His favorite band

[Villavic]

It was a nice surprise to see Lindsey in the Beach Boys Disney documentary. And no surprise he is B.B. fan.

But I didn't think Mick's favorite band was and still is the Rolling Stones. Though I guess blues was influential in Stones early days, I thought he would mention a more bluesy band.

Cool selection of RS songs in this video.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/773540162115232

[Villavic]

By the way, this made me look for other members favorite band. I couldn't find any article about them explicitly mentioning it... except for Christine, where she said “I’m a big fan of Steely Dan; the Beach Boys; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. I like quite a broad range of people.”
“And my favourite… the Beatles, of course. Some of their songs move me to tears.”

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie once named her favourite band of all time

[FuzzyPlum]

Lindsey- The Kingston Trio, Brian Wilson, The Clash, Joni Mitchell
Stevie- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (of course), Janis Joplin, Eagles, anyone that’s currently in the zeitgeist
Christine- Steely Dan, Fats Domino, Paul McCartney
Mick- I guess The Rolling Stones makes sense
John- Probably more diverse the older he’s got, but probably any blues

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Lindsey- The Kingston Trio, Brian Wilson, The Clash, Joni Mitchell
Stevie- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (of course), Janis Joplin, Eagles, anyone that’s currently in the zeitgeist
Christine- Steely Dan, Fats Domino, Paul McCartney
Mick- I guess The Rolling Stones makes sense
John- Probably more diverse the older he’s got, but probably any blues

don't forget Stevie somewhere in recent years started saying that she was "Miss R&B" too.. she would listen to all sorts of R&B on the radio in the car with her parents and sing along She's also talked about really old school country and western music she was exposed to by her grandfather. And let's not forget the first song she and Lindsey ever sang together was California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas and that 60s folk harmony thing. She didn't really keep up with new stuff starting around the 90s and has talked about how she was listening to mostly old stuff but then had some younger friend/god daughters who put together playlists for her with new stuff so she wasn't stuck in the same rut.

Lindsey is a Beach Boys fan but yes that is mostly the genius of Brian Wilson. He's also talked about the 50s rock and roll e.g. Elvis etc he heard from his older brothers. He is also a huge fan of the Stones... inspiration for the drum sound he wanted on GYOW was Street Fighting Man by the Stones. And after his firing he compared his role in FM to Keith Richards in the Stones versus Stevie who he said was in the Mick Jagger role. The singer versus the guitar player and why would a band get rid of the most talented musician? He mentioned in the past that as they were working on Rumours he had been listening to the Bee Gees Jive Talking and the guitar at the very beginning and really inspired by the texture it gave the song and how they got that sound. He was def inspired by the new wave stuff like The Clash as mentioned and also Talking Heads.
He most recently on his socials said he was going back and listening to some old favorites and at that moment he'd been listening to Thin Lizzy. He's on record as being a fan of newer (to us oldies) bands like Vampire Weekend and others....So.. I think his tastes are pretty broad.

I would expect lots of the classic blues players for both Mick and John given how they started their careers and all through the early 70s

I recall Christine mentioning Steely Dan for sure and then of course all the blues greats Albert King, BB King, etc....not sure what contemporary stuff she liked though....

[WalkAThinLine.]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Lindsey- The Kingston Trio, Brian Wilson, The Clash, Joni Mitchell
Stevie- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (of course), Janis Joplin, Eagles, anyone that’s currently in the zeitgeist
Christine- Steely Dan, Fats Domino, Paul McCartney
Mick- I guess The Rolling Stones makes sense
John- Probably more diverse the older he’s got, but probably any blues

In his 2003 interview with Bill DeMain of Performing Songwriter, Lindsey mentioned the work of The Beach Boys, Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Laurie Anderson. He's also cited Anthem of the Sun and Vampire Weekend as some newer artists that he appreciates.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.

In his 2003 interview with Bill DeMain of Performing Songwriter, Lindsey mentioned the work of The Beach Boys, Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Laurie Anderson. He's also cited Anthem of the Sun and Vampire Weekend as some newer artists that he appreciates.

thank you for remembering this! It jogged my memory that he has also cited Kate Bush as a fave too

[Villavic]

About new/current music, in a 2014 Meet & Greet, Mick was asked about what current music he likes. He mentioned he listen Bruno Mars, and also Alanis Morrissette though he admitted she was not "new" but like anyway. Not that they were favorites, but he liked them.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

thank you for remembering this! It jogged my memory that he has also cited Kate Bush as a fave too

It warms my heart to learn that Lindsey appreciates Kate Bush. Ahhhh

[lbfan]

Not necessarily favorite “artist” rather favorite songs/music. This is from Amazon a long time ago.
Lindsey’s List:

1. Of all the artists who pioneered styles that would be built on by others, Chuck Berry is probably the most essential. His country/rhythm and blues hybrid was copied by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and countless others. Even punk could be said to be a restatement of Chuck Berry. One song that deviated from his usual tone and drew from the New Orleans sound was "You Never Can Tell" (from the album Definitive Collection), a marvel of light touch and Creole atmosphere down to the use of French in describing the marriage of a teenage Cajun couple.

