Possible Album Title? (Spoiler maybe)
 

I read this on another list,thought i'd share...


I don't know if this has already been reported or discussed, but I was driving around town yesterday afternoon listening to the radio (Z93 Classic Rock) in Atlanta. They played a little 15-second promo of "Tusk" and they said something like "you'll never guess what's coming" (don't know what that meant really). Anyway, they then played Gold Dust Woman in its entirety, and afterward, the DJ came on and started talking about FM touring next year, blah, blah, blah, the same stuff that has been reported for the past few months, but then she said that the name of FM's new studio album is "Jumping At Shadows". I hadn't heard that before. I had heard that it may be titled Gift of Screws from Lindsey's solo work or that Stevie had suggested the title "Infatuation" but they hadn't picked a title yet. Anyway, I'm not sure where the station got their info - or if it is even correct, but just thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone had heard anything confirming or to the contrary.

Wow...I like it.

Well, I suppose anything's possible but I'd be very surprised if they used "Jumping at shadows" as the title as I would imagine they would think it could cause confusion with a couple of older FM releases that bear the same name which include Peter Green era Mac stuff. Unless the DJ got this year's JAS comp mixed up with the new album...

John

Sounds very uummm.....Fleetwood Mac to me. However I am going to have to go with WETCAMELFOOD(:laugh: what's that about? It always cracks me up!) it could get confused with some older stuff.

That would be very weird to call it "Jumping at Shadows," as John said, because of its association with Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

Some people think it would be weird to call it "Gift of Screws" because of that title's association with an aborted solo project. But what do you think "Tango in the Night" was?

Exactly!! We've got to remember that John & Jane Q Public have no clue what "Gift Of Screws" is, it's history, etc, etc. So, if a majority of Lindsey's songs are, to us, retreads from an aborted solo album, as well as the album title, it's just our own snobbery slapping us in the face if we're upset by it. To 90% of the Fleetwood Mac buying public, it's all "new".

I gotta agree with ChiliD & David, I bet the new FM album will be called "Gift of screws" (IF ANY of the proposed titles so far).

Oh, Nicole118 - "Wet camel food" is an anagram for "Fleetwood Mac" (I saw it on VH1 a few years ago when they used to run the "Hold me" video on "Pop up video"). :)

John

That is the first thing i thought when i read that....i was like...WHY does that sound familiar?? Then i realized it was an old song title... hopefully this DJ is just an idiot or something...I mean it is a cool title...but it is already used...it'd be like Stevie releasing an album called Stand Back,lol.

Yes, that's it!
 

GOS it is. Oh, BTW, John-I love that name now! How original. Unfortunantly, I will not be rolling on the floor every time I read it now :distress: :laugh: ! I guess I shouldn't ask if I want things to keep their mystery;) . No, really, I'm glad I did & great name!

well, I don't know about anyone else, but I really hope it is not called Gift Of Screws....I really don't like that name, and cannot figure out for the life of me what it means.....I guess it would be normal for a Lindsey album, but for a FM album?? Random....

Kristin

"Jumping At Shadows" sounds cool, BUT what is the point of having THREE Fleetwood Mac albums with the same name??? There is a 2002 FM album and a 1985 FM album (both a collection of PG songs) with the same name, and of course there is the PG song itself....

"Twist Of Fate" is my favourite of all the suggested/rumoured titles....it's so appropriate, and it just sounds damn cool!

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

YES SETECA!!
 

Twist of Fate SHOULD be the name of the new album!! If they had ANY SENSE AT ALL, they'd name it TOF!! :nod: Jumping at Shadows...nuh uh...

Sorry...
 

But isnt "Twist of Fate" just a tad generic and cliche??!!
Just my opinion...

Re: Sorry...
 

We don't just share names!! Keep this up and I won't have to post anymore, you can do all the hard work for me lol!

I definitely prefer Gift of Screws to (yawn) Twist of Fate.

I like Gift Of Screws... of all the bunch that's been mentioned before.

Full Circle, I liked that one too.

And of course Just One McVie Now (We Shot The Piano Player), suggested by our ChiliD. :laugh:


Song of the moment - Caught In The Rain

They could name it...
 

"Burnt Mickey Mouse Sandwich" for all I care...lol (Just kidding y'all)...Just get the music out already...Hehehehe, Brian J.

hahahahahahahaha!
 

