Listen to UTS Songs on lindseybuckingham.com
 

Under the link for pre-order, there is a link to listen to the songs! The songs and control buttons appear at the top of the screen. I've only listened to two songs, but they appear to be the whole songs, not just snippets.

5 Complete Songs Posted
 

1. Show You How
2. Down on Rodeo
3. Cast Away Dreams
4. It Was You
5. Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind

DOR and SGCYM sound identical to the Torrent versions previously leaked. The others sound like vintage Lindsey!

Listening right now! These are great!:thumbsup:

(Can't believe this is FINALLY happening, by the way!!)

I like Cast Away Dreams! The first one is going to take some getting used to... it's not something I instantly liked, but it's not too bad. The music to CAD reminds me of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now.

ladies and gentlemen, i have a new favorite.

CAD is so effing stellar... i can't get enough of it.

i can't believe that this is finally actually really happening :wavey:

Loving the laid back, yet fascinating sound. Cast Away Dreams is really lovely. This sounds like it's going to hang together as an album much better than Say You Will, which seemed just like a collection of ideas.

I worried a bit about what Lindsey's voice might sound like, but the harmonies are just so pretty.

and i'm pleased that he left the "annie" on the end of DOR. hmm, listening to Cast Away Dreams again...

ooooh I am headed there now! Thanks for the info!

This is extremely cool stuff! The guys a genius!

AAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! The three new songs are fan-friggin'-tastic!!! :blob1: I can't decide which one I like best... it's basically a three-way tie at the moment.
I think I like the 'Soundstage' version of "Down On Rodeo" better, but this version is pretty terrific, too. "Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind" sounds like a slightly different mix to my ears... it sounds a little more "open" and airy than the version on the GLAAD Media Awards CD. Such a brilliant song -- I couldn't be happier that it's FINALLY getting a wide release.

Bring on October 3rd!!!

O.m.g.
 

I couldn't wait!! :blob2:

These songs are TOTALLY Lindsey, but yet....I hear a new voice.

Gerald...I cannot WAIT to hear what you think of the new songs!

My depression has gone away. :D

i'm going to be honest -- if the rest of the album has this much reverb/echo, i'm not going to be a happy camper. i was anticipating a sound a la gos only perhaps with a new level of maturity and solid guitar playing. and it's just -- not.

i'm not in love.

that makes me sad.

*tear*

Download the tracks as .mp3's
 

Hi all,

Just thought I'd post here and say that it's possible to get these tracks as mp3's. Here are the links:

* Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind (Track 10)
* It Was You (Track 5)
* Cast Away Dreams (Track 7)
* Down On Rodeo (Track 9)
* Show You How (Track 2)

--Hugh. :)

The three 'new' songs sound solid, currently I'm loving "Show You How" and the helium Beach Boys on "It Was You". They're all bound to be growers anyway. :thumbsup:

Maybe there is a bit of a new voice here too, as Christy said. More mature, perhaps. Of course he's still covering the increasing weaknesses in his voice with gadgetry but that's what I expected.

Not sure if Gerald will like the OOTC-like electronic percussion on both "SYH" and "IWY" though. :lol:

I love the new songs, they all have great lyrics and tunes. There's a fresh up-beat sound to them.
Don't know about the vocal manipulation though.. :confused:
Lindsey's got a good natural voice. Lower than in his early years, but its still strong (Live I am Waiting). I don't know why there's so much manipulation in here!?
Oh well, I'm sure we will all get used to it.:)

three more to go:
Juniper, Too Late and Under The Skin..

Wonder what they'll be like!?

As soon as I got the album and listened a couple of times, I'm sure to be crying out for more Lindsey music More!!! Couldn't you have put a few more songs on there!?
I do hope this rock album materialises next year, early next year!?

Down On Rodeo - at last in all it's glory! Like JS said about SGCYM, this version of DOR has been scrubbed up and the percussion in particular is quite enhanced.. a bit more reverb on the snare or something, plus the hihats in the chorus are more audible. And of course the vocals shine through so much more clearly. After all these years of the GOS track it's great to finally get such a fine quality mix. No doubt the CD itself will be even nicer.

I listened to Show You How and really liked it. At last new songs! Yet I can't stop listening to Down On Rodeo! I look forward to giving the others a listen.

I dunno, I've got a GOS lossless version of DOR and it sounds exactly the same to my ears?

Ah I suppose it must. I don't have any of the 'lossless' things.

Also I've had a chance to listen to the SGCYM. Again I was hearing new nuances in the vocals that I hadn't been able to hear all this time. I guess I should have got on the lossless boat. Oh well, my loss (more or less)!

These new songs remind me of the sound of the songs from the ''Lost in Translation' soundtrack. The sort of sparse instrumentation and singing style/effects. Very 'relaxy' and 'spacey' for lack of better words.

GOS Lossless is on www.throwndown.net.

I've been putting up with the mp3's for a few years, and since recently getting the lossless versions I've been blown away!

Any probs getting it, I could have a go at emailing you upped versions to 192kbits?

SYH is weird and totally fantastic. Well basicly I'm so relieved that it is all pretty yet out of this world sonicly. I love the SPACE in these tracks. That is going to be a 3-dimensional listening experience for sure in the uncompressed formats. I don't have a problem with electronic rythm. I have a problem with electronic percussion in rocksongs. They pull away the rawness. Until now I am touched by what I hear. Oh And I like his voice VERY much. I wonder how it will keep up in the rockin'songs he promised on the next one.

I just can't believe I'm hearing this.
I'll post more of my perception when I have more time.....


:wavey:

PS: the percussion on SYH does not sound OOTC-like. It sounds like the opening of the Ledge. Did he rediscover one of his 25 bathrooms?:laugh:

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! thanks :wavey:

Very cool!!

When I first started playing SYH played it from the link Mr. Wonderful posted, and I also had Lindsey website open at the same time and it started playing on that automatically. I didn't realise and I got this weird mix of the same song being played twice! I didn't like it, but I didn't realise what was going on. Then when DOR started playing on his site I realised what was going on and I was mighty relieved. Only listened to SYH once (well once properly!) and I like it alot.

On first listen all the tracks sound great. Too early to pick a favourite.
Good for him that he's finally 'home.'

I like 'em! Welcome back Lindsey!

One of the coolest things about "Show You How" and "It Was You" is that they both have very little guitar, or little traditional guitar on them (because we all know he can make guitars sound like anything anyway). Guitars don't take the center of the attention on either one, they're both just a combination of thumping percussion and all those varispeed vocals. On "IWY" there's just this rhythm electric guitar distant in the right speaker, seems to be the only guitar in the song really.

So that's the only "new" direction that was left for him - take out the guitars! :laugh:

It does sound OOTC-like on "IWY" though, which is probably why I like it the most of the three. Oh, and also because it doesn't have that new agey panpipe-synth outro that "SYH" has. ;)

"CAD" is my least fave right now. Starts out great with the "I'll-make-this-guitar-sound-like-a-different-string-instrument" intro and then turns into an ordinary sing'n'strum piece. But it's still good.

Together with this recently-surfaced "GYOW" from 1975 where Lindsey tries a ridiculous falsetto all these new tracks have pretty much made my week! Last week was perfect because of another fan high. One's gotta come down soon though. ;)

Haven't listened to the songs, but, my hell, can that site be any more difficult to get around? I'm clicking here and there and finding nothing that I'm looking for. How frustrating. Can someone please post a link to the songs? I can't find anything in that mess.

Ali...
 

The music starts in automatically when you open lb.com. It's at the very top of the page. Took me a minute to figure out where it was at first. LOL

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The lyrics to Cast Away Dreams make me want to burst into tears. This song is so, so sad.:(

Just for you Gerald, but don't ask any more from that show; otherwise some hardcore lossless traders might want to hang me.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...A674424C41DA95

The rest of the show you can get here if you still remember how to use bit torrent. Lindsey plays a bit of the early NGBA/Brushes/Whatever instrumental between ISA and GYOW too:

http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/...ad.php?t=26005

Yeah, although the bit about his "visionary eyes" is still pompous. And of course I initially heard the "farewell to the wishes that die" line in the same way I used to with the lyric to Gypsy: "witch" instead of "wish". ;)

When you said falsetto I assumed you meant during the verses and chorus or something. I was listening going "this doesn't sound that much like falsetto" then BAM! Out of nowhere he just starts it! I'm quite glad it didn't make it onto the album cut, but it's nice to hear he tried variations :nod: Thanks for posting it!

