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[AngelaM]

OK, don't shoot me for this, but I've always HATED The Chain. It's a mismash song and it sounds like a mismash song. Oh, and it's used for formula one programmes, another good reason not to like it.x

Sorree...

Angela

[WelshWitchPMD]

Christine:

Never Make My Cry
Honey Hi
Warm Ways
Wish You Were Here
Just about anything from BTM

Lindsey:

Family Man
You and I part 2
Can't Go Back
Oh Diane
Say Goodbye


Stevie:

Silver Girl
No Questions Asked
When I See You Again
Welcome to the Room.. Sara
Goodbye Baby

[wondergirl9847]

Originally posted by AngelaM
OK, don't shoot me for this, but I've always HATED The Chain. It's a mismash song and it sounds like a mismash song. Oh, and it's used for formula one programmes, another good reason not to like it.x

Sorree...

Angela

Turn in your Fleetwood Mac fan card RIGHT NOW MISSY!!!



Kidding.

[chiliD]

Only rating their Fleetwood Mac works:

Lindsey Buckingham:
Not That Funny (only the original TUSK studio cut; I LOVE the live versions)

Christine McVie::
None

Stevie Nicks::
The Second Time (Her absolutely worst ever, IMO)
Welcome To The Room...Sara (Until I heard Second Time, this was)
Silver Girl (just, "ugh")


Bob Welch:
None (I USED to not care for "Silver Heels" or "She's Changing Me", but they both have considerably grown on me)

Danny Kirwan:
When You Say (Not even Christine Perfect's cover version could save this song)

Peter Green:
None

Jeremy Spencer:
(nothing individually is all that bad, but when you put 3 or 4 very similarly sounding Elmore James covers on the same album, they get tedious)

Billy Burnette:
None

Rick Vito:
The Second Time (Well, he is credited as co-writer, so I gotta poke a stick at him for that)

Dave Mason:
None (his two songs with Fleetwood Mac aren't really that great, but they're quite a bit better than anything on his previous two solo albums before joining FMac)

[HomerMcvie]

Lindsey Buckingham:

Not That Funny (only the original TUSK studio cut; I LOVE the live versions)

Wow, really. I feel exactly the opposite. On the live version, egads!, all that screaming at the end. It's embarrassing. I, quite literally, am embarassed FOR Lindsey, when friends watch the Mirage video.

[dissention]

Originally posted by HomerMcvie
Wow, really. I feel exactly the opposite. On the live version, egads!, all that screaming at the end. It's embarrassing. I, quite literally, am embarassed FOR Lindsey, when friends watch the Mirage video.

He looks like he's having an orgasm during that song.

[Mad4stevie]

Originally posted by HomerMcvie
Wow, really. I feel exactly the opposite. On the live version, egads!, all that screaming at the end. It's embarrassing. I, quite literally, am embarassed FOR Lindsey, when friends watch the Mirage video.

I totally agree! I can't even watch it. It is just too . . . over the top. But I guess that is why some people like it

[wondergirl9847]

Originally posted by Mad4stevie
I totally agree! I can't even watch it. It is just too . . . over the top. But I guess that is why some people like it

I don't see why Lindsey can't be over the top. Stevie can do her "witchy" dancing and howling, etc., but Lindsey can't go nutsos on NTF.

FTR, I'm not trying to fight with anyone, I just see a double standard here. EVERYONE should go crazy.

But then again, some people were appalled at Lindsey's guitar antics this tour...while many (like myself of course. Hehe) REVELED in it.

Weird.

[Siri Ruane]

I can actually only think of two right now...

Go Insane, from The Dance, I used to love, but soon got sick of because it was the only FM song my 10 year old brother would listen to when his favorite band was Skillet. *shudders*

Goodbye Baby was kind of hard for me to accept because I'm very pro-life and it was hard enough just knowing that Stevie had an abortion, much less hear her singing about it.

I haven't listened to Behind The Mask in quite a while, so I'll probably get back to you on that.

I haven't listened to too much of the Peter Green/Bob Welch eras, and I shamefully do not own Time, but once I start playing gigs again and get some money I'll gain full Mac fandom.

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by wondergirl9847
I don't see why Lindsey can't be over the top. Stevie can do her "witchy" dancing and howling, etc., but Lindsey can't go nutsos on NTF.

FTR, I'm not trying to fight with anyone, I just see a double standard here. EVERYONE should go crazy.

But then again, some people were appalled at Lindsey's guitar antics this tour...while many (like myself of course. Hehe) REVELED in it.

Weird.

Warning - I am not fighting. I am just explaining my point of view!!

