How are you different from every other ledgie?

[Moony]

Originally Posted by The Tower

Nope.

Always stealing my thunder...

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Please define "prostitute"

Haha, I don't think I need to now - you guys have it covered.

Originally Posted by amber

So far "Well, if you want me, you're going to have to buy me another drink" hasn't left me so prosperous....

Prosperous? Perhaps not. Funny? Yes!

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by Moony

Always stealing my thunder...

Don't get yer jockstrap in bind there, Dan-O! There's plenty of room for two (or three.... or four....) hustlers on the streetcorner that is The Ledge.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

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I've seen your new man...and he kinda looks like one of the guys off of this site...

lucky ass...

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Well, I was dumb enough to use my the initial of my first name, combined with my last name to form my Ledgie identity. If I were to go back and change it, I'd call myself "Sugar Daddy."

I think this belongs in another thread

See the how-did-you-come-up-with-your-ledge-username thread.

[elie]

As a reply to the initial question, I would say that

1) I am one of the few ledgies that have never seen a live FM concert and probably never will

2) I don't like Christine that much. I mean I don't really dislike her, but I don't care for her songs that much. I usually skip them when they come up on my mp3 player (except maybe hmm "Everywhere" )

3) I totally love Stevie, all of her FM songs, her voice is my favorite female voice ever and her late 70's look is perhaps my ideal style ever etc, but I was never into her solo carreer. I like some of her solo songs, and I can listen to "Stand Back" 3 times in a row, but I can't stand listening to an entire solo album.
But that's probably true for other ledgies too

[Brwn_eyes0511]

I never have and never will see a Fleetwood Mac concert (unless Chris comes back)...

I LOVE Don't Stop

I LOVE Rumours

[Serendipity]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

I'm predominantly a metalhead (Probably the only Ledgie who listens to either Behemoth or Cradle of Filth) who just happens to like Fleetwood Mac. So I can easily go from Satanic death vocals and 240 bps music to F.M. with ease

I also think "Behind the Mask" is a GREAT album (Hate to admit I have played "BTM" moreso than either "Rumours" or "Tusk" as of late)

Not keen on BTM but youre certaintly not the only metalhead ledgie...add me to the short list

[wondergirl9847]

I love Rumours.

I love Dreams and never tire of hearing it. (Not live, but on Rumours)

I prefer GYOW on Rumours.

Lindsey can do pretty much no wrong in my eyes. Of course, he does make me nuts with no solo album out yet...GOT DANGIT! GET. IT. OUT!!!!!

Stevie gets on my nerves with her "I never had kids." thing. Christine never had 'em either, but you don't hear her going on about it. I'm 30, and I don't have any either and I don't want any. OMG, I'm not human!!

I'm not a shipper.

Christine's stuff bores me sometimes.

Danny is my 3rd favorite FM member.

Some of the early blues stuff bores me.

I adore Tango. Tied with Rumours and Tusk as fave FM album.

I like Welcome to the Room...Sara.

I love Only Over You.

[ontheEdgeof17]

-Rhiannon has never been a favorite song of mine

-I prefer Bekka over Christine

-I hated Tusk until The Dance came around....maybe I was too young to appreciate it.

-I'm sick of bootlegs and demos.

-The Mirage Tour was one of their worst.....(THE worst for me)

-I love every song on Mirage

-I go to concerts mainly to see my friends.....and I don't go if I can't get 5th row or better seats....I'm a spoiled brat.

[PsychCat]

Originally Posted by elie

I totally love Stevie, all of her FM songs, her voice is my favorite female voice ever and her late 70's look is perhaps my ideal style ever etc, but I was never into her solo carreer. I like some of her solo songs, and I can listen to "Stand Back" 3 times in a row, but I can't stand listening to an entire solo album.
But that's probably true for other ledgies too

Yep... totally agree. I just never got into her solo stuff past Bella Donna. I liked it especially for the time when it came out, who she was and being such a fan anyway. However, once that album took off it, the follow-ups just seemed like the producer was trying to hard to make a "Stevie Nicks" (ala: Welsh Witch / Rhiannon / shawls / candles / platform boots, etc, etc.) presentation.
Lindsey seems to me to be the only one that can truly translate Stevie's music. Must be something about what they both bring to the table and then the translation thereof. I thought her stuff on "SYW" was the best I had heard from her in a looooong time.

[SortaSavageLike]

I am 20 years old, male, and perfectly straight.

I could care less if I never heard Go Your Own Way again.

I can say that many of Fleetwood Mac's songs are cheesy and that I still love them with a straight face.

I love Tusk so much I bought two copies within six months of each other.

I prefer the Rumours version of YMLF way more than the Dance version.

I think that Tusk is incoherant, but in a good way.

I am uncomfortable about discussing my fandom in public.

I think that Everywhere is a boring song.

I think that Never Make Me Cry is pretty decent.

