the polls have tightened!!!

I think that's only correct to a point. Yes, the music may be what draws you in, but once you become a fan of someone's you're often going to have a bias towards their songs period, regardless of merit -- even if merit is what got you there in the first place. Love and familiarity breeds a lot of leniency. Also, there's a natural tendency to want the star you like to prevail no matter what, even in a small poll.

I'm a Fleetwood Mac fan. I'm pretty sure if I was voting in a poll I'd have a tendency to give even their foulest songs a more favorable vote than I would an Eagles' song, regardless of merit.

I don't care what Tom Petty has done. I don't care how good he is. When I went to his concert, I wasn't going there to see him and there's not a hit he could perform, no prowess he could exhibit that interested me as much as Stevie simply singing back up on American Girl, much less doing Insider.

Michele

The presence of all of them permeates everything. If the ONLY version of "Sara" that everyone knew was the 1981 Fox Wilshire concert video version, it wouldn't evoke anything like the extreme love it has evoked since then. A vote for "Sara" on TUSK is a vote for all of Fleetwood Mac, so I feel good about it! :thumbsup:

If it's any consolation, Rolling Stone magazine's Critics' Poll voted TUSK the song of the year in 1979.

I voted for Sisters of the Moon

And that board is loaded with chiffonheads!

You went to see Tom Petty just because Stevie was doing backup on about 2 songs? :shrug:

Hmmm. Yes, I did. And actually I had to fly from Los Angeles to San Francisco to see the show, because it was too difficult to get good seats for the Los Angeles shows. So, I went to San Francisco and had a front row seat, but I paid a fortune for it. I had to stand outside in front of the Greek Theater waiting for the ticket broker's guy to show up with the ticket. I felt like a jewel fence or something. Oh well . . .

Let me tell you, I would do much more than that for Fleetwood Mac.

Michele

uber tough choice. I'm going with SARA.

Congrats to Sisters! :thumbsup:
I'm genuinely surprised.

I love the live vers... Mirage 1982 LA Forum...

that's why i did not appear in this whole face off. A lindseysong will NEVER win on a FM-board like this. it's all about Stevie. And that on an album that has to thank it's spectacular overall artistic quality to LB. It's pretty painful that rolling stone saw it more sharp in 79 than the fans 29 years later. :shrug:

If you and at least two other people at the forum DID appear this faceoff, he could have/would have won. Gotta be in it to win it.

As for the Rolling Stone/fans thing, well, a sizable amount of fans at this board did see it that way. And just a repeat of something I said earlier, I wouldn't deem three dozen Mac fans (including myself) to be representative of what the entire Fleetwood Mac landscape would select anyway. This poll is a very small sampling done just for fun.