I agree LB should be "allowed" (as if we could stop him ) to go over the top just as much as anyone. This particular performance, however, just does not look or sound good to me and apparently others - the playing is not that great and he is not in any key I have ever heard

I mean Stevie just to me does not look as silly when she is doing her schtick as LB does here. Also, on the SYW tour, I just did not find LB's wild gestures coherent or fluid like Stevie's are/were. I mean even in Stevie's panty revealing, listing spin in the SOTM Mirage video, La Nicks at least has something that makes me want to watch that trainwreck I cannot say the same for LB's NTF or his monkey dancing at the beginning of SB on this tour. I guess for me it is that I think Stevie's stuff kind of relates to the song while I think LB's does not. I mean I thought for a second when I first saw it that LB was mocking Stevie during the monkey dancing at the beginning of SB on this last tour. Also, Stevie dresses almost in a costume that time has lead us to believe will contain a show. LB has no costume.

Note: This is just my opinion.

Finally, Stevie and LB are great no matter what they do. Mick, on the other hand, should stay behind that drum kit

[wondergirl9847]

Okay, I see your point, but I don't look at stuff that way, I guess...when you're speaking about how the dancing/twirling compliments the song.

I see it as they express themselves in different ways...her through her twirling/dancing and he with his guitar/crazy nut routine.

When he does that silly dance before Stand Back, I look at that as there's so much time before Miss Stevie comes out and he wanted to DO something, not just stand there waiting for her to come out. But, what do I know? LOL

[Cristian]

I'll make it short because I was logged out.

Peter Green: I've developed a deep hateful feeling about "Long Grey Mare". I don't know why, though. I like almost all of his other FM songs.

Jeremy Spencer: Agreed with chiliD; after a few Elvis/Perkins impersonations you can really get tired. I'm not a huge fan of "Someone's (Somebody's?) Going To Have Their Head Kicked In Tonight" either. Other than that I like his job, especially on Kiln House.

Danny Kirwan: "When You Say", no doubt about it.

Bob Welch: I think I'm the only one in the bunch who detests "The Ghost" with passion. Don't precisely know why, though... I like the rest of the stuff Bob did with Fleetwood Mac.

Christine McVie: Love all of her work EXCEPT for that atrocity called "Only Over You", which suffers from awful arrangement, melody and lyrics. Why, Christine?

Lindsey Buckingham: Let 'em come... I think my biggest complaints are in this field: "Oh Diane" (blah); "Empire State" (yuck); "Family Man" (why did everyone think that this was a real song, and furthermore, good enough to be a single, is beyond me... it is, with my biggest respect of Lindsey, a piece of garbage); "Caroline" (awful lyrics); "Murrow Turning Over In His Grave"; "My Little Demon" and the studio version of "Come". Ugh. I thought there were more -- but I actually love his stuff in Tusk.

Stevie Nicks: Before last year it was "When I See You Again". But this year, "Silver Girl" tops every list of bad songs. It's terrible.

Billy Burnette: "I Got It In For You". A lesson of just how many times can you repeat a phrase in a song if they give you three or four minutes. He says this phrase even more than Stevie says 'whatsdamattababy' on "When I See You Again". Argh.

.........

I make no judgement over Bob Weston ("Caught In The Rain" is great), Dave Walker (blah), Rick Vito (made one GREAT contribution to BTM and was a key member in the two tours he was involved in) or Bekka Bramlett (wonder if she ever did write those songs for Time) only because the reduced number of songs they did for the band.



Song of the moment - This Is The Rock

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by wondergirl9847
Okay, I see your point, but I don't look at stuff that way, I guess...when you're speaking about how the dancing/twirling compliments the song.

I see it as they express themselves in different ways...her through her twirling/dancing and he with his guitar/crazy nut routine.

When he does that silly dance before Stand Back, I look at that as there's so much time before Miss Stevie comes out and he wanted to DO something, not just stand there waiting for her to come out. But, what do I know? LOL

I guess maybe it is because Stevie for as long as I can remember (and we are talking at least 1977 here ) has always been out there with her dancing. LB on the other hand has always been a little more reserved than SN (which is not saying much, esp. in the 70's and early 80's ) Also, it could be that SN studied dancing and ballet and it just seems natural to her. LB on the other hand does not to me look like he is dancing to the song. A good example is Tusk. He looks great when he is Tusking people and that little slow dancing thing that they have been doing of late looks good and is in sync with the rhythm of the song. His pre-SB dancing on the other hand is rhythmless to me - that is why I initially thought LB was mocking Stevie with it a la the New Zealand Tisk tour show.

I, too, have concluded LB was bored and began that pre-SB dance while waiting for SN. Also, LB does it at every show - so SN muct not have a problem with it

Again - all my opinion

[dissention]

Originally posted by strandinthewind
Also, it could be that SN studied dancing and ballet and it just seems natural to her.

Then...why can't she dance???

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by dissention
Then...why can't she dance???

Are you trying to start WWIII

Yes, Stevie has her own way of dancing - I like it. it reminds me of the screen goddesses of the 20's doing their best vamp dances a la Theda Bara (actually the teens there).