What SAY YOU WILL songs will they play?
 

This tour, what (and how many) SYW songs will they include?

My wish list:
Peacekeeper
Thrown down
Say Goodbye
What's the world coming to

though.. I don't think there will be more than 2. Seems the old classic hits got the priority

My honest guess is none, but if any: Peacekeeper.

Or Bleed to Love her cuz i hear that one on the radio a lot. And it's from The Dance originally: which was a hit! lol

I'm thinking Peacekeeper, Say You Will or quite possibly Come. You know how Lindsey loves his solos!! I don't think they'd do a song from SYW that they hadn't done previously but one never knows

Come was excellent on the GOS tour the way they slowed it down, dropped the key and made it heavier so they might carry that over to The Mac. Red Rover would be a nice addition. Bleed To Love Her is always good. I predict it will be Peacekeeper and maybe throw in Say Goodbye as a quiter number.

This is a hits tour. These aren't hits.

RIGHT... I agree. These were not hits. I could see them doing Peacekeeper. I liked Come, but it didn't play out well LIVE... At least not in MY opinion. I love the song though. Love it.

I don't see Come making the cut. It's probably one of the reasons Stevie would like another woman in the band.

Of the SYW songs, I think the title track has a good shot of making it.

If I had my wish Miranda and EFO would be added. Of course, Thrown Down too, but that won't be happening.

Michele

Right on, I am sure Come will not make it. I wouldn't mind seeing SYW or Thrown Down. How much do you love MIRANDA??? I just love the feeling I get with that song... It is darker, lyrically, but the beat doesn't let go of ya...

Only peacekeeper and say you will!

I gotta ask, where do you hear this song on the radio all the time? I would flip out mildly if I heard Bleed to Love Her on the radio!

Also, to stay on topic, that is the song I'm hoping to hear. I really wanted it when I saw Lindsey and it's one of the only songs that he slid in now and then, but no dice. It's what got me listening to this band, hearing it live would excite me more than anything!

Really really really hoping for Goodbye Baby. Believe it or not, this was the song that made me buy this album in the first place.

Just around town, in restaurants for example. I hear it. Maybe it's not the radio. Maybe it's on ipod playlists at restaurants. Which reminds me, one time i was at a cool tapas place in the city and right when i sat down... The Chain from The Dance started playing. . . and then the entirety of The Dance played on! It was awesome!!!!!!! Though my friend with me would probably say it ruined dinner. lol

AS FOR Say You Will songs... there is no way Stevie will do a SYW song, I feel, because she has enough "hits" in her arsenal. Lindsey might fit in Peacekeeper if only cuz he doesn't have as many hits to play.

This is a Hits Tour. Since there were no hits on Say You Will, they won't be playing anything from it. :distress:

That is the idea, but we are venturing so far as to say that Lindsey would not have enough songs to balance out Stevie, so they may have to do like Peacekeeper or something. I could even imagine Goodbye baby.

You mean, Say Goodbye :shrug:

I pretty much agree.

Where's that thread about their hit singles? The inclusion of Monday Morning also suggests that they'll be branching out into tracks from HIT ALBUMS.

ETA: Found the thread. Shoot but didn't copy the link. Anyway here are the hit singles according to wiki and I'll add likely album tracks:

Lindsey Buckingham (3)
"Go Your Own Way"
"Tusk"
"Big Love"

Likely(5):
Monday Morning
I'm So Afraid
Second Hand News
Never Going Back Again
The Chain

Not Probable but Possible (5):
Eyes Of The World
I Know I'm Not Wrong
Bleed To Love Her
Peacekeeper
Say Goodbye

TOTAL: 8-13

Stevie Nicks (6)
"Rhiannon"
"Dreams"
"Sara"
"Gypsy"
"Seven Wonders"
"Silver Springs"

Likely (3):
Landslide
Gold Dust Woman
Stand Back

Not Probable but Possible (3):
Beautiful Child
Sisters Of The Moon (highly doubtful!)
Say You Will

