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Villavic
11-29-2023, 09:28 AM
I found an article in a Chilean radio webpage about the most underrated Fleetwood Mac songs. Actually it picks one song per album:

Over My Head (Fleetwood Mac, 1975)
I Don’t Want to Know (Rumours, 1977)
That’s All For Everyone (Tusk, 1979)
Can’t Go Back (Mirage, 1982)
Isn’t It Midnight (Tango in the Night, 1987)
Freedom (Behind the Mask, 1990)
Nights in Estoril (Time, 1995)
Smile at You (Say You Will, 2003)

I don’t know about Freedom or Smile at You. Those songs don’t give me any big emotion. But Isn’t It Midnight is THE most underrated song to me. It must have been a hit like Little Lies or Everywhere.

Macfan4life
11-29-2023, 12:22 PM
Since Over My Head was Fleetwood Mac's first big hit, I dont see how someone could say its an underrated song. Any song from Rumours is not underrated since everyone knows them so I would scratch I Dont Want To Know.
Clearly I do agree that Nights in Estoril is underrated since its not known by many. The rest of the list I could also agree with. Most all songs on Tusk are underrated and every album pre-Buck/Nicks is underrated.
But I will go where others wont dare to go. BTM, OSOTM, Christine McVie, In The Meantime, and Street Angel are all greatly underrated!

David
11-29-2023, 12:44 PM
You and I Part I — pastoral English beauty
Angel 1979 — funk masterwork whose minimalist arrangement screams invention for its era, but more than invention it’s one of the best dance songs from a year that produced excellent dance (like Off the Wall), the lyric is as sassy and sensual as Stevie ever was
Steal Your Heart Away — the most stunning tribute to the Kingston Trio ever written
Worried Dream — the best, emotionally rawest blues guitar, most believable lyric, and open-hearted vocal ever laid down by a British band, one for the ages
That’s Alright — one of Stevie’s top five lyrics, and a melody line to die for, absolutely smashing

bwboy
11-29-2023, 10:00 PM
Crystal
Blue Letter
I Don’t Want to Know
Brown Eyes
Book of Love
Isn’t It Midnight
As Long As You Follow
No Questions Asked
Save Me
Thrown Down

WatchChain
11-29-2023, 11:42 PM
That’s Alright — one of Stevie’s top five lyrics, and a melody line to die for, absolutely smashing

"That's Alright" is pure perfection. It's gorgeous - one of the greatest Fleetwood Mac songs ever recorded.

jbrownsjr
11-30-2023, 08:30 AM
As Long As You Follow
Ask Anybody
One In A Million
Eyes of the World

Wdm6789
12-01-2023, 12:37 PM
That’s Alright
Only Over You
Family Man
Walk a Thin Line
Over & Over (live versions)
Caroline

"That's Alright" is pure perfection. It's gorgeous - one of the greatest Fleetwood Mac songs ever recorded.

I wish they did That’s Alright during the Mirage tour. It would have been so good live. I wish Stevie did it on her solo tours too.

aleuzzi
12-01-2023, 01:45 PM
Underrated FM songs:

Before the Beginning
Like it This Way
Buddy’s Song
Woman of a 1000 Years
Sometimes
Dust
Trinity
The Ghost
Dissatisfied
Miles Away
Bad Loser
Heroes Are Hard to Find

….

Sugar Daddy
IDWK
Never Forget
That’s All For Everyone
That’s Alright
Love in Store
Big Love

….

Love Shines
Heart of Stone
Hollywood
Sooner or Later
Nothing Without You
Talking to My Heart

…

My Little Demon
Say Goodbye
Red Rover
Everybody Finds Out

FuzzyPlum
12-01-2023, 03:05 PM
Only You
Jewel Eyed Judy
Purple Dancer
Show Me a Smile
Come a Little Bit Closer
That’s Alright
Wish You Were Here
Do You Know
Sad Angel

These are songs that I could have envisaged being major hit singles

HomerMcvie
12-01-2023, 03:35 PM
"That's Alright" is pure perfection. It's gorgeous - one of the greatest Fleetwood Mac songs ever recorded.

I just stumbled across this version. It says it's from 1972! WTF?

Listen to $tevie? harmonizing with herself on the 2nd verse(I can hear Lindsey, but not really until the end).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj-y8YVkC78

Villavic
12-01-2023, 05:50 PM
I just stumbled across this version. It says it's from 1972! WTF?



Apparently it was originally called “Designs of Love.”

https://stevienicks.info/music/mirage-1982/thats-alright/

And in this page it mentions a different year.
https://fleetwoodmac.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Alright

sue
12-01-2023, 05:52 PM
I just stumbled across this version. It says it's from 1972! WTF?

Listen to $tevie? harmonizing with herself on the 2nd verse(I can hear Lindsey, but not really until the end).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj-y8YVkC78

She had a fabulous voice..

WalkAThinLine.
12-01-2023, 07:23 PM
My Dream
Before the Beginning
The Purple Dancer
Jewel Eyed Judy
Morning Rain
Sunny Side of Heaven
Dust
Bright Fire
Did You Ever Love Me
Caught in the Rain
Forever
Bad Loser
Over and Over
That's All For Everyone
Book of Love
Wish You Were Here
Caroline
Do You Know
Affairs of the Heart
Blow By Blow
Red Rover
Everybody Finds Out

I could add several more, but these are some that come to mind

Macfan4life
12-05-2023, 04:57 PM
Warm Ways
Sugar Daddy
That's Alright
Straight Back
Empire State
What's the world coming to
Every song on Heroes and Mystery To me

cascade13
12-08-2023, 07:46 PM
Keeping with the same format (one per album, post-Bob Welch), these are the ones that come to my mind first:

Blue Letter
I Don't Want to Know
Storms
Farmer's Daughter
That's Alright
Isn't It Midnight
When the Sun Goes Down
Winds of Change
Temporary One
Everybody Finds Out
Sad Angel

And honorable mention to Twisted, which may be my favorite reunion-era LB/SN track aside from The Dance's Silver Springs.

I found an article in a Chilean radio webpage about the most underrated Fleetwood Mac songs. Actually it picks one song per album:

Over My Head (Fleetwood Mac, 1975)
I Don’t Want to Know (Rumours, 1977)
That’s All For Everyone (Tusk, 1979)
Can’t Go Back (Mirage, 1982)
Isn’t It Midnight (Tango in the Night, 1987)
Freedom (Behind the Mask, 1990)
Nights in Estoril (Time, 1995)
Smile at You (Say You Will, 2003)

I don’t know about Freedom or Smile at You. Those songs don’t give me any big emotion. But Isn’t It Midnight is THE most underrated song to me. It must have been a hit like Little Lies or Everywhere.