Fan confessions

Montclare · #1 08-03-2014, 02:27 PM

Anyone have any embarrassing fan confessions to share? Whether it's tales of meeting band members,things you didn't used to know about the band that now you can't believe you once didn't know, misheard song lyrics, etc?

Here are some of mine-

Before I became a die hard fan, I didn't know that Christine sang lead on any of the songs. I always thought her songs were sung by Lindsey. I should have been able to figure out it wasn't him by lines like "a poor girl like me", but nope.

I also always thought the band was solely named after Mick since sometimes Mac is a nickname for Mick. I always just thought it was his names flipped.

To this day when I hear Edge of 17, in my head I hear it as "wide winged duck" instead of "white winged dove". It also sounds to me like Stevie's saying "vapor flowers" in Gypsy instead of "paper flowers".

So what are some of yours?

MacFan77 · #2 08-03-2014, 06:08 PM

One of my favorite songs is Go Your Own Way. I originally thought the lead singer was Christine.

Wdm6789 · #3 08-03-2014, 06:53 PM

Before I had become a hardcore fan, I knew Fleetwood Mac had a lot of lineup changes and I was familiar with mostly Rumours singles I would hear on the radio or from my parents, but I didn't know what album it was or year I only knew Stevie Nicks was the singer because I liked her song "sleeping angel" from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I could tell that there was two female singers because Stevie and Christine's voices sounded different, so I thought since Fleetwood Mac had a bunch of lineup changes that Christine and Stevir were in the band at separate times.

snroxman · #4 08-03-2014, 09:23 PM

I have a couple of confessions...

1. Although I had heard Fleetwood Mac material in the 70's (thank you to my uncle for having that Rumours album!), when Stevie went solo, I hadn't connected the two! (I was only 14 at the time.). After hearing Stevie's concert radio broadcast, the light bulb went off. I've been a big fan of all members ever since.

2. This is more a "Stevie" confession than a FMac confession but here goes - back in the 90's, it was common to buy bootleg cd's of live material out of magazines. One cd I bought really butchered some of the song titles. My favorite was "Stop Dragging My Hearth Around". I was like, "a hearth??? Really? ". Soooooo..... to this day I giggle when I think of the mental image that butchering of the song title gave me of Stevie dragging part of a fireplace around her home. What a way to lose weight in the 90s.

HoursAndHours · #5 08-03-2014, 10:05 PM

I used to listen to Street Angel when I would sneak cigarettes outside of my folks' house in the 90s. I will forever equate filterless Camels with the song Docklands.

Montclare · #6 08-03-2014, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by snroxman

2. This is more a "Stevie" confession than a FMac confession but here goes - back in the 90's, it was common to buy bootleg cd's of live material out of magazines. One cd I bought really butchered some of the song titles. My favorite was "Stop Dragging My Hearth Around". I was like, "a hearth??? Really? ". Soooooo..... to this day I giggle when I think of the mental image that butchering of the song title gave me of Stevie dragging part of a fireplace around her home. What a way to lose weight in the 90s.

That makes me think of her dragging the picture around in the Hold Me video.

TheWILDheart · #7 08-06-2014, 08:10 AM

Ok, here we go:

1. I can't abide the studio version of "I'm So Afraid"

2. "Beautiful Child" is Stevie's weakest song on "Tusk"

3. "Behind The Mask" is better than "Tango In The Night"

4. "Street Angel" is better than "The Other Side Of the Mirror"

Montclare · #8 08-06-2014, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Ok, here we go:

1. I can't abide the studio version of "I'm So Afraid"

2. "Beautiful Child" is Stevie's weakest song on "Tusk"

3. "Behind The Mask" is better than "Tango In The Night"

4. "Street Angel" is better than "The Other Side Of the Mirror"

1. Yeah, the live version is so much better. I always have a hard time when it comes to voting out songs on the White Album since I love ISA so much, just not that version.

2. Agree. I don't get the love for it.

3. Can't speak to Behind the Mask, but I'm not a Tango fan. Way too 80's for me.

TheWILDheart · #9 08-06-2014, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Montclare

1. Yeah, the live version is so much better. I always have a hard time when it comes to voting out songs on the White Album since I love ISA so much, just not that version.

2. Agree. I don't get the love for it.

3. Can't speak to Behind the Mask, but I'm not a Tango fan. Way too 80's for me.

Huzzah!!

I like "Beautiful Child" very much, but it's not the highest moment of the album by a mile.

Again, I do like "Tango" - it has some amazing moments - Big Love, Seven Wonders, Everywhere, Little Lies, Isn't It Midnight. But it mostly falls quite flat for me. Sounds like a bunch of solo songs shoved together rather than a Fleetwood Mac album. And Stevie just wasn't there. Her only 2 self-written tracks are so below the high expectation that she set earlier in her career.

Danielle · #10 08-06-2014, 09:23 AM

I thought I was the only person who liked Street Angel better than The Other Side of the Mirror. I'm happy to learn I have company.

TheWILDheart · #11 08-06-2014, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Danielle

I thought I was the only person who liked Street Angel better than The Other Side of the Mirror. I'm happy to learn I have company.

OSOTM is so poorly produced. The sound is so distorted and muffled, and the drums sound like they were stuck on as an after thought - even on the original vinyl. Songs like "Long Way To Go" and "Whole Lotta Trouble" had the potential to be stomping, rockin' power house tracks, but they fall completely flat thanks to Rupert Hine.

Plus, Street Angel has "Blue Denim", "Love Is Like A River", "Kick It", "Greta", "Street Angel", "Listen To The Rain" and the title track, which I adore.