Ever hear any oddball Mac songs on the radio?
 

So I used to get excited when I'd simply hear Hypnotized or Hold Me on the radio, but I had one the other day that completely caught me off guard! My local independent classic rock station played the demo version of Gold Dust Woman from the re-release of Rumours! Ever since the re-release of Rumours, they seem to sprinkle in this version of GDW from time to time... trips me out every time I hear it! :p

Even my local Clear Channel classic rock station pulls out surprises every so often... they played the original Rumours recording of Silver Springs before The Dance was released, and occasionally still do. I have to assume they got that one from The Chain box set.

Another one that totally caught me off guard was hearing Show Me A Smile in Ruby Tuesday a year or two ago. And I've heard Warm Ways at a local Charlotte restaurant too. I believe these were both on satellite radio though.

Most memorably, I heard Stevie's Reconsider Me waiting on a tetanus shot at the doctor once :laugh:, and even heard her If You Ever Did Believe in the car on the way to go skiing several years back. So what rabbits do your local stations pull out of their hats? :D

On the TV classic rock station I've heard some crazy ones. Like Child of Mine and Future Games. A local station here played the entire White Album, so that was really cool to hear some of those songs on the radio.

Very few, unfortunately. "Paper Doll" is about the only one I can think of. Christine's singles ("Got A Hold on Me" and "Love Will Show Us How") pop up every now and then.

not really an oddball song...but I heard Tusk on the radio the other day. I'd never heard it on the radio before, so it was kind of cool. I was at the office but rocked out as much as I could hahaha

On Satellite Radio (XM:The Bridge) they play 'Spare Me a Little of Your Love'

I heard Caroline a while ago, I was like :shocked:

Just recently, I heard "Love Shines"....and I was like WHAT THE???? Yeah....this was like only 3 days ago. I had completely even forgotten about that song. But I was glad so that I could add it to my ipod. Now I listened to it 3 times since then, haha.

We just got XM for our car, what stations are good for the Mac or Stevie ?

i heard "Friend" in super k once..amazing lol and then my sister called me a lame when i started singing it lol

All of these are weird. :shocked: I thought it was weird when I heard Gypsy today. :laugh: Out of all of the FM songs I hear, that one comes up the least often.

I used to hear Spare Me a Little a lot on late-night rock radio programs. Same with Hypnotized. I used to hear Heroes are Hard to Find a lot on a local rock station in Rochester (one of the dj's loved to play this and Sugar Daddy). Oh Well from FM live used to air a lot. And when I was a kid, ALL of the songs on the original release of Rumours got generous airplay at some time or other.

Other "unusual" stuff:

Friend, Say You Will, What the World's Coming To, Throw Down, Everyday, Temporary One, Bleed to Love Her, and Peacekeeper--all heard at either Home Depot or WalMart.

I've heard Thrown Down and Peacekeeper, too! Only once each. I heard Thrown Down in the mall about a year after SYW came out, and just heard Peacekeeper maybe a month ago.

Was it the Dance or SYW v. of Bleed To Love Her?

Apparently William's Coffee Pub near me likes to play Stevie's cover of Crash Into Me, but never when I''m there.

I heard Stevie's version of Crash while I was at Red Robin a couple of weeks ago!

Hmm I always hear Tusk played on the radio, but I think it was one of their most popular songs in New Zealand

The Dance version. Always. Never the SYW version. Strange, I guess. But I do like the Dance version better myself.

I also forgot to mention Warm Ways, which once got played alongside Say You Love Me on a Rochester jazz station...Neither of those songs strikes me as jazz, but I was still thrilled to hear them. Right after them, the dj played two songs by Sarah Vaughan. I liked the idea that Christine was being lumped with Sassy.

Sirius Radio plays the Rumours extended acoustic demo version of "Gold Dust Woman" like, twice a day-- I've heard it on that station at least 10 times and I rarely listen to it.

the grocery store in my town has some sort of music service (it's not Sirius/XM but something along those lines) and they play a TON of Stevie and Fleetwood Mac. I have heard "Talk To Me" (I hear this a lot), "Reconsider Me". "As Long As You Follow", "Silver Springs", "Rooms On Fire", "Friend", "Trouble", "Paper Doll" and a few others. Whoever programs the thing obviously likes Stevie.
But perhaps the most odd thing I have ever heard is a Muzac (elevator music) version of "Races Are Run". I was walking thru the store (not the same one from above) and found myself singing along before I realized what I was hearing. For those that don't know what Muzac is, it's really cheesy mellow instrumental versions of songs that you used to only hear in doctor office waiting rooms or in an elevator (thus elevator music). It was big in the 70's and 80's.

Does The Corrs version of "Dreams" class as oddball... *gag*...:D ...?

As Long As You Follow was on Radio 2 yesterday!

I've heard "Frozen Love" from Buckingham Nicks twice now on XM.

