list songs you love from your non-fave FM songwriters

[redbird]

Originally Posted by elle

so you would say you are primarily an FM fan (since you seem to imply you love SN's and LB's FM songs equally, as well as CM's 70s songs), not a fan of a particular songwriter who draws you into liking FM as a whole?

I came to Fleetwood Mac from whatever was on the radio, and whatever was on the radio was a whole lot of Rumours and the white album and the hits from later on, plus some solo Stevie stuff. Because of that, I know more of Stevie on her own than the others, but I might like the others' solo stuff as much/more if I explored them more. Right now I'm spending my time marinating in the Welch era, because I didn't know it at all before. Solo Lindsey, solo Christine, Chicken Shack era Christine, that's going to have to wait.

It might be that I'll find that I have a songwriter that I prefer over the others, but I don't really know that right now (and I'm not really in a rush; it'll come to me when it comes, if it comes). I do have a special attachment to Stevie because she writes and talks about things I can relate to as a woman, like many of her devotees I appreciate her vulnerable/steely dichotomy and while I've never been in rock'n'roll, she has always been notable as a girly girl in a man's world, she was aggressive but also very feminine ("airy fairy", etc) unlike Christine who could be one of the guys. In my own way I can relate to that.

But that doesn't mean I find her the superior songwriter. I guess right now I think I feel like at her best she is the best lyricist, and at her best she is (was) the best vocalist, but not the best composer, nor, am I thinking, the most consistent.

And my favorite Mac song is a Lindsey song, and no other song really comes close to the experience and attachment I have to that song, despite my considerable admiration for them.

So yeah I guess I'm a Mac fan first, even though I don't consider the three equal in every way and I find Stevie more visible and thus more familiar. As far as I can tell so far, I think they are all at their best with each other.* Sorry for the wall of text response.

*ETA: At least, they were. Maybe they don't bring out the best in each other any more, I don't know. Time will tell.