Out of the Cradle Poll

[Montclare]

Album #3 time. I had to remove three songs to keep it at 10. Based on previous posts/polls, I omitted This Is the Time, This Nearly Was Mine, and Say We'll Meet Again.

OOTC isn't one of my favorite of Lindsey's albums (blasphemy, I know), but I went with Street of Dreams, Countdown and Wrong. What are your top 3?

[elle]

Based on previous posts/polls, I omitted This Is the Time, This Nearly Was Mine, and Say We'll Meet Again.


your omitting This Is the Time makes it easier to choose for me, although if i had 4 choices i'd also add Doing What I Can.

love love love these songs:
Don't look down
You do or you don't
Turn it on

[michelej1]

OOTC is chock full of fantastic songs. It's sinful.

And I never really liked Doing What I Can until I heard it live. From the album, it didn't stand out to me. Now, I count it as one of my favorites.

I'm going to omit UTS and L & O, but take those 2 away and Lindsey has a fine set of solo albums under his belt. The rest are incredible works.


Michele

[Montclare]

I'm going to omit UTS and L & O, but take those 2 away and Lindsey has a fine set of solo albums under his belt. The rest are incredible works.

Michele

UTS and L&O are two of my three favorite LB albums. :D

[michelej1]

UTS and L&O are two of my three favorite LB albums. :D

When UTS came out, I loved it. Michele

[nicole21290]

Well, the second song that came to mind as a favourite (This Is The Time) wasn't even included so... :D

Also, HAD to include All My Sorrows just because I just have an inevitable emotional tug whenever I hear that song. Always was attached to the Nick Drake, Joan Baez and Paul McCartney versions of All My Trials when growing up, so knowing Lindsey did the song as well pleased me a LOT when I first heard this album.

[chiliD]

Can't pick...I don't really consider "Out of the Cradle" to have individual tracks...to me it's one MASTERPIECE of work, beginning to end (like "Smile" or "Sgt Pepper").

:nod:

[Dr.Brown]

Can't pick...I don't really consider "Out of the Cradle" to have individual tracks...to me it's one MASTERPIECE of work, beginning to end (like "Smile" or "Sgt Pepper").

:nod:

I couldn't pick either. IMHO, this is the best solo album of any Mac member and easily blows away any post-Tango Mac album.

[louielouie2000]

Wrong: LOVE the snarky, angry lyrics. The beat is even ominous and angry sounding.

Street of Dreams: It's so existential and dreamlike. Such a beautiful, contemplative song.

Doing What I Can: I really like the galloping pace of this one. It's very indicative of the lyrical content- charging through difficult circumstances.

As I mentioned in why I liked each song, one of the many things that's cool about OOTC is just how perfectly paired the music is with the content of each song. This really was Lindsey's masterpiece- not a word or note out of place.

[wondergirl9847]

Soul Drifter - I want this song played at my funeral. It's just a simple, perfect, amazing song with positive lyrics. I love it tons.

Surrender the Rain- I like the carnival-like sound of this. OOTC is about renewal and new beginnings, especially after loss. It's such a positive album and all the songs are wonderful.

Doing What I Can - It's really difficult to pick fave songs on this album, but this is my ultimate favorite. It grabs me and I usually end up tearing up when I listen to it. :o

[shackin'up]

I couldn't pick either. IMHO, this is the best solo album of any Mac member and easily blows away any post-Tango Mac album.
It blows away Tango, for sure, too.

[michelej1]

[From a February list of favorite albums for the Herald Review]

By Tim Cain, March 2, 2015

http://herald-review.com/blogs/tim_cain/the-big-list-the-february-edition/article_6123a06a-bb0b-11e4-bebc-db3a2c276c84.html



365, Day 58: No. 308. “Out of the Cradle,” Lindsey Buckingham (1992) - For a stretch, Lindsey Buckngham was infallible to me. This is the first of five albums on this list for him and his version of Fleetwood Mac. His having unique tunings for every song on the album is fantastic.

