Unpopular FM Opinions

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by jmn3

* I can count on my left hand the number of Lindsey solo songs I can even tolerate
* Fleetwood Mac was not better before 1975
* Outside of the band context (and sometimes within), all three of the current singers in the band can write and perform some painfully cheesy things
* The soap opera crap that the fans buy into with the band is as painful as anything the band does to encourage it - when I saw teenagers squealing at the site of L&S hugging in 2014 it made me want to barf. These two are bordering on 70 and have played their stupid 40-year old broken relationship up so much over the years....that ANYONE gives a rat's behind anymore is just beyond me.
* Dreams charting higher than any other post 1975 single honestly befuddles me

So these types of threads are always very interesting to me because EVERYONE seems to have a bunch that stir the pot up. My response to something like this can often morph with time so I thought it would be good to go back 7 years to my 2016 post and see what I think of what I wrote back then...

1) I liked several songs on Lindsey's latest solo album so maybe I might need my right hand now in addition
2) Yep, this still stands. Even our beloved songbird Christine, some of her songs are just pure saccharine crap.
3) This still stands x10000000 - the 'kids' are all over TikTok daily with their L&S conspiracies and stories of never-ending love. GMAFB. She dumped him more than 45 years ago. People are so dumb.
4) Still agree here. Dreams is a good song. I can't believe it's their highest charting song to this day. Go Your Own Way is far superior and I could name five others, including several of Stevie's, that deserved better chart performance. Come at me with your daggers for this one!

Okay so what else would I add?

*The Rumours era lineup is far superior to anything before or after it. I don't want to hear about Peter and the blues and how popular they were in the UK. There's a reason this iteration was and is the most popular.
*Stolen from someone else and related to above, Lindsey's live version of Oh Well (in particular that one on the 1980 album) is the best.
*Bella Donna is a solid album. It's not a masterpiece or a top album of all time. It's by far Stevie's best album, but it sure as hell isn't a Rumours, Sticky Fingers, or Dark Side of the Moon.
*That version of If You Were My Love that Stevie finally went out with SUCKS. It's lame and boring. It compares to the Mirage era demo the same way that dopey Smile at You on SYW does to the Mirage era demo.
*Tusk is too long - Lindsey and Christine have unnecessary songs that could go away.
*Tango in the Night has a number of great songs (title track, Everywhere, Isn't it Midnight, Seven Wonders, Little Lies, Big Love) but it also has things like Mystified, Family Man, WTTRS, WISYA, and Caroline that suck. The production is way too 80's and it just doesn't hold up like other albums have.
*Say You Will is a good album it just has ten too many songs
*Stevie didn't have a dud on a Fleetwood Mac album until Tango
*Stevie's solo career is questionable from a "rock and roll" standpoint - every album has at least one song I either like or can at least tolerate but every album starting with The Wild Heart is full of wayyy too much crap