NPR streaming Buckingham McVie full album

[elle]

#FirstListen: Hear Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie's new self-titled album before it's out June 9. https://t.co/pNf9jlj98V

— nprmusic (@nprmusic) June 1, 2017

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/530271...hristine-mcvie

since this thread and everything we wrote in it - which was a lot!! - is now gone, i think it's important to have the info that the album can be previewed a week before coming out here.

so i'm putting new thread, in hope that somebody somewhere will be able to recover 3 days of missing threads and posts (including some great discussion on Guardian article!).

here's the article, but you have to click on the link above to be able to actually stream -

First Listen: Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie
Fleetwood Mac's guitarist and keyboardist team up for a new album


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Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie's new self-titled album is out June 9.
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People often think of Fleetwood Mac as a band propelled to artistic eminence by interpersonal turmoil. Who could forget that Rumours, the band's defining album, was the product of a period of libertine excess and relational meltdowns? Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were on the rocks, Christine McVie and John McVie were divorcing and Mick Fleetwood's civilian marriage was disintegrating, too. Long before bloggers began parsing insinuating lyrics from Taylor Swift and others who've passed through her orbit, there was perverse sport in scrutinizing the wistful, wounded or prickly lines in Fleetwood Mac songs, not to mention group members' on-the-record comments and on-stage interactions, for evidence of unresolved conflict.

No such history hangs over the pairing of Buckingham and Christine McVie, he a famously exacting guitarist and producer, she a blues-schooled keyboardist, and each of them singers and songwriters responsible for significant chunks of their band's discography. Over the decades they've ventured into a handful of direct collaborations, but they haven't truly explored the potential of their partnership until now. Their album features most of the band's classic lineup (notably, minus Nicks), but gets its identity from ideas generated within the closed circuit of the duo; all of the songs are credited to Buckingham, McVie or both.

When McVie rejoined Fleetwood Mac in 2014, no longer content with the tranquility of retirement in the English countryside she'd chosen a decade and a half earlier, she and Buckingham struck up a tentative creative conversation, she sending him snippets of lyric, melody and chord progression, he fleshing them out and passing along his own incomplete song ideas to her. "This was just for me to get familiarized with playing and performing again," McVie told Stephen Deusner in a recent cover story for Uncut. "One thing led to another, and by the time we knew what was happening, we had six basic tracks in the bag...." Their casual exchange reactivated musical muscles she hadn't used in a while and reaffirmed her faith in the relevance of her contributions.

Lindsey Buckingham: After Fleetwood Mac
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Lindsey Buckingham: After Fleetwood Mac
In the mythology built up around the music of Fleetwood Mac, McVie represents an irrepressibly sanguine voice and Buckingham a more barbed one, but to reduce them to polar opposites — the optimist vs. the pessimist — is to miss out on the nuanced outlooks that come into focus when they're working side by side. He remains quite skilled at enhancing shifts in tone with his production. The pensive resolve of his "On With the Show" gives way to breezy resignation with the introduction of sun-kissed harmonies and a crystalline guitar figure. In the propulsive pop-rock number "Lay Down For Free," he dwells on a lover's elusiveness, then pivots to buoyant defiance, lifted by the entrance of shimmery vocals and guitar. During "Carnival Begin," McVie broods in the shadows, until the warm haze of harmonies and Buckingham's delicate, single-stringed counterpoint illuminate her expression of desire.

McVie and Buckingham make room for unfurling multi-faceted emotions in their songcraft itself. In "Sleeping Around the Corner," he offers reluctant reassurance, intoning, "If you want me to stay, you've got to let me go" over spasmodic digital beats. "In My World" is his melancholy expression of idealism. In "Love Is Here To Stay," he savors the sweetness of romance in spite of his seasoned wariness. There's a willfulness to her giddy affection in "How I Feel," a self-conscious insistence that celebrating the pleasure she takes in another person is, in itself, a worthwhile gesture. In "Red Sun," she tries to separate out the bitterness from the solace in a lover's memory. "My mind is filled with journeys, echoed with your smile," she sings. "No, you won't take that away from me, even if you try."

The marvel is that these two longtime band mates can simultaneously stand on their own and exert a gentle pull on each other, expanding our appreciation of them as living, breathing artists, rather than subjects of tabloid-heightened legend.

Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie, Self-Titled
First Listen: Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie, Self-Titled

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Feel About You
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In My World
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Love Is Here to Stay
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Too Far Gone
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Lay Down for Free
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Game of Pretend
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On With the Show
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[bombaysaffires]

thanks, elle! When I was looking on here late last night (up watching the London mayhem ) I didn't see it and thought maybe it was just my sleep deprivation that made me not see it.

