In every silver cloud there's a Lyndsey Buckingham

[fingertrouble]

I'm not a child anymore
No, I'm not a child, oh no
Tall enough to reach for the stars
I will do
As I'm told
Even if I never hold you again
I never hold you again

Listening to Fleetwood Mac - something when I was younger I would be embarassed about but as I get older I don't care = I listen to the noisy electro shit too, but FM relaxes me like very few other acts do. Listening to Tusk which I've not heard in full...odd album, some crushingly beautiful songs from Stevie Nicks (she was on form at this point) and Christine McVie; but interspersed with weird Lyndsey Buckingham's response to punk/new wave experiments which mostly don't work and sound odd...I can see the problem though, after punk where could they go?

Here's my current listening Last.fm chart (although not up-to-date with FM) for this week:

21	1		Lupe Fiasco	41
	2		Rhymefest	20
	3		Nina Simone	9
13	4		Burial	4
	5		t.A.T.u vs. Klaxons	3
9	5		Glowstyx	3
	7		The Knife	2
	7		Elizabeth Fraser	2
	7		George Benson	2
	7		Earworm	2
10	7		Totom	2
	7		Glasvegas	2
	13		Slade	1
9	13		Tyler2000	1

Comments

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

The more I listen to FM, the more I realize I ONLY like Buckingham's stuff. Tusk especially.

McVie's songs are a little "Starland Vocal Band" for me, and Nicks stuff. Well, it's just a bit too "Stevie Nicks," isn't it?

Buckingham I would rate up there with Saint Brian Wilson as one of the great warped Southern California songwriter/producers. Brilliant.

[viridescence]

I love Fleetwood Mac. To me, Rumours is one of those perfect albums. I could never get sick of listening to it.

[bismrkbear.livejournal.com]

Don't ever apologize for liking a particular type of music, it is a waste of time. Fleetwood Mac is similar to a few other 70's artists that are lumped together in some peoples minds for producing the perfectly recorded type of music that punk railed against. However if you look beyond the studio gloss you'll find a dynamic that is just as vital as the punk antedote. The tension in Go Your Own Way is palpable and on the same level as any of the punk of the time. I do have to rediscover Tusk, but I remember it as challenging, which is something I often look for in music.

[shaggycub.livejournal.com]

I've mixed feelings about Lindsey. When he's totally on, he's simply amazing, but then when he's off, he's kinda crappy and weak. Of the three, I've felt that he's just wildly inconsistent. Even when he's on lyrically, he's off musically (or vice versa.) Vocally, and as a musician, he's top notch, but as a writer, he's often too self indulgent for my tastes, and if I'm not in his world, then I just can't care what he has to say. "Eyes of the World?" m'eh.

I will say this, I do think that on "Tusk" he did push Christine and Stevie to stretch a bit. That said, I do enjoy that album, always have.

dancing bear

[johnlindsay.livejournal.com]

really like

Re: dancing bear

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

glad you were there last night...sorry I was a bit stressed.