Caillat Gives Rumours Analysis, Track by Track

[Artemis]

This is the second time I've heard about broken glass in Gold Dust Woman (the first being Carol Anne's book) and I just... can't hear it at all =/

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by Artemis

This is the second time I've heard about broken glass in Gold Dust Woman (the first being Carol Anne's book) and I just... can't hear it at all =/

Really? I have just that sound as a track.

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by Artemis

This is the second time I've heard about broken glass in Gold Dust Woman (the first being Carol Anne's book) and I just... can't hear it at all =/

Except I strangely remember CAH saying it was Lindsey who was breaking the glass, not Mick, and this showed her how much of a GENIUS Linds was because the breaking glass just completely changed the whole song into a masterpiece! ;]

Originally Posted by madeline

I thought I had heard Stevie claim many times that they took the chorus for The Chain out of one of her songs that she had written. Now Ken is saying it was a Christine song. And that Lindsey rewrote the chorus. What is the actual truth on that? Does anyone else remember Stevie saying that?

Yeah, I am pretty sure Stevie was the main and possibly sole lyricist for The Chain.

"Lindsey wanted to finish the song himself so he didn't let me or anybody else help him and finally it just wasn't getting written so I had another song that I had written out of the BuckinghamNicks era that went with it perfect so I pretty much just gave them the song!"

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

Except I strangely remember CAH saying it was Lindsey who was breaking the glass, not Mick, and this showed her how much of a GENIUS Linds was because the breaking glass just completely changed the whole song into a masterpiece! ;]

She actually said it was Lindsey's idea but that Mick jumped at the idea to do it.

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

She actually said it was Lindsey's idea but that Mick jumped at the idea to do it.

And you know they probably spent two months using every type of glass known to man - coke bottles, Murano glass, wine goblets, test tubes, etc. - just to get that perfect glass-shattering sound. But then after someone spilled a bottle of Southern Comfort on the rmaster reel, they had to go back and re-record the glass again (because someone accidentally melted the safety reel while freebasing in the console).

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

Yeah, I am pretty sure Stevie was the main and possibly sole lyricist for The Chain.

Lindsey said that those were definitely Stevie's words. Although, she said he wrote a line. Dee was right about the line being "Listen to the wind blow." That's all she said he wrote. Stevie went on:

That’s it. I had wrote, “if you never love me now, you will never love me again” a year before for something else, but it had the same melody. Lindsey said “can we use it” and I said “well you realize in taking “if you don’t love me now” you are ruining my song cause you are taking the chorus out of it.” Well he didn’t care that much and that was my chain idea because I was the one that decided that this was a definite chain going on here. There was a reason that the links in this chain were holding together and it became a real theme song for Fleetwood Mac.”

Christine said:

The Chain started as the tail end of a jam and we did it all the wrong way round. We kept the end bit and added a new beginning. We used Stevie's lyrics, I created the chorus and Lindsey did the verses. I really don't know how it all came together.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Lindsey said that those were definitely Stevie's words. Although, she said he wrote a line. Dee was right about the line being "Listen to the wind blow." That's all she said he wrote. Stevie went on:




Christine said:

That's the one, Michele!

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by Artemis

This is the second time I've heard about broken glass in Gold Dust Woman (the first being Carol Anne's book) and I just... can't hear it at all =/

me either, Artemis.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

me either, Artemis.

Concerning the 'shattering glass' in GDW. If you are listening for the sound of breaking glass, you won't hear that. It's just a quick second of sound that almost sounds like someone stepping on and crunching glass underfoot.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Concerning the 'shattering glass' in GDW. If you are listening for the sound of breaking glass, you won't hear that. It's just a quick second of sound that almost sounds like someone stepping on and crunching glass underfoot.

I shall have to go back and listen yet again.

Seems like a LOT of time and money spent for no real appreciable gain. No wonder everyone says record companies wouldn't stand for that kind of excess these days.

[redtulip]

Concerning the 'shattering glass' in GDW. If you are listening for the sound of breaking glass, you won't hear that. It's just a quick second of sound that almost sounds like someone stepping on and crunching glass underfoot.

I am clearly able to hear the glass breaking starting just after 4:00 in the version of GDW on the 2009 Greatest Hits (Very Best of Fleetwood Mac). However, I can't hear it in the version on Rumours (Deluxe Edition), so they must have remixed or something for the Greatest Hits release. The Greatest Hits version is also 4 seconds longer.

*edit* I take that back, I can hear it on Rumours, but I had to turn the volume up and listen very carefully. It was much more pronounced on the Very Best of Fleetwood Mac.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by redtulip

I am clearly able to hear the glass breaking starting just after 4:00 in the version of GDW on the 2009 Greatest Hits (Very Best of Fleetwood Mac). However, I can't hear it in the version on Rumours (Deluxe Edition), so they must have remixed or something for the Greatest Hits release. The Greatest Hits version is also 4 seconds longer.

*edit* I take that back, I can hear it on Rumours, but I had to turn the volume up and listen very carefully. It was much more pronounced on the Very Best of Fleetwood Mac.

Aha! I can hear it now

This changed the whole song? Really, Carol Anne?

[Dodfather]

I think one of the best bits quirks on Rumours is when Lindsey drops the f-bomb at the start of You Make Lovin Fun! At least I think it's that one, I could be wrong. I haven't listened to it that closely in ages. I love the story behind it too, that just before starting to record someone dropped a lead on the floor and it made a noise.. what else would you say to that?!

[seekerj]

Originally Posted by Dodfather

I think one of the best bits quirks on Rumours is when Lindsey drops the f-bomb at the start of You Make Lovin Fun! At least I think it's that one, I could be wrong. I haven't listened to it that closely in ages. I love the story behind it too, that just before starting to record someone dropped a lead on the floor and it made a noise.. what else would you say to that?!

It's The Chain.

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

I shall have to go back and listen yet again.

Seems like a LOT of time and money spent for no real appreciable gain. No wonder everyone says record companies wouldn't stand for that kind of excess these days.

Yeah, that and the changing of Lindsey's guitar strings every 20 minutes during the all-day recording of NGBA. They burned up A LOT of studio time!