r/FleetwoodMac

Hey fellow Lindsey fans! I've been playing this game for a while called Mixtape Hero that is a pretty fun music-based game. I grew up with Fleetwood Mac music, but became a hardcore Lindsey fan around the release of The Dance, so I thought it would be fun to make a Lindsey-themed version.

Here's how it works:

• This game has 3 rounds
• Each round has a specific theme
• Every player submits a song that they think fits the theme well
• The game creates an anonymous/randomized playlist for everyone to listen to
• Everyone listens, comments, and votes
• At the end of the round, everyone gets to see who submitted what, what comments were made, etc...

It's free to play, but you have to have Spotify or Apple Music, and you also have to have a pretty solid working knowledge of Lindsey's catalog, or else you will not do well.

Interested? You can join here. DM me if you have any questions. Looking forward to it!

Oh, and the first song submission is due by 6pm eastern this friday. Then the playlist will come out and we have until the following Wednesday to listen and vote/comment.

I’m pretty new to Fleetwood Mac and I love the song dreams and I’m looking for some more song recommendations.

I'm kind of just getting into FM and while I enjoy Rumors and a decent amount of the white album, it is really Tusk and in particular the Lindsey material that attracts me to them. I like indie and various more "out there" subgenres of rock, so that explains why. His nine tracks on that album are really just some of the most incredible forward-thinking music to me and I can't stop listening to them.

I know that Tusk has a reputation as one of the great weird flop albums of the 70s and that there's lots of discussion about the budget, the excess of the sessions and its failure to chart, but it still shocks me that there isn't all that much writing or discussion about Lindsey's songs on it. There's some stuff about his wildness in the studio (shaving his head, singing from the floor, turning the knobs on the console 180 degrees) but in my opinion, the songs themselves should be way more documented as incredibly prescient pieces of rock genius. A lot of those sorts of sounds/vocal styles wouldn't be heard again until the late 80s/90s with bands like Pixies or Modest Mouse.

Even as the album has gained this reputation as the wildcard cult favorite, it still seems alarmingly underrated to me in the zeitgeist. Like people should still be talking about this album more.The decision to follow Over and Over with The Ledge has to be one of the most creative devil-may-care sequencing choices in rock history. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the label office when they first heard that transition.

Just wanted to rant a bit about how much I love this album and these songs. I know I'm not the only one to recognize their value, but I still can't help but feel like the moderate level of buzz around them is not commensurate with just how incredible, audacious and insane the album actually is.

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Okay, I know I’m probably about to get murdered here, but what’s the deal with Stevie Nicks?
A peer of mine absolutely hates Stevie’s voice. I don’t hate it. I think it’s fine. She has written some absolutely good songs. “Dreams,” “Rhiannon,” “Landslide,” “Gypsy,” etc. but they are made so much better by the rest of the band.
But here’s what I don’t understand.
You have Christine McVie. You have Lindsey Buckingham**.** You have John McVie**.** You have Mick Fleetwood.
That’s already a fucking band.
Christine is an incredible songwriter and vocalist and has those ridiculously good keyboard parts. Lindsey is Lindsey—guitar, vocals, arrangements, production, weird noises, whatever the hell else he’s doing. John and Mick are one of the great rhythm sections in rock. They’re locked in, understated, and somehow make everything sound enormous without constantly screaming “LOOK AT ME, I’M THE BASS PLAYER/DRUMMER.”
So I’m sitting here thinking:
John + Mick + Lindsey + Christine.
That’s a killer four-piece.
Why the fuck do we need Stevie? She’s redundant (aside from songwriting fuel for Buckingham)

And I mean that as a genuine question.
Obviously, the answer can’t simply be “because she’s a good singer,” because I don’t personally hear Stevie as being on the same technical level as Christine or Lindsey. Her voice is incredibly recognizable, but recognizable is not the same as technically superior.
And when Stevie sings on someone else’s Fleetwood Mac song, I’m not always sitting there thinking, “Oh yeah, this song really needed Stevie.”
Her background vocals are good. But you’ve already got Christine and Lindsey doing harmonies. What exactly is Stevie adding to their songs?
Is it basically the contrast?
Because I can kind of see that argument. Christine’s voice is warm and soulful and has attitude. Lindsey’s strong and edgy. Stevie sounds like she’s wandering through the fog at 3 AM after receiving a prophecy from a witch.
Which brings me to another question:
Why the hell don’t people cover more Christine McVie songs?
Seriously.
“Songbird” is beautiful, obviously, but there are so many Christine songs that seem like they should be standard-cover material. “You Make Loving Fun,” “Say You Love Me,” “Don’t Stop,” “Over My Head,” “Hold Me,” “Everywhere,” “Little Lies”…
These are fucking songs.
I’m genuinely trying to understand what I’m missing about her within Fleetwood Mac beyond “she wrote some songs and has a really distinctive voice.”
Because when I look at the personnel, I keep coming back to:
Mick. John. Lindsey. Christine**.** And of course there was Kirwin, Welch, Weston, Walker, and Green and 90 other people who were decent singers. Soulful in their own way.
So…
Why the fuck do we need Stevie**?**

