The New Album Thread

[mitzo]

A spring 2015 release seems really soon!

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by mitzo

A spring 2015 release seems really soon!

I really hope this is true! Glad to see evidence that Stevie is now involved.
On With The Show is a good album title, or maybe the live DVD/CD from the tour. (Wishful thinking)
A more accurate title : The Juggling Act.

[Murrow]

If Chris is coming up with songs that merit colourful titles like Red Sun and Carnival Begin (either would make great album titles) then she must be writing better than ever. This really can't come soon enough for me - I kind of wish they'd just get on with finishing the album instead of doing this tour.

[Jondalar]

Is Lay Down For Free about Stevie?

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by Murrow

If Chris is coming up with songs that merit colourful titles like Red Sun and Carnival Begin (either would make great album titles) then she must be writing better than ever. This really can't come soon enough for me - I kind of wish they'd just get on with finishing the album instead of doing this tour.

Their priorities are so out of whack. When Christine rejoined, they should have focused on making a new album, then go on tour. If that happened, it wouldn't have interfered/clashed so much with Stevie's solo plans.

But instead, the priority was profit over product won! Were they complicit in this choice, or were their managers and the corporation that finances their tours putting pressure on them?

The show, as expected, is just mostly rehash of the all the songs circa 1975-1979. I'm attending a show on this jukebox tour, and I'm sure I'll love it. But tours are fleeting. I'd rather have a new album.

[Johnny Stew]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/...w-album-plans/

Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham On The Group’s New Album Plans
By Jim Fusilli

Extending their tour into 2015 won’t deter Fleetwood Mac from recording what might become their first album in almost three decades of new songs composed by Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks.

During a telephone conversation last week, Buckingham said McVie had presented him with demos of her new compositions. “Piano and voice,” he said. He brought them back to his studio in Los Angeles. With McVie’s approval, he added, “I took massive liberties with them.”

Nicks was “otherwise engaged. A running commentary these days,” he said, perhaps referring to preparations for her exhibition of her self-portrait photography now ongoing at the Morrison Hotel galleries in Los Angeles and New York as well as the release last week of “24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault,” her album of new versions of old, mostly unfamiliar compositions. “Christine and I were able to concentrate on each other,” Buckingham said. “We were exploring some new turf. That became enlightening to me.”

With Christine McVie back in the band for the first time in 16 years, Fleetwood Mac will be on the road through next March. “We never envisioned finishing the album in the short term,” he said. “We set it aside. Stevie will come in and participate. I have material I had been working on. There’s no danger that it will slip between the tracks. It’s too profound to.”

Buckingham hinted the band might tour behind new material. The current “On With The Show” concert tour features only songs from Fleetwood Mac’s hit-making era from 1975 through 1987’s “Tango in the Night,” the last album to feature Buckingham, McVie and Nicks with drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie.

“Once we finish it,” Buckingham said, “we can think about going out and trying something new.”

As for the vibe now among the quintet with Christine McVie back on board, he said, “It’s a very interesting thing when someone who helped to define the interaction leaves for that amount of time. You don’t know how it’s going to play out. But this something that feels really good. It feels really circular.”



Jim Fusilli is the Journal’s rock and pop music critic. Email him [email protected]nd follow him on Twitter @wsjrock.

[Tango]

Thank you Johnny Stew. I never had a doubt.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by Tango

Thank you Johnny Stew. I never had a doubt.

Same here, Tango.

[wheart]

"Nicks was “otherwise engaged. A running commentary these days,” he said"

I loved this part! I can just hear him say it, too, with slightly raised eyebrows. This does, however, sound promising. I'm glad he said it's not going to fall through the cracks.

[SpyNote]

Originally Posted by wheart

"Nicks was “otherwise engaged. A running commentary these days,” he said"

I loved this part! I can just hear him say it, too, with slightly raised eyebrows. This does, however, sound promising. I'm glad he said it's not going to fall through the cracks.

Oh, Lindsey, annoyed and verbose as usual. Gotta love him.

[FuzzyPlum]

Damn. Now I'm more dying than ever to hear this new music. I feel a little better having read this though.

[elle]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

“We set it aside. Stevie will come in and participate. I have material I had been working on. There’s no danger that it will slip between the tracks. It’s too profound to.”

Buckingham hinted the band might tour behind new material. The current “On With The Show” concert tour features only songs from Fleetwood Mac’s hit-making era from 1975 through 1987’s “Tango in the Night,” the last album to feature Buckingham, McVie and Nicks with drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie.

“Once we finish it,” Buckingham said, “we can think about going out and trying something new.”

oh Lindsey! honey!! sounds like 2009 tour all over again, doesn't it? or 2013.
after this tour we will finish the album and put it out. maybe. in a year. or 5. or never. but we have to!! i gotta believe that! it's too profound not to!

when summer 2015 rolls around and Stevie goes on solo tour, hopefully Lindsey will feel the need to compose Dancin' 2 and do another OMS tour, cause the time will open up, and he'll decide to fill it. hopefully he will do what he did in 2010 and 2012 when he wanted to do FM albums and some were not on board, as opposed to closing himself in the studio for years and decades like he did in the 80s and 90s.

[TrueFaith77]

Agreed. I simply don't believe it will happen as an album. Again: The Dance 2; Greatest Hits 2; Gift of Screws 2; Extended Play 2--all possible--but NOT Rumours 2. Sorry bout it.

[welcomechris]

To bad we didn't get a date to expect it

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by welcomechris

To bad we didn't get a date to expect it

Because they're so reliable when they give us dates.