Adding that Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is the 8th best selling album worldwide right after Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever. Just looked it up because I was curious.
@@Pico_Farad I don't think the live version is terrible but I think Daniel should listen to the studio version for two reasons: 1) To hear it, and 2) I think it's a better version.
One of the greatest breakup songs ever - this was one of two main songs that came from the Stevie Nicks/Lindsay Buckingham breakup. I believe the "chain" is the band. And I personally equate the drum beat at the start as a heartbeat.
In my humble opinion, this live version was Fleetwood Mac at it's best. Also in my humble opinion, Lindsey Buckingham is at least in the top five best guitar players of all time (just watch him). Thank you for reacting to this; I'm surprised it did not get blocked. Best song by them is "Go Your Own Way" (same performance). Please react to that one.
The live version is okay, but IMO, it's not nearly as haunting as the studio version. It's worth noting Mick Fleetwood, the drummer, was voted the best rock drummer in the Playboy magazine musician rankings (something a lot of people took seriously back then) for something like 12 years straight, over drummers like Carl Palmer, Neil Peart, and Bernard Purdie, et. al.
@@Yosef1952 Yep... Palmer and Peart were 2 and 3 usually (swapping places often), but Mick Fleetwood was #1. There were so many arguments about this in my HS, but that's how Playboy saw it. I didn't know enough to argue about it either way. I was (actually, still am) a huge Billy Joel fan, so I was always looking to see where he finished in the keyboards/piano category.
What makes Fleetwood Mac a special band is that the band itself is none than a separate living organism which holds those five musicians together through all those years of dramas and some sort of misunderstanding between each of them. The fact that they've written songs about each other and address them to each other being live on stage, eye to eye, makes their performances as tough as is the daily life. And while most of the people very often are trying to escape from the old wounds and memories in attempts not to trigger them and therefore not to ruin their mental health, there is a band whose nature, in opposite, lies in making those wounds resurge again and again. Hardly anyone is capable of this. We could only imagine.
Very well written Valentin! Back in the day, everyone had this album. The writing, the music, the voices, the musicianship, rarely replicated. It remains one of my most treasured CDs.
This performance came from a concert to mark Fleetwood Mac's 834th reunion. It was called "The Dance" and was released as CD and also as DVD. There are several fantastic tracks in the show, and I would recommend "Tusk", again from "The Dance" as your next Mac reaction. Fantastic song, again with Lindsay Buckingham's lead vocals and some really cool surprises.
Wow..don't know how...but totally forgot about this song!!! Brought back lots of good memories :) Glad you liked it Daniel!!! It is the only song written and created by all 5 member's of the band from old songs...as you know. Thats why it is so good, they all love this song too.
Fleetwood Mac is/was in a league of their own - especially with this album, "Rumours". However, PLEASE... listen to the studio version of "The Chain", as well - You won't be disappointed!
That's everyone's response, "I want to hear that again" :) For me, they are the perfect blend of female and male energy. I love them so much ❤. I hope you give their entire Rumours album a listen in your free time. I feel so happy you liked it!
Another reason to listen to the studio version? It was written and recorded while all the breakups/hookups were actually happening so those studio versions really resonate and hold up over time. Regardless, great to see you doing Fleetwood Mac - very enjoyable.
Fleetwood Mac could be a deep rabbit hole to explore. With a number of songwriters and singers in the band, song style & sound varies considerably. Welcome to the world of Fleetwood Mac (my favorite band).
Stevie's solo album (Bella Donna) is almost as good as Rumors. Leather and Lace, Edge of Seventeen and of course with Petty Stop dragging my heart around.
Almost any Fleetwood Mac song is worth covering, they are brilliant. My favourite by far is Rhiannon - the 1976 live version please, ua-cam.com/video/wgmRb3MlpHQ/v-deo.html
Best performance of a Fleetwood Mac song that has been long overlooked. Say You Love Me The Dance 1997 One of their best. If you have never watched the full concert The Dance it was a great concert.
Rumours is in the top ten bestselling albums of all time. Stayed on the charts for years. And this is one of the most famous breakup songs of all time. The whole album is well worth a dive.
Another excellent job looking at both the emotional impact of a song AND its history. Many other reactors on UA-cam lately have done Elvis Presley's "If I Can Dream," but almost none of them seem to be aware of its dramatic history. It is also a song of great emotional impact. I don't see that you have done any Elvis, and I think that this song might surprise you. I have been a subscriber for some time and I have seen many of your videos, and I think you would like this song. you will definitely appreciate its history. Enough said. I don't want to prejudice your reaction.
So many layers to explain why I’m a huge Fleetwood Mac fan. It starts with the uniquely brilliant voice of Stevie Nicks and songs she sings lead vocals. As much as I love them live, they’re masters in the studio and it generally is what one wants to listen to if they want to capture the essence of the song. Dreams, Rhiannon, Tusk, Gypsy, Sara, Little Lies and Everywhere are just a few iconic songs to start with.
You have got to listen to "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac. It's not only their greatest song but one of the greatest songs of all time. And when you get a chance, listen to the entire Rumors album. It's also one of the greatest albums of all time.
The reason why their songs are so passionate and have so emotion, it's because the feeling were real. The songs were written while they were experiencing these emotions
There was so much emotion because the two front-people in the song was going through a really rough breakup. Lindsey Buckingham was so in love with Stevie Nick's but she said he was stifling her freedom. This and my very favorite Fleetwood Mac song Go Your Own Way we're both about their relationship and breakup. Please watch this in the studio version and Go Your Own Way in both studio and live. Studio for technically amazing and live for true emotion. Stevie looking at Lindsey says it all.
One of the bands, if not the only, to have 3 lead singers and score Top 10 hits with each of them doing lead vocals. And one, "Little Lies", with all 3 singing distinct individual parts, which is why it's my favorite. And, on top of it, they've got to be the only band to have all 3 lead singers score their own solo Top 10 hits. It's amazing.
Good job, Daniel! Quite a similar career arc for Mac as Tull! Both started as British blues/rock bands in 1967, and both morphed into something vastly different than their early incarnations, and both became endlessly creative, and iconic linchpin classic rock bands.
Fleetwood Mac is a Super Group. They are on the Upper Plateau of Talent ! up there with Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Eagles, RUSH, Led Zeppelin, Heart and Queen.
"Damn the dark, damn the light." Imagine and reflect on the despair and mental state of the person who wrote that line. Brings me to tears everytime I hear it, even some 40 years later.
Not my original comment, but the most accurate: Taylor Swift writes songs about all of her exes. Stevie Nicks makes her ex eternally sing a song about what he did. LOL.
Thank you for taking the plunge into Fleetwood Mac! Go Your Own Way, Landslide, Dreams and You Make Loving Fun are all great songs to check out. You also mentioned, as an aside, that you need to get back to Neil Young, so may I recommend The Needle and the Damage Done, Helpless, Hey Hey My My, Heart of Gold, Take Me To The River and Rockin' In The Free World? All great songs, and when you check out Neil the best way to do it is to watch one of his live performances! Enjoy!
Also, you have a new Sub..... been watching your reactions for a bit and am very impressed with your intelligence and TRUE appreciation for the songs as a "whole". That being said........ I KNOW everyone has done it BUT......... could you please react to "Black" Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged. For such a young person you have a very wise soul. I think we'd all be interested to hear your opinion/take on the lyrics(especially) and the way Eddie Vedder delivers them in this particular performance. The lyrics are MASTERFULLY intelligent, powerful and filled with beautiful (albeit painful) metaphors..... love to hear your thoughts on them, especially on the "five horizons" line/verse. Feel free to be honest if you don't agree. These channels are a hate free zone and should remain that way. Thanks for your consideration. Somehow, I think you're gonna make a bigger impact on some peoples lives than you ever expected. Keep 'em coming....
The song is credited to all five members as writers. It's obviously about broken relationships and the two couples - John and Christine McVie, as well as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were going through breakups as this album is being made. Even years later when this video was made, there are raw emotions onstage, especially between Stevie and Lindsey. And for the record, he is one of the most overlooked guitarists out there - absolutely masterful player!
