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Originally Posted by elle
but then you can argue that Chris or Linds solo songs would be out for obvious reasons too.
as a Lindsey fan, there was almost nothing on those two lists that i would love to hear. same as there was almost no LB songs on the last FM tour that i really wanted to hear, other than BTLH and IKINW. but i loved hearing a number of Chris songs.
i can understand that because they were written by Chris fans, and that's fine. i'm just always shocked how un-interesting any Lindsey songs proposed are to me. people propose Trouble (which i can't stand) and Blue Letter a lot. i just don't get that and the only way i can justify it is that people are completely unfamiliar with LB solo output after his first 2 albums. and his solo output just got better, not worse.
now, my lists usually do not have hits, and if you wanna throw in dose of realism and dose of hits and dose of what LB and CM would actually select, my lists would look very different. but there's no reason for me to tell LB to do BL or ISA or GYOW. you know he'll do it every. single. time. so i don't like to waste space on those, but i agree that more realistic lists would need to have some hits.
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I guess I'm not entirely basing it on what I would ultimately personally like but more considering a good all-round show. As two artists in their own right it would make sense to play a number of their own solo songs. As they'd need to be mindful of the non-CM fans and the non-LB fans they'd best stick to the higher profile numbers- hence Lindsey playing the likes of Countdown, Trouble, Go Insane, Holiday Road etc. It would then be a good opportunity to have some fun and play some of the more obscure Fleetwood Mac songs that don't tend to get played as part of the 'Big Machine'. The ones noted are largely those they've either written together or have prominent vocals together. The reason I say Say You Will songs would be out is because there's no connection between the two of them on those songs. When you have all that material they worked together on as part of the band it wouldn't really make much sense to play anything/much from albums they didn't both play on. Adding a couple of higher profile FM hits would finish the show off on a high.
By doing that you'd cater to a wide range; CM fans, LB fans, casual FM fans, hard-core FM fans.
And yes, of course they should also play a load of their new material in there somewhere as well
as if it would happen!