Fantasy Tango

[David]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

but i pretty much always skip over Mystified, Family Man, You & I

"Mystified" is an essential part of the album for me because it -- along with "You & I Part One," "Little Lies," "Make Me a Mask" -- represents a point in Lindsey's development that is oddly influenced by the pentatonic, or five-tone, scale. Certainly other pop songs had used the pentatonic (like the Genesis song "That's All" back in 1983), but Lindsey deliberately interweaves the five-tone scale into the fabric of much of the "Tango" album, not merely for formalistic reasons but for emotional reasons, as well. (The emotional atmosphere of a pop song structured upon the five-tone is unquestionable.)

hear that people... it rocks hard
why wouldnt they have included it on the album
it sooooooo would have fit
prob better than Joan.

listen to Juliet here:
http://www.4shared.com/file/77075512...ngoJuliet.html

Of course, there's no telling just how much this "Juliet" might have been altered or even reimagined if the band had kept working on it (working it over?) for official release. All the rough energy we love may have been subdued. It's hard to say.

who made the comment that JoA was not the Mac?
do u mean it's a diff band or it's just Stevie-solo and not a Mac track

I did. I've thought that for years. I'm not sure what we have of it is Fleetwood Mac "Tango" work-in-progress. It's somewhat experimental in its looped keyboard & percussion motif, but the sound of that loop along with the moaning guitar just doesn't sound like a Buckingham experiment. He tends not to paint such lengthy & droning ostinato-based canvases. I think "Joan of Arc" has more in common sonically with "Mirror Mirror" than anything Mac was doing that decade.

Or --- it might be Fleetwood Mac ... as the bootleggers said it was. It's just that it's never been confirmed, as far as I know.