Tango in the Night
 

Does anyone have a live version of Tango in the Night? I can't find it anywhere :confused:

Tango in the Night Concert
 

The only live, commercially available, concert that I am aware of is the one with Billy Burnette and Rick Vito in lieu of Lindsey Buckingham. However, it does not contain the Song Tango in the Night (as far as I know, no version of FM has performed that live in concert). The US Amazon link to the Tango in the Night concert with Burnette and Vito, is here;
http://www.amazon.com/Fleetwood-Mac-...etwood+mac+dvd

I wish they'd played this song live at some point, but Lindsey quitting sort of killed its chances.

I know "I'm So Afraid" has a lot of fans, but I've grown sick of hearing it over the years. "Tango in the Night" sort of occupies the same sonic environment, but it also has a more varied arrangement. The sparse-sounding verses are such a nice contrast to the choruses, and I love the shakers and other percussion. The soft little vocal interlude before the ending solo section kicks in is really sweet, too. Another nod to Lindsey's love for Brian Wilson and SMiLE.

I would much rather hear them do "Tango" than yet another repeat of ISA.

matt

I absolutely agree with this!

It's never been played live.
But there seems to be a renewed interest in the album.
For me, it's my least favorite of the Buckingham Nicks FM albums, but I love the title track.

Tango is I'm so Afraid. Tango is just an offshoot of the solo part of ISA, that grew into it's own number.

No reason they couldn't rotate the two.

I don't really agree that they're the same song. Like I said, they occupy some of the same sonic landscape, but when I really look at them side by side, I think "Tango" is the better song. The verse, chorus, and vocal bridge are all quite good and unique. ISA feels more repetitive. I certainly don't dislike it, but I don't think it sounds as interesting as TITN.

Of course, I agree that the solo section is very similar.

I don't expect that we will ever hear it live, though. It wasn't a hit, nor is it considered one of those legendary album tracks they always play like "The Chain" or...well, like ISA. *sigh*

Matt

Maybe it presents a problem on stage: during the verses, there is no electric, just acoustic, and during the chorus, the emphasis is all on the electric. One guy can't switch guitars mid-song.

Pretty sure that Lindsey said somewhere that the guitar solo for "Tango" grew out of the live "I'm So Afraid" solos. Don't recall exactly where I read that, but I remember reading it somewhere.

If you listen to both songs, it's pretty obvious that Lindsey goes into "ISA" during that "Tango" solo. Can't miss it really.

He could play an electric guitar with a piezo.

Ditto. Christine's songs are flawless (apart from Mystified, which I find a snooze fest), but Stevie just wasn't there and Lindsey's ego was at an all time high. As a result, all Lindsey's stuff sounds like a Lindsey solo album and Stevie's 2 self-written tracks are a bit half-arsed (as much as I like WTTRS, it just doesn't cut the quality mustard that all her FM tracks had up to that point, and WISYA is horrendous).

That's because all of his tracks on the album were meant for an aborted solo album, apart from You and I Pt. II, which is a collaboration with Christine.

[Andre Allen Anjos picks his song of the summer]

Huffington Post, August 4, 2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...=Entertainment

"I've always been into Fleetwood Mac, but this summer I got into one of their records, 'Tango In The Night.' It's so good and there's this song, 'Everywhere.' Obviously it's not some underground track, but it kind of clicked for me this summer. I've had it on repeat quite a bit." -- André Allen Anjos

Tango in the Night is my least favorite Rumours-lineup album, too, even though it was the first Mac album I bought as a new release. I loved it at the time, but it hasn't dated well, to my ears. The only exceptions are the singles (which the label did a flawless job in selecting) and the title track that's the subject of this thread.

I would love to hear Tango in the Night live.

Me too. It's the album track Lindsey needs to pull out this tour. :nod:

Lindsey is only concerned with pulling out old Tusk tunes and, probably, convincing Christine to do the same.



Michele

That thrills me to no end as well. :D However, it was a nice surprise when he resurrected Eyes Of The World for the 21st century tours.

