which IYD song should FM do live 2013?

[FierySequences]

Originally Posted by elle

not my favorite song but many seem to want to hear it.

and yes, so many other choices! like WATL and WMYTYTO!

(no reason to hear GI again when we can hear those gems we have either never heard or people maybe heard during one tour 30+ years ago).

elle, just one more reason for us to love you!

I agree, of course (on LB's rockin' tracks) WMYTYTH, Eyes, NTF, IKINW (which we already heard) But wouldn't LB throw the whole band for a loop if he bust into The Ledge one night? That would be nostalgic. Would love to see live.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by elle

everybody has a right to express their opinion, and we are all more-less subjective in our tastes.

although i do understand the urge to say something like you just did, of course. i feel like making that kind of remark a lot when reading some of the stuff here - including when you question lauding SWS

Oh, I don't disagree. But I thought I'd offer another perspective on the "terrible album" opinion.

Although, frankly, I don't think 'SWS' is a terrible album. There's a few really good songs on it. I just think Lindsey's been stuck in a major rut (ever since the acoustic "Big Love" garnered him so many accolades 16 years ago).

Stevie once said that if you told Lindsey something he was working on sounded like a previous song, he'd scrap it and go in a completely different direction. I wish he'd recapture that spirit. I miss the days when every album of his material sounded different than the album prior.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by redtulip

Can I get an option for none because these all suck.

Why do they suck? Fans really should take the time to articulate their opinions -- at least beyond "it's terrible," or "it sucks." Well-rounded criticism is a good thing. It illuminates the subject and enlightens the reader. We can have differing opinions while respecting each others viewpoint. But when you say something "sucks," that doesn't tell us anything. Well, at least not about the album.

[redtulip]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Why do they suck? Fans really should take the time to articulate their opinions -- at least beyond "it's terrible," or "it sucks." Well-rounded criticism is a good thing. It illuminates the subject and enlightens the reader. We can have differing opinions while respecting each others viewpoint. But when you say something "sucks," that doesn't tell us anything. Well, at least not about the album.

I can't really give you anything more concrete than I just can't get into them and I don't enjoy them.

[elle]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Oh, I don't disagree. But I thought I'd offer another perspective on the "terrible album" opinion.

Although, frankly, I don't think 'SWS' is a terrible album. There's a few really good songs on it. I just think Lindsey's been stuck in a major rut (ever since the acoustic "Big Love" garnered him so many accolades 16 years ago).

see i'm confused when you say that about SWS. i would understand if you said that about UTS which was acoustically (and LB himself said) majorly built on that acoustic BL / GI sound. it's also the album that brought him probably the most critical accolades (although he always gets them anyway).

i can agree that SWS is more of what we are used to hearing from Lindsey - but what we are used to are songs in 6 different styles!! how many artists or bands do that? most bands have one style only and milk it forever. LB has developed several distinctly his styles, including that acoustic BL/GI sound, and baroque-ish guitar sound like in SAC, and TPT, and SWS, and breezy perfect little pop songs with heavy words, and heavily rocking guitar-based songs, and 1000-layers songs like When She Comes Down... and than there's "rapping" on One Take (did he ever do that before?), and songs with signature electric guitar solo mostly during outros. so if he "in a rut" , there's no reason for him to invent yet another style - he is making new music in his own style, which encompasses at least 6 different styles.

[redtulip]

Originally Posted by elle

see i'm confused when you say that about SWS. i would understand if you said that about UTS which was acoustically (and LB himself said) majorly built on that acoustic BL / GI sound. it's also the album that brought him probably the most critical accolades (although he always gets them anyway).

i can agree that SWS is more of what we are used to hearing from Lindsey - but what we are used to are songs in 6 different styles!! how many artists or bands do that? most bands have one style only and milk it forever. LB has developed several distinctly his styles, including that acoustic BL/GI sound, and baroque-ish guitar sound like in SAC, and TPT, and SWS, and breezy perfect little pop songs with heavy words, and heavily rocking guitar-based songs, and 1000-layers songs like When She Comes Down... and than there's "rapping" on One Take (did he ever do that before?), and songs with signature electric guitar solo mostly during outros. so if he "in a rut" , there's no reason for him to invent yet another style - he is making new music in his own style, which encompasses at least 6 different styles.

Yeah, what she said! SWS was perfection from start to finish.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by elle

... and than there's "rapping" on One Take (did he ever do that before?),

You know I heard he invented rap.

[louielouie2000]

I still don't get why Stevie is digging in her heels so much in regards to recording a new Mac album after her self proclaimed amazing experience recording Soldier's Angel with Lindsey. If there is an In Your Dreams so performed by Fleetwood Mac, it will no doubt be that one. However, I just don't see that happening. I don't see Lindsey performing a Seeds We Sow song either. They've got new material to push with these freshly recorded Mac songs. Seeds We Sow & In Your Dreams have run their respective courses.

[elle]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

You know I heard he invented rap.

don't believe everything people tell ya

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by elle

see i'm confused when you say that about SWS. i would understand if you said that about UTS which was acoustically (and LB himself said) majorly built on that acoustic BL / GI sound. it's also the album that brought him probably the most critical accolades (although he always gets them anyway).

i can agree that SWS is more of what we are used to hearing from Lindsey - but what we are used to are songs in 6 different styles!! how many artists or bands do that?

For me, 'Seeds We Sow' is largely interchangeable with 'Gift Of Screws,' and both albums heavily feature songs that could have easily been included on 'Under The Skin' (for example: "Time Precious Time," "Bel Air Rain," "Treason," "Seeds We Sow," "Stars Are Crazy," "Rock Away Blind") -- and which are direct descendents of the acoustic "Big Love" and "Go Insane."

So, yes, when people fall all over 'Seeds We Sow' as if it's a revelation, I find myself scratching my head.

Mind you, I don't feel that any one of his three recent albums is bad (although 'UTS' is certainly my least favorite), but they each have an "already heard it" quality. That was never true of Lindsey's music in the past, and I don't feel as though he's been living up to that "visionary" label lately.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by elle

don't believe everything people tell ya

Ha. Didn't say I believed it.

[johnnystorms]

You Might Be the One will give the blues in Mick and John a chance to re-surface.. it would be an EXCELLENT addition to the set

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

i can agree that SWS is more of what we are used to hearing from Lindsey - but what we are used to are songs in 6 different styles!!

I think SWS is similar to GOS, but I think both albums are a complete departure from UTS.

Michele

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

I don't want him to, I just have a feeling it will still be in the set. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

I think Lindsey is over having Go Insane in an FM set. I don't see that as a given at all. Michele

[rhiannondontgo]

Please no Soldier's Angel. I know i'll get b*tched at for this, but I just could never get into that song. Had to hear it live twice already at the IYD shows I went to. If they do an IYD song, I'd love YMBTO or FWIW.