Songs you would freak out over if they played live.

[secret love]

Originally Posted by lovethemac1

Crystal
Django
Storms
Beautiful Child
Tango in the Night Set---someone else said this and I love this idea.
Twisted----for sure, definitely
Albatross
Angel
Blue Denim--Stevie singing it to Lindsey, just like she does Silver Springs
Countdown
Don't Look Down
Hold Me
Peacekeeper
Rooms on Fire
Songbird
Save Me
Slabo Day---I know it's a Peter Green song, but I'd love to hear it!!!!!

I am obviously coming into this discussion quite late so sorry if I repeat other people's ideas a lot. Haven't read the whole thread.

Songs I would freak if the Fleetwood Mac five-some played them live:
- Don't Stop. For someone like me who has never seen Fleetwood Mac live before? Wow...to see it with Christine McVie on the keys and singing lead with Lindsey would be heaven.
Pretty sure that I'll get my wish on that one - if I can afford the concert ticket and flights to America - you lucky Yanks!
- Next: Landslide - one song (unlike Dreams) that Stevie still sings very, very well.
- The Tango in the Night mini-set idea. Not the whole album necessarily. That's 12 songs (half a setlist) gone in one shot. 6 TITN songs:
Seven Wonders, Little Lies, Isn't it Midnight, Big Love (united band effort!!!), Caroline, You and I (parts I and II) if Lindsey and Christine's vocals can manage the strain of an 8 minute duet.

-Steal Your Heart Away, Bleed to Love Her, Thrown Down and Everybody Finds Out, plus You Are or Friend (from Christine's ITM solo album - but performed as a band song).

My last advice to the band even though I know they are not reading this and would never listen anyway is: Cut the filler songs! Christine would understand what this means - she talked in 2004 about her ITM album being great due to lack of filler (I watched the vid last week).

Don't play:
Dreams is not a hit anymore. It was a hit in 1977 -Stevie come on your vocal range has tightened! You've lost the ability to sing Dreams well - just that particular song.
Everywhere: look sure lets take advantage of the opportunity offered by Shetland pony in the 3Mobile/Vodafone commercial! But if it's a choice between Everywhere and Little Lies/Isn't it Midnight both of the later two should prevail
Big Love solo version: that would send the wrong message. The message to send to us fans is: we are a united team who love working together lovey dub dub etc.
Silver Springs: this used to be my favourite song, honestly. Someone wrote on this website the other day, jokingly, that Silver Springs should be dropped for I Don't Want to Know. The more I thought about it, I actually agreed. Stevie can't sing Silver Springs like she did in 1997 or 2003, let alone when it was recorded in 1977
-Do something interesting with a few of the staples. Eg this 1987 remixed studio take of Little Lies adapted to a modern, Live setting:


Lindsey in developing this setlist with his colleagues, should look to their latter back-catalogue of work because this will mean avoiding rewriting songs in different keys for all three singers (not just Stevie and Lindsey...Christine's voice is probably in the best shape but she has been and as a far as I know still is a smoker...).

If Fleetwood Mac takes one thing on board from all the noise us fans are making: focus on your latter back-catalogue. Do a good chunk of TITN - at least 6 maybe more songs. Do a song or two from The Chain boxset. Does the band know how well The Chain - 25 years (1992) is selling in my home country right now, in 2014? It hit the top ten in the charts recently - and stayed there.
So: I think I will cut this post short and start a new "This setlist would be the best one ever - who agrees?" thread because this band, while very talented, are also very silly people. Read your fanbase, ask them what they want and act on it. Not just if your name's Lindsey by the way.



Here's to exciting times ahead in the music industry,

secret love.