Fantasy Macball: The Dance Edition
 

Stupid thread title aside, I know this has been discussed numerous times before, but I figured I'd bring it up again, poll style!

In your dream version of The Dance, what song would you have had the five fireflies play? I'm using my top contenders for the poll, but if you chose "Other", tell us what & why!

Honestly, Seven Wonders & Little Lies really would be my top choices. Imagining a stripped down version of either, with their voices from this era & those harmonies we got on the album/video.. goosebumps. I think in particular, Christine would've sounded amazing doing her original harmony on the Seven Wonders chorus.

Funny how I agree and disagree. Though it's an unpopular song for many, I find interesting to hear a Seven Wonders Dance version. However, though it was a huge hit, I didn't miss Little Lies in this 1997 show.

Anyway, reading the poll list my choice is definitely Love in Store, I adore that song, it's even my ringtone.

Other Vote: “Isn’t It Midnight” or “Why”
 

Would have loved to hear either one. “Why” could have been another “Silver Springs” type of success.

Another one I've daydreamed about & forgot to include is Hold Me. It probably would've sounded great with the same kind of arrangement they gave for the album/video, and with their voices at the time.. Also, I know they did Farmer's Daughter on on the tour, but I really wish they would've closed out the video, after Songbird, with that one (though I know the captured performances on boots from the tour can't hold a candle to the "Live" album version. I love that hushed, sparse beauty, they sound absolutely gorgeous on it.)

Isn't It Midnight would've rocked! I've also thought how much a Dance era Sisters of the Moon probably would have brought the house down.

I guess a lot of my picks here have to due with wanting to hear some of the Tango stuff Lindsey never performed with them yet, upon quitting, and how they would have sounded with those lighter, refined arrangements.

Hold Me, or Sisters of the Moon... or Sara perhaps :shrug:

Hold Me with just BuckVie singing verses would have been cool. Then the whole extra ensemble for the chorus.

I agree. That would be my pick. Although with the studio sound that was the Dance live, I am not sure Sisters would have packed the punch like it did with earlier tours. Technology of the late 90s had bands abandoning the big arena rocks sound for a more studio like sound.
Since we missed Lindsey on Tango tour, it would have been nice to get a few more tracks like Little Lies and Isn't It Midnight.
I am in the minority but never cared for the Dance version of Say You Love Me. I would have gladly axed it for Hold Me or Think About Me.
I would have even axed all new songs too. However the band wanted to sound fresh with "new" material. They also did not want to become a mass market hit concert and still played deep tracks like Oh Daddy. But the biggest issue I take with the Dance was the solo songs of Stand Back and a very long Go Insane. Just imagine axing those 2 songs along with Not That Funny. You could have put in some better songs. There was no need for Stand Back. The Mac was back and did not need Stevie's solo career to keep them afloat. Sara or Angel could have been the replacement. Lastly again I am in the minority but I would have axed Farmers Daughter for Love In Store. I think it would make a great encore with all 3 vocalists. Its upbeat and poppy and relatively short. All the reasons for a great show stopper ending.
I remember loving that Chris and Lindsey were back on stage with the Mac. I remember leaving a little disappointed. It was no Mirage or Fleetwood Mac live (1980) sound. I loved the 1990 farewell tour. It rocked. I much prefer Lindsey with the band but Fleetwood Mac live used to be a beast compared to the studio one. I again am probably in the minority but prefer a much more raw live format without so much backing musicians.

Little Lies, Hold Me, and Sara would have been so good on The Dance. I would love to hear what they would have sounded like.

I wish they had just fully embraced Rumours and did a set with the entire album. I think it would have to be resequenced because I can’t see the actual album sequence working live. I would’ve dropped the new songs too to get more of the older stuff in even though clearly they were on the Hell Freezes Over model. Bye bye to Stand Back and Go Insane.

Say You Love Me
Monday Morning
Rhiannon
Everywhere
Hold Me
Gypsy
Sara
Big Love
Landslide
Not That Funny
Little Lies
Tusk
The Chain
Dreams
Second Hand News
Oh Daddy
Never Going Back Again
Songbird
I Don’t Want to Know
You Make Loving Fun
Gold Dust Woman
Go Your Own Way
Don’t Stop

Silver Springs
I’m So Afraid
Farmer’s Daughter

Crystal would have been a great 1997 ballad with just a hint of modern technology to flesh out the old 70s sound. It deserved to be heard live as much as Silver Springs did. Never Forget would have been great, but the Burbank mini-audience probably would not have recognized it. I also wanted them to try an oldie in 1997, maybe something by the Beatles or Velvet Underground or early Bowie, for the chic factor.

Totally agree

I always thought this might be a nice acapella to their evening after Songbird.

in the absence of Hold Me, my vote goes to Think About Me. adore both songs.

Yes, I don't like Stevie on either of these (Hold Me/Think About Me). Oh Daddy, that's a different story. Stevie sounds amazing on Oh Daddy.

Can't stand her on Don't Stop and ISA as well.

I voted for Love in Store. But if I have to think of an "other" song, I'd say Eyes of the World.

Absolutely! They would have been the time to do it. And that set list needed another rocker.


That said, I’ve always wished Christine would have unearthed Spare Me. At that time, her voice was in top form and she easily could have done it.

You're right, her voice was fantastic even up to 2004. Imagine, Prove Your Love on The Dance? :wavey:

Eyes of the World is not on the DVD or CD, at least my versions and what I can see on Wikipedia, but I seem to remember it being mentioned in the context of The Dance. Did it appear in the tour setlist at some point?

Gosh, I'm not sure about Dance. I think it was played early on SYW.

Interesting. Yes, according to setlist.fm (not always 100% reliable, or so I read), it was played once in 1997. Sep. 17, Meadows Music Theater, CT.

https://www.setlist.fm/song/fleetwoo...-73d6de91.html

Oh yes! That jarred my memory.

Yep if I’m remembering correctly, it was played at the very first show of the tour and was replaced with Second Hand News at the second show.

I remember how excited I was that they were back! It was a great time/era.

It was my first opportunity to see them. I was too young to fly (probably alone) to the US for the Mirage tour.

I remember you talking about flying in for this. (at some point).

Yes, 1997 was the first time I saw them live. In 1982 I wish to go to a Mirage concert but I was just 16. And when it came the Tango tour, I still didn't have that much income to fly and go to a concert, besides Lindsey not being there was another reason to discard it. The 1997 reunion was like a dream came true, and so the 2014 reunion was, too.

Christine has surprised us many times over the years.

Did I ever tell you guys that the first time I saw them, I disliked them? I thought they were scruffy and druggy and looked like hard rock onstage. This was in 1976 in Los Angeles. In 1975, I was still a very avid pop music fan and was probably still listening to AM radio (Elton John, Seals & Crofts, Wings, KC and the Sunshine Band, Tavares, Spinners, Rose Royce). But I kind of liked Say You Love Me and Rhiannon on album, which didn’t sound much like the hippies playing live. It took me an Iowa minute to fall in love with them — it was probably when Go Your Own Way got airplay.

There was a pronounced difference between the studio and live sound—and it’s the latter that most people had to get used to, despite the band having jammed and rocked out live since its inception.

You like KC, eh? That’s another combo where the live shows provided a deeper, sweatier, sexier groove than the radio songs suggested…

What were they like in person? Weren't you ever along during soundcheck?

I am not surprised. How old were you in 1975? I was a pop fan in the late 70s too. Actually my first idol was Donna Summer, Live & More was the first album I ever bought (1979, I was 13). Then I became a Queen fan, and then Fleetwood Mac, though I was not convinced how they sound in the Mirage Live video (I remember asking What the hell happened with Stevie's voice?)

And nowadays I still love Fleetwood Mac (with all the nightmares along the way), and also Elton, Donna Summer, Queen, Puccini, Pet Shop Boys, Mozart and Pink Floyd. A weird idols combination but I guess one expands its universe of icons as one grows.