If There Had Been an Album Between Mirage and Tango...

[sanders8323]

What songs would you include, only using songs from Christine's '84 album, Go Insane and Rock a Little. Title of the album as well.

Here's mine:

I still called it "Rock a Little:"

1) Got a Hold on Me
2) I Want You
3) Sister Honey
4) Slow Dancing
5) Ask Anybody
6) If I Were You
7) Loving Cup
8) Keeping Secrets
9) I Can't Wait
10) Go Insane
11) Who's Dreaming This Dream
12) Bang the Drum

I tried to keep a balance between the three singers and limited it to 12 songs. These were the songs I thought were the most "Mac like" and had a fair amount of harmonizing. I placed the songs in this order on my IPod and let it play. It hangs together really well actually.

[KenshiMaster16]

"Keeping Secrets"

Side 1
1. I Want You
2. Talk To Me
3. Love Will Show Us How
4. Slow Dancing
5. Some Become Strangers
6. The Challenge

Side 2
1. Play In The Rain (As 1 track)
2. Got A Hold On Me
3. No Spoken Word
4. Keeping Secrets
5. Go Insane
6. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?

[sorcerer999]

What songs would you include, only using songs from Christine's '84 album, Go Insane and Rock a Little. Title of the album as well.

Here's mine:

I still called it "Rock a Little:"

1) Got a Hold on Me
2) I Want You
3) Sister Honey
4) Slow Dancing
5) Ask Anybody
6) If I Were You
7) Loving Cup
8) Keeping Secrets
9) I Can't Wait
10) Go Insane
11) Who's Dreaming This Dream
12) Bang the Drum

I tried to keep a balance between the three singers and limited it to 12 songs. These were the songs I thought were the most "Mac like" and had a fair amount of harmonizing. I placed the songs in this order on my IPod and let it play. It hangs together really well actually.

You called in "Rock A Little" but didn't include the actual track on the record? Interesting.

[jbrownsjr]

You called in "Rock A Little" but didn't include the actual track on the record? Interesting.

I noticed that, too. However, there is not tracked called Mirage, or Rumours. So it's legal. :p

[MikeVielhaber]

I noticed that, too. However, there is not tracked called Mirage, or Rumours. So it's legal. :p

But those album titles were not based on song titles. There is a song called "Rock a Little". Now there is precedent for it, just not with FM. Led Zeppelin released House of the Holy the album and then the song was released on the next album. Queen released Sheer Heart Attack album and then the song a few albums later.

[jbrownsjr]

But those album titles were not based on song titles. There is a song called "Rock a Little". Now there is precedent for it, just not with FM. Led Zeppelin released House of the Holy the album and then the song was released on the next album. Queen released Sheer Heart Attack album and then the song a few albums later.

Rolling Stone: How did you come up with the album name?
Christine: Well we used a title of one of Shtevie's song's. The album was quite the rocker but we agreed that the song didn't fit quite well. So we sort of pillaged the title.

Since this is hypothetical anyway, I can make up whatever I want! ;)

[Jondalar]

Go Insane
The Challenge
Stand Back
I want you
Sable on Blond
Ask Anybody
Got A Hold on Me
Time Bomb town
Talk to me
Holiday Road
If Anyone falls
Love will show us how
The Smile I live for
Beauty and the Beast

[sanders8323]

Rolling Stone: How did you come up with the album name?
Christine: Well we used a title of one of Shtevie's song's. The album was quite the rocker but we agreed that the song didn't fit quite well. So we sort of pillaged the title.

Since this is hypothetical anyway, I can make up whatever I want! ;)

You, sir (assuming you are a sir), are a genius! That was my exact reasoning.

[Wdm6789]

I wish there was an album between Mirage and tango. It should have been released in 1984 or 1985 and it should have sold like 5 million+ copies.

I would love to hear more 80s Fleetwood Mac and I like even numbers. Six albums from this lineup would have been great. And Lindsey should have done the Tango tour, those videos on YouTube would be so much better with Lindsey, the other two dudes just don't do it for me.

