Name ONE song by Christine you really can't stand

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by billwebster

I know this is a controversial choice for this board, but I always tend to skip "Calumny" whilst I pretty much enjoy "Temporary One", "Hollywood" and tend to turn up "Bad Journey".

Love Calumny... adore it in fact...

Love love love Bad Journey...

Hollywood... ehh... it's ok...

Welcome bill!!

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by billwebster

I know this is a controversial choice for this board, but I always tend to skip "Calumny" whilst I pretty much enjoy "Temporary One", "Hollywood" and tend to turn up "Bad Journey".

I really don't like Bad Journey.

[HomerMcvie]

Bad Journey is so-so. Hollywood never really did it for me, though....

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Jackson Browne's Late For The Sky, .

A wonderful album. Jackson had the most incredible run of albums in the early-mid 70s. His first five records are all stellar.

[GoldDustBoy]

I can't stand Everywhere. I like The Dance version, but the original studio version is too sugary for me. I have a demo version of Everywhere that was played during an interview with the band in 1987, and I think they should have leave it like that. I hate Bad Journey from ITMT too.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by GoldDustBoy

I hate Bad Journey from ITMT too.

Yeah, it's a travesty. Maybe without the background vocals. If I could hear the demo, now that could be quite interesting. As it is, please take Dan out of the will.

Michele

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

This makes sense that you would lump the white album into this group since, at the time of its original release, it was probably considered by most as "just another FM album with another lineup." I'm curious: you've probably been asked before, but what did you think of the White album and the "new" lineup when you first heard it?

Yeah, "just another FM album with another lineup" is pretty much how I felt. I was already familiar with the Buckingham Nicks album (since I'd owned that album for about a year by the time the FM album was released), and was really blown away that THEY were chosen to replace Bob Welch; but in spite of that, I was still disappointed with the album upon first few listens. Christine's songs didn't sound like the Christine songs I was used to (in retrospect, they sound JUST like the Christine songs I was used to )...I don't know why I was expecting Buckingham & Nicks to sound any different than their own album, maybe I was expecting them to conform more to being "Fleetwood Mac"-ish, rather than Fleetwood Mac to conform to sounding "Buckingham Nicks"-ish. A similar feeling I had later when I first saw Dave Mason with Fleetwood Mac in 1994.

There just wasn't that, to me, "obvious" Fleetwood Mac sounding song anywhere on the album. I definitely was missing Bob Welch. Wasn't until I heard those songs live (and especially "Rhiannon", of course) that I started listening to the album in a different mind set. Once I heard this lineup do the "old stuff", like "Station Man", "Green Manalishi", "Rattlesnake Shake", "Hypnotized", etc...that I finally relented and accepted them ("them" being Buckingham Nicks) into Fleetwood Mac. Little did I know at the time that just a tad over a decade later, I'd resent them for ever joining the band. (but the seeds of that were sown as early as late 1977 when all the pre-75 tunes were dropped, except for "Oh Well" , which was by far, their weakest song of the bunch)

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Yeah, it's a travesty. Maybe without the background vocals. If I could hear the demo, notf that could be quite interesting. As it is, please take Dan out of the will.

Michele

I LOVE BAD JOURNEY!!!! HER VOCAL LINE IS SEXY!!! AND THE BACKING VOCALS ARE TIGHT!!! THE LYRICS ARE HEARTFELT...

I don't like the spoken "Bad Journey" but that's about it..

[tilthefirefades]

The only one i dislike is "Show Me A Smile", and then her Tusk Songs are so-so, but i love "Mystified", "Sugar Daddy", and "Temporary One"

[Villavic]

I understand "can't stand" as an extreme dislike that takes me to definitively skip the song. If so, there's no Christine song I hate at that level. But I usually skip Only Over You. That song would have been much more nice if it weren't for that repetitive I'M OOOOOUT OF.... that ruined the song, IMHO. Cause the other segments, People think I'm crazy... Angel please don't go... etc. are beautiful. But when she returns to I'M OOOOOUT... it's like OMG who is torturing her? is she prisoner in the Inquisition?

[HomerMcvie]

It took me a couple of decades to appreciate Only Over Ewe, but I finally got it. It's not a favorite, but I like it now.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

It took me a couple of decades to appreciate Only Over Ewe, but I finally got it. It's not a favorite, but I like it now.

It's because you were out of your mind.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

It's because you were out of your mind.

Wassamatta, Baby?

It's definitely better than One More Lonely Night. OMLN just drones on for too long...

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

It's definitely better than One More Lonely Night.

No way.

[WalkAThinLine.]

"Bad Journey" is the Christine McVie song I can't stand the most when accounting for both her solo career and work with Fleetwood Mac. I know that people generally like her In the Meantime album, but I find most of that album to be among her worst work barring roughly four songs. Christine has a penchant for hooks, but the chorus on "Bad Journey' is completely uninspired and phoned in.

As for her worst Fleetwood Mac song, I would probably give that title to "Hollywood (Some Other Kind of Town)" for being needlessly long. "Homeward Bound" probably has her worst vocal performance. For a while, I frequently skipped "Only Over You" due to the intro, but I have softened my stance on that song slightly. I also used to dislike "Mystified" and "Warm Ways", but now I think they're fine enough.