The Friday Canon: FLEETWOOD MAC

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes, the next most requested canon was those rather hirsuite chaps and chapesses from Fleetwood Mac! Thanks to their habit of releasing more albums than singles you have just FIVE ticks to dish out over their 16 UK Top 40 hits.

[Poll #1102069]
Gwen/No Doubt: (link)
=1. Hollaback Girl
=1. What You Waiting For
3. Don't Speak
4. Hella Good
5. Just A Girl
6. Cool
7. The Sweet Escape [ft Akon]
8. Let Me Blow Ya Mind [w/Eve]
=9. Spiderwebs
=9. Wind It Up

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was SO SURE they'd had more singles in the Tango In The Night 'era', probably because a guy at school played it incessantly. "ah-aaaahhh, I wanna be with you everywhere". Hated it. Put me off the band, quite wrongly. "Little Lies" is good tho.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Everywhere was a top 10 single, must be missing off everyhit or something. There were other singles from that album as well - 7 wonders at least and i think a couple of others too, none of which charted.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmmm, it's on everyhit, i think our poll compiler must have made an misteak...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have - see veiled apology below :)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes, sorry, wouldn't have commented if i'd scrolled down a bit further!

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Oh god yes Everywhere! I loved that at the time and er probably still would.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

I revisited Fleetwood Mac in the last year or so - I was expecting it to be every bit as awesome as I remembered but in fact it was much more impressive when I was five.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Where Fleetwood Mac = Tango In The Night (the album) - the song in its own right is still good, though.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

That's a crap album; listen to Tusk.

[promonaut.livejournal.com]

with "Chain":)

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I always used to - and occasionally still do - get THE CHAIN mixed up with LAYLA by E. Clapton. I have no idea why.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

The riff's in the same key?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

It could actually BE something like that you know, my young impressionable mind etc etc. I'm sure they were both used for various TV themes/adverts around the same time as well.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Go Your Own Way is so very very brilliant it's almost embarrassing. Those drums! That desperate voice!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

MORE "TUSK" AND "BIG LOVE" LOVE PLEASE. "Go Your Own Way" still stunning to this day, of course, and TOM I AM SHOCKED AT YOU for hating "Everywhere".

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No no you misunderstand, I h8ed it THEN. I expect I wouldn't now! That was my year of liking Pink Floyd and I thought a lot of wrong things.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Did you like the cheery, breezy dance versions of it that came out a few years ago? Great idea, not QUITE executed properly.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong about liking PF.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bugger, you can blame LJ's poll interface for missing off 'Everywhere', it only lets you do 15 answers for one question, and if you want more then you have to add it in manually. And I er, forgot.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Well i only ticked three so TICK FOR EVERYWHERE :)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked you haven't mentioned 'Silver Springs'!

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

GOOD POINT actually! Sheesh I'm ashamed to have not remembered that - still, I have never actually HEARD the song in question.

So many ppl have asked us if we're named after the Fleetwood Mac song that we actually have a song called - you guessed it - Fleetwood Mac. It's atommickbrane's favourite song EVER by us :)

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Can I hear?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is quite good: "You Make Loving Fun (Trailmix Remix)" - http://www.sendspace.com/file/ujtktg

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

A few days ago I had a discussion with two of my friends re: sucks to be Fleetwood Mac; one of your songs is most famous when performed by Sultana and everyone thinks one of the others was written by The Corrs. The Horror.

Which one is the one on the Top Gear theme, or am I thinking of a different band?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

The Allman Brothers - Jessica

The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The hell???

[sbp.livejournal.com]

I like old school FM *and* new school FM - there should have been two separate polls so I could get all my ticks in.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I am mostly unfamiliar with Fleetwood Mac's pre-Buckingham material, I do know and like "Albatross" though. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, and Tusk all brilliant, though Tusk is sometimes overrated. I guess there was no doubt "Go Your Own Way" was gonna win this, though I think I actually prefer "Rhiannon".

Has anybody heard the full length cover of Tusk by Camper Van Beethoven? I heard it once a few years ago, before I knew the original album. I wonder if it's any good.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I agree Tusk gets a bit overrated, at least recently, but those two singles from it are terrific and should be both picking up more ticks here.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

They are both terrific, but "Sara" was not quite terrific enough to get my vote over "Dreams". Sorry. "Tusk" is one of the weirdest top 10 hits ever (top 10 in America at least) and deserves more ticks.

IMPORTANT QUESTION

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Is there an bosh version of Go Your Own Way?

I have never really had any desire to explore the work of Fleetwood Mac.

Re: IMPORTANT QUESTION

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think so. I will look on my hard drive tonight. If there is then it's a bit pedestrian I think :(

Confession

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

For ages I thought 'Don't Stop' was by the Eagles.

This poll is worthless...

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

(no offense, Kat)

...as three of their best songs apparently didn't even chart in the UK (WTF!@#$):

from Mirage
"Hold Me" (1982) - Christine #4, US
"Gypsy" (1982) - Requisite Stevie song, #12 US
"Love in Store (1983) - #22

not to mention RHIANNON!!!!!!

Re: This poll is worthless...

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

yes! Gypsy is fantastic, can't believe it's not in here.

I *love* Fleetwood Mac, I've found this one way harder than most canons. I love the fact they have three singers, three songwriters, each with a different vocal style and each doing differenty kinds of song. It's like three bands in one.

She is a cat in the dark, then she is the darkness

[koganbot]

"Rhiannon" live, April 9, 1976; if you don't listen to this version your life is a pale, worthless thing.

Bonus points: "The Green Manalishi (Teenage Dirtbag Version)"

Re: She is a cat in the dark, then she is the darkness

[koganbot]

Er, she's merely like a cat in the dark (but she is the darkness; that's been confirmed).