What song do you use to introduce Fleetwood Mac to your friends?
 

When you have friends they don't know the Mac at all, and you want to tell them.. Hey, this is my favorite band in the whole wide world... What song do you choose?

I choose TUSK (studio), or Stand Back live. They sound very cool. So I usually I got cool reactions from my friend. They say it sounds cool, or they ask.. "Is that Fleetwood Mac???? WOW!"

Sometimes I got the same reactions with The Chain

Hmmm...my friends don't give one rat's ass about F.M. which is why we NEVER talk about them. If we do, I just get mad because they end up disrespecting them in one way or another. Oh well, their loss!! But if I was to strap them down and force it on them...I guess I would play The Dance version of Silver Springs until their ears bled! That'll learn 'em. :laugh:

I don't really do that. But the other day when my friend visited, I said "you have to see this" and showed him Chain from Mirage DVD. He already knows about Mac, though, and it a musician, so...he could appreciate it...of course, he's a drummer and so we decided that someone's gonna have to pour beer down his throat for him the next time he plays... :laugh:

Gold Dust Woman, The Chain or GYOW. They're pretty well known & popular. NEVER Don't Stop, though :p

Go Your Own Way, and The Chain. My friend was actually turned on to FM by The Ledge (the song) though :shrug:

I just recently properly introduced a friend to the whole spectre of FM/Stevie. First I made her a mixed Stevie cd w/:
1. Sometimes it’s a Bitch
2. Outside the Rain
3. Beautiful Child
4. Silver Springs
5. Fall From Grace
6. Storms
7. God’s Garden
8. Stand Back
9. Sleeping Angel
10. Rhiannon
11. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
12. Edge of 17
13. Sara

So there is some "FM" songs on there, but I also let her listen to Tusk (the song) and she really likes that one. She was very impressed with Big Love, but then again who wouldn't? :shrug: And it was funny I was wearing a FM shirt from the past tour and she said I can name two of them! Of course SnL and then I had to tell her John plays the bass and Mick plays the drums.
Just give me a little while longer and she'll be posting on here in no time. :nod:
Brit

In the past it's been either Rhiannon or Silver Springs (both of the ones from The Dance) - I've actually converted a couple with those songs :nod: :D

I hate to say this, but when my friends ask what songs they sing I tell them Don't Stop or Landslide. Those would probably be the ones they would know. Most of the time they're like "ohhhhh yeah I didn't know they sang that!" When I'm introducting them to Stevie, I just let them hear EO17, since that would be the one they would know! But, if I wanted them to hear their better music, I normally just let them hear my song of the moment...I always have different FM songs! :D I actually had a girl mention FM to me and she's like I love that song "Storms" I was so surprised she knew that one!

THAT'S MY POINT!!!!!

I mean, I don't choose the most popular songs. Maybe I do for old enough guys who can remember Dreams or Don't Stop. But I try to choose songs with more cool sound, you know

I mean, specially when I meet young people I play for them TUSK, and they really like that sound! Or the Stand Back live intro!!!!

I also play for them Silver Springs from the Dance dvd, and just to show them the eyes between S&L during the "never get away" part, but that's just to show them the feeling and explain the old soap opera

But to show them a cool sound... TUSK!!! and Stand back live!!!

I use "Not That Funny" to impress friends & associates.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but I've been almost completely unsuccessful at turning people on to the Mac thus far.

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Don't Stop or Stand Back.

I converted my cousin to FM.

I would probably play them Rhiannon or Silver Springs.

I once introduced one of my friends to the band by letting her watch The Dance with me. She cried when she saw Landslide and Silver Springs..
She cried when she saw them kiss..she thought that was beautiful. She cried during Silver Springs because she was so amazed at how Stevie was singing to Lindsey..and she said that the song was so heartbreaking it was sad and made her cry.

Well, she has been a fan of the band since she saw that. She went out the next day and bought The Dance on CD.

LOL I wonder why? (THAT is my LEAST favorite song of ALL mac stuff)

I usually don't do it, but a friend asked me a cd with some of the music I'm listening, and I think it's time to introduce him also to Fleetwood Mac (he knows some of their seventies and eighties songs but isn't really a fan), so I'll add Gold Dust Woman from the Dance, Miranda, Illume (an early mix) and Beautiful Child live, they should be closer to his tastes.

Romy

All that screaming at the end. That could ONLY turn on the MOST diehard of all fans! I was always embarassed of it, and FOR Lindsey, so I'd usually FF thru it,........before they asked me to!
Taste must have stepped out the door for a smoke break......