Hi! This is my first post on reddit ever, I just have to share my thoughts and for some reason my friends don't want to hear another word about FleetwoodMac 😇

So, I always loved the chain and liked some other songs, but never knew anything about the band members. A few weeks ago I saw The chain live from 1982 & Silver springs from 1997 and ever since I'm on a binge of discovering new songs / watching performances / reading about their history and damn...

First of all the music is great (and I still have more to discover, and yes I check other incarnations of the band as well), but then there's this fascination I have with the story of Stevie and Lindsey, and for the love of god I don't know why I care so much, but it just breaks my heart. I feel like I just HAVE to know what happened in 1997 (and know we'll probably never know). The song Thrown down, if indeed it tell the story of what happened between them on The dance, is just too much. How could she write that? it's so personal. I keep going back and forth between thinking this is such a tragic love story and thinking it's a show they put on (depending on which performance or quote I saw last). I just want them to spend their last years in a hug. 💔

(personal stuff coming, feel free to skip - I think it could be me being a 47yo single woman that made me fixate on Stevie during the dance - this point in life between being young and old, the last chance of having it all and then losing it. What you had... and what you lost...)

Thanks for reading 🎶

The best version of Rhiannon is the live version from Burbank in 1976.
The voice of Nicks is haunting and plays into Welsh and the Celtic fringe beliefs in regards to witchcraft.

Personally I have it on repeat most days - what about you?

I track Apple Music's weekly top 100 charts across 30 countries. The Chain is having a moment: it went from 87 to 53 in the UK this week, entered the Dutch chart at 78, and is also sitting on the charts in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. A 1977 song on five countries' top 100s in the same week is the kind of thing I usually only see in December.

It's been lurking around the bottom of the UK chart for weeks (80, then 87), so this week's jump is a real acceleration, not a one-off blip. My first guess was F1 coverage since the riff is basically the sport's theme in the UK, but chart data alone can't tell me where the streams come from. Anyone seen what set it off?

Happy to pull any country's full chart if anyone wants it.

I’ve always said every time I listen to Fleetwood Mac that there has to be trilogy between ‘Silver Springs’, ‘Rhiannon’ and ‘Gypsy’. Like they just go so well together - what do you think?

I’m not sure if anyone caught this or if this has already been mentioned, but at the Young Hollywood awards show last week, Entertainment Tonight asked Lindsey about a cryptic answer he gave to the question as to whether a FM performance at the Sphere was possible. She then asks him directly if that is something he would “want to take on” and he says “Anything is possible. I’m not going to speculate, but absolutely, I would be open to that”. She then asks him if he and Stevie have talked about that that and he says “We haven’t talked about that specifically but we have talked a lot about a lot of things in a very, very positive way.” All this leads me to believe that an actual performance is very possible, if not likely.

That being said, while I have been really hoping for a FM performance since things started heating up again with Lindsey and Stevie (and of course Mick fanning the flames with his cryptic posts), I’m now having second thoughts. Seeing Barry Manilow, Lionel Richie, Rod Stewart, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe and others really struggle to perform on stage, I wonder if Lindsey, Stevie and Mick could pull off a truly great performance. Lindsey’s voice seems strained these days. I mean, both Stevie’s and Lindsey’s voices have changed as have their vocal ranges. Stevie’s adjustments to her songs have, to me, been a little hit or miss, with some coming off better than others. And then you have the question as to their energy levels and whether or not they could really bring a performance to life as they’ve done in the past. So I’m now wondering whether it is better to go out on a high note or just do what you can with what you have and know that your hardcore fans are likely to love whatever they can get.

Either from original album or the FM Live ' 80 album(cut from 5/20/80 Cleveland). I think honestly if they picked 5.20.80 live track it could have a top 40 hit