I mistakenly thought Lindsey and Chris were going to be on CBS Saturday Morning *this* week rather than next, so had it on all morning yesterday waiting. They did have like a 2 minute teaser of the interview with them. They were asked if they could recall the first time the two of them ever sang together... Chris piped up first and talked about an early rehearsal she played Say You Love Me (I think it was) and Lindsey and Stevie chimed in with "perfect harmonies" and it gave her her infamous goosebumps. Lindsey just sat there beaming. I believe the host said they would be performing....I'm thinking maybe footage from their rehearsals. It looked like Chris was standing midstage, kinda where Stevie usually stands, with 3 or 4 other musicians spread out behind them fairly far back and quite wide apart.

[dontlookdown]

What happened to the thread?

I wanted to chime in AGAIN and say that these songs are finally finding their way under my skin.

[elle]

Originally Posted by dontlookdown

What happened to the thread?

I wanted to chime in AGAIN and say that these songs are finally finding their way under my skin.

check the lost posts thread for some asnwers.

i'm really happy to be finally getting this music we've been hearing about since 2012 and 2014. i think there are some gems on here, and then other songs which do not seem to be much if any forward moving, but i'm so glad they decided to go ahead and release it and keep moving!!

Love is Here to Stay is the only really Lindsey-solo sounding song on this to me, and would be worthy of his solo albums. Lay Down For Free, OWTS and SATC are more FM-Lindsey to me. then again, he did put some more FM-sounding stuff on some of his solo albums.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by dontlookdown

What happened to the thread?

I wanted to chime in AGAIN and say that these songs are finally finding their way under my skin.

I can appreciate your opinions because... It took me a long time to really love Mirage. And to me, that's what this album is like. Merge Mirage and Tango and plop.. BuckVie Album. I wish it was a little deeper and just a little longer.

However, there's brilliance and genius here. I just have to let it sink in a little and get over the fact that they missed some opportunities. Example, an acoustic solo is dying to be played at the end of Feel About You. I can hear it.

I'm still trying to like Red Sun. I like the chorus, don't care for the verses. It sounds like something from her Time period.

[ViscountViktor]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I can appreciate your opinions because... It took me a long time to really love Mirage. And to me, that's what this album is like. Merge Mirage and Tango and plop.. BuckVie Album. I wish it was a little deeper and just a little longer.

However, there's brilliance and genius here. I just have to let it sink in a little and get over the fact that they missed some opportunities. Example, an acoustic solo is dying to be played at the end of Feel About You. I can hear it.

I'm still trying to like Red Sun. I like the chorus, don't care for the verses. It sounds like something from her Time period.

Agreed, it's very Temporary One. It's a catchy enough tune but it's nothing special, not much depth.

So jealous of you guys in the states, can't access it over here!

[k115810]

Can't get the NPR stream here alas

I think those of you outside the US can probably just download a proxy add-on for Chrome so that it seems as though you are accessing NPR.org from the US.

Perhaps this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...fbnlmeio?hl=en

[dontlookdown]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I can appreciate your opinions because... It took me a long time to really love Mirage. And to me, that's what this album is like. Merge Mirage and Tango and plop.. BuckVie Album. I wish it was a little deeper and just a little longer.

However, there's brilliance and genius here. I just have to let it sink in a little and get over the fact that they missed some opportunities. Example, an acoustic solo is dying to be played at the end of Feel About You. I can hear it.

I'm still trying to like Red Sun. I like the chorus, don't care for the verses. It sounds like something from her Time period.

I loved Mirage from the day it was released, despite the effort to return to a more commercial sound.
The sequencing on side one is as strong as Rumours.
Love In Store to Can't Go Back to That's Alright to Book of Love to Gypsy was pretty stellar.
It was also the most fiery tour - without all the extra back up singers and musicians.
Probably the druggiest tour too, but they had a ton of energy on stage.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by dontlookdown

I loved Mirage from the day it was released, despite the effort to return to a more commercial sound.
The sequencing on side one is as strong as Rumours.
Love In Store to Can't Go Back to That's Alright to Book of Love to Gypsy was pretty stellar.
It was also the most fiery tour - without all the extra back up singers and musicians.
Probably the druggiest tour too, but they had a ton of energy on stage.

I agree with every word.

By Tango, they had become a machine. Mirage was the last hurrah for them BEING A BAND.

It's inconceivable that the Mirage video (INCLUDING UNRELEASED SONGS AND OUTTAKES) has never seen the light of day. I'd give my first born child! And second. And third...

[lilyfee]

I did not like the singles when they were released but now I see how they fit into the scheme of the album as a whole. Carnival Begin Haunting and beautiful. Not crazy about Lindsey's lyrics... I feel he's gotten a bit lazy.

But I really like the way the whole album is sequenced, balancing out the poppy tracks with rock and sort of an old-fashioned jazzy sound? I'm not sure how to define it but I find it more on Christine's songs. At any rate, In My World has much more of an edge after the two preceding pop tracks!