2. Johnny Cash always cut across style lines. He was just Johnny Cash. Many of his greatest achievements were on Sun Records at the beginning--glorious conceptions of minimalism and slap echo performed with his band, the Tennessee Two. Yet it's a later song, after he signed with Columbia, that I always come back to. "Ring of Fire" (written by his wife June Carter, from the album The Legend of Johnny Cash), with its staggered time signatures and completely committed use of mariachi-style brass, could have been overly camp, but Cash's dominating authenticity and Carter's background vocals propel "Ring of Fire" to a magical place that, again, transcends categorization.

3. A great sense of possibility was ignited by rock and roll's impact on a mainstream audience. While pioneers such as Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis and their labels took a song-for-song approach based on the idiosyncrasies of their artists, some to follow would reverse that role, in an approach that was philosophically closer to Tin Pan Alley or the movie studios of decades earlier. Lieber and Stoller were a writing and production team known for sophisticated "adult" production, unsurpassed string and vocal arrangements, and sonic quality that was ten years ahead of its time. "Save the Last Dance for Me," by the Drifters (from the album The Very Best of The Drifters), is one of these quintessential efforts. It's also a song in which the meaning is greatly deepened by the knowledge that its writer, Doc Pomus, was in a wheelchair.

4. Another figure whose vision mattered more than the artists he produced was the great Phil Spector. His legendary "Wall of Sound," created by using multiples of instruments, was a blurring of the edges, a surreal soundscape that was still youthful, "teenage," like a symphonic garage band. One song I really love is "Walking in the Rain" by the Ronettes (from the album Best of The Ronettes). It's an unearthly ballad of great emotional and sonic range, and one that demonstrates the strange quality in much of Spector's work: the tension between heaviness and innocence.

5. I first became aware of Burt Bacharach as the writer of a song performed by Marty Robbins, a fairly straight ahead country shuffle. Within a few years, Bacharach had found his definitive style, using angular, surprising combinations of time signatures, chord shifts, and melodic range, all somehow still true to the sensibilities of rock. Burt Bacharach and Hal David are one of the greatest writing teams in popular music. Many of their best recordings were performed by Dionne Warwick, whose emotive, soulful vocal style was the perfect vehicle for their material. Particularly fine is "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (from the album Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits).

6. Jumping to the other extreme, one of the important subgenres in rock history is one that could be labeled "Dumb." From the beginning, an aspect of rock and roll's validity, its power to liberate, its point of departure, was the fact that it was heard differently, responded to differently, judged differently. It was about feel, not skill. Artists such as the Rolling Stones or Neil Young would have been much less without elements of "Dumb," but there were many other "garage" type bands who took this concept to its ultimate conclusion, certainly not as an intellectual choice. My favorite is the rock classic "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen (from the album Louie Louie / Very Best), with its unintelligible vocal and one of the great raw drum tracks in rock.

7. "I Want You," by Bob Dylan (from the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits), never fails to bring tears to my eyes. It seems to me to be a complete emotional picture of a young man, alienated and in need, cruel and tender, in the center of a world of pretense and hypocrisy--a world he'd wished for and helped create, but could not anticipate.

8. John Lennon's first solo album, "Plastic Ono Band," is one of the great albums of rock. In a masterstroke of raw minimalism, producer Phil Spector broke all his own rules to help Lennon define this psychologically charged work, which looks at the dynamics of family and how those dynamics are impacted by society. Though the album is generally up-tempo, reflecting his recent experiences with primal scream therapy, there are ballads as well. "Working Class Hero" is a powerful, haunting song that laments the cookie-cutter society imposed on us from a young age--a society that rock and roll has thumbed its nose at and offered escape from. Yet Lennon observes that even those escaping may yet find the same kind of tyranny in another form.

9. In the wake of Brian Wilson's failure to get his band to rally around "Smile," the Beach Boys were fragmented, losing momentum. The album "Surf's Up" (released on CD as Sunflower / Surf's Up) was inconsistent, and it felt as if Brian were on the verge of withdrawing and the others taking over. And yet, the title track, "Surf's Up," is a masterpiece, among a handful of Wilson's greatest efforts.

