Setlist spoiler alert...

[mtkad]

Seven Wonders hmmm, unless Stevie's willing to take a few vocal leaps, seeing as she has less vocals to do this tour due to Christine, i'm not so sure about it. Might be another "lower harmony" snoozefest. Not a huge fan of what she's doing with Sisters these days to be honest. I'd personally prefer she drop a key or 2 to sing the solo like the record. Kinda like Lindsey does.

Besides that it looks pretty exciting, Blue Letter, Hold Me wow! Anxiously awaiting youtube clips Wednesday morning, and a potential UK tour!

[WatchChain]

Being that we're only 5 days from opening night, I'm taking this set list as true. I must say that I'm extremely happy and I'll take it!! "Hold Me" last made an appearance in a Fleetwood Mac set 32 years ago and "Seven Wonders" last walked across a FM stage 27 years ago----Moreover, both songs were only performed on ONE TOUR and never repeated......JOY !!!! It was time to dust these off and bring them to life again.

QUESTION: How will Stevie's harmonies sound on "HOLD ME"---will she attempt it, or just stand by the drum kit and shake a ribbon covered tambourine while Sharona and Lori do all the work? PLEASE PLEASE let us hear STEVIE'S raspy low register "SHA-LA-LA's" on "Brown Eyes".

[bethelblues]

I can't wait to hear how they sound on the Little Lies chorus. I just hope Lindsey doesn't ham it up, his "Tell me, tell me lies." I guess I have his version of Say You Love Me still in my head. Billy Burnette did a pretty good job for their live version in 1987.

[Wdm6789]

I hope they keep the back up singer usage to a minimum.

I wonder how Lindsey and Christine will sound together on Hold Me. If it is really on the set, then that's really awesome. Hold Me is my favorite song of all time. I never thought I would ever see it performed live.

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by mtkad

Seven Wonders hmmm, unless Stevie's willing to take a few vocal leaps, seeing as she has less vocals to do this tour due to Christine, i'm not so sure about it. Might be another "lower harmony" snoozefest. Not a huge fan of what she's doing with Sisters these days to be honest. I'd personally prefer she drop a key or 2 to sing the solo like the record. Kinda like Lindsey does.

Besides that it looks pretty exciting, Blue Letter, Hold Me wow! Anxiously awaiting youtube clips Wednesday morning, and a potential UK tour!

If they arrange Seven Wonders like they did in '87, I think it could sound great - even then, Stevie lowered most of her vocals, but I think it worked well.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by chiliD

If they'd gone the "let's recreate Rumours" route, I'm pretty sure that "Silver Springs" might've been used for the next album...but, because they were doing the "ANTI-Rumours" album, it was left on the backburner. Plus, as with most songwriters, whatever they've just written is better than what they had leftover, so she wanted her latest songs on the next album rather than a retread (read: reject) from the previous album.



Other than not having anything from prior to '75 (only one that I'm missing is "Oh Well"...even though I hate the way Lindsey does it, I'd still rather it be IN the set rather than not) or anything new (why they can't fit ONE of the new Christine/Lindsey songs in the set is just a shame), I think it's a pretty good set list. Granted I've heard them all before (most many times)...so nothing new. Most likely will NOT be going (that is, unless I happen to win tickets from a radio station giveaway). But, I'll download a decently recorded bootleg from the tour (or buy the live album from the tour, should they record & release one later on).

Yeah, I'm just going off their current standards. If I had my old standards, this would really irritate me.

[elle]

Originally Posted by StevieNicksfann

Everywhere is a hit - has to stay
Seven Wonders is a hit - has to stay
Silver Springs is a hit for all intents and purposes- has to stay

My fave Stevie song is Stand Back so I literally can not believe I'm saything this but I would drop it for Gypsy which is a hit and has to stay

I also love Sisters but Sara is a hit and has to stay

I'm fine tho with a deep cut from Christine so I guess Brown Eyes is fine but I really would prefer Think About Me or Love In Store or Over My Head.

Replace Blue Letter with Monday Morning or Bleed To Love Her and I'm good.

Now the NEXT tour supporting the new album can drop as many hits as they want and put back deep cuts or Sisters and Stand Back etc then. But this tour should be celebrating the hits from this line up. This is what my family and I imagine, 95% of the audiencea expect.

it's funny how everyone has their own picks which songs are "hits" that now somehow need to stay in the "hit set" even though we all were saying before the tour that we wanted just deep cuts and that we heard most hits - other than Christine's - way too many times.

for comparison to everybody's hit lists and just to show how they might be different for everybody and general buying public, here's current FM top 20 songs from itunes, whether or not some or other fan think which is or is not a hit (i always have to laugh for example when big FM fans say the chain or gold dust woman or second hand news are not hits - they may have not been singles but they had HUGE staying radio power!):

1 Go Your Own Way
2 Dreams
3 Landslide
4 Don't Stop
5 The Chain
6 Rhiannon
7 Little Lies
8 Never Going Back Again
9 Second Hand News
10 Say You Love Me
11 Gypsy
12 Gold Dust Woman
13 You Make Loving Fun
14 Everywhere
15 Seven Wonders
16 I Don't Want To Know
17 Songbird
18 Everywhere
19 Tusk
20 Hold Me


just noticed that incidentally, no Sara on that top 20 itunes list!

[elle]

Originally Posted by elle

1 Go Your Own Way
2 Dreams
3 Landslide
4 Don't Stop
5 The Chain
6 Rhiannon
7 Little Lies
8 Never Going Back Again
9 Second Hand News
10 Say You Love Me
11 Gypsy
12 Gold Dust Woman
13 You Make Loving Fun
14 Everywhere
15 Seven Wonders
16 I Don't Want To Know
17 Songbird
18 Everywhere
19 Tusk
20 Hold Me

oops, 2 versions of everywhere somehow sneak up on the list...

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by elle

oops, 2 versions of everywhere somehow sneak up on the list...

Very interesting! It makes one wonder whether the band simply pulls up the iTunes and Billboard charts each time they put together a setlist.

[bethelblues]

Stevie must really hate I Don't Want to Know.

For those mentioning Stevie's vocals and how she'll sing (or not sing) Seven Wonders): We still don't know how Christine will sound. Will her songs be lowered too? Does she still have "it"?

[Wdm6789]

Originally Posted by elle

it's funny how everyone has their own picks which songs are "hits" that now somehow need to stay in the "hit set" even though we all were saying before the tour that we wanted just deep cuts and that we heard most hits - other than Christine's - way too many times.

for comparison to everybody's hit lists and just to show how they might be different for everybody and general buying public, here's current FM top 20 songs from itunes, whether or not some or other fan think which is or is not a hit (i always have to laugh for example when big FM fans say the chain or gold dust woman or second hand news are not hits - they may have not been singles but they had HUGE staying radio power!):

1 Go Your Own Way
2 Dreams
3 Landslide
4 Don't Stop
5 The Chain
6 Rhiannon
7 Little Lies
8 Never Going Back Again
9 Second Hand News
10 Say You Love Me
11 Gypsy
12 Gold Dust Woman
13 You Make Loving Fun
14 Everywhere
15 Seven Wonders
16 I Don't Want To Know
17 Songbird
18 Everywhere
19 Tusk
20 Hold Me


just noticed that incidentally, no Sara on that top 20 itunes list!

Sara should still be in the Set.

Also, my eyes suck and I kept trying to count the songs on the newest spoiler set list today. I counted 26. Did everyone else get 26?

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by WatchChain

Being that we're only 5 days from opening night, I'm taking this set list as true. I must say that I'm extremely happy and I'll take it!! "Hold Me" last made an appearance in a Fleetwood Mac set 32 years ago and "Seven Wonders" last walked across a FM stage 27 years ago----Moreover, both songs were only performed on ONE TOUR and never repeated......JOY !!!! It was time to dust these off and bring them to life again.

Thank you. After so much complaining about stale FM set lists, I thought there would be more joy, and less skepticism, about the inclusion of 7W.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by elle

for comparison to everybody's hit lists and just to show how they might be different for everybody and general buying public, here's current FM top 20 songs from itunes, whether or not some or other fan think which is or is not a hit (i always have to laugh for example when big FM fans say the chain or gold dust woman or second hand news are not hits - they may have not been singles but they had HUGE staying radio power!):

The music industry standard for recognizing a band's "hits" is not based on the iTunes chart, but the Billboard Hot 100.

iTunes is not an accurate gauge of a "hit," because Apple only tracks purchases made through its own service -- nowhere else. Billboard factors together commercial sales, radio airplay, and digital downloads (including Amazon.com's digital sales).

As such, these are Fleetwood Mac's "hit singles" in the USA, and anything else is simply a "radio favorite" or "fan favorite":

Over My Head #20
Rhiannon #11
Say You Love Me #11
Go Your Own Way #10
Dreams #1
Don't Stop #3
You Make Loving Fun #9
Tusk #8
Sara #7
Think About Me #20
Sisters Of The Moon #86
Fireflies #60
Hold Me #4
Gypsy #12
Love In Store #22
Big Love #5
Seven Wonders #19
Little Lies #4
Everywhere #14
Family Man #90
As Long As You Follow #43
Save Me #33
Landslide #51
Peacekeeper #80

[PenguinHead]

I made up my mind to be satisfied with whatever they settle on for a set list.

There are lot of hopes and personal expectations, but I feel no empathy for fans already anticipating they will bummed out if this or that song isn't in the set. It's an impossibility for the band to fulfill everyone's wishes. They would have to perform a four hour set! They are not Bruce Springsteen.

My positives:

Christine is back.

You Make Loving Fun following The Chain is the perfect transition to Dreams. Great call to whoever thought of it. Dreams was always an abrupt energy buzz kill after the build up of The Chain.

If we live to hear the Seven Wonders, I'm not going to compare Stevie's vocal to the original recording, which I always found to be a cocaine-induced shrill in the verses. If anything, I bet I will enjoy the song more with her voice as it is now.

They are essentially performing the entire Rumours album, sans the perpetually ignored I Don't Want to Know. Usually I would complain about that, but this may likely be their last tour together. So it not only placates the mass of causal fans, it honors one their most lauded albums,one that will always keep close company among the highest esteemed albums of all time.

It will be the first time Little Lies will be performed live with Lindsey in the band. And if it's true, I welcome the return of Hold Me. Strange that it was a big hit, yet a one tour song, appearing again only on Christine's solo tour.

I like the four block set of Tusk songs. I'm unclear if Stand Back will be back. I read (something about someone in the band being upset) that a particular song was cut from the set. (Gee...I wonder whose song that could be?)

It would be nice if they were a little loose and swapped different songs and varied the set during the tour, but they are not that kind of band. Aside from a few adjustments early on, their set list is set in stone.

[jbrownsjr]

IDWK would be an awesome opener... then into the Chain.. and YMLF...