I personally am in love with what I have heard so far :blob2: :blob1:
Lindsey is always the bomb in my book. Shut Us Down was not a favorite of mine but these tunes are so cool!:nod:
Can't wait to see which tunes he chooses to do live....Hope we hear Show You How and Down On Rodeo.
Just so thrilled here :blob2: :blob1: :blob2:

I apologize if this has already been discussed but in this USA TODAY article it says (see highlite): What does this mean? With FM? Again I apologize for my ignorance :o

Music
'No drums, very little bass' on Buckingham's new CD

Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham is about to unveil his first solo CD since 1992's Out of the Cradle. He describes the stripped-down arrangements on Under the Skin, due Oct. 3, as "kind of a reduction. There are basically no drums, very little bass. On a musical level, I've been trying to distill things."

Skin also reflects a sense of contentment, he says, that owes much to his wife, Kristen, and their three children. "This is the best time in my life, and that's a great thing to be able to say when you're 56, and didn't become a father till you were 48."

He plans a "more rocking" companion CD in 2007, after a U.S. tour. "It's a turnaround, time-frame-wise, for someone who's been sort of the Terrence Malick of rock," referring to the reclusive director.

looks like we're the only sourpusses... the one thing i have to say for it is that at least his voice isn't doing that high-pitched cracking thing a la 'shut us down.'

well, I was hoping for the SUD no-nonsense man with guitar and direct vocals- approach but this **** is another turn he makes. AGAIN. And layering and vocalmanupilation all over. Again. Yet still stripped down.:eek: The guy just never stops amazing me.

Come on Sharon what do you think about these tracks??
In a week when I attended a spectacular Pearljam-gig and a great Green On Red-concert, this is quite a cultureshock. I love that.:shocked:

Thanks, dude, I really, really appreciate it.

BTW: I've heard quite some garage/punk/lofi-GYOW-covers. But This one punks the hell out of all of those.

And I LOVE the falsetto. serious. :eek:

Well, I listened to the new songs... (I can already hear Gerald tensing up :laugh: )...



...I'm far from a "tear 'em apart" mode at this point...JEEZUS, it is still nearly a month away from being released!

I like what I've heard so far...I'm looking forward to hearing the rest. Maybe "Shut Us Down" might even grow on me after I listen to it over & over. "Down On Rodeo" has been a fave of mine since I first got the GOS tunes...SGCYM took a bit to get into...but now after almost a decade of hearing it, I like it. "Show Us How", I liked right away. "Cast Away Dreams" will have to grow on me...but after hearing it three or four times already today, I'm starting to get into it. "It Was You"...another Lindsey attempt at being Brian Wilson during the SMiLe sessions...which I like. I always like it when Lindsey tries to be Brian.

Of the new songs I think my favourite is It Was You, which Gaius is completely and utterly wrong to compare to the OOTC sheen.
Wrong, I say, wrong.
Cast Away is sweet and almost lullaby-like. Not so mad on Show You How, but it's growing on me. What I do love about it though is how minimal it sounds! There's hardly anything going on in that song, and what there is, is pretty subtle, which is cool. Maybe Lindsey has finally learnt that less sometimes can be more.
DOR and SGCYM sound pretty much the same as they always have.
Still making up my mind about the new tracks overall though...

yes, i agree on that. It's more like Lindsey's answer to "more cowbell".:laugh:

Cast Away Dreams is my definite favourite of the new bunch ... :nod:

Look for me in the morning light
Dancing on the cast away dreams

It Was You is up there with It Was I for me. :sorry: