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The Fleetwood Mac Influence
Lately, I can't help but hear a great deal of Fleetwood Mac-inspired harmonies, production, and songwriting from a great deal of indie and alternative artists. I'm not sure if it simply because I've been listening to the Mac for a while, but I highly doubt it is accidental. The Rumours era has had a tremendous amount of influence over artists for a while, however I think it is at an all time high in terms of obviousness.
So, what groups or artists do you hear the Mac in? Lately, the new James Bay record just screams FM on a number of tracks. I hear the harmonies of the Mac, guitar playing and piano like Lindsey and Christine, and overall production as well (though not to same extent as the performing). I could make an extremely long list of work from a number of artists/bands that I can spot FM inspiration in. Where have you heard the ongoing musical influence of the band? |
Rolling Stone in January published an article of all the contemporary bands most influenced by Fleetwood Mac: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...#ixzz3OuDCvlgU
And recently Afghan Whigs sampled Tusk for their new song I am fire: https://youtu.be/b-AZ07Goa5Q |
[From an article on the Dead Saras]
The Village Voice by Katherine Turman, March 30. 2015 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/...o_meet_you.php With any luck, Pleasure to Meet You will find its audience — and, as Armstrong is wont to do, they'll stage-dive into that audience as well, buoyed by a growing legion of fans. Despite the Epic debacle, Dead Sara's confidence and chops are booming. "My rig has doubled in size from our first record to Pleasure to Meet You. I dance around a pedal board bigger than my body!" notes Medley, who has been playing since the age of eight, and cites influences ranging from Nirvana to Johnny Cash to T. Rex to Tupac. One such influence would be Fleetwood Mac, whose 1979 song "Sara" gives the band their name. While women like Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie paved the way for female rockers, Armstrong and Medley are impervious to sexism and gender. "I'm a musician. It's all I've ever cared about and it's all I've ever wanted to do," states Medley. "I'm in a band with two guys who treat me as an equal. We make music that we love. I don't have the time or energy to be bothered by people's ignorance about gender." |
[From a review of Follakzoid III album]
Spin, March 30, 2015 by Andrew Unterberger http://www.spin.com/reviews/follakzoid-iii/ The best way to describe album centerpiece "Piure" — and to an only slightly lesser extent, III on the whole — may be to recall the 15 or so seconds of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman" before Stevie Nicks' vocal enters: the arid production, the evil tangle of guitar, the forebodingly tapping beat. Now extend that to 13 minutes. If that sounds frustrating to you, or even maddening, keep III at a comfortable distance. But if that sounds mysterious and exhilarating (albeit completely terrifying), that might be as exciting a musical prospect as you'll encounter this year. Why wouldn't you want to hear the first few steps of trepidation from the "Gold Dust" intro turned into an entire walkabout in the great unknown? |
Well I wouldn't say there's any evidence of direct influence on his music but George Ezra cites Rumours as a masterpiece;
http://www.musictimes.com/articles/3...-interview.htm Besides your own, what albums would you pack away on your voyage? There are some albums that I consider masterpieces, very few, but there are one or two, like Paul Simon’s Graceland or Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. I’d have to have a Tom Waits album in there somewhere. I don't know whether he's established himself anywhere outside the UK yet. His voice is absolutely incredible- sounds more like a deep south blues man than a 21 year old Englishman. |
[Excerpt from an interview with Kathleen Ossip, a poet]
Huffington Post, April 6, 2015 by Jonathan Hobratsch http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonath...b_6997372.html I knew I wanted a lot of texture in this book: I wanted to look at death from all sorts of angles, via all sorts of forms, stances. The whole time I was writing it I kept thinking of my all-time favorite album, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's an album with three very different singer/songwriters, so the songs by Lindsey Buckingham are deliberately crudely produced and raucous, very anti-mainstream at the time, but then you also have Stevie Nicks's country- and folk-based songs, and Christine McVie's honey-voiced bluesy pop. But they're all in the service of exploring this one grand theme (heterosexual romance and heartache). I never get tired of it, and I wanted that sort of ranginess for The Do-Over, which includes rhymed poems, a short story, syllabics, sequences, a mini-essay, etc. |
The Beastie Boys Discuss Their Fleetwood Mac Influence (Radio.com Minimation)
"Rumours" or "Tusk," which Fleetwood Mac album is better? That's what the Beastie Boys debate in this interview from 2007, where they were promoting their all instrumental album, The Mix-Up. Read more here: http://radio.com/2015/05/11/beastie-...ac-minimation/ Radio.com Minimation: The Beastie Boys’s Fleetwood Mac Debate. You'll never guess what album influenced 'The Mix-Up.' May 11, 2015 8:03 AM By Brian Ives On Minimation, we comb through the CBS Radio interview archives and animate interviews with legendary artists. In this interview from 2007, the Beastie Boys take on the timeless debate of which Fleetwood Mac album is better: Rumours or Tusk? If you’ve ever had the opportunity to talk to all three Beastie Boys together (that is Mike D, Adam Yauch and Adam Horovitz), you’ll appreciate this episode of Minimation. The experience was akin to herding cats. By 2007, when this interview took place, it was well known that that’s how talking to the Beastie Boys would go. Asking what inspired their then-new, all-instrumental album, The Mix-Up, probably never had a chance of getting any legitimate answer. Adam Yauch’s answer, that they were influenced by Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, should probably be taken with twelve grains of salt; as should the ensuing debate over whether or not Mike D prefers Tusk to Rumours, which included shout outs to the Clash and Electric Light Orchestra. As someone who has interviewed the Beastie Boys together, I can promise you that this is exactly what interviewing them was like. It was difficult, frustrating, fun in the way that a roller coaster that you can’t wait to get off of is fun. And I wish I could have interviewed them one more time. R.I.P. Yauch. |
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Empire of the Sun, The War on Drugs, Florence and The Machine, Lykke Li, just to name a few!!
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These are the Dutch " Common Linnets", last years runner up at the Eurovision Songcontest.
Their most recent single, reminds me a lot of Fleetwood Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlPVr4ZVFU |
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Angus and Julia Stone's second record, Down The Way, is very reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac, Rumors/Tusk era.
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Scars On 45 - Heart On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXndFmaZkwQ Guillemots - Walk the River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yef2PF2AteU Lissie - When I'm Alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G0_eN36QVc Say Lou Lou - Julian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RteQ47_z7K0 First Aid Kit - Shattered & Hollow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN957mTahdE Empire of the Sun - We Are the People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN5X4kGhAtU Midlake - Head Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQMHBy3NvQ The War on Drugs - Red Eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsoqmFL1vlU The Pierces - Kings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TySVbwKixD8 Of Monsters And Men - Sloom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FubvitXV_zM Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE The Shins - Phantom Limb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkITsv3Nk6M Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Man On Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08WeoqWilRQ |
I still contend that even back in 2011 Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" sounds like a Mirage track, most notably the harmonies and bass lines. Obviously the actual lyrics are another story
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Gigwise Thursday 18th June 2015 by Alexandra Pollard
http://www.gigwise.com/news/101223/h...-fleetwood-mac Hurts' 'surprising' new album inspired by Fleetwood Mac Surrender is due for release later this year Hurts have cited Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan and Motown as influences on their forthcoming new album, saying, "We decided to see how things would turn out if we enjoyed ourselves." The duo's first two albums - Happiness and Exile - were recorded in Manchester. For their third, Surrender, they split their time between Ibiza, LA, New York and the Swiss Alps - the effect of which they say made their music notably lighter. "It was quite a dark time making the last record," Theo Hutchcraft told NME, "and the content was quite reflective of our state, but once we'd finished it and exorcised the demons our mood shifted quite a lot." The band launched Surrender with an intimate show at London's Scala this week - read our review here. He continued, "This time we decided to see how things would turn out if we enjoyed ourselves and went to some exciting places. It made us look outwards for the first time in a long time. The second record was very internal and very intense so we craved the opposite. Now, at this stage in our lives, to make a record that would sound as dark as the second or as melancholy as the first wouldn't be a true reflection of us. That's not to say it's all a barrel of laughs though; we're still drawn to the darker side." He also revealed that the album was influenced by Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan and "the backing singers and gospel choirs" of Motown, saying that the LP will "delight and surprise people in equal measure." |
This song totally own a huge debt to the MAC -- especially the "Hold Me"-esque end of the bridge. The choruses are SO VERY Christine/MAC as well.
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Nate Ruess (from Fun) talks about his all-time favourite album, Tusk.
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Fleetwood's influence on Paramore
This song has "As long as you follow" all over it to me....and they listened to a lot of FM songs while making this album. The lead singer of this group and the guitarist were together and then broke up and the band splintered. For 16 and 17 years old kids their album "Brand New Eye's" was compared constantly to Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" of today. She is an awesome song writer. So much of the story is a like. The second song is about mourning the break-up of the band, their life and moving on ...with a surprise for you in the middle .