[WatchChain]

Fleetwood Mac--Continental Drift

Go Insane
Watch Devil
Ask Anybody
Slow Dancing
I Sing For The Things
Got A Hold On Me
Loving Cup
Julia
Who's Dreaming This Dream
I Must Go
The Smile I Love For
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?

@1984 Warner Brothers Records
Produced by Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut

[MikeVielhaber]

I wish there was an album between Mirage and tango. It should have been released in 1984 or 1985 and it should have sold like 5 million+ copies.


Mirage sold 2 million and Tango sold 3 million. I doubt the one in between would've sold 5 million.

[jbrownsjr]

Mirage sold 2 million and Tango sold 3 million. I doubt the one in between would've sold 5 million.

I agree. But, I will say they were so heavily promoted by MTV, HBO and Warner during the 80's. If you tried to avoid FM or their solo stuff, it was quite hard.

Mirage was a #1 Album and Tango wasn't Yet Tango sold more. I always found that interesting. I also felt that Tango got so much airplay.

They played the crap out of Little Lies and Everywhere.. It was truly Everywhere.

[BombaySapphire3]

Mirage sold 2 million and Tango sold 3 million. I doubt the one in between would've sold 5 million.

Tango actually sold 12 million worldwide though.Far more than any other Fleetwood Mac studio album aside from Rumours.

[MikeVielhaber]

Tango actually sold 12 million worldwide though.Far more than any other Fleetwood Mac studio album aside from Rumours.

That's true, but I'm assuming the person I was responding to was referring to US sales. otherwise 5 million seems like a low number to shoot for. It's not bad, but also not exceptional.

[Justin Reach]

FLEETWOOD MAC - THE CHALLENGE

Side 1
I WANT YOU
TALK TO ME
LOVE WILL SHOW US HOW
SLOW DANCING
PLAY IN THE RAIN (CONTINUED)
THE SMILE I LIVE FOR

Side 2
GOT A HOLD ON ME
GO INSANE
ROCK A LITTLE
THE CHALLENGE
HAS ANYBODY EVER WRITTEN ANYTHING FOR YOU?
D W SUITE

[Villavic]

Stand back is now an adopted live FM song, so it would be probably included

[jbrownsjr]

But those album titles were not based on song titles. There is a song called "Rock a Little". Now there is precedent for it, just not with FM. Led Zeppelin released House of the Holy the album and then the song was released on the next album. Queen released Sheer Heart Attack album and then the song a few albums later.

Wait isn't there a tune called, "Mystery To Me"? And it did not make the album?

[MikeVielhaber]

Wait isn't there a tune called, "Mystery To Me"? And it did not make the album?

I believe that song title came from the lyrics to the song "Emerald Eyes".

[jbrownsjr]

I believe that song title came from the lyrics to the song "Emerald Eyes".

No not Emerald Eyes, there's an actual bootleg called Mystery to Me from the 1974 concerts. I have to go look in my library.

[aleuzzi]

I have occasionally wondered what an album in the "between" years would have sounded like. I'll go with a list from the three albums mentioned in the original post, but technically "The Wild Heart" and Mick's Zoo should be considered, too.

I chose 12 songs. Since we're in fantasy land, I chose 4 from Lindsey, 5 from Christine, 3 from Stevie--though I know the Christine-Lindsey distribution would most likely have been reversed.

Go Insane
Got a Hold on Me
I Sing for the Things
Ask Anybody
Playing in the Rain
Some Become Strangers

Love Will Show Us How
Lovin' Cup
Has Anyone...
One in a Million
DW Suite
Smile I Live For


My thoughts:

All of the songs--except Smile I Live For--would have to be rearranged and recast to fit a FM sound. Got a Hold on Me and Love Will Show Us How have great verses and bland choruses; Go Insane is a wonderful tune that sounds better both on The Dance and in the re-tooling of it for the Unleashed tour; Lindsey's other songs are really quite strong contributions that could fit right alongside his Tango songs, given the FM treatment. Stevie's songs are strong but arranged in a calculated 80s synth style that doesn't suit her as well as the arrangements on albums before or since Rock A Little. I'd have loved to hear what the band would have done with them...As much as I love Has Anyone... I don't think the album version sounds nearly as good as it does when Stevie sang it for the Storytellers special in 1998. THAT was a classic performance.