Best Backup singing?
 

What songs have the best backup singing in Fleetwood Mac?

I would say Little Lies has haunting Stevie vocals, BC has great Christine and Lindsey back-ups and I love the Stevie vocals on WTWCT?, on Say You Will.

Also, Skies the Limit has some nice Stevie vocals in the chorus.

And Lindsey and Stevie add something special to Love In Store.

I also love Christine's vocals on the Dance version of the Chain and Stevie's vocals on the Dance version of Everywhere.

Anyone else have some songs to add to this list?

Mustn't we forget Lindsey's haunting and sexy (and cool too)-sounding vocals on "Isn't It Midnight"?

Chris makes the song pretty, and Lindsey makes it sound dark with the hoarse "the face of a pretty girl...".

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"The face of a pretty girl..."

Haunting! :laugh:

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Note: I edited it recently.

I love Lindsey's backing vocals on "Thrown Down"...especially during the last verse ('you say you're sorry, that you should walk away...')

Every time I listen to that song, I sing Lindsey's harmony.

See, I don't like his backing vocals on this song. When he sings "Together, together, together..." in the song it sounds like togeder or todeter. I need to hear a "th" sound! It bugs me.

I agree with you both.

I love the last verse...espcially "You can sit outside his door and wait/Well, you can dedicate your pain to him"

But the "together" bit is annoying

It's got to be Honey Hi on from Tusk...Straight Back from Mirage...also Farmers Daughter from Live. My other favs are Midnight Wind from John Stewart's Bombs Away Dream Babies...Lindsey & Stevie are just amazing on that. Stevie on Tunnel Of Love from Walter Egan's Fundamental Roll. I love Lindsey's background vocals on Poor Poor Pitiful Me from the Warren Zevon album...although his background vocals are not mixed loud enough...they are just awesome...also from the same album...Mohammed's Radio with Lindsey & Stevie. I have many more, those are my favs.

I also love Chris' high harmony on "The Chain"...I miss that...

~Alex

I forgot about those! Good choices! :thumbsup:

Stevie and Lindsey on "Never Forget"
Stevie and Lindsey on "Say You Love Me"

Ooh, ditto to Never Forget! (a vastly underrated song)
Love In Store
Farmer's Daughter
Brown Eyes
Over And Over
Lindsey little parts are also great on That's Alright

Shamus:)

I am partial to Alvin and the Chipmunks in Illume. How serendipidous that they were available when Lindsey and Stevie were in the studio!

I think Stevie and Theodore have been close ever since they spent time at Betty Ford together.

It's actually good to see that he and the rest of the Chipmunks are working together again... it's just a pity VH1 didn't dedicate one of their 'Bands Reunited' episodes to them, rather than Extreme (shame on Nuno for acting like such a diva)!

Sister of the Moon Live 1982 when Lindsey sings those verses ..."I'd like to wrap her in velvet...doesn't anyone know her name?"

Lindsey's backing vocals on "Thrown Down" "Say You Will" and "Everybody Finds Out" really are catchy and stick in my head.

Christine and Lindsey's Backing Vocals on " Beautiful Child" and "Storms"

LOL, yes, what have the lovable little freaks been up to?

Well, I heard "I dont wanna know" on the radio today and realized how AWESOME the backup singing is!

~Alex

The whole band 'Oooing' individually at the end of Over & Over.

And Lindsey on RTTG and Not Make Believe.

Oh and Stevie on Miranda. I know some people don't like her on this song but for me it was the perfect complement to this edgy tune.

Lindsey and Stevie on the Dance version of Everywhere

I also love Stevie on Over My Head

And everyone on Honey Hi -- some people hate this song, but I really like it

Honey Hi
Dreams
Gypsy
Sara

- Jake

Honey Hi
Silver Springs (Dance version)
Sara
Rhiannon
Think About Me
Go Your Own Way
Brown Eyes

But what I'm loving the most right now is Steal Your Heart Away.

:nod:

Best backgrounds...
 

