Songs You Usually Skip

[chriskisn]

Ok so we have polls coming out of our ears in terms of least favourite song, but given that most people in this forum don't seem to think the polls are worth the cyberspace they are floating around in then lets have a discussion about what tracks we don't particularly like or skip for one reason or another. Not a poll in sight...

Yes so everyone in this forum loves every member of every lineup of FM, with the exception of Dave Walker who everyone hates except me and a couple of others. Surely though, you don't like EVERY track??? Doesn't even have to be Fleetwood Mac, it can be a Fleetwood Mac solo album. Just pre-1975 members so we keep it all nice and compact with the right forum (though I guess the songs can be post-75???)

Ok so now for my skip list

Fleetwood Mac
When You Say (Then Play On)
Woman of 1000 Years
Dust
Thoughts on A Grey Day
All those longs jams - Encore Jam, Rattlesnake Shake (not the song just the 24 minute version)
Albatross (don't hate me but it annoys me)

Jeremy Spencer
Man of Action (Funny though it is)
If I Could Swim The Mountain

Christine Perfect
When You Say
And That's Saying A Lot

Peter Green
The Entire End of the Game Album
No Way Out
The Case (from Katmandu)
Heavy Heart

Bob Welch
B666
The Entire Bob Welch Looks at Bop album

Mick Fleetwood
O'Niamali
The Visitor

[holidayroad]

Blood on the Floor
Lay It All Down
I'm a Roadrunner
The Derelict
Nightwatch (I have to be in a certain mood to listen to it)
The City

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Woman of 1000 Years
Dust

Those are Danny's greatest songs ever!?!?

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by holidayroad

The Derelict

Well I knew that one would pop up

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

Those are Danny's greatest songs ever!?!?

Really? See I much prefer songs like Trinity, Coming Your Way and Dragonfly.

I've never been someone who can listen to a song and say "Oh yes XYZ is really showing his jazz influences in a post-modernist spectrum" or some such. I just enjoy a song or I don't. Sure maybe that was Danny at his most introspective, poetic, or whatever, but it just doesn't do it for me.

[bretonbanquet]

If I'm playing a pre-'74 Mac album, I never skip tracks. But sometimes I play a song or two from several albums, sadly in some kind of chronological order, for example a few songs from Then Play On, a couple of the singles, then 2 or 3 from Kiln House, then 2 or 3 from Future Games etc. That'll usually lead me off somewhere else, listening to solo stuff or something. If I'm playing a few tracks from "Penguin", I'll always play Dave Walker's two tracks, and "Remember Me" for Bob Weston's solo. If I listen to post-'74 Mac, I'm far more likely to skip tracks.

Some albums I only play when I'm in a weird mood, like "The End of the Game", and I can't say I play it a lot, but I like it. I dig pretty much all the solo stuff, except Christine's stuff, John's Gotta Band album and the Bob Welch Bop album. They're all OK but I'm not crazy about them. The Paris albums are great, as are Peter's, Danny's and Jeremy's - nothing there I skip.

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

If I'm playing a pre-'74 Mac album, I never skip tracks. But sometimes I play a song or two from several albums, sadly in some kind of chronological order, for example a few songs from Then Play On, a couple of the singles, then 2 or 3 from Kiln House, then 2 or 3 from Future Games etc. That'll usually lead me off somewhere else, listening to solo stuff or something. If I'm playing a few tracks from "Penguin", I'll always play Dave Walker's two tracks, and "Remember Me" for Bob Weston's solo. If I listen to post-'74 Mac, I'm far more likely to skip tracks.

Some albums I only play when I'm in a weird mood, like "The End of the Game", and I can't say I play it a lot, but I like it. I dig pretty much all the solo stuff, except Christine's stuff, John's Gotta Band album and the Bob Welch Bop album. They're all OK but I'm not crazy about them. The Paris albums are great, as are Peter's, Danny's and Jeremy's - nothing there I skip.

Funny but I love that album. Sure it is is hard to see it as a solo album by John McVie, but I do love Lola's voice.

[bretonbanquet]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Funny but I love that album. Sure it is is hard to see it as a solo album by John McVie, but I do love Lola's voice.

She has a good voice, but it doesn't push my buttons It kinda washes over me.

[holidayroad]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Funny but I love that album. Sure it is is hard to see it as a solo album by John McVie, but I do love Lola's voice.

I love it, too! I never get tired of it.

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by holidayroad

I love it, too! I never get tired of it.

I haven't listened to the album in years though. Shall have to dig it out. Once a while a song comes up on the iPod (which is constantly set to shuffle through 12,000 songs) and I remember how much I enjoyed it.

[chiliD]

The only three tracks I skip when playing any pre-'74 stuff are:

When You Say (both FMac's & Christine's)
Thoughts On A Grey Day (Mrs Scarrott's poem)
(I'm A) Roadrunner (not a bad song, just poor execution)

That's it.