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.

[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.

[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".

[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.

[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?

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.

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.

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!!!!!!

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)"