U.S. single releases

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by bwboy

I know we’re all playing Monday morning quarterback here, and I had never thought of it before, but you’re right, Isn’t It Midnight would have been an incredible first single. I mean, Big Love got the job done, it created the buzz for the new album, had folks wondering who provided the love grunts’ lol, and had an interesting (but really dated) video, but IIM would have really created buzz too. Tango really showcased Christine’s growth and confidence as a songwriter, I have no idea how much of that could have been due to her then husband, I know she said or implied after they divorced he didn’t do much with her songs, but you can definitely see a difference. IIM, Big Love, Seven Winders, Little Lies, and Everywhere would have been a more successful sequence of singles, I think.

Checking the Tango in the Night 2017 Deluxe edition, it has 4 Remix/Extended/12”/etc. versions of Big Love. Seven Wonders, Everywhere and Little Lies have 2. Family Man have also 4 remixes. I wonder if Lindsey was the one who came up with the idea or pushed to produce those remixes, (since his songs has more than the girls), in order to show the band aligned to the 80s.

I don't usually listen to those versions; I don't like them. I don't think it fits the Fleetwood Mac sound. I always found the 12" remixes cool in the sound of bands like OMD or Thompson Twins, not Fleetwood Mac.

Talking about Isn’t it Midnight, it has an “Alternate Mix”, just 3:39, not a remix (a different version from the “Edited Alternate Version” from the 1992 The Chain Boxset). I guess it’s kind of an alternate, not final version but not a commercial remix. Unless someone remembers hearing it on the radio. That confirms they didn’t see that song as a main single. So unfair, and wrong.