Definitely Stevie and Lindsey in Walter Egan's Magnet And Steel. The ooohs and aaahs are the best part of the song IMO, and add a sexy quality.

Also LOVE S&L on:
-The Dance version of Everywhere.
-Any and all live and Studio versions of Over My Head whether Stevie goes really high or really low.
-Love In Store
-Little Lies (both of them just MAKE that song!)
-Think About Me

C&L on:
-Rhiannon
-Dreams
-Hold Me
-Gold Dust Woman
-Save Me A Place (maybe it's just Linds overdubbed?)
-Walk A Thin Line (ditto)


S&C on:
-The Chain
-The Ledge
-Blue Letter

Lindsey On:
-Long Distance Winner (that soft harmony is so gorgeous and complex)
-Smile At You (SYW version)
-Running Through The Garden
-Thrown Down
-Everybody Finds Out

Stevie on:
-Miranda

Chris on:
-Shadow Of The West (I know, it's from a solo album, but she really adds so much to it)


-Sonia

Silver Springs (The Dance Version)

Song that got me into the Mac, to me, the PERFECT song. Vocals, music, harmony, and everything.

Oh yes.:nod:

- Jake

Their harmonies together on Love In Store are just fantastic. They're what makes the song for me. I also love the songs that Chris and Lindsey duet on, like Hold Me, Think About Me, and Don't Stopt. Their voices sound great together.

SYHA -
 

It's the Christine 'Oooh' that does it for me.

:nod:

I tend to like those often overlooked lead vocals that Christine made for Stevie... I like the passionate way she sings on "Straight Back" and also the way she adds herself to the live versions of "Rhiannon".

Stevie is a great harmonist by herself. I love the way she does both low and high harmonies with Tom Petty on "The Appartment Song"; on Fleetwood Mac I would name "Never Forget", "Over And Over", the live "Isn't It Midnight", the live "Go Your Own Way" ('packin' up, shackin' up...) and... yes, "Steal Your Heart Away", too.

Lindsey did fantastic jobs singing Christine's tunes, or backup singing on them, like in "Don't Stop" or "Think About Me" or "Hold Me" (great harmonies there!!), but he shines most singing with Stevie, as in "I Don't Want To Know", "That's Alright" or "Everybody Finds Out".

Christine was sort of a pioneer in harmonies in this band... I think they hadn't done much harmony work before "Station Man", where she shines with her high vocal (correct me if I'm wrong). Then she added those harmonize-with-myself parts on songs like "Believe Me" or "Why" (always helped by Bob Welch anyway)

The harmony vocals were, in the first place, the reason why I liked this band. :)



Song of the moment - You Make Loving Fun

The best are on Straight Back and Beautiful Child; they give me goosebumps. The members of FM know how to do good back-up vocals, unlike Stevie and her solo girls...:eek: :rolleyes: ;)

You don't like Stevie's girls' backup skills? I think Sharon and Lori provide awesome backups. However, I think it is fair to say that no ones voice "blends" better with Stevie's (and Christine's too) than Lindsey Buckingham's. I think we can all agree with Keith Olsen that those two voices were meant to sing together.

-Sonia

Oh lord, I can't stand them. They make some of the songs unlistenable at times. :nod:

Totally.

Also, I love Sharona and Loretta. I think their voices blend well with Stevie's, I especially like the "call and answer" technique of songs like "Nightbird," EO17, and to a certain extent "If Anyone Falls."

Agreed. Those vocals are somewhat cheesy if you ask me. I also hear "those types of vocals" on the live Versions of Say You Will during the chorus.

I forgot to mention some Stevie vocals on the TITN concert dvd:

I love her quick "I wanna be with you"'s right before Christine sings "I want to be with you everywhere".

I also love when after the chorus to Isn't It Midnight is finished, Stevie sings (in a somewhat goatish way) "The face of a pretty girl" really soft, almost like an echo.

eyes of the world/

~~~~kezzie~~~~