The Best Song From Every Fleetwood Mac Album

HomerMcvie · #1 03-05-2019, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by elle

it doesn't! it's WAY better. it actually rocks. i always loved that part of DR doc when it just starts, the opening credits roll, and that song comes on - and it is so awe-inspiring to think - wow this IS FM now!

that didn't last long, of course. like Tusk, any forward motion was pulled back. or just killed right in its tracks. that said, as i've gotten older i became more mellow too, and i did enjoy BuckVie a lot. it's leveled and i can happily listen to it all the way through. Say You Will has some unbelievably strong Lindsey songs with mixed in some annoying ones (What's the world coming to!), and then of course many Stevie duds that i just have to always skip through, no matter how many times i tried to like them - or at least just even be able to listen to them. her nasality on that album is through the roof too, so that doesn't help.

It should have been a solo song for him.

I have a pop heart, which is why Christine was always my favorite. BuckVie is so close to Mirage...I just love it.

Which is the main reason I hate SYW. So many duds, no Christine, and it's just plain TOO LONG.

And I'm the only person alive who LOVES What's The World Coming To!

I should cut SYW down to about 8 songs, and I could listen to it then.

secondhandchain · #2 03-05-2019, 02:00 PM

[QUOTE=HomerMcvie;1249870]It should have been a solo song for him.

I have a pop heart, which is why Christine was always my favorite. BuckVie is so close to Mirage...I just love it.

Which is the main reason I hate SYW. So many duds, no Christine, and it's just plain TOO LONG.

And I'm the only person alive who LOVES What's The World Coming To!

No it was my favorite song when the album came out along with Destiny Rules though I though her voice struck me as way too low in the versus. The album was not that great IMO, thought I tried to love it. There are definitely some good tracks though. I might be the only one who loves what LB did to Smile at You. As far as ranking the favorites, I don't even have the heart anymore. SN and M$ck just ruined it for me.

Mr Scarrott · #3 03-05-2019, 02:34 PM

I loved another woman
Love that burns
Closing my eyes
Mission bell
Woman of a thousand years
Spare me a little of your love
Did you ever love me
Hypnotized
Coming Home
Rhiannon
Gold Dust Woman
Brown Eyes
Eyes of the World
Big Love
Behind the mask
Nothing without you
Say Goodbye
(Love is here to stay)

**jbrownsjr** · #4 03-06-2019, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

I loved another woman
Love that burns
Closing my eyes
Mission bell
Woman of a thousand years
Spare me a little of your love
Did you ever love me
Hypnotized
Coming Home
Rhiannon
Gold Dust Woman
Brown Eyes
Eyes of the World
Big Love
Behind the mask
Nothing without you
Say Goodbye
(Love is here to stay)

I love Coming Home!

aleuzzi · #5 03-06-2019, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I love Coming Home!

As do I!

If "Angel" sounded on the studio record as great as it does in the Sausalito soundboard, I'd have chosen that as the best track on HAHTF.

**jbrownsjr** · #6 03-06-2019, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

As do I!

If "Angel" sounded on the studio record as great as it does in the Sausalito soundboard, I'd have chosen that as the best track on HAHTF.

I loved where Bob Welch and Christine were taking them!! Oh that music is so good!! Love Angel. I love Angel (welch) way better than Angel (nicks)
some of them are here on earth... lol

aleuzzi · #7 03-06-2019, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I loved where Bob Welch and Christine were taking them!! Oh that music is so good!! Love Angel. I love Angel (welch) way better than Angel (nicks)
some of them are here on earth... lol

I love both, actually. But the HAHTF Angel is appropriately disillusioned and mysterious, whereas the TUSK Angel is self-mythologizing and solipsistic (though VERY energetic and engaging). And the groove can just go on and on in a trance for as long as it needs to...

**jbrownsjr** · #8 03-07-2019, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

As do I!

If "Angel" sounded on the studio record as great as it does in the Sausalito soundboard, I'd have chosen that as the best track on HAHTF.

Maybe you'd like to come away.

aleuzzi · #9 03-07-2019, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Maybe you'd like to come away.

Baby, I can't come. I'm in my shawl vault.

moon · #10 03-21-2019, 03:22 PM

Of course I have my own list!! Not complete...

Fleetwood Mac (1968):

Mr. Wonderful (1968):

Then Play On (1969): Oh Well

Kiln House (1970):

Future Games (1971): Future Games

Bare Trees (1972): Sunny Side Of Heaven

Penguin (1973): Bright Fire, Caught In The Rain...

