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Originally posted by chiliD
(I don't recall "Everywhere" being a hit, though):
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Wow it was here! I can, quite safely, say that Tango In The Night was the most famous Fleetwood Mac album around these parts of the world, and that "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" are the most played Fleetwood Mac songs in the radio stations here. "You Make Loving Fun" and "Hold Me" are the other two... who wrote them? Oh yes, Christine!
We get "Go Your Own Way" only when it's Lindsey's birthday or something, and sometimes "Dreams" or "Sara". And that would be about it.
I think Christine's hitmaking abbility is unquestionable, and that without her Fleetwood Mac has lost a lot of the chemistry and perfect interaction they used to have as a band whilst she was there. There's always a "break" needed in the concerts and in the albums and she provided that. Plus her voice would have make some harmonies in the new album sound like gold. This album left some space for STEVIE songs (I seem to recall that Lindsey had already have 9 songs per album - Tusk anyone?), and she even tried to write a Christine-like potential "hit", the title track, which of course hasn't worked these days. I miss Christine, I think Fleetwood Mac is not the same without her and I think the best years of Fleetwood Mac are related to her (whether Stevie or Lindsey were involved or not, it's actually not rellevant in the case of her songs - in terms of quality she had good songs in both periods), but I don't want to see her coming back to Fleetwood Mac since it's now transformed into something like Lindsey Buckingham's Fleetwood Mac Featuring Stevie Nicks (Sometimes Only) and I wouldn't like her to be a part of that. Of course that works, and the sound is great, and the album is good, but this is Fleetwood Mac minus Christine McVie. And, to me, that is not the Fleetwood Mac that I knew and loved.
Of course I accept that some people actually like the idea of a Lindsey Buckingham's Fleetwood Mac... if we get good music from that (as we are getting), good anyway. As wondergirl wrote, there are Fleetwood Mac albums for anyone in here... and that's why I stopped crying about Christine's absence in Fleetwood Mac awhile ago, and also, as I stated before, I wouldn't want her back on the band.
Song of the moment - Hold Me