LMAO!!!! ok, that's my favorite. ;) :laugh:

actually, i like the rumoured Stevie suggestion, Infatuation. i don't know why, but i think it just sounds cool.

Re: Sorry...
 

It seems so, very much so. It's the kind of title kids would laugh at, & that's not such a good thing.

I think they ought to name their new album "Camper Van Beethoven."

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count this JOE in too!!! "Twist of Fate" is boring...

I can just see the public having fun with "Gift of Screws" (no pun intended) knowing the history of the band!...


I don't like "Infatuation" - save it for a solo album Stevie!

Re: Re: Re: Sorry...
 

LMAO, I had never thought of it that way! Now it seems just perfect!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

LOL
 

Love Chili D's name for the album!!

or Buckingham-Nicks with Fleetwood and Mac!

Seriously, though, do you think Stevie would be happy with calling it GOS? Surely she knows that GOS was to be Lindsey's solo work..

Other than GOS, though I haven't heard anything I really like for the title yet-not that I m the one to be pleased or anything....:)

I agree with what someone said earlier in that "as long as I can get it, I don't care what they call it". :)

Whenever I think of "Twist of fate", it reminds me of that Olivia Newton-John song. Also, just thought, didn't Rod Stewart have a song called "Infatuation" around the same time as the ONJ song? They must be trying for an 80's effect or something! :)

John

Well, I like Twist of Fate and Full Circle. Gift of Screws is growing on me and it would be cool, but I'm not too sure the rest of the band would go for it.. knowing it was originally for Lindsey's solo thing. I'm sure whatever title they come up with would be great!

:) Michelle

Too bad Fleetwood Mac used 'The Dance' already... that might have made a great title for *this* album.
:)

Early on, I thought either 'Twist Of Fate,' or 'Full Circle,' would have made great titles, but the more I think about it, the more I have to agree with the folks who feel those titles are a bit bland.

I'd like to see the band go with something that evokes a certain mood... like the titles 'Rumours' and 'Mirage' did.
He doesn't post around here much anymore, but my friend, Shane, suggested 'Illume'... which is definitely the type of title I think would be best. Something with a bit of intrigue and romanticism to it.


Illume:
To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.



Johnny Stew

I agree with the folks who said Twist of Fate and Full Circle are too cliche. I believe the band should come up with something more creative.

Having said that, I don't think "illume" is the answer either. I'm still having trouble imagining just how Stevie is going to work the term "illume" into a song. It's just not an easy word to work into a sentence, never mind trying to sing it. Unless she makes it a point to emphasize the first syllable, it'll just come off as "loom" and create a completely different effect from what she is reaching for. Certain words should never be sung, and I may be proven wrong about "illume." Other words that should not be sung:

Illusory
Grouse
Tutelage

To this day, "tutelage" always reverts me back to 4th grade when that word just seemed soooo funny, and I almost always have to giggle.

So much for maturity! :laugh:


Johnny Stew

I actually think Illume is one of those songs where the title is only said once, and it's at the very beginning..."Illume says the candle that I burn," or something like that. Kind of like Dreams (okay, she says that TWICE), or Battle of the Dragon which she never says at all. I know the lyrics SAY that she does, but I can't hear it anywhere in the song's ending.

Johnny Stew, lol, what the HELL is with your signature? I nearly busted out in laughter in the middle of the library after I read it. I absolutely love German (if it IS German) as well as other languages like it. They make me laugh so hard. I used to sit in my music class and crack up hysterically at the songs that had German words and then translated them into English. I mean no offense to anyone German here, I actually wish I had taken German. It's just such a funny language to me.

It actually IS at the end of the song....there's alot of vocals going ("...you're not listening to me etc etc) and Stevie comes in clearly above the other vocals with "...battle of the dragon....noone walks away....you wish it to end, wish it to end, wish it to end."


Just wanted to clarify! ;)

Album Titles
 

Now I think that's the best one yet....ILLUME....yeah I really like that one!!! :)


Some I'd like to nominate as second choices are:


BIG FOOT ;) or

LENGTH OF MY INDEX FINGER :laugh: ............

ahhhh but then again they already used Tusk so I guess those wouldn't work!

:lol: :lol: :lol:


:] Joe :]

I would like a one-word title, a la Mirage and Rumours...BUT I really agree with who ever said they don't care. They can call it Hogswaller, Puketown, or Bloomerville. I just want the damn thing in my hands!

