Favorite top hit
 

(couldn't fix the previos thread, forgot to set it as a poll).

According to Billboard these were the Fleetwood Mac top hits. Which one is your favorite?

Dreams Peaked at #1 on 6.17.1977
Don't Stop Peaked at #3 on 9.23.1977
Little Lies Peaked at #4 on 11.7.1987
Hold Me Peaked at #4 on 7.23.1982
Big Love Peaked at #5 on 5.29.1987
Sara Peaked at #7 on 2.2.1980
Tusk Peaked at #8 on 11.3.1979
You Make Loving Fun Peaked at #9 on 12.17.1977
Go Your Own Way Peaked at #10 on 3.12.1977
Say You Love Me Peaked at #11 on 9.17.1976

#11 - Think About Me

The greatest FM song of all time!

adore it plus SYLM, Hold Me, Tusk and GYOW. Don't Stop gets way too much hate, it's a great little song and stratospherically popular even though FM fans love to poopoo on it.

Hold Me is awesome, too. It would be my #2 song.

No, Macfan4life, THAT #2 song is Oh Daddy.:wavey::lol::lol::lol::wavey:

EDIT - you know what? I've been thinking a lot about it....I didn't mind Oh Daddy very much, until Mick claimed it was about him(TWENTY YEARS after it was released). I think that permanently tainted it for me.

I had enormous trouble choosing from Go Your Own Way, Dreams, You Make Loving Fun, and Tusk. But confronting trouble is what makes us stronger, they say, so I voted for GYOW.

I voted for Sara, it used to send goose bumps down my spine.
And I still love it.

The poll limit is 10 choices, but I found these charts also.
Rhiannon Peaked at #11 on 6.4.1976
Gypsy Peaked at #12 on 10.22.1982
Everywhere Peaked at #14 on 2.6.1988

Another interesting info is Fleetwood Mac’s Top 10 most downloaded tracks. This is kind of a chart in this century:
1 GO YOUR OWN WAY
2 THE CHAIN
3 EVERYWHERE
4 LITTLE LIES
5 DREAMS
6 ALBATROSS
7 LANDSLIDE
8 DON'T STOP
9 BIG LOVE
10 SONGBIRD

Source:
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...-tracks__2751/

Hold Me is the best pop hit but its not my favorite pop hit. Does that make sense? I like Go Your Own Way. Its a break up song compared to the loveable Hold Me. Its also sort of a rock anthem that is played on classic rock stations every day. As big as a hit Hold Me was, its not played as much as Go Your Own Way.
I think You Make Loving Fun is a close second and they are polished gems off Rumours. Dreams is a great hit too. I've heard it way too much but I know that its brilliant.


Btw Homer. Oh Daddy is not a pop hit. Its not the best lyrics or singing but definitely has the best musical track other than Why by the band.

Its a fact Jack.
Can you dig it?
I knew that you could.

well, you list only top 10 singles of the Classic 5 era, so that makes sense other than SYLM that was 11. too bad though that you didn't select the open / transparent poll option - wondering where all these votes for the biggest dirge on the list are coming from? :eek: also album version of Big Love? interesting.

Don't break that spell
 

Ye old dirge Sara is in a class of its own and is my favorite song per se in that list, but YMLF is the song that first got me into Fleetwood Mac and remains a groovy, magical favorite to this day. It ticks every box and doesn't have a fault; it's unusual "chorus-less" structure only enhances it's effectiveness and replayability. I think it is the FM song in highest rotation on radio stations here, followed only by SYLM/GYOW/Don't Stop.

I chose the highest from this page. SYLM and Rhiannon were #11. I just selected SYLM cause it was the first I read.

https://www.billboard.com/music/flee...HSI/song/20999

Doesn't the fact that Dick Fleetwood says it's about him turn you off? It does me!

My favorite YMLF is the one from the 2003 reissue, with the different lyrics at the end!

I'm tired of Don't Stop, and I'm tired of Dreams. I never tire of GYOW or YMLF.

YMLF is my favorite hit. Mostly because I don't tire of it. It has so many elements that I love about the band.

Hold Me is the same way, I don't tire from it. It's delicious like a good red wine.

Sara used to give me goose bumps, but I think I've worn it out. Sometimes it does touch me, then other times... it's just boring.

Rhiannon live will always be my golden child. Studio has worn me out. :(

Don't Stop came back to me when Christine came back. It sounded fresh again.

Go Your Own Way is just solid FMAC. Love it.

Think About Me is fantastic. Just solid goodness.

All great songs- but You Make Loving Fun-Christine's best pop song and I always turn it up when it comes on. Just perfect in every way, I agree with Homer on the alt version with the different lyrics which I think they used live for a time.

Go Your Own Way is one of the best songs in rock and roll, let alone in Fleetwood Mac. It’s my choice and it’s not even remotely close.

SYLM is one of the most satisfying pop hit records on the planet. YMLF and GYOW may be (slightly) better songs, but there’s an irresistible charm to SYLM. Her voice, that piano, that chorus!

But the song Tusk is great, too.

No love for Dreams or SYLM. I guess we just hear them so much we are immune. :lol:

Scandal! No love for SYLM? Hogwash!

My whole life revolves around the Live Rhiannon's:lol:

But even tho I agree with you about the studio track, at this stage of my life I enjoy hearing it when it plays on the car radio. It's just so refreshing to hear her young voice again, each time.

I chose SYLM because it's just a lovely, happy, perfect pop song. All 3 of them sing so good all the way thru and of course all the instruments are played perfectly.

I'll Never Forget(pun intended) it was YMLF that convinced me to buy the Rumours album. Back in those days I only bought singles. But I said to myself, "if their next single is as great as GYOW, Dreams and Don't Stop, I will def. buy the whole album." From that first moment the radio played it you could see me running to the store. And that was also the day I heard The Chain and GDW for the first time. My life was forever changed in that moment!!!!

I prefer the single version, with the extra guitar licks!

Yes. It is, IMO, the BEST song on the list—though SYLM is my favorite hit. YMLF. and Tusk are also favs

Watching Tusk during BuckVie made me love that song again.

I believe you also agree with me that that claim is bogus. I know the story fit perfectly for the 20 year anniversary video where Chris stated it was about Mick because he was the only daddy in the band. However the lyrics are clearly not about Mick unless Chris had a secret love affair with him :lol:

I think she has better taste than that. He's nasty.

My mind wonders if it was some sort of apology song to John. In the song she admits wrongdoing and admits he is the best thing in her life and cant walk away from him. It was written when she was with John? Or maybe the lighting director had 2 Rumours songs about him :)

I guess we'll never know. Since Dick claimed it as being about him, she(the company shill) seems to support his decadeS late claim.

I guess we'll never know whose D she couldn't walk away from....:lol: