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Villavic
02-04-2013, 10:34 AM
I wasn't sure where to post this, but since it's a question about Lindsey's solo studio albums, I think here is the right place.

Wich of his solo (studio) albums is the most similar to the Fleetwood Mac sound and style?
elle
02-04-2013, 04:33 PM
I wasn't sure where to post this, but since it's a question about Lindsey's solo studio albums, I think here is the right place.

Wich of his solo (studio) albums is the most similar to the Fleetwood Mac sound and style?

nice idea - and happy to see you on this board! :thumbsup:

i'd say without a doubt OOTC. it was the only album where he was thinking solo will be his only career path from then on, and he put everything on it - both mac-ish sounding songs as well as more lindsey solo-like songs.

his other solo albums are more feeding his non-mac side (i do NOT wanna say left side of the palette :p).
bluefox4000
02-04-2013, 04:59 PM
OOTC unequivocally.

Mick
McTrouble
02-04-2013, 05:21 PM
Gotta be OOTC!
Dragonfly
02-04-2013, 05:48 PM
Yep OOTC for me too.

Sounds like a follow up to Tango In The Night.
Sleepless-Child
02-04-2013, 07:14 PM
I voted OOTC but i'm sure if they put out an album now his songs would sound very GOS/SWS-ish.
elle
02-04-2013, 07:18 PM
I voted OOTC but i'm sure if they put out an album now his songs would sound very GOS/SWS-ish.

i don't know. could be. but he said he was trying to make fleetwood mac-y sounding songs with Mick and John at the beginning of the year.

his most recent songs, from This is 40 soundtrack, sound nothing like his GOS or SWS songs. :shrug:
michelej1
02-04-2013, 07:56 PM
i don't know. could be. but he said he was trying to make fleetwood mac-y sounding songs with Mick and John at the beginning of the year.

his most recent songs, from This is 40 soundtrack, sound nothing like his GOS or SWS songs. :shrug:

I hope he never puts out an album that sounds like the This is 40 songs.

Michele
moon
02-05-2013, 01:14 PM
Gift of Screws, definitely. Even when I listened to the songs that were included on SYW, I think lot of songs from this solo work could be part of a FM album.
It sounds like the last FM style.
Regards!
Gene
02-07-2013, 12:48 PM
I thought Law & Order. Trouble could've been an FM single imo and John & Mick play on it. Mick plays on one or two other tracks on L&O iirc....

Gene
michelej1
02-07-2013, 05:47 PM
I thought Law & Order. Trouble could've been an FM single imo and John & Mick play on it. Mick plays on one or two other tracks on L&O iirc....

Gene

Well "Trouble" was definitely the poppiest song on the album. I don't think the majority of tracks sound like FM at all. Michele
louielouie2000
02-07-2013, 11:00 PM
Out Of The Cradle is by far Lindsey's most accessible, mystical, darkly atmospheric album... making it the most Mac-like in my book. I remember the first time I ever heard OOTC, I thought it was pretty much a collection of the best of Lindsey's different song styles he recorded with Fleetwood Mac, all wrapped up in one solo album.
michelej1
02-07-2013, 11:59 PM
At the time OOTC was released, I think Lindsey said that on FM his songs had to be counters to Stevie and Chris in FM, so he never got to fully express all parts of his personality. Instead, he was focused on trying to be something counter to what they were in FM and, perhaps, deliberately radical. He described OOTC as the first album where he could integrate all aspects of himself, including the parts that might overlap with Christine or Stevie.

Michele
Gene
02-08-2013, 12:56 PM
Well "Trouble" was definitely the poppiest song on the album. I don't think the majority of tracks sound like FM at all. Michele

I dunno about that, some of those tunes might fit well on Tusk.
Stormwind
02-08-2013, 01:08 PM
Maybe OOTC is the most Fleetwood mac sound-alike solo album because of its work on it. After leaving, Lindsey, in my opinion, did a very particular album. Tango in the night presented some originally solo songs by Lindsey, maybe OOTC presented also some ideas that were destinated to FM.
michelej1
02-08-2013, 02:33 PM
I dunno about that, some of those tunes might fit well on Tusk.

Yes, they might. I guess I wasn't considering Tusk a Fleetwood Mac album though really, sound-wise.

Michele
sodascouts
02-08-2013, 03:09 PM
Tango in the night presented some originally solo songs by Lindsey, maybe OOTC presented also some ideas that were destinated to FM.

Interesting idea, as I consider his work on OOTC far superior to his work on TITN. Maybe he saved the best for his solo album.
Stormwind
02-10-2013, 12:16 PM
Interesting idea, as I consider his work on OOTC far superior to his work on TITN. Maybe he saved the best for his solo album.

Maybe, who knows ?
But I agree with you: his work on OOTC is superior to his work on TITN. Maybe he choosed what songs bring on OOTC.
FierySequences
02-10-2013, 12:28 PM
I can't really vote on this topic, as of right now I think I only own UTS on CD. I had a cple cassettes of early LB but who knows where they are now.

I'd love to get my greedy hands on OOTC (I'm embarresed I don't own a copy) But, hearing selections (most of) SWS, I would base my opinion on that album right now.