Favorite songs: "Soul Drifter," "Don't Look Down"

[Montclare]

[From a February list of favorite albums for the Herald Review]

By Tim Cain, March 2, 2015

http://herald-review.com/blogs/tim_cain/the-big-list-the-february-edition/article_6123a06a-bb0b-11e4-bebc-db3a2c276c84.html



365, Day 58: No. 308. “Out of the Cradle,” Lindsey Buckingham (1992) - For a stretch, Lindsey Buckngham was infallible to me. This is the first of five albums on this list for him and his version of Fleetwood Mac. His having unique tunings for every song on the album is fantastic.

Favorite songs: "Soul Drifter," "Don't Look Down"

I'm curious about this line. I wonder where the falloff was?

[nicole21290]

Not sure if you're all aware of this podcast but just in case you're not...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pods-sods/id713066884?mt=2

There's an hour long episode episode dedicated to OOTC (033). Oh, and one about The Dance (027) is there as well, if you're interested.

[jbrownsjr]

Fantastic album. I currently listen to it a lot.

[lbfan]

Not sure if you're all aware of this podcast but just in case you're not...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pods-sods/id713066884?mt=2

There's an hour long episode episode dedicated to OOTC (033). Oh, and one about The Dance (027) is there as well, if you're interested.

I enjoyed listening to these! One guy is thoughtful and soft-spoken, the other is bombastic. The only criticism is that they did not play even snippets of the songs. This may be a license issue, but the Rock and/or Roll Podcast on the Genius of Lindsey Buckingham, Part 1, played all of LB's Tusk Songs on a Podcast.

[sasja]

Can't pick...I don't really consider "Out of the Cradle" to have individual tracks...to me it's one MASTERPIECE of work, beginning to end (like "Smile" or "Sgt Pepper").

:nod:

:blob1: Absolutely. This, and tusk, get listened to start to finish.

[RockawayBlind]

your omitting This Is the Time makes it easier to choose for me, although if i had 4 choices i'd also add Doing What I Can.

love love love these songs:
Don't look down
You do or you don't
Turn it on

Very close to mine:

Don't Look Down
You Do Or You Don't
Surrender the Rain

[RockawayBlind]

I couldn't pick either. IMHO, this is the best solo album of any Mac member and easily blows away any post-Tango Mac album.

I completely agree, though Bella Donna is quite good too.

[The Highwayman]

I stupidly only picked one. Woops.

If I DID do it right, it would be

1. 'All My Sorrows'
2. 'Soul Drifter'
3. 'Say We'll Meet Again'

OOTC is the second or third best FM solo album in my opinion. Bella Donna is just about a masterpiece and The Wild Heart is really great too. Then after OOTC there's Trouble in Shangri-La and Under the Skin, which are nearly as excellent.

[starshine]

Cradle will always be my favorite LP by Lindsey. Not that he hasn't made some other good LP/cds after it but this will always be my favorite just like some of Stevie's earlier LP's will be my favorite's too. Cradle is such a great body of work for Lindsey. Its a cohesive LP from start to finish. I just wish we'd get a AWESOME box set from Lindsey with outtakes from all his LP's. I know we've talked about this before on here. I mean Mac & Stevie both have box sets so Lindsey's needs a box set also. If anyone can tweet him ask him this question. I can't but I would so love it. Too many songs to list as great I picked 3 songs above but I really think I love most of them just like the Tusk LP. Some LP's are special and this is Lindsey's special LP as well and the tour though I never saw him live solo but I did (or do ) have the video and audio for this tour and its great. (I've seen him with Mac though).:D

[Villavic]

I just found this poll. It's weird I didn't answered when it was posted years ago.

I thought Soul Drifter would get more votes. Although the lyrics may sound a little sad, the melody conveys an optimistic message to me.

[WalkAThinLine.]

I only picked one song, "Don't Look Down", but just realized that I could have picked two others. My other two selections would probably be "Wrong" and "You Do Or You Don't". "Street of Dreams" is also one of Buckingham's finest compositions.