Is he? Why would this be a concern? I don't get any vibes that they are looking to really boost the Tusk album's reputation in the eyes of critics and music writers and industry peeps. Isn't always Rumours Rumours Rumours Rumours? He really hasn't mined his countless songs on that album, outside of I Know I'm Not Wrong and Not That Funny. None of them ever appear, not in Fleetwood Mac concerts, not in his solo concerts. Stevie has played more of her Tusk songs live than Lindsey(!!). None of his songs on the album were big hits outside of eponymous title track...so there's no reason why NTF or IKINW shouldn't be dropped for the others; no one would be enraged by any means.

But it's easier to do EOTW than a non-Tusk song that has never been done before. Even when they did DLMDA, they'd done it before, years ago.

Michele

No, I don't get any vibes that the rest of the band is looking to boost the album's reputation at all and I don't think Lindsey feels its reputation needs any boosting. He already knows it has critical acclaim. Still, I expect him to do a Tusk song that hasn't been played in awhile and for him to be pretty happy if Christine does one as well.

He will also probably throw in that the whole band has told him that's their favorite album -- and I will highly doubt that more than 2 of the other 4 members have actually told him that.

Michele

I never understood why this song and WISYA were never performed live. Yeah, I know in the second case it will lose forever with Landslide, but TITN is a song that, I guess, would have more power live, even when the studio version is simply awesome. I suppose Lindsey needs backing vocals to perform it live.
Regards!

I could see him doing it like he does Big Love. I think it would work.

Michele

I would love a full-band "Big Love," and the addition of "Tango" in place of "I'm So Afraid." Would be a nice little kick for the setlist, while still having the same appeal.

I'm So Afraid that would never happen. But God, that would be awesome!

Oh, you! You make punning fun. ;)

More of Andre Allen Anjos on TITN

Spin Magazine by Vivian Host, August 6, 2014

http://www.spin.com/articles/RAC-int...-lollapalooza/

What has been a recurrent theme for you this summer?

I tend to wear all black all the time, so I'm not a very summery person. I've been listening to Tango in the Night by Fleetwood Mac a lot. Like way too much. That's kind of become my summer album, but not really intentionally. This kind of goes back to the nerd side: that album is very digital. It's just this weird, awkward period of music where it was all those bands that sound amazing from the '70s, and they were kind of moving into the '80s, but they didn't really know how synths and stuff worked yet. There's some really classic songs on that record.

This auction says it has original TITN photos. If I actually thought they'd have new photos we haven't seen before, I'd be really enticed.

http://www.backstageauctions.com/cat...-mac/ac/0/853/

They have a photo of Mick playing a bass or a guitar.Its a first time seeing him doing that.

http://www.backstageauctions.com/cat...os/ai/0/19935/

They have alot of goodies on that website.

I feel exactly the same on both of your points. Big Love was a surprising,tour de force when he first began performing it as an angst solo acoustic number. But the novelty has considerably worn off. Recasting it in its original studio form in full band performance would give it a fresh face. Big Love should be treated better.

Tango in the Night is the spawn of I'm So Afraid, so it certainly has the same appeal, and could easily take it's place. Though the song wasn't a single, neither was I'm So Afraid. The Tango in the Night album is very popular, so most people would be familiar with the song.

I completely agree with this.

April 14, 2015 by Nick DeRiso Something Else Reviews

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2015...-in-the-night/

Fleetwood Mac hit big with Tango in the Night, then imploded: ‘It was difficult for everybody’

Like more than one Fleetwood Mac recording subsequent to Rumours, 1987’s Tango in the Night grew out of trampled solo project by Lindsey Buckingham — and the title track bears the most striking resemblance to his quirky individual efforts. They were always welcome asides, but perhaps no where more so than this project.

The title track scuffed up a session that might have collapsed under the high-gloss pop sheen of hit tunes like Stevie Nicks’ “Seven Wonders” and Christine McVie’s “Little Lies.” Those two smash tunes (along with Lindsey Buckingham’s “Big Love” and Christine McVie’s “Everywhere”) helped make Tango in the Night the band’s second-biggest selling studio project ever — after, of course, Rumours.