On Sirius/XM, I've heard (in the last 12 months):

- Bleed to Love Her (SYW)
- Peacekeeper
- Seven Wonders
- Angel
- That's All For Everyone
- Dreams (outtakes version)
- Gold Dust Woman (acoustic version, at least 2 different versions)
- Crash Into Me (Stevie's cover)
- Free Fallin' (Stevie's cover)
- Brushes/NGBA (instrumental outtake)
- Think About Me
- That's Enough For Me

Probably more I can't think of.



Secret with Sirius/Xm is if your radio is programmable, when a FM/LB/SN/etc song comes on, bookmark the artist (or song). Then it'll beep everytime one of their songs/the songs are on. I heard "Go Insane" one day that way :D

- Spike

Many years ago, when I lived in the Boston area, I recall hearing Isn't it Midnight, Oh Well and Fireflies on the local radio stations. Recently I heard As Long as You Follow in a retail store.

slightly OT bc it's an LB song that was a single....but I love telling the story.

in college there was a bar we'd often go to on Wednesdays with a McDonalds accross the street that everyone would file over to at closing time. One night I was in line, p*ss drunk, and "Soul Drifter" comes on the radio and I yell across the room to my girlfriend who at the same time is yelling to me that its on and we proceeded to sing it (probably very loudly and very off key)

I heard "Twisted" (the Enchanted version) on XM's The Coffeehouse, and people tell me that a lot of BN tracks are on Deep Tracks.

I have heard a lot of SYW and Tusk songs at grocery stores and department stores in the past as well...

I forgot, weirdest was when I heard "Love in Store" at some pet chain store, and I was like, hang on, isn't that.. ? :D

Incidentally, for the person who never hears Gypsy, it's on Sirius all the time, daily at least, and definitely at least every 2 days on Classic Rewind.

- Spike

Peacekeeper (actually they play it a lot over here together with Dreams and Rhiannon), Everyday, Throw Down. I'm sure there's more, but I can't remember.

I have heard the extended "cleaning lady" Sara track (from the Tusk Special Edition) while walking through Boston's Logan Airport on three separate trips (over a span of about three years). I was almost disappointed that I didn't hear it when I was there a couple weeks ago.

I think that's pretty random.

I heard 'Welcome To the Room...Sara' from Tango in the night, the other day and was like huh? why are they playing this on the radio :confused:

I heard it on Coronation Street the other day. It was playing in the background in Audrey's Salon. Unreal.

I heard the Buckingham Nicks version of Crystal at a Taco Bell drive-thru a few months ago. I've heard Bare Trees and Child Of Mine on the radio too. I don't listen to radio often so its always a surprise when a Mac tune is playing, but it's even more of a surprise when it's the pre or post-Rumours era group.

Matt

In the past decade, I've heard almost every Christine FMac song (and most of her 1984 album), yes, including "Morning Rain", "Homeward Bound", etc, over the grocery store PA system. With the occasional "Gypsy" or "Stand Back", too. A couple of times each I've heard "Go Your Own Way" & "Big Love" (The Dance version).

I've heard "Crying In The Night" & "Frozen Love" from the BN album, too.

It is funny that when you hear the music one place, you'll hear it again in that same place. I used to go to a P. F. Chang's where I heard OOTC selections during multiple visits. I guess that piped in music is on a loop.

I am glad that they seem to get whole albums and not just the singles to stream in. I'm only disappointed because if you hear a song you like, I wish they announced who the performer was. I don't want a lot of DJ banter, but sometimes a song you've never heard engages you and you'd like to follow up.

Michele

This wasn't on the radio, but I was watching YouTube clips of old General Hospital episodes from a Mt. Rushmore shoot and they use an instrumental version of "Caroline" through much of one of the scenes. I thought that was pretty cool. Of course, that was in 1987, so it makes sense!

Here is a really weird one...

I was put on hold and heard..

"Heart of Stone"

I had to think what song it was...

That's interesting, because I have those old episodes of GH -- at least I have them if they involve Frisco and Felicia. I didn't know that! How terrific.

Michele

What?! Where the heck do you shop?!

That's what I wanna know!

Actually, I did hear Got a Hold On Me at the gym a few months ago, as well as Sara. Both times I extended my cool down. :laugh:

:shocked:

I heard Book of Love on Radio 2 at 3am the other morning when I couldn't sleep. It was very weird! Definitely the most random Mac song I've ever heard on the radio. I was wondering if insomnia had finally driven me mad but no, it was really being played!

I heard the Mirage album in a record store here in Wellington 2 or 3 weeks back. Very strange. I think they were gearing up for the Mac show here in a week or two.

My ex used to like to listen to jazz, so while we were at his place on day I heard Brown Eyes! It was a "smooth jazz" station, if that makes any difference. I always thought it was weird to hear that song on the radio, especially on a jazz station.

Also, years ago there used to be a radio station in the Bay Area that would play songs that weren't so popular. I used to hear Silver Springs on that station (we're talking in the 80's, way before it had its rebirth) and I figured out that they programmed their play lists because SS always came on after How Deep Is Your Love by the Bee Gees.

Also, when Bella Donna had just come out, I heard How Still My Love and Outside the Rain on the radio.

Kevin

Today I was eating at a lunch place when something caught my ear; soon I realized it was 'Say You Will.'