Randy, :) The way that Stevie sings to Lindsey instead of the audience - her eyes & emotions burn with a fire in his direction. :) Fleetwood Mac was so good!! My son said he never cares to hear another of their songs again because I played them constantly. He got sick of them! :)
Thank you, Daniel -- what you said was "official video" though, is LIVE -- pretty good, but you should also hear the original album track... keep it up!
Lynsey’s guitar playing is excellent, very creative and melodic. Maybe try his solo song “trouble” or more live Mac from 75-77 I think that’s their most inspired period.
my personal favourite is "Go Your Own Way", especially the one vocal on the line "don't go away". Some songs, one line just sets it's hooks into you. I also love "Don't Stop".
You REALLY HAVE TO sit and put head phones on and listen to the whole RUMOURS album. It is a masterpiece created when the band was in turmoil. This performance was twenty years later and a make up tour that lasted a year or so until someone got mad and left. The reunite again and again. Stevie Nicks is the best female vocalist since Aretha Franklin and Linsey Buckingham has his own guitar styling. Amazing.
Some of my favorites besides the chain are, gold dust Woman, second hand news, I don't want to know, go your own way, gypsy, dreams, Rhiannon, never going back again, Silver Springs, everywhere
I love this formation of the group, however you will really dig Fleetwood Mac’s early blues based material. I recommend ‘Looking For Someone’. It’s a banger.
Loved this band even before the Stevie/ Lindsay era. Daniel, as a guitar player this is a must-see performance: “Big Love” live - the hottest solo by Lindsay Buckingham !
Daniel, this song means so much to this group. The chains they're talking about are the fame and popularity this group have together. Just look at the history and see pictures of all the singers. They started out around you age. Have lived and loved together and apart. The name of the group is derived from the drummer's name. They go back a long way as so many others. Try James Taylor's Mud Sly Slim album.
I scrolled the comments quickly so I may have missed it, but it seems nobody has mentioned the song Landslide. Written by Stevie Nicks and on the first Fleetwood Mac album after she joined. This is the song performed most: “Nicks has sung it on every Fleetwood Mac tour since joining the band . . . as well as on all of her own solo tours from 2005 onwards. She is 70 and still going strong. As with many, Covid-19 interrupted her most current tour. Landslide is an audience pleaser, and I sure love it. The album was released in 1975 (what a great year for music) and I first heard it while taking an early morning outdoor water coloring class that spring given by the Brooklyn Museum -but we painted in the Botanic Gardens next door, weather permitting. It was a gorgeous spring and I’ll always associate Landslide. Maybe Fleetwood Mac fans here have a favorite version. If so, please say so. Otherwise, listen to the original. I know I’ve heard a few live versions but don’t know which/when. The Smashing Pumpkins (love them!) did a cover version; so did the country music group, The Dixie Chicks. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think their cover of Landslide was there biggest hit.
Daniel, I'm curious if you listen to the studio versions after listening to live versions of such an iconic song? This is incredible, but the studio/album version is glorious. Not suggesting a public reaction, just wondering which versions you would add to your personal playlist.
Best band ever. The five of them are amazing. Three songwriters, three vocalists, all with their unique, fantastic style, and when they come together its amazing. It's true you should listen to any song of theirs and you will be happy. This was the only song the entire band wrote together.
Fleetwood Mac Rumors still ranks as one of my all time favorite LP’s after 69 years. How many artists can you say that you liked every single song on a LP that they recorded? But for me there aren’t very many.
Thank you for getting to FM. I would suggest doing Rhiannon, live on the Saturday Night tne Special. "76, I think.. Stevie kills that performance, but there is so much more! ALSO, Christie McVie never got enough credit for her talent. A beautiful song from her is Songbird. (Pronouned McVee). Please do more! One of my top fave bands. They came out of the turmoil as great friends. Also, Stevie at 72 just dropped a new and powerful video called Show Them the Way.
