Silver Springs from The Dance

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Originally Posted by michelej1

[Just saw this article about rejected songs. It's from last year, but since SS was being discussed and I didn't see it posted before, I thought I'd put up the FM excerpt]

Yahoo, NME Music Blog 11-28-2009, by Luke Lewis
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/new...d-from-albums/

Tell a certain kind of serious-minded music fan that Fleetwood Mac's Rumours isn't perfect, and he'll give you an uppercut to the jaw. And he'd be right to. I love that album more than is probably healthy. Yet even a tragic Fleetwood Mac nerd like me would admit that it could have been better.

This morning, during a rain-lashed trudge to work, "Oh Daddy"came on my iPod--the closest thing Rumours has to a filler track--and I thought, "What, you included this, yet you rejected Stevie Nicks' astonishing, hymn-like ballad 'Silver Springs,' a song that positively bellows: Rousing Album-Closer?"
Fortunately, that song was rescued from obscurity when it was included on the 2004 reissue. It's now a live favorite. But it makes you wonder what on earth was going through the band's coke- and heartbreak-addled minds back in 1977. It also set me thinking about other

I just don't understand all the universal hatred for Oh Daddy. I think it's Christine's Gold Dust Woman. It's gorgeous and ethereal. To me, the one filler song on Rumours is I Don't Want To Know. I love it, it's fun and foot tapping, always makes me smile... but it's pop fluff. While I adore Silver Springs, I think Mick was right to pull it... it was just too long, heavy, and didn't necessarily lay well with the other Rumours tracks.