I'm just a greedy little fan who's little demon's comin' on down!

:shrug: I don't really care what they call it as long as it has that Fleetwood Macish, sounding title like Rumours, Mirage, etc. It needs to be something unique like the band. It doesn't need to be something that has already been used or almost used. It needs to be an original that goes with the album project. Something that pulls it all together. It is hard to know what they need to call it, when we don't know what is on the album. I'll know if I like the title once I hear the album and get its feel. I'll know then if they picked the right title for the album or not. :nod:


:wavey: :wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

Well, it was supposed to be a private message to someone, but I'll spill the beans... :p ... it's the German translation of the English lyric, "every now and then, I know there's no one in the universe as magical and wondrous as you" (from "Total Eclipse Of The Heart," written by Jim Steinman).
:)



Johnny Stew

Re: Album Titles
 

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Johnny Stew

Re: Album Titles
 

LOL!! LMAO!!:laugh:

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

Fleetwood Mac's critically acclaimed 'Puketown'!! HAaha! lmao sulamith!
 

'Illume' is the best of the non-GOS suggestions, but I'm afraid I find it too Stevie, on balance.

I just pictured 'Gift of Screws' rendered in that classic FM 'gothic' lettering ... that could really rock!

And for those of you thinking GOS is too Lindsey as opposed to Stevie, well remember there's the 'inital reaction' or 'innuendo' meaning of "GOS", but then there's the meaning in the context of Dickinson's poem. And it's a positivey, Stevie kind of phrase 'the Gift of screws' (that are wrung from the rose).

Another alternative I would love to see is like Rumours, where there is a sufficiently big media and public 'frenzy' of sorts before its release, which would inspire something at once relevant and timeless, like John's 'Rumours' was.

Mandatory silly suggestions ::laugh:

Twist of Gifts
Screws of Fate
In-thin-uation ("FM are looking great and smelling of Wheat Thins!")
We Are the World........'s oldest, zaniest, craziest, best band!


And a Lindsey solo album!:
Out of the Rock ..I've been hiding under!

And finally, a follow up to The Visitor!:
Tried for the Son (... but kept ending up with daughters!)

(I should've given up long ago, but..) Christopher Nicks speaks out with his new autobiography:
Brother of the Loon: "I'm sick of being 'the moon' to her 'sister'! Oh, Lindsey gets all the damned planets of the universe, but I'm a moon?? Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for me? ...No!!"

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DownOnRodeo
...but then there's the meaning in the context of Dickinson's poem. And it's a positivey, Stevie kind of phrase 'the Gift of screws' (that are wrung from the rose).

I was thinking along similar lines and thought that that might not be objectionable to Stevie:

essential oils are wrung
like attar from the rose
be not expressed by suns alone
it is the gift of screws


Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for me? ...No!!"

Hehehe...

Re: titles
 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Les
[B]Yes she has! and she has "given that to you"!

hahaha ( i know....it's a bit cheezy but whatever )

I don't like any of them!
 

Illume - ugh, so "girly girl" like calling an album Crystal Visions or something. Frankly, I hope the song has a good tune because the concept of this illume business does not lend itself to good lyrics.

"Infatuation" is also too girly.

"Full Circle" - So corny! Does EVERYTHING have to be about cycles? lol I hope this isn't a cycle-themed album about how they were bad but now it's all good, we all have spiritual fulfilment a a sense of karmic peace, blah, blah. If Come is on it, it shouldn't be! Although I wouldn't mind a love ballad from Lindsey. I've always wondered why he never writes real love songs. Now's his chance!

"Gift of Screws" and "Twist of Fate" are the best choices out of the ones given (I lean heavily towards the latter). HOWEVER, naming the album after a song is tres dull. It's almost as bad as "Buckingham Nicks by Buckingham Nicks" and "Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac" lol. Mirage and Rumours weren't like that, and it seems like the consensus that those were the best titles. That's a problem Stevie's always had - naming the album after a song. Lindsey has been better about it with L&O and OOTC. Plus that poem he wrote, Sardonic World, uses a title not mentioned in the text. Hmm, how's THAT for an album title?

Re: I don't like any of them!
 

I rate Tango in the Night no. 1. Hey, time for a poll! lol

Sardonic World? Hmmmmmmm....sounds like something you'd eat with a Wheat Thin. :laugh:


Joe