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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I love this thread. I went back and I had a few comments but I never gave a list. I love when people stick to the intent of the thread. Many pages back people started giving their favorite stuff. Many unpopular opinions really were not unpopular. I am sticking to the script and here is my list. Get your tomatoes and tambourines ready to throw at me:


Say You Will is a great album

Stevie's Mirage songs are the best she has contributed other than Rumours
(notice 2 of them have no chorus just like the brilliant Sara)

Tusk and The Ledge are the worst songs on Tusk but Tusk still is a fine album

BTM has one of the best album covers in Fleetwood Mac history

The 1990 Farewell concert was better than the Dance

Street Angel and OSOTM are good albums

1991 Timespace versions of Rhiannon and Landslide are some of the best ever

Tango In The Night has the worst album cover in Fleetwood Mac history

Big Love is the worst single Fleetwood Mac ever released and is the only cheezy single they ever released.

Nights In Estoril made Time worth it and is one of Chris's best Fleetwood Mac songs

Stevie's backing vocals on Say You Love me and Go Your Own Way on the 1980 live album ruin both songs.

Oh Daddy is the best musical track the band created

Bella Donna is almost as good as Rumours

The Highwayman and Jane are fantastic songs and great album closers

Mystery To Me and Heroes Are Hard To Find are just as good as the White Album and Rumours

Lindsey is a really good singer

RAL is the worst album of any solo careers or group recordings

Only Over You is a fantastic song and one of the better songs on Mirage

World Turning is a great song but loses all of its magic in concert

Chris backing Lindsey on I'm So Afraid is better than Stevie

The 1980 Live album is one of the band's best releases

Lindsey's Oh Well is the best version of the song ever including Green

Bob Welch is responsible for making the band an American super group

Some of these are certainly hot takes, so I'll go through some of them. Gypsy is the only song of Stevie's Mirage material that I really enjoy. The country tinge to "That's Alright" is off-putting and "Straight Back" is a limper "Sisters of the Moon", the latter of which is one of Fleetwood Mac's best songs of all time. Tango in the Night happens to be one of my favorite album covers, so go figure. I don't strongly dislike the Behind the Mask cover art, although I wish it was more mask oriented, something along the lines of the single art found on "Save Me".

"Big Love" was an interesting choice as a first single, but there weren't really any clear candidates of his that would have worked (although I enjoy all of his songs on that album). "Nights in Estoril" seems to be largely adored by most people here and I also agree with that sentiment. As for the Live album, their performance of "Say You Love Me" in general doesn't translate super well. Buckingham's guitar is overly distorted and not in time during certain sections of the song and Nicks also doesn't blend super well. I don't have many problems with "Go Your Own Way". The instrumental recording of "Oh Daddy" is very good and features some of McVie's most tasteful keyboard playing. It's difficult to directly compare Mystery to Me & Heroes are Hard to Find to Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, although Mystery to Me is better than Fleetwood Mac at the very least. Mick Fleetwood's I'm Not Me is probably worse that Stevie's Rock a Little, although "I Want You Back" is still fantastic.