Lies. The ugliest piece of "ironing underwear"-pop ever. That chorus drives me nuts. Only that song almost ruined my entire fandom.

[michelej1]

Little Lies. The ugliest piece of "ironing underwear"-pop ever. That chorus drives me nuts. Only that song almost ruined my entire fandom.

I know what you mean. I like Little Lies and love to hear it, but that song has almost singlehandedly given Fleetwood Mac an unwarranted, elevator Muzak reputation that has plunged the band into the same public perception vortex as . . . Neil Sedaka.

Not all the prayers in the world could save us.

Michele

[aleuzzi]

I know what you mean. I like Little Lies and love to hear it, but that song has almost singlehandedly given Fleetwood Mac an unwarranted, elevator Muzak reputation that has plunged the band into the same public perception vortex as . . . Neil Sedaka.

Not all the prayers in the world could save us.

Michele

I love that song! The fact that so many musicians have tried to cover it says something, too. For what it's worth, I've heard The Doors in elevators and department stores, too.

A couple people have dissed Everywhere and I can understand that a tad more. I think the Tango arrangement of it is too sugary and fluffy. I love the 1:30 demo that's floated around--A LOT.

[michelej1]

I love that song! The fact that so many musicians have tried to cover it says something, too. For what it's worth, I've heard The Doors in elevators and department stores, too.



It's the singsongy nature of the chorus that overshadows the verses and all people remember is "tell me lies tell me sweet little lies". It's like molasses.

But I like the song and I actually think it has complexity -- not just musical complexity, but lyrically, the message makes me ache a little and it touches me because of when it was released in the band's life. So, I would never trade Little Lies for Songbird or Oh Daddy in a million years. I'd toss both of them out to keep it and I don't tire of hearing it. But I think it kind of ruined FM's life on a surface level as being the first thing that detractors seize upon. Even more so than Don't Stop.

Michele

[PenguinHead]

In the context of a live show set:

Rhiannon
Landslide
Dreams
Don't Stop - stop it!
Stand Back


Notably, mostly Stevie Nicks songs! Kind of sad that, after several decades she hasn't found newer material to feature prominently in live in shows. Though, it was somewhat revelatory that she brought to life 'Beautiful Child' and 'Storms.'

If you reference other long-standing bands, you will see that in most cases, while they give credence to their past, they don't rely so heavily on it in live performances.

[moon]

Mmmm let me see let me see...

- Don't Stop
- Dreams
- Landslide

I think "Go your own way" is amazing, and "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" are not so burnt like the others above (ok, maybe here where I am), as "Rhiannon" or "Big Love" too.
Regards!

[PolishStevieFan]

Just because I live in Poland where radios play only three Fleetwood Mac songs: "Little Lies", "Everywhere" and "Seven Wonders" I would choose them as the songs that I like but only in small quantities:laugh: As much as I like "Tango In The Night" I think it's way too overplayed album, at least in my country.

[michelej1]

As much as I like "Tango In The Night" I think it's way too overplayed album, at least in my country.

That's actually a refreshing thing to hear. Michele

[BrownEyedGirl26]

In the context of a live show set:

Rhiannon
Landslide
Dreams
Don't Stop - stop it!
Stand Back


Notably, mostly Stevie Nicks songs! Kind of sad that, after several decades she hasn't found newer material to feature prominently in live in shows. Though, it was somewhat revelatory that she brought to life 'Beautiful Child' and 'Storms.'

If you reference other long-standing bands, you will see that in most cases, while they give credence to their past, they don't rely so heavily on it in live performances.

I think she would love to not have to sing these same songs night after night but she still gets a great response when she does and she enjoys the fact that people sing them with her! Unfortunately when songs are played over and over again, like when you have to listen to the radio at work, you can't help but get tired of them. It must be the same for the singer as well! It doesn't do justice at all to the music for it to be overexposed in this way!

