go insane love?
 

"I Want You" - 3:18
"Go Insane" - 3:08
"Slow Dancing" - 4:05
"I Must Go" - 4:51
"Play in the Rain" - 3:21
"Play in the Rain (Continued)" - 4:14
"Loving Cup" - 5:02
"Bang the Drum" - 3:31
"D.W. Suite" - 6:50

we started discussing this CD in SWS thread as some people's favorite and perhaps other people's misunderstood album...so i started responding but then decided we should take it to a separate thread.

so, i'm looking through the list of songs and thinking what silver springs said about it being experimental. while i agree with that, i think that what i dislike on it are songs that are not so experimental, in fact. i listened to one of the newer bands LB says that he likes nowadays - and that is some experimental s**t - i couldn't even stand to listen to the whole song!! (and no, i'm not talking about more mainstream stuff like vampire weekend and arcade fire).

so here are my opinions on go insane songs currently - but i'll give it a few fresh listens to see whether i hear something that i overlooked before:

"I Want You" - alarm clock thing is interesting, the whole song is ok
"Go Insane" - i love go insane song, but album version is very poppy, not that experimental
"Slow Dancing" - too poppy for my taste
"I Must Go" - hmm - i'm ambivalent about this one, sometimes i like it, sometimes i think meh
"Play in the Rain" - bores me
"Play in the Rain (Continued)" - love it!
"Loving Cup" - see I Must Go
"Bang the Drum" - love it!
"D.W. Suite" - love it!

I find 'Go Insane', 'I Want You', 'Slow Dancing', and 'Bang the Drum' to be EXCEPTIONAL Lindsey tracks! Other than that, though, the album really doesn't stick out to me. 'D.W. Suite' is a great track as well, maybe one of the most creative songs he's ever strung together.

Ooh I forgot about 'I Must Go', that song is great, too!

i have to listen again - can't remember but think it was dirty projectors. will let you know.

mumford and sons is some pretty mainstream stuff imo, at least what i've heard from them. i like them (btw, LB displaced them from being amazon's #1 dowload w/ his SWS for a day or two).

I tried listening to some song by Phoenix. I have no idea which one, it was whatever came up on Vevo... YIKES. Does their stuff even count as pop/rock/whatever? Sounded like some kind of electronic awful to me. :shrug:

Vampire Weekend is decent enough to be acceptable, but Phoenix? NO. :shocked:

Songs:
"I Want You" - I love this. Totally quirky, catchy, and fun.
"Go Insane" - Love of course.
"Slow Dancing" - I like the beat, the synthesizer (or whatever) parts, and the Spanish guitar.
"I Must Go" - See, I think this is great great work by LB... completely not what anyone would expect, but still melodic and fun to listen to!
"Play in the Rain" - part one isn't as good as
"Play in the Rain (Continued)" - Much better.
"Loving Cup" - I never liked this one as much. Not sure why.
"Bang the Drum" - love it!
"D.W. Suite" - love it!

If you like Go Insane, I can't imagine you not liking Phoenix. Try:

"1901"
"If I Ever Feel Better"
"Listomania"

Um... nope. Listomania is tolerable but not great. Can't stand the other two. :sorry:

I don't know if this helps at all, but I love Go Insane and dislike most of Tango...

And I go insane
 

Like I always do...

To this day, I listen to "go insane" and always hear something different, which is why it is,to this day, my favorite Buckingham record. I do adore it for...yep.. It's so unique.. And so Lindsey..

I'm really digging the new record, too. I do hear shades of Lindsey's past in "seeds we sow".. Why do you think he called it that.. My fave tracks are: stars are crazy, rock away blind, one take, when she comes down (love it), gone too far, that's the way love goes, and illumination.

I've been listening to Seeds We Sow non-stop since Tuesday..thanks Mr. Buckingham.. Excellent record that I'm proud to have in my collection. You made the mac family proud.

Am I the only one who cried upon first hearing I Must Go? :distress: :laugh: Probably.

I think it was because I had just finished Storms and was thinking about how CAH first describes hearing that song, and the whole album. And....I don't know that part just really stuck with me...sounds really lame....but it's true.

Even though I have yet to hear a lot of Lindsey's work, I think Go Insane will probably be my favorite because it was how I was introduced to his solo work.

I had the strangest reaction upon first hearing Go Insane. I ventured into Lindsey solo with Out Of The Cradle first. Honestly, how can anything follow that one? If I had to go back in time I would have started from the first and worked myself up, but it is what it is.:rolleyes:

Anyway, so when I played GI the first time I was just like, "WTF is this?" :eek: I really, really, really didn't like it. I actually made fun of it in my head because it sounded so mechanical and dated...and then I played it a second time, and a third, fourth, and fifth and then...

Bam. I just fell. It is so strange from going from one extreme to another but it soon became one of my most-played albums for like 6 months straight. Every play was a new uncovered nuance of beauty. I love the desperation in his voice on some songs, and the pain, as well as the blatant sexiness and the beauty. There's so many different presentations for each song.

The songs:

"I Want You"- When Lindsey says "I was someone hard to lose" and it goes into the music I just can't...it's the desperation I sort of hear/feel in the way he sings and the lyrics. The verses are crazy. And that's basically what draws me in...
"Go Insane"- Both versions do it for me, though the acoustic is where you feel the pain in the lyrics. But the album version is crazy fun and represents that side of Lindsey that makes him such a singular talent.
"Slow Dancing"- My favorite. Absolute perfection and I want it live.
"I Must Go"- Definitely one of my other favorites because it's got such a sadness, yet the music sort of masks it. I don't care I love the lyrics man. They are simple and say it all.
"Play in the Rain" - This and the one below don't hold me as much as the other songs but I still wouldn't kick them out of bed. ;)
"Play in the Rain (Continued)"
"Loving Cup"-HOT!!!! And I like it like that.
"Bang the Drum" - I don't play it as much and now hearing it again I feel like I never gave it it's due respect. I'm including it in a few new playlists to make up for it.
"D.W. Suite"- gorgeous, beautiful, awesome song is awesome. How perfect of an album closer can you get? Nothing more can I say.

I find it amazing that some peoples opinions on newer bands such as Phoenix, the Dirty Projectors, or The Editors is so negative, granted I'm in my 20's and have seen all of these bands live and own their records, but we are talking about the cream of the crop in terms of current music.
How on earth can you possibly like Lindsey new music and to a further extent Go Insane or L&O, and dislike that kind of music. Are you only enjoying Lindsey because you have followed him for a long time? Mentioning bands like REM as examples of bands you wish he listened to is scary. When Stevie mentions crap like Katy Perry and sings with **** like Taylor swift we have an issue. I'm honestly blown away by the distain for Phoenix, my god, they had the album of the year 2 years ago with Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.

Do you enjoy Tusk or only because it has the Fleetwood Mac brand attached to it?

:shrug: