Most Underrated & Overrated Mac Songs

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by KenshiMaster16

- Most underrated? A lot of people I know always forget about As Long As You Follow and I think it's a gem of a tune.

oooooh that's a good one!

[bombaysaffires]

most overrated: Love in Store... zzzzzzz. Dirge. long gaps between interesting bits.

Blue Letter.

I'm So Afraid. Compelling live, but the lyrics.. oy. THey're like bad Stevie lyrics.


Most underrated:
Sugar Daddy. Great story, fun piano riff. Not her best vocal maybe but still.

Think About Me. For the reasons others have said. Should have been a better single.

Tango in the Night. epic. Love most of his stuff on Tango. [His Mirage stuff not so much.]

Not That Funny.

[elle]

most overrated: Sara

most underrated - majority of Tusk and many SYW songs.

[On Ice]

Going back a little further into Mac history.

Most underrated: Danny Kirwan's contribution to the Fleetwood Mac sound. His amazing guitar playing, arrangements and singing, is tragically over looked by both fans and the band alike. Top Song Pick: Sands of Time. Same can be said for Bob Welch but I'll leave it at one.

Most over rated: Dreams. While I love the song and it deserved to go to #1, it carries little pizazz live, Stevie seems bored with it and the band plays it way too fast, even back in the day. But most notably, the song falls apart without the high notes. We need to remember Dreams the way it was recorded and not ever hear it live again.

[michelej1]

I agree with Blue Letter being overrated. I mean, it had its place in the sun and in the early years it really was that good. But I have no nostalgia for it now. I know people will say it isn't the song that is bad just because their last live arrangement of it was lackluster. But, for me, even if they did it perfectly today, it's still not great anymore. It didn't travel well.

Michele

[KenB]

Originally Posted by On Ice

Dreams. While I love the song and it deserved to go to #1, it carries little pizazz live, Stevie seems bored with it and the band plays it way too fast, even back in the day. But most notably, the song falls apart without the high notes.

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[The Highwayman]

That's Alright and Fireflies are, to me, hugely underrated, not talked about that much in the discussion about Stevie's best songs, which they ARE. As Long As You Follow I agree is a ridiculously underrated tune as is Sweet Girl (though I prefer Stevie's demo on Enchanted) and the entire Say You Will album is undervalued a lot too.

Though I am not about to admit that When I See You Again is a truly great song, I still like it a hell of a lot, though. Certainly it could have been better of course.

Overrated? I do think Don't Stop is slightly, but I still love it and I never have really ever gotten sick of it. You Make Loving Fun is still Chris's best song on Rumours though.

[landslide95]

One of my favourite songs from the Mac is That's Alright. Absolutely fantastic tune and surprised it's largely forgotten. I wish the Mac would bring it back, I can't even find any live performances of it. Storms is very underrated at time as well, wish that was sung live too. Tango in the Night (song) is also a lost gem. As Long As You Follow too.

Overrated: Over My Head, Everywhere, Sisters of The Moon, most (not all) of Lindsey's Tusk songs (unfavourable opinion).

[jbrownsjr]

Under:

Heart of Stone
That's Alright
Crystal (white album)

Over:
Landslide (I can't take it anymore)
Over My Head
Sara

[~*BellaDonna*~]

Overrated: Everywhere, Don't Stop. Underrated: Beautiful Child, I'm So Afraid.

[sadmabelnormand]

Originally Posted by On Ice

Most over rated: Dreams. While I love the song and it deserved to go to #1, it carries little pizazz live, Stevie seems bored with it and the band plays it way too fast, even back in the day. But most notably, the song falls apart without the high notes. We need to remember Dreams the way it was recorded and not ever hear it live again.

I kinda have to agree with you here. While I love the way Dreams was performed in the 1980's on Stevie's solo tours when it faded from Outside The Rain, nowadays it just isn't the song it used to be. The Dance performance was the last really good one IMO.

I think one of the most overrated Mac songs is Everywhere. It is a bop and it's fun to listen to, but it's kind of filled with hot air.

Underrated Mac songs? That's a long list.
-Isn't It Midnight
-Paper Doll (I feel like I'm in the minority here)
-As Long As You Follow
-Illume
-Really anything from Say You Will
-Brown Eyes
-The Ledge
-Thats Alright

[KenB]

Originally Posted by sadmabelnormand

-Paper Doll (I feel like I'm in the minority here)

Great one that I forgot about. For me, "Paper Doll" is a top 10 Stevie tune.

[mitzo]

Most overrated: Tusk or Hold Me

Most underrated: Illume or (my all-time favourite) As Long as you Follow