[Hawkeye]

In the context of a live show set:

Rhiannon
Landslide
Dreams
Don't Stop - stop it!
Stand Back


Notably, mostly Stevie Nicks songs! Kind of sad that, after several decades she hasn't found newer material to feature prominently in live in shows. Though, it was somewhat revelatory that she brought to life 'Beautiful Child' and 'Storms.'

If you reference other long-standing bands, you will see that in most cases, while they give credence to their past, they don't rely so heavily on it in live performances.


You see, i'm confused as to why Stevie is always accused of being the biggest offender in sticking to the same tired songs in her set, but I think Lindsey is way worse. He really could affrd to not do NGBA and Second Hand News at every danmed show. Other then ISA (which I could watch him do every day of the year such a mezmerizing experience) His standards get on my nerves way more. And he has more cemented in his set then Stevie. Stevie has Dreams GDW Rhiannon Stand Back and Edge. Shes toyed many times with a Landslide-less set but always falls back, but she tries. Lindsey never toys with no NGBA.

If you put the Wiltern Set next to Lindsey's songs from the small machine, Stevie wins hands down.

[GoldDustBoy]

Just because I live in Poland where radios play only three Fleetwood Mac songs: "Little Lies", "Everywhere" and "Seven Wonders" I would choose them as the songs that I like but only in small quantities:laugh: As much as I like "Tango In The Night" I think it's way too overplayed album, at least in my country.

Same here. :) I guess Tango was the biggest album they ever had in this part of the world. Macedonian radios (and Macedonia is not that far from Poland) mostly play Big Love, Everywhere, and Little Lies. They also used to play Peacekeeper and Thrown Down at least twice a day when SYW came out, and still play them pretty often. I used to live in Croatia and Serbia for some time, and Tusk is HUGE there.

[vivfox]

Same here. :) I used to live in Croatia and Serbia for some time, and Tusk is HUGE there.


What songs from Tusk do they beat into the ground there?

[GoldDustBoy]

What songs from Tusk do they beat into the ground there?

Sara, Beautiful Child and Tusk were played frequently on the radio, and most of the people I met owned a copy of the album, and considered it a classic. In Croatia they also play Save Me very often.

[moon]

Hey, here in Argentina things are so different! Don't Stop and Dreams for example, are currency! In the radios always sound songs like the two above, with Black Magic Woman (both versions), and Landslide. But nothing else.
So, you listen more songs in the radio than here!
Regards

[bombaysaffires]

You see, i'm confused as to why Stevie is always accused of being the biggest offender in sticking to the same tired songs in her set, but I think Lindsey is way worse. He really could affrd to not do NGBA and Second Hand News at every danmed show. Other then ISA (which I could watch him do every day of the year such a mezmerizing experience) His standards get on my nerves way more. And he has more cemented in his set then Stevie. Stevie has Dreams GDW Rhiannon Stand Back and Edge. Shes toyed many times with a Landslide-less set but always falls back, but she tries. Lindsey never toys with no NGBA.

If you put the Wiltern Set next to Lindsey's songs from the small machine, Stevie wins hands down.

Bless you, for I could soooooooooo do without another performance of I'm So Afraid. I was sick of that clunker back in 1982. Ugh. Ymmv.

[vivfox]

Sara, Beautiful Child and Tusk were played frequently on the radio


Wow! I've never heard Beautiful Child on the radio. Those 3 songs from Tusk are amazing. Maybe I should move there. Do you have any Latino's there?

[elle]

You see, i'm confused as to why Stevie is always accused of being the biggest offender in sticking to the same tired songs in her set, but I think Lindsey is way worse. He really could affrd to not do NGBA and Second Hand News at every danmed show. Other then ISA (which I could watch him do every day of the year such a mezmerizing experience) His standards get on my nerves way more. And he has more cemented in his set then Stevie. Stevie has Dreams GDW Rhiannon Stand Back and Edge. Shes toyed many times with a Landslide-less set but always falls back, but she tries. Lindsey never toys with no NGBA.

If you put the Wiltern Set next to Lindsey's songs from the small machine, Stevie wins hands down.

i completely disagree. however, i don't go to Stevie's solo shows so i have no complaints about her 14-song setlist - i don't care either way. i don't know most of her solo deep cuts. SB and EO17 are really the only SN solo songs i know. :D

but i went to a number of Lindsey's solo shows and out of 19 songs he does on Small Machine he performs 6 FM songs (so less than a third), others are solo. 6 FM songs are NGBA, BL, SHN, Tusk, ISA, and GYOW. i would hate it if he dropped any of these (although i wouldn't mind seeing faster version of NGBA). and casual concert goers / friends / family that i brought with me to some of the shows were blown away by both BL and ISA - everybody always seems to be. SHN and Tusk are great for loosening up the crowd and dancing. and GYOW - well that's just one huge party!! so no, i don't think he can drop any of these 6. if you have ever stood in front of Lindsey or anywhere within these small venues that he tours solo when he does live any of these songs, and you still want him to drop these, especially BL, ISA, or GYOW, i am very surprised. :shrug:

but - i never liked Trouble, and still don't - so as far as i'm concerned he can drop Trouble. but again, people seem to react very positively to it. and if you look at what his solo hits were, you have Trouble, Go Insane and Holiday Road (arguably probably his biggest solo selling song if you look by the individual songs sales, even if it didn't originally chart that high). and he never ever does Holiday Road anymore. so out of 3 solo hits he had, he doesn't even do one of them.:p

of 13 solo songs Lindsey does on his current tour, he has 6 new ones in his setlist (i think this is the number of the new songs he consistently does when he tours solo, for any album), 2 hits - Trouble and Go Insane, and 65 deep cuts - SUD, UTS, AMS, TIO, Treason.

keep in mind that most of his older songs have been reworked and done in a different way - some slightly, others substantially.

[bangdrum]

I love Trouble. (And I'm not even a fingerpicking nut!) I still wish he'd get rid of Big Love instead.

I totally agree that SHN is necessary. It doesn't even matter if the song comes out terribly musically; it gets a lot of people standing up for the first time during the concert.

Lindsey is doing 6 FM songs, 6 new solo songs, 6 "other." And he changes his songs more than Stevie - this tour he's doing AMS, last time he did Don't Look Down. Last tour he did Come instead of ISA. I haven't been to a Stevie concert since 2001, but from what I've read, doesn't she largely do the same songs other than the IYD songs?

Anyway, I agree with elle. :lol:

[henryscutter]

Landslide except the original
Dont Stop and YMLF
NGBA and I have very little love for Big Love



It will never happen but I would like for both Lindsey & Stevie to have set list that are all solo songs. Leave the Fleetwood songs for the Mac setlist.

[shackin'up]

Last tour he did Come instead of ISA.

Hmm, I was at last tour, and he did both all four shows I attended?

[bangdrum]

Hmm, I was at last tour, and he did both all four shows I attended?

OK, I was working off the FMLegacy GOS tour page... they don't have ISA listed in the setlists. But I checked my 3 year old NYC review (at my livejournal) and I did note ISA there. So... I don't know, lol. :shrug:

[elle]

OK, I was working off the FMLegacy GOS tour page... they don't have ISA listed in the setlists. But I checked my 3 year old NYC review (at my livejournal) and I did note ISA there. So... I don't know, lol. :shrug:

yeah, my understanding is he was doing both ISA and Come on GOS tour.

to be frank, as we discussed many times, i'd change a lot in his current setlist to better fit my taste, but that doesn't detract from the fact SWS tour has a great setlist - a lot of it due to the fact that new SWS songs are so great and fit so nicely the way they were incorporated in the set.

but yeah, he should do 3+ hr sets like Bruce in order to make me happy - a bit under 2 hr LB show is way too short - that's why i had to see so many:laugh:

and, GOS and UTS are represented with some of my least favorite songs from these 2 albums, plus while i love TIO from OOTC, AMS is not exactly on my list of favorites. and original GOS/SYW songs are so strong but NONE of them are in the current setlist... i can go on and on :lol:

[bangdrum]

The "academic" setlist planning would probably be too difficult with a 3 hour show. :D:angel:

I think my original point was that he at least has more variety across tours than Stevie does... even if it's not always the songs we'd pick for him to do.

