Tango In The Night Face Off: Round 3

[nailatixela]

When I See You Again has been voted off!



Vote for your LEAST favorite song from this album. I'll start a new poll within 24 hours with the next round. At the end we will have a winner, and move on to the next album. This is just for the rumours like up (hence being in the rumours section) so we will only be doing albums with all 5 members present. (mick, john, christine, stevie, lindsey) Studio albums only: Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk, Mirage, Tango In The Night.

Vote for your least favorite song from the Tango In The Night Album


Tango In The Night Album
Big Love
Seven Wonders
Everywhere
Caroline
Tango In The Night
Mystified
Little Lies
Family Man
Isn't It Midnight
You and I, Part II

Previous Winners:
Rhiannon
The Chain
Sisters Of The Moon
Gypsy

[nailatixela]

Hey, this poll is Lindsey and Christine biased!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

LOL just kidding.

I voted for Mystifed again. Let's get rid of it already!

Seven Wonders happens to be my least favorite song of Stevie's on this album. I prefer her other two.

[aleuzzi]

7 Wonders: she didn't even write it.

[strandinthewind]

^^

Yea -- but she jams on and in it

Family Man got my vote. Too quirky for me.

[wolfontherun]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

7 Wonders: she didn't even write it.

I know right! It isn't a FM song, isn't a Stevie Nicks song. With all her songs they picked this one? You just know that there were a lot of politics involved with the inclusion of this song.

Still it is catchy and I love the start of it, instead of Micks drums we get a cool sounding synth intro.

Anyway Mystified needs to go soon.

[jbrownsjr]

I love Mystified...

it's mysterious...
it's written by both Buckingham and McVie
it has takes with both on lead vocals... Christine was final vocal...
it has an amazing atmospheric lead guitar at the end....

it leaves me with the feeling that I really liked side one....
and it leaves me ready for the intro to little lies....

[GoS]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I love Mystified...

it's mysterious...
it's written by both Buckingham and McVie
it has takes with both on lead vocals... Christine was final vocal...
it has an amazing atmospheric lead guitar at the end....

it leaves me with the feeling that I really liked side one....
and it leaves me ready for the intro to little lies....

I think that it is a little repetitious. It reminds me of Hypnotized, but I don't think that Mystified is as good. Just me.

[David]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

7 Wonders: she didn't even write it.

True enough, but, Tony, don't you think that Fleetwood Mac takes complete ownership of it? To me, it's further indication that the band's ensemble style always co-opted the song's actual author.

That's why I have always found myself in basic antipathy with the advocates of Nicks-as-poet. No "poetry" she has ever written can stand up to the band's remarkable sonics.

(At their best, of course ... not at their worst)

[David]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I love Mystified...

I do, too, & I feel it's absolutely essential to TANGO IN THE NIGHT because it carries through that five-tone theme we find throughout, which reminds us musical illiterates of Japan's shakuhachi, koto, or shamisen. I could no more think of TANGO without MYSTIFIED than I could RUMOURS without GOLD DUST WOMAN.

On the pentatonic subject, I always got a kick out of the way Rick Vito ended all performances of SEVEN WONDERS on the 1987 tour -- he codas a five-tone scale with suitably Oriental-sounding bends!

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by David

. . . That's why I have always found myself in basic antipathy with the advocates of Nicks-as-poet. No "poetry" she has ever written can stand up to the band's remarkable sonics . . . .

I might differ with you there - but only slightly.

I do agree with you though that the sonics were remarkable. I also think that La Nicks' voice from Mirage back heavily influenced that sound. The chorus of Dreams is a good example, and she is not even singing lead on it

[Villavic]

Hey Mystified is far more beautiful than Caroline!! vote for Caroline!!

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Hey Mystified is far more beautiful than Caroline!! vote for Caroline!!

Talk about repetative.... although this whole album is...

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Talk about repetative.... although this whole album is...

If it's well done,, sometimes repetitive sounds are great. See ABBA's Winner takes it all. If you listen carefully the melody is very repetitous, very simple. Benny said in a documentary:

(the melody is) tarara.. tarari.. goes twice, and then goes dararara dararari twice, and that's it. There is nothing else there. I think we've achieved what I'm always aiming for, to try to keep things as simple as possible. I mean the inner thing in a song should be as simple as possible.

Benny Anderson - 1999

And if master Benny said it so, it's true. no discussion!!! No doubt Winner takes it all became a masterpiece, a jewel.. and one of my favorite songs in the whole wide world!!

Well, not all simple things may turn into jewels, but some repetitous songs may be cool also.. so I like Mystified!!!

[vermicious knid]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I love Mystified...

it's mysterious...
it's written by both Buckingham and McVie
it has takes with both on lead vocals...

Yes, as does You and I Part II AKA Eyes Wide Shut. I think I prefer Christine on the latter. He sings "Hoping tomorrow will never come for you, you, you, you, you, and I" but she sings "Hoping tomorrow will never come if you will love me today" It would have been nice if they both sang their different lines together. I think it would have meshed well.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by vermicious knid

He sings "Hoping tomorrow will never come for you, you, you, you, you, and I" but she sings "Hoping tomorrow will never come if you will love me today" It would have been nice if they both sang their different lines together. I think it would have meshed well.

Ooooh, that's a lovely distinction. Thanks for pointing it out. Chris' line smacks of realism. "I know this can't last forever, but lets enjoy it while we can. DO stop thinking about tomorrow." Conversely, Lindsey's take has an optimism that can't stand up in the real world. Singing them together would have been lovely. That's why I like them singing together on Think About Me. Same words, but one's a plea, the other's a demand.

Michele