'Lindsey's Favourite Songs' article in Qld newspaper

[DownOnRodeo]

This is my first article transcription and I suck at typing so be kind.

This small article came with the SYW promo photo we've all seen a dozen times with Lindsey holding his hand really bizzarely and them all standing in an archway of the exterior of a meditarreanean-style house.

This Lindsey article appeared at the bottom of a full-page feature article about Stevie.

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The Sunday Mail (Qld, Australia), Feb 8 2004

Lindsey's top Mac tracks

By RITCHIE YORKE


Fleetwood Mac guitarist and producer Lindsey Buckingham finds it a simple task to name the half-dozen or so tracks he views most fondly from the band's catalogue.

"From the current album, Say You Will, I'd name Red Rover, which is very much about a simple guitar part doing the work of the whole rhythm track to a great degree. That's the kind of thing that interests me at the moment," says Buckingham.

"Then we can backtrack to Big Love, which was on the Tango in the Night album. Again, it's a single guitar doing a lot of work.

"When I originally wrote it, it was a song about this lonely guy living on a hill in Bel Air in los Angeles. And right now, I'm still living on that same hill but in a new house with a beautiful family. So the song's taken on a bit of irony now."

Buckingham, whose history with mac singer Stevie Nicks extends back to a late-60s San Francisco acid-rock band called Fritz and a romantic involvement in the 70s, cites Gypsy, from the album Mirage, as the best song he produced for her.

"I think it's the best thing we ever did together as a team.

"Obviously I'm going to favour guitar songs in any list that I come up with. I especially like Never Going Back Again (from Rumours) with its sentiment of moving forward, of having been hurt but being resiliatn. Again, there's an irony there.

"Everytime you're in a happy state, you kind of have the illusion that you're never going to be hurt again.

"I'd probably have to name Go Your Own Way. It's something that I'm proud of, something that fell together properly.

"It's so hard picking out the best of Stevei's songs. I love a tune we're doing now from Tusk called beautiful Child, written by Stevie.

"And Tusk itself means a lot to me. It was the flagship song of the turn we took at that time. It represents a kind of symbolism to me."