Easy setlist help for LB: For OOTC: Drop AMS. Add almost anything else. Keep TIO. For GOS: Drop Treason. Add anything besides TPT and DYMM. For UTS: Drop UTS, keep SUD. Add Down On Rodeo. Anything after that, I'll leave up to him. :cool:

Yeah, I didn't have anything at all written in my review besides the fact that he DID ISA... I think it got overshadowed by Come since they were so close together.

[elle]

Easy setlist help for LB: For OOTC: Drop AMS. Add almost anything else. Keep TIO. For GOS: Drop Treason. Add anything besides TPT and DYMM. For UTS: Drop UTS, keep SUD. Add Down On Rodeo. Anything after that, I'll leave up to him. :cool:

i'm with you on every single one of these points / choices :thumbsup: - except my first choice to add from UTS would be Try for the Sun :)

[bangdrum]

i'm with you on every single one of these points / choices :thumbsup: - except my first choice to add from UTS would be Try for the Sun :)

Yeah, but he'd probably want to do Try for the Sun as another solo acoustic piece (unless he's up for teaching some tricky guitar parts to Neale and Brett)... which would put it front of set instead of mid-set. Down On Rodeo can work as a band song and fit where UTS is now.

And if we're talking actual first choices from albums, then he's doing Shuffle Riff and Twist Of Fate from GOS. :thumbsup: :D

[elle]

Yeah, but he'd probably want to do Try for the Sun as another solo acoustic piece (unless he's up for teaching some tricky guitar parts to Neale and Brett)... which would put it front of set instead of mid-set. Down On Rodeo can work as a band song and fit where UTS is now.

And if we're talking actual first choices from albums, then he's doing Shuffle Riff and Twist Of Fate from GOS. :thumbsup: :D

well, all 4 of these songs were on my request list that i gave Walfredo at some point during the tour...:thumbsup:

[Villavic]

Dreams.

I will never understand why this is the ONLY FM song (other than the occasional EO17) they will EVER play on the radio... :shrug:


Because it was the only N.1
so the question is why this was the only Number 1 FM song?? That's what I don't get

[PenguinHead]

Because it was the only N.1
so the question is why this was the only Number 1 FM song?? That's what I don't get

As I recall, radio's playlists aren't exclusively airing only number one songs. While it's surprising that Fleetwood Mac hasn't charted any other number one songs, so what? Their songs are a far more durable/memorable than many long forgotten number one songs. And consider that many of their album tracks that weren't ever singles are staples on radio and in stores, doctors' offices and supermarkets everywhere! lol

[elle]

Because it was the only N.1


i'm not sure i understand what you all are talking about. Second Hand News is played constantly on both classic rock stations and as background music on tv shows and it was never even a single or charted anywhere.

[bangdrum]

i'm not sure i understand what you all are talking about. Second Hand News is played constantly on both classic rock stations and as background music on tv shows and it was never even a single or charted anywhere.

Well, as far as what I was talking about, NYC radio has seemingly all but abandoned playing FM most of the time. (Q104 used to play them all the time; now I never hear anything.) So, the only FM songs I ever hear are Dreams on the lite stations and the occasional Dance Landslide. I haven't heard SHN on the radio in years.

Used to hear: SHN, Monday Morning, The Chain, SYLM, GYOW, Little Lies occasionally, Rhiannon a lot, even Don't Stop used to be played more than it is now. EO17 still gets played very occasionally. Silver Springs was played like crazy when The Dance came out. Oh, and Gypsy gets played on the lite stations about once a month.

I should try watching more TV. :lol:

[golddustwoman77]

Everywhere.

Wimpiest song ever. Talk about running to hear something with balls after that.

I couldn't agree with you more. This is my least favorite FM song.