Nicks’ “When I See Again,” with a smart assist from Buckingham, plumbs the dark emotions of a broken relationship once more. Tango in the Night is also notable for the tight songwriting bond between Buckingham and McVie; they co-wrote a trio of songs, including “Mystified.”

But something more ominous was already looming, both personally and professionally, for the drugged-out, worn-out Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham, perhaps determined to actually have a solo career this time, walked out shortly before the band’s scheduled tour in support of Tango in the Night. Rick Vito and Billy Burnette were drafted to replace him for the subsequent Tango Tour through 1988.

“That was in my estimation when everybody in the band was personally at their worst,” Buckingham later remembered. “If you take the whole subculture that existed in the 1970s, and what it led to — and how it degraded — by the time we did Tango in the Night, everybody was leading their lives in a way that they would not be too proud of today. It was difficult for everybody.”

In keeping, Tango in the Night has a few potholes. “Welcome to the Room… Sara” comes off as a lesser sister to Steve Nicks’ underrated gem “Sara.” “Family Man,” though it arrived with some mildly interesting guitar embedded in the middle, is ultimately an off-kilter, calorie-free throwaway. Replacing narrative and musical content with studio trickery, the song even used the same beat found elsewhere (and to far better effect) on “Big Love.”

But more of Tango in the Night worked than didn’t — even if, today, Buckingham sees “Big Love” (which went all the way to No. 5) as deeply ironic. “There’s a line in there about ‘looking out for love,’ and it wasn’t about looking for love, it was about guarding against love,” Buckingham says of the period. “I had seen a lot of people that I knew who were spouses and parents and they were not there for their families during that time. I didn’t want to be one of those people.”

Lindsey Buckingham wouldn’t return to Fleetwood Mac again for 10 years, a period that saw the band fracture. He missed 1990’s Behind the Mask, he and Stevie Nicks were absent for 1995’s Time and Christine McVie sat out for 2003’s Say You Will.

In the meantime, Buckingham has gotten married, and now has three children — something he says puts “the subject matter of ‘Big Love’ firmly in the past.”

But the past, nevertheless, has an odd way of repeating itself. Fleetwood Mac’s Tango in the Night-era lineup is back together again for the first time. A reunion tour is to be followed by a new album.

A big fat YES from me!!

[Theo Hutchcraft of Hurts names albums that influenced him most]

Music OMH 10/7/2015

http://www.musicomh.com/features/thi...-made-me/hurts


Since debuting with the atmospheric, ice-cool single Wonderful Life back in 2010, Hurts duo Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson have sold over a million copies of their two albums, Happiness and Exile, and established themselves in the front line of English pop music as stylish writers of memorable tunes polished to perfection.

With long-time collaborative Swedish producer Jonas Quandt joined by Ariel Rechtshaid and Stuart Price, upcoming third album Surrender aims typically high, with single Some Kind Of Heaven giving a pre-emptive taste of the new collection’s ambitions. Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us is – appropriately – one of the band’s biggest songs yet, and Rolling Stone is one of their catchiest.

Ahead of the release of Surrender we caught up with singer Hutchcraft for a look at the albums that have influenced him most for Hurts’ This Music Made Me…

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Fleetwood Mac – Tango In The Night

It wouldn’t be a list without Fleetwood Mac. Rumours would be many people’s choice, but I really love Tango In The Night. It came at quite a fractious time for the band but it shows them moving into some interesting territory in the late ’80s.

Family Man could be a Prince song. And obviously Big Love is the most brilliant opening to an album.

The production is all still so small and tight, like Rumours, which gives the songs such a timeless feel.

Read more at http://www.musicomh.com/features/thi...GMg80VxHZGo.99

I don't get the "small and tight" producing quote. The production sprawls all over the place from pop-y hooks to snarling guitars, to whispy ballads. I love Tango, but "small and tight" is not a good description of the record