10. Joni Mitchell's genius was never more clear to me than on the album "Blue." She had left behind too optimistic a landscape for one a bit more ambivalent, but was still working with instrumental simplicity. The oneness, the personage that comes through on "A Case of You," for example, is stunning and completely moving.

11. The Clash was one of the greatest bands to come out of the new wave/punk scene. For me, at a time when the success of Fleetwood Mac had become at odds with taking creative risks, they were one of the groups that meant a great deal to me. "Train in Vain" (from the album London Calling) is a wonderful example of their simplicity and buoyancy.

12. Bruce Springsteen built an image on a kind of East Coast gypsy bravado, and much of the music, especially given the nature of his band, reflected that. Yet after a short marriage that quickly became a crisis of trust and identity, he pulled himself in, recorded an album virtually alone, and released "Tunnel of Love." The whole back half of "Tunnel of Love" [it was called Side Two when it was released] is a quiet, transcendent reflection. "Brilliant Disguise" is the defining song, and also the pivot with which Springsteen turns the mirror on himself.

13. Given its limited melodic and rhythmic range, rap has had an extraordinary run. Two things I can think of that have contributed to this are that it has trained people to pay more attention to the constructions of the tracks, where most of the melodic content is (creating a kind of inverted listening experience), and that it tends to be more connected to authenticity in a world increasingly resembling a house of mirrors. Eminem is an artist I like. His nasal, adolescent voice has an undertone of sweetness that deepens the feeling of his lyrics and is very musical with the tracks. "I Just Don't Give a F*ck" (from the album The Slim Shady LP) is a great example of his extreme musicality, to the point where it begins to transcend the genre.

14. Anything by Radiohead from "OK Computer" on (including Kid A, Hail To The Thief, and I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings).

[Macfan4life]

I never did get into the Beach Boys. I respect them for their different sound, harmonies and catchy pop songs. But both Chris and Lindsey have written songs about a member of the Beach Boys. Paul McCartney (who would have extreme standards) lists a Beach Boy album as the best album ever recorded. I just don't get it. Perhaps I need to be a better musician or something because the people that I love an respect treat the Beach Boys better than the Stones. Even when my favorite band did a cover of Farmer's Daughter its a snooze fest and can't believe they have wasted their time for such a song. Don't get me wrong, Dennis Wilson provided the inspiration for some of Chris's best songs. My brain does not register Beach Boys as great as my heroes say they are.
I love the Christine McVie story of her Beverly Hills home in the late 1970s blasting Steely Dan out by the pool area echoing in the canyons of Beverly Hills. Now THAT is a party I want to be at. Some Colombian Gold and some of her best wine talking to Chris and I'm a happy camper
Its so much more fun than staying up all night taking polaroid photos of Stevie in the john

[Penguin Emeritus]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

I recall Christine mentioning Steely Dan for sure and then of course all the blues greats Albert King, BB King, etc....not sure what contemporary stuff she liked though....

pretty sure i read somewhere that chris liked Prince...esp raspberry beret.

--Lis

[cbBen]

Sorry if this is duplication, but at 15:04 of the below-linked interview from 2012 Lindsey mentions some then-current bands to which he was listening:

Phoenix
Arcade Fire
Grizzly Bear
Vampire Weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXM_SjnfcE

[Street_Dreamer]

I wonder if Stevie ever introduced her dear friend Prince to Christine?

Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

pretty sure i read somewhere that chris liked Prince...esp raspberry beret.

--Lis

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Street_Dreamer

I wonder if Stevie ever introduced her dear friend Prince to Christine?

Is this the same Prince that told his people to, "keep that crazy bitch away from me?"

Yeah, I figured...

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I never did get into the Beach Boys. I respect them for their different sound, harmonies and catchy pop songs. But both Chris and Lindsey have written songs about a member of the Beach Boys. Paul McCartney (who would have extreme standards) lists a Beach Boy album as the best album ever recorded. I just don't get it. Perhaps I need to be a better musician or something because the people that I love an respect treat the Beach Boys better than the Stones. Even when my favorite band did a cover of Farmer's Daughter its a snooze fest and can't believe they have wasted their time for such a song. Don't get me wrong, Dennis Wilson provided the inspiration for some of Chris's best songs. My brain does not register Beach Boys as great as my heroes say they are.
I love the Christine McVie story of her Beverly Hills home in the late 1970s blasting Steely Dan out by the pool area echoing in the canyons of Beverly Hills. Now THAT is a party I want to be at. Some Colombian Gold and some of her best wine talking to Chris and I'm a happy camper
Its so much more fun than staying up all night taking polaroid photos of Stevie in the john

I’m with you. There’s something I find fascinating about that band- the people. But I don’t love their music. They didn’t produce too many great albums and those that are lauded….i don’t get it either. Listening to them beyond big hits really grates.