Mystery to Me (1973): Emerald Eyes, Forever...

Heroes Are Hard to Find (1974): Heroes Are Hard To Find

Fleetwood Mac (1975): Monday Morning

Rumours (1977): Second Hand News

Tusk (1979): Brown Eyes

Mirage (1982): Love In Store

Tango in the Night (1987): Big Love

Behind the Mask (1990): In The Back Of My Mind

Time (1995):

Say You Will (2003): Illume

EP (2013):

Buckingham McVie: On With The Show

macpai · #11 03-13-2022, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

As do I!

If "Angel" sounded on the studio record as great as it does in the Sausalito soundboard, I'd have chosen that as the best track on HAHTF.

Angel from Record Plant is bonkers. It’s just possessed.

Mr Scarrott · #12 03-06-2019, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I love Coming Home!

HAHTF (the album) is a bit of a slow-burner to appreciate, I think, and it took me a long time to really get to grips with it. I'm glad I did although I don't think I will ever come to terms with Silver Heels. Christine turns into Bob on Bad Loser, Bob's She's changing me almost sounds like a precursor to Say you love me- try playing them back-to-back to catch my drift, and Bob channels Albatross for Safe Harbour. Coming Home feels liberatingly free-form and has a great bass line here and there so I'm glad others rate it too.

I'm not absolutely sure that my choices aren't perhaps my favourites rather than what I might feel are the best, but it's my reality. So Stevie's only on four of the tracks? That's her look out... Nothing Without You (OK,it's a cover, like Mission Bell,but hey..) works best for me as it's the most inclusive of all the band's then personnel-- Christine is very prominent, and Lindsey guests as well.

I've played them in an order which makes about as much sense as I can make of them, and I'm cursing you-know-who for it not quite technically being a best of 18 album playlist.

Big Love
Behind the Mask
Woman of 1000 years
Closing my eyes
Gold Dust Woman
Hypnotized
Brown Eyes
I loved another woman
Rhiannon
Coming Home
Did you ever love me
Mission Bell
Say Goodbye
Love that burns
Spare me a little of your love
Love is here to stay
Nothing without you
Eyes of the World

David · #13 03-06-2019, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

And I'm the only person alive who LOVES What's The World Coming To!

It's one of Lindsey's best. It's a kick—a funny Zevonesque way to gripe about the current state of things. Jackson Browne wishes he could have been so succinct and tone-aware.

There's no truth in my lies
There's no light in my eyes
And it's all I guess
That I'll ever miss

It's political in the best sense: a critique embedded in a good-natured, foursquare musical expression of conservatism.

The widespread dismissal of the song has always puzzled me. Maybe everyone really has gone to the moon.

elle · #14 03-06-2019, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by David

It's one of Lindsey's best. It's a kick—a funny Zevonesque way to gripe about the current state of things. Jackson Browne wishes he could have been so succinct and tone-aware.

There's no truth in my lies
There's no light in my eyes
And it's all I guess
That I'll ever miss

It's political in the best sense: a critique embedded in a good-natured, foursquare musical expression of conservatism.

The widespread dismissal of the song has always puzzled me. Maybe everyone really has gone to the moon.

but of course!

i love the lyrics, but melody and music is where it is for me in a song. and boring melody and music and performance and Nicks' nasal voice is making it drilling the holes in my ears and making them bleed. so while i LOVE slightly political Lindseylyrics (as opposed to all his regular love-whining), i can happily read it but i can't listen to this song. i mean Doing What I Can lyrics are as stupid and as lazy as they come right? but i adore the sound of the song and its tempo and its music.

Netter75 · #15 03-23-2019, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by David

It's one of Lindsey's best. It's a kick—a funny Zevonesque way to gripe about the current state of things. Jackson Browne wishes he could have been so succinct and tone-aware.

There's no truth in my lies
There's no light in my eyes
And it's all I guess
That I'll ever miss

It's political in the best sense: a critique embedded in a good-natured, foursquare musical expression of conservatism.

The widespread dismissal of the song has always puzzled me. Maybe everyone really has gone to the moon.

You're not the only one! It's not one of my all time favs but I like a lot of things about this song and it puts me in a good mood every time i hear it. The beat, guitar playing, backing vocals, lyrics, catchiness, etc. Never got why it comes up as one of people's least favorite songs on SYW when there's a fair amount of more offensive GARBAGE from both of them on that album lol.