TOTAL: 9-12

Christine McVie (10 HIT SINGLES)

LIKELY (2)
"Don't Stop"
"World Turning"

POSSIBLE BUT NOT PROBABLE (3)
"Little Lies"
"Say You Love Me"
"You Make Loving Fun"

IMPOSSIBLE (6)
"Think About Me"
"Everywhere"
"Over My Head"
"Hold Me"
"Love in Store"
"Save Me"

TOTAL POSSIBLE: 1-4

TOTAL PROBABLE NUMBER OF SONGS: 18-?

If they play ANYTHING outside of the above POSSIBLE realm, I'll be shocked. My guess is 10 songs each. And then two MAYBE three Christine songs.

Right, my bad. Say Goodbye is a fantastic song, even if it wasn't a hit. It would be a great way to end the show without having to attempt Songbird. Ya feel me? ;)

Sisters of the Moon would be an interesting choice because it used to hold such prominence in the set. But it's been MIA ever since. Nicks never even pulled it out in all her dozens of years of touring.

If I wanted a rough idea of what it would sound like today, I'd listen to the studio recording. It's more likely to resemble that style than the performances we're all remembering fondly. There'll be no trachea-injuring yelling or gutteral, impassioned pleas on it this time round. All the old material from those days has been noticeably altered in style for the Guitar & Workstation Army as well as the granny-singing.

Then they had best not play I'm So Afraid, either. Nothing off SYW except maybe, at a push, Peacekeeper and the title track (which are still frequently played on BBC Radio 2. More than than any of their other songs recently.). Probably best to leave everything off Mirage except Gypsy since Chris isn't here. The gods forbid that they play anything off Tusk except the title track. Crystal is out of the running for a revival because it was never a hit either.

Now, if it's "Fleetwood Mac" hits tour and not a LBSN hits tour then really they should play Albatross if they do the UK, since that was their first big hit single. I think it was even one of their very biggest in the UK so it makes sense to play it, since they're doing the "hits". They should certainly drop something like Dreams if they do the UK for Albatross. Who wouldn't drop a song that got to 24 for a song that got to number 1?

I hate the idea of this being a "hits" tour, as may have been gathered.

Peacekeeper was a minor hit. It reached #80, I believe, on the Billboard Hot 100, which was pretty darn good for a classic rock band in 2003.
Also, Say You Will made some minor waves on the adult contemporary chart. I guess it all depends on what you consider a "hit."

I have a hunch that Sisters Of The Moon is at least being seriously talked about being included for this tour. With this being a Hits Tour and Sisters being such a concert pinnacle during the height of their popularity, I can't see why they wouldn't be thinking about tossing it back in the setlist. I think especially since Stevie has pulled Sara back out of the grab bag lately, Sisters has a chance. Both were songs Stevie said she'd never sing again for seemingly personal reasons. She said during her Soundstage concert that she doesn't like singing Sara outside of the Mac because she feels it's a signature Fleetwood Mac song. I suspect in her eyes, both Sisters and Sara are signature FM songs, because they're both largely about her life in the band. Sara being largely about her epic love affairs and how being in the band blocked them, and Sisters being about the dark side of fame and being in the band. Seeing the way she sung Sara for Soundstage, I'd say if she has personal/emotional issues with either one of those songs, she's resolved them. She sang Sara gorgeously AND with a smile on her face for the first time EVER. The fact she also pulled out a totally random album track, Beautiful Child, I'd say the stars are aligned for a Sisters to make an appearance during this tour. Which begrudgingly has me contemplating swallowing these obscene ticket prices with the prospect of hearing Sisters live.

