Thank You

[David]

Originally Posted by robm

You make a good point...however, back when Rumors and the other popular album with Lindsey and Nicks back in 76'-77' the radio stations played that stuff to death.

The key is to turn off the radio station. If a TV station were showing the same movie over & over (& some TV stations do just that), would you actually sit there & watch it?

I don't think as many of us "hate" the later incarnations, as much as we don't care for that style of music.

That's hairsplitting. "Don't care" = "dislike" = a perfectly acceptable rhetorical description for "hate"

I "hate" Celine Dion. I "don't care for" Celine Dion. I "dislike" Celine Dion. It's one & the same.

Further, there's nothing wrong -- is there? -- with hating/disliking/not caring for any music act. Be proud of your dislike! Stand up & say so, boldly & unequivocally! I'm sick of all these namby-pamby apologias on the order of "I don't particularly care for the pre-1975 incarnations" or "The post-1974 incarnations aren't particularly my thing," yadda yadda. Many of the Fleetwood "pop" Mac fans hate the earlier incarnations -- are bored ****less by them -- & many of the Fleetwood Mac fans of Green, Spencer & Kirwan are bored ****less by the post-1974 Mac (one of my best friends, Brian Danks, is one such person). It's time we all recognized that the Fleetwood Mac audience is not one big monolithic entity with even remotely similar inclinations & proclivities.

I like talking to you, rob! I hope you post a lot more here.