New Fleetwood Mac tribute album to be released September 14

[UndoingTheLaces]

Originally Posted by Christopher

NPR's All Songs Considered is streaming Best Coasts cover of "Rhiannon"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/20...?sc=tw&cc=twmp

"Best Coast covers Fleetwood Mac's 1975 smash "Rhiannon" on a forthcoming tribute album — a task which clearly requires quite a bit of reverence, to the point where singer Bethany Cosentino even channels Stevie Nicks' warbling rasp. And, while the song's familiar guitar line is replaced with a dramatically simplified piano melody, the result captures the melancholic yearning of "Rhiannon" — its mystical side, its understanding of unattainable love — without losing the beach-bound giddiness of Best Coast's simple, shiny sound. (Which should come as no surprise: Few albums this year mix shininess with melancholy quite like Best Coast's The Only Place.)

Best Coast's "Rhiannon" cover will appear on Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac, out August 14. The New Pornographers' version of "Think About Me" is already kicking around, while other album participants include Antony Hegarty, MGMT, Marianne Faithfull, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, St. Vincent, Lykke Li, The Kills and many others."

I like this a lot but I'm surprised on the few covers of Rhiannon I've heard over the years that nobody seems to venture into the uncharted territory of the live versions or the piano demo. It would be really cool to hear a punk band do it in the style of the Buckingham Nicks live performances. Or maybe a goth band start out with the piano demo and move into the wild ferocity of the Rosebud live version. There's so many great versions to be inspired by but when the let it fade at "dreams unwind" it always makes me wish there was more.

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by UndoingTheLaces

I like this a lot but I'm surprised on the few covers of Rhiannon I've heard over the years that nobody seems to venture into the uncharted territory of the live versions or the piano demo. It would be really cool to hear a punk band do it in the style of the Buckingham Nicks live performances. Or maybe a goth band start out with the piano demo and move into the wild ferocity of the Rosebud live version. There's so many great versions to be inspired by but when the let it fade at "dreams unwind" it always makes me wish there was more.

Obviously I'm completely insignificant, but the few times I've played Rhiannon at coffee houses and such I've done it acoustically but I went the whole way through, down to every last "all the same" lmao.

[tothegypsy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxnF...layer_embedded

I love Antony, and this version is quite nice, but I'm surprised how faithful he was to Stevie's rendition.

[Bryan]

The more tracks I hear from this "tribute" album the more of a travesty it appears to be. YIKES. Just a load of the trendiest "cool" artists trying to say heyy dudes FM was a total inspiration to us.I bet ya half 'em never listened to an entire Mac album in their lives

[shackin'up]

This tribute is one of the coolest things FM could hope for. It's real impressive list of indie artists from today and long ago. I'm totally psyched about Gibbons deconstruction of Oh Well, brilliant, The New Pornographers captured the soul of Think About Me in an impressive way, so did Lykke Li, and I'm touched by Antony's Landslide. But who's not touched by Antony and the Johnsons. MGMT really freaks out ( I love that!). I'm looking forward to hear Tame Impala, who I like very much just as Bonnie Prince Billy and my old heroes Ranaldo from Sonic Youth and J. Mascis from Dinosuar Jr.

This is a very deep bow to FM's history, all their innovative era's are represented, by a string of very influencial indie-acts. This is what I call a tribute.

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

This is a very deep bow to FM's history, all their innovative era's are represented, by a string of very influencial indie-acts. This is what I call a tribute.

*rechecks artists on tribute album* ... *scratches head in confusion*

lololololololol

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by Bryan

*rechecks artists on tribute album* ... *scratches head in confusion*

lololololololol

If you don't see that Marianne faithful, Dinosaur JR, Sonic youth, MGMT, Antony and the Johnsons, Bonnie prince billy (Will oldham, palace brothers) and Billy gibbons are influencial indie acts, you simply don't know what influencial indie- acts are.