Seven Wonders (the song) annoys the hell out of me.

I feel that Stevie should start acting her age more often, and lay off the pancake makeup and enviable blond hair.

I think that Lindsey's songwriting has come to an abrupt halt simply because he's run out of bitter things to say about Stevie.

I'm broke, and the only studio albums I own are Tusk and Mystery to Me.

The first time I listened to Mystery to Me, the heavens didn't part, and angels didn't come down from the sky and convince me about the wrongdoings of my way.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Also adding to my list...

---There is no Fleetwood Mac w/o Christine (IMO)

---I was going to say that I am probably the only one who actually enjoys every single song on Mirage and consider it one of their best (but Curtis beat me to it. )

---I think Christine is the Messiah and I worship at her thrown. I know that when I die she has prepared a mansion in Kent just for Mary Anne, Homer, me and all of the other Chris nuts on the ledge...

---Although I do think they were close friends at one point...I don't think that Stevie and Christine were anywhere as close as Stevie would have us believe...I know Christine just rolls her eyes when she hears/reads Stevie make such comments.

---If there was a bitch fight between Christine and Stevie...Christine would win! It would be close...with Stevie knocking Chris down with her super huge tambourine...but Chris would score the last big blow by dropping a Fender Rhodes on her head (and all those who own one or have tried to lift one...KNOW that this puppy would put anyone in the ground!)

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

I'm broke, and the only studio albums I own are Tusk and Mystery to Me.

The first time I listened to Mystery to Me, the heavens didn't part, and angels didn't come down from the sky and convince me about the wrongdoings of my way.

From my experience, it took a while for MTM to grow on me, which I think is what makes it so strong. I'm old enough to have been around when "Hypnotized" got a lot of airplay on the classic rock stations, so I immediately recognized the song when I played the album. It wasn't until I began listening to a wide range of music that I really began to appreciate it's subtle brilliance. To be sure, there are a few songs on there I tend to skip, but of ALL the Fleetwood Mac albums, it's the one I find myself listening to the most. Incidentally, "Tusk" and "Then Play On" would be my second and third (no particular order) most listened to. So, I think you're definitely on the right track. These aren't the type of albums that make the heavens part on first listen, but they're still interesting after the 10,000th or so play, which is more than can be said of most Fleetwood Mac albums. (I NEVER need to hear anything released by Fleetwood Mac in the 1980s ever again.)

[David]

Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

---I think Christine is the Messiah and I worship at her thrown. I know that when I die she has prepared a mansion in Kent just for Mary Anne, Homer, me and all of the other Chris nuts on the ledge...

I doubt she'd do any such thing, even in someone's lurid fantasy. The kind of disturbed, hypertrophic idolatry some people show -- with absolutely no sense of balance, proportion or discernment -- is probably a characteristic that Christine would find more than a little creepy & would want to steer clear of in a group of fans.

It pains me to see my pal Homer (whom I brought to the Ledge) refuse to say anything really new or insightful about Chris for fear of sounding "disrespectful" of "the goddess." I just get platitudes--like the Maria Montez worshippers in "Cobra Woman"-- & afterward, I don't know anything more about Christine & I don't know anything more about what makes Dave tick.

The thing is, fans do Christine no honor at all by deifing her, placing her on some cosmic pedestal beyond all reach or powers of perception or criticism. The only thing that demonstrates is complete misinterpretation & gross misunderstanding of her special qualities. Chris is all about maintaining your composure, your sense of discernment, your lack of bull****, & your sense of humor--as is plainly evident in her no-nonsense songwriting, plaintive but grounded singing & her subtle, rhythmic playing, even to the most obtuse Stevie fan. This willfully blind worshipping, whereby all analysis, weighing, sifting, comparing & criticizing are recoiled from, is completely alien to Christine's style & musical signature.

This goes for blind idolators of Chris, Lindsey, Stevie, Peter or even John: You're not *more* of a fan by refusing to analyze or criticize or put into context. You're just a more ridiculous fan.

Now this is all my opinion, naturally. Others might feel totally different about it all. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that some definitely do.

[The Tower]

Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

I could care less if I never heard Go Your Own Way again.

Hell yeah. That song blows.

I prefer the Rumours version of YMLF way more than the Dance version.

I am uncomfortable about discussing my fandom in public.

I don't like bringing it up for fear of having to deal with the disdain... and the entire cluelessness.

I think that Everywhere is a boring song.

I think that "Everywhere" is a piece of **** and one of Christine's worst songs ever. I'll never understand why that crap gets into live sets and the masterpiece that is "Think About Me" has never been played live.

Seven Wonders (the song) annoys the hell out of me.

Agreed. Tango Stevie Sux.

Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

---I think Christine is the Messiah and I worship at her thrown.

What did she throw?? Her thrown what???? It couldn't be "Thrown Down"- that's a Stevie song fer chrissake....