What’s the best song post ‘87?

[FuzzyPlum]

I’m sure there’s already a thread or poll about this somewhere….Oh Well…
What’s the best Fleetwood Mac song released after Tango?

[FuzzyPlum]

1. As Long As You Follow
2. Bleed To Love Her
3. Sad Angel

[Villavic]

As Long As You Follow.

Now if I had to choose one song per singer, I'd add Bleed To Love Her, and Sweet Girl. Technically I can't say if they are the "best", but those are the ones I like the most.

[HomerMcvie]

Either As Long As You Follow, or Love Shines.

[aleuzzi]

Most of my contenders are Christine’s:

Love Shines
Heart of Stone
Sooner or Later
Temporary One (sorry, John B)

But then there’s:

Taking to My Heart
Nothing Without You
Got It In for You

[WalkAThinLine.]

I would probably rank "Love Shines", "Everybody Finds Out", and "Red Rover" as their best work post Tango in the Night. Of their three most recent studio albums, Say You Will definitely has their most adventurous music. Outside their material on The Dance, the band's songs beyond 1987 have not been heralded as "classics", but several are worthy of more exposure to casual fans.

[Mr Scarrott]

Smile at you, Say Goodbye and All over again.

No-one else has gone for any of those, which is interesting. I suppose. I suppose Smile at you wasn't exactly a post-Tango song in terms of composition, but I love the atmosphere created by the SYW version of it.

[cbBen]

studio: "Steal Your Heart Away"
live: "Say Goodbye" from LB's Soundstage appearance

[Macfan4life]

Nicks: Everybody Finds Out
McVie: Nights in Estoril
Buckingham/McVie: Too Far Gone

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by cbBen

live: "Say Goodbye" from LB's Soundstage appearance

Oh yes that's a favorite of mine. By far much better than the studio version.

[FuzzyPlum]

By writer:

As Long As You Follow, Love Shines
Bleed to Love Her, Sad Angel
Thrown Down, Everybody Finds Out

Best of the rest….er….In The Back of My Mind

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.

I would probably rank "Love Shines", "Everybody Finds Out", and "Red Rover" as their best work post Tango in the Night. Of their three most recent studio albums, Say You Will definitely has their most adventurous music. Outside their material on The Dance, the band's songs beyond 1987 have not been heralded as "classics", but several are worthy of more exposure to casual fans.

I forgot about the Say You Will album!

The two songs you mention from it, and “Say Goodbye,” are my favorites. “Throw Down” runs a close fourth…and I actually love “Illume.” It captures the paranoia of the time very well.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

I forgot about the Say You Will album!

And do you have any idea why?

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

I forgot about the Say You Will album!

The two songs you mention from it, and “Say Goodbye,” are my favorites. “Throw Down” runs a close fourth…and I actually love “Illume.” It captures the paranoia of the time very well.

OMG Yes. Its so rare to find someone else that appreciates Illume. Its all Lindsey. How do turn a poem about a horrific tragedy into music and song. How could you even begin to put it to music? I would use anger instead of paranoia but it has that vibe. It could fit on Law and Order or Tusk. The criticisms of the song on this board over the years make me go insane......"you cant sing to it" "It has no chorus" "It makes no sense"
Not all music is supposed to be fun pop verse, chorus, repeat. Sometimes like album covers music is made to make you think. Stevie was so masterful in describing her personal experience at a NYC hotel during 9/11. Like all poetry there are metaphors and indirect words, phrases, etc. I really appreciate Lindsey's craft of this song. The song puts you at unease and takes you down a path of uncertainty. That's the entire point of the song. I think the unease and uncertainty the song projects turns people off. When the band went on stage in NYC on the SYW tour they should have played it. People really expected a sing along chorus to 9/11 or a get up and dance number? I don't get it.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

OMG Yes. Its so rare to find someone else that appreciates Illume. Its all Lindsey. How do turn a poem about a horrific tragedy into music and song. How could you even begin to put it to music? I would use anger instead of paranoia but it has that vibe. It could fit on Law and Order or Tusk. The criticisms of the song on this board over the years make me go insane......"you cant sing to it" "It has no chorus" "It makes no sense"
Not all music is supposed to be fun pop verse, chorus, repeat. Sometimes like album covers music is made to make you think. Stevie was so masterful in describing her personal experience at a NYC hotel during 9/11. Like all poetry there are metaphors and indirect words, phrases, etc. I really appreciate Lindsey's craft of this song. The song puts you at unease and takes you down a path of uncertainty. That's the entire point of the song. I think the unease and uncertainty the song projects turns people off. When the band went on stage in NYC on the SYW tour they should have played it. People really expected a sing along chorus to 9/11 or a get up and dance number? I don't get it.

Since english is not my native language, sometimes I have a hard time understanding the lyrics. So the music it's the first thing I like in a song. There are singers easy to understand their lyrics. Christine is one of them. Some songs of Lindsey. Of all, Carpenters are the easiest to understand. But MJ and Elton are very difficult to me. Usually soft slow songs are easier but it is not an exact rule.

So as with other songs, the melody was the first thing I paid attention with "Illume (9-11)". It's not of a fave of mine, but yes after learning the lyrics, I liked more. I didn't like it that much probably because Stevie's voice at that time, and too much percussion for the song topic, IMHO. I thought then, what if she had sung it and the arrangements were more like Landslide, I think it would be more emotional. And if she had her 1975 voice, well, much more so.

If they had sung it live, I would have liked it to be more like when Lindsey played Say Goodbye at his Soundstage concert. It is much more moving.