Back to the subject matter of the thread. Yes, they will play hit songs AND songs from their hit albums during this tour, even if the songs themselves were not major hits, but instead signature songs. Since Say You Will neither had any real hit singles, and didn't make Platinum status itself, I wouldn't expect to hear anything from it during this tour. Especially with all the talk lately from Stevie regaring being able to hear crickets chirping during the SYW tour when they'd play new songs. Hopefully we'll get an album of all new material SOON, and they'll shove it down our throats SOON! I'm forcing myself to be optimistic in 2009... :laugh:

I think that the song breakdown I provided on Page 1 is pretty much all that is even within the realm of possibility. ... and that includes I'm So Afraid, cuz that's from a hit album, it's a concert staple, and was on the HIT The Dance. This will be crowdpleasing songs that smell like success.

Say You Will & Thrown Down.

I think they'll play two songs, Say You Will and Peacekeeper.

Yep at least Peacekeeper...

RE: Sisters. They won't do Sisters AND Stand Back. And I think Stand Back will be the one that's on the list.

If it comes down to the two- they shouldn't do Stand Back. Come on- It's a Stevie song- that she always plays on her solo outings.....(don't get me wrong- I do enjoy it) but SOTM would be such a gem!!! If I could pick ANY one song for them to perform, it would be Sisters of the Moon- hands down.

They're going to do what's been popular in the past and that they feel most comfortable doing. Stand Back. is. it. lol

S O T M!!!! Way before Stand Back... The crowd would lose their minds!!! :blob2: I am so freakin psyched!!! :blob1:

Could be, Louie. But I think there's a psychological reason why Stevie never sang SOTM solo or with FM since 1982. In fact, isn't it the only early Mac staple that hasn't ever been performed solo? That's got to be more than just an inadvertent slip. It must be by design. The question is, What is -- or was -- that design?

Now- that is a FANTASTIC question!!! I wonder the same.

Say Goodbye and Come. I don't think this tour is going to be much on an homage to SYW as the band sees it as some sort of commercial failure.

Too witchy for her.

Michele

Running Through The Garden and Destiny Rules should both be in the set. They shouldn't have been dropped so early in the SYW tour.

This is exactly my wishlist as well. I'd especially love to see Thrown Down (my favorite song from the Say You Will album) performed live. If only.

"It's the way I write, it's the way I write, it's the poet that I am." Haha. Right you are, Stevie.

-Matt

Hope they play some SYW songs. It's a Fleetwood Mac album after all. And though they announced this is like a hits tour, it would be cool to listen some recent songs. If it were specficially a hits tour then they would play just the (green) Greatest Hits album, leaving GDWoman, So Afraid, World Turning..

Anyway, let's see what they finally select.

That probably IS the reason, it got put up and away, because she was trying to distance herself from the mystical "whitchy" thing, but i think she has gotten past not wanting to be publicly seen that way. She seems ok with it now, shes made her case. So heres hopin for Sisters of the moon. But from say you will, i hope to hear Say you will. (compleete with the macarena (sp?) like hand dancing with laso. haha, that was fun to do and watch. Peacekeeper irritated the hell outta me. Ba ba ba ba ba bwa. Thrill,will,fill,drill, kill, or whatever it was. Id LOVE to hear ThrownDown. If they were smart, the would play afew of those songs that were singles, and people might re-discover that album, or it might just sell a few more.

Is she trying? I don´t know. She still wears in black every show, long dresses, a look like this one, that I think is recent, at least post-The Dance. If that is not enough witchy, what is it?

http://www.lyricsreg.com/fw_images/a...e%20nicks0.jpg

Maybe she needs a more Dolly or Juice look?? :laugh::laugh:
http://countryuniverse.files.wordpre...ice-newton.jpg

Re-Read my post. it says WAS. Im talkin' back in the day. Post dance, whitchy stevie was back!:blob2:

Running Through the Garden would be really cool. Or Destiny Rules.

But I would bet on Say You Will or Peacekeeper, Say Goodbye or Goodbye Baby.

I don't really have a preference, though, I'm still praying for SOTM. :D