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In the mourning........landslide
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LOWER DENS Escape From Evil
Santa Fe New Mexican by Robert Ker http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pas...a4a0c83ed.html [excerpt from review] This band began as a shoegaze outfit; as she toyed with the format’s possibilities, the music got more experimental. On Escape From Evil, Hunter steers the band in more poppy directions. Like many artists these days, she turns to the 1980s for inspiration. This album is further proof that Fleetwood Mac’s Tango in the Night, with its slippery guitar licks, neon keyboards, and chugging midtempo, remains the most influential album in 2010s indie-pop, but the touchstones don’t end with that album. |
[Drenge talks about their new album]
NME http://www.nme.com/news/swim-deep/86416 Williams has also revealed the ambitions he and his bandmates had for the album. "We wanted to radicalise chart music," he said. "So we've taken [Kanye West's] 'Yeezus' and [Fleetwood Mac album] 'Rumours' and put them together with acid house." Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/swim-deep/86...V1SfDrSvWZe.99 |
[Tame Impala reviewed by NME]
'The Less I Know The Better' You can't half tell Parker is a newborn Fleetwood Mac fan on the (almost but not quite) funky 'The Less I Know The Better'. While the punchy drums and coarse base guitar sound are a tad too Detroit-tough for the Mac's tastes, the sugary atmospherics and glassy chimes that grace another show-stopping chorus come off like a soft-focus homage to 'Rumours'' famously super-treble-y, cocaine-informed production. Read more at http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/t...UVSfHqAQiU0.99 |
Don't know if this is here yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echosmith The group grew up in a musical household playing multiple instruments throughout their childhood. The band says that a range of rock artists including Coldplay, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, U2, Joy Division, and Fleetwood Mac influenced them while growing up and encouraged them to make music together. Echosmith’s youngest member, Graham (16), plays drums. The only female member of the group, Sydney (18), is the lead vocalist for the band, often contributing on tambourine and keyboard. Noah (19) plays bass and sings back-up vocals for the band. The oldest member, Jamie (22), sings and plays guitar. |
Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain' Inspired Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile's New Album
Concert Preview Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile got a lucky break about ten years ago when Dave Matthews heard her singing on a side stage at the Gorge, the outdoor amphitheater located just outside of Seattle. Matthews hooked her up with his booking agent, and Carilile has been busy ever since. Her latest album, The Firewatcher’s Daughter, is another solid effort. It opens with the lilting “Wherever Is Your Heart” and shows off Carlile’s passionate voice as she belts out songs about insecurities (“The Things I Regret”) and feeling weak (“Blood Muscle Skin & Bone”). It’s a highly personal album that was influenced by the fact that Carlile was about to become a mother for the first time as she was writing the songs. She phoned from her Maple Valley, Wash. home to talk about the album and her found memories of playing to a rowdy crowd at House of Blues back in 2012. http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-...inspiration-in You were listening to Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” prior to recording. What made you gravitate to that song? I always really liked Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks in particular. I have a penchant for their drama. I live in a band that is also my family. Things can get really strange and I love that about bands. I met [Fleetwood Mac’s] Lindsey Buckingham backstage at a Dave Matthews concert and he was so cool and so inspired. I went back to the dressing room and put my headphones on and started listening to “The Chain.” I realized, “We need to cover this song and it represents our band in a way that I can’t really explain.” It was fertile ground for something that happened on The Firewatcher’s Daughter. |
[Louisa Rose Allen talks about her influences]
Foxes: the 10 albums that blew my mind By Danny Turner (Future Music), Tech Music Radar http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/...my-mind-634392 Foxes songwriter Louisa Rose Allen on the artists and albums that changed her life “I can’t say I knew loads about Fleetwood Mac growing up, but I remember when I was about 15 my friend showed me this video of Stevie Nicks doing this performance, I think it was of the track Sara, and she just starts crying. “I remember feeling as though I almost shouldn’t be watching it. It was beautiful but sad, and that made me turn to Fleetwood Mac’s back catalogue and I really got into the album Rumours and the story behind all of it. “The band were all dating each other and the relationships were getting entwined, so they were all singing about each other – it was mad! There was actually a film made about Rumours, which was really interesting. |
Heather LaRose – The Girl Behind “New Moon”
Heather LaRose is a girl from Westchester, NY. After pursuing music at SUNY Purchase, Heather ended up meeting her band members who were all Berklee College of Music students and/or graduates. From here, she continued to pursue her music career with full force. With a Pop/Rock vibe, Heather has been writing songs since she was a little girl and with hard work comes great rewards. One of Heather’s most recent singles, “New Moon” is set to be played on MTV’s show Teen Wolf and she couldn’t be more excited about it. http://vergecampus.com/2016/02/heath...hind-new-moon/ How would you describe your sound and who are some of your influences? Heather LaRose: I’d say my sound is upbeat indie-pop with a meld of acoustic and synth. My inspiration for my first album was the Beach-Boys “Pet Sounds”. I got a lot of lyrical content and inspiration from that record. I love the harmonies and arrangements that they put into that album. A classic inspiration of mine would be Fleetwood Mac which I think comes across in my song “New Moon.” |
The Quietus by Luke Cartledge , July 12th, 2016 08:33
http://thequietus.com/articles/20565...fohr-interview {excerpt from an interview with Haley Fohr] It's a fascinating album. The track that stands out to me is the last song, 'Jackie'. Can you describe the significance of it sounding so different to the rest of the album and it being written in the present tense and the third person? HF: Well, there're no drum machines. It's the same acoustic guitar recorded twice in a row, panned hard right and hard left. Fleetwood Mac did a lot of that on Tusk. But I think it was important to have that song as the last track on the album to show more dynamic presence in Jackie and another facet – self-doubt. She's this brooding, cool-as-a-cucumber badass, very powerful, and has all of this nonchalant kind of self-confidence that I find really empowering. But ultimately, when you're making moves and living life and really doing it, here are moments when you're just lost. That song is her looking back on the years in Chicago and how she got to where she is. It's a heavy trip. |
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