Good choice!!!!! This is my 2nd favorite Fleetwood Mac song falling right in between Rhiannon and Gold-dust Woman. Stevie Nicks had a great solo career too with songs like Edge of Seventeen, Stop Dragging My Heart Around and Stand Back (She's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, with FM and as a solo performer) while Lindsay had a few good solo tunes too (like "Go Insane").
An true classic--strongly suggest listening to the studio version on your own, Daniel, the production on this song and really everything on Rumours is truly phenomenal. Rumours is definitely a top 5 all-time album for me.
Prettiest song from this album is, "Songbird." "Rumours", was such a successful album that on their follow up album. Fleetwood Mac hired the USC marching band to play backup for the album, "Tusk." However this album was a disappointment to many critics and fans. Before his solo career with hits like, "Ebony Eyes" & "Sentimental Lady", Bob Welsh is fantastic on the Fleetwood Mac song, "Hypnotized." ✌
Good stuff, my man. The studio version is better, though. "Monday Morning" and "Crystal" (studio versions) off the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album are both very solid. In fact "Crystal" is, imho, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.
Great reaction to a great song - and this live version is spectacular! (although studio version is as well) If you want to be truly blown away by Lindsay's guitar work, just listen to I'm So Afraid (from this concert) - off the chain (pun intended) would be best descriptor! Also Big Love & Go Insane from this live album would also be absolute musts! Other Fleetwood Mac musts: Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon, Songbird, Everywhere, Little Lies, Seven Wonders, Tusk, Dreams, Gold Dust Woman (studio version is incredible), Landslide. So many wonderful tracks.
You need to react to Lindsey Buckingham playing "Big Love" live; his finger-picking is unbelievable. In an interview about "The Chain" Stevie Nicks said that John McVie had come up with that bass riff and asked Buckingham if he could write a melody around it. At the same time, Buckingham was working on a demo for a song he tentatively titled "Running in the Shadows", but all he had that he was happy with was the guitar solo. Nicks wrote the lyrics and presented them as a way to tie together these disparate parts into a song. Fleetwood recorded the drum track demo, and the band went to work on the mixing board. The rest, as they say, is history.
A lot of people seem to prefer the studio version. I recommend a live show from when they were young, and the passion and heartache was fresh. Even the piano strings were sobbing. The voices more emotional. There were 2 couples breaking up, the whole family falling apart
MUST do "Rhiannon" (PLEASE) Live on The Midnight Special 1976...... Lindsey has a phenomenal guitar solo and Stevie Knicks' vocals are amazing.... she goes OFF at the end!!!!! (lyrics are very interesting too) It's one of their most well known songs. Also, if u got a kick out of the drummer's facial expressions here then, you're gonna LOVE his expressions in this "Rhiannon" performance. BTW, the drummer is none other than Mick Fleetwood! Also further recommendations: "Gold Dust Woman", "Dreams", "Landslide", "Gypsy" and THEN........ Stevie Knicks' "Edge of Seventeen", "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" duet with the Tom Petty and "Leather and Lace" duet with Don Henley (lead singer of "The Eagles")...... FUN FACT: Stevie Knicks is the ONLY woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TWICE..... Once with Fleetwood Mac and once as a Solo artist for her 1981 solo album "Bella Donna". You'll never hear a female voice like hers.... Its haunting and soul piercing and her lyrics are "genius". I realize these things are subjective but I felt like sharing my opinion for whatever it's worth to anyone out there. Peace and God Bless :)
So many great Fleetwood Mac songs both from this Anglo American iteration of the band, and it's Peter Green based original so many great songs to checkout
You need to discover more Fleetwood Mac you won't be disappointed. The Rumours album was such a huge hit in the 70s and still remember when I first heard it and it brings back many memories from that time.
Much prefer the studio version. The sound of their trio of classic 70's albums (Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk) is impossible to top. Would be interesting to see you react to their first incarnation with Peter Green on guitar: Oh Well, The Green Manalishi...
You really can't go wrong with any song off the Rumours album. They're all terrific.
One of the best albums of all time, definitely one to own
Adding that Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is the 8th best selling album worldwide right after Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever. Just looked it up because I was curious.
You are so right!
Very True. All Good.
except for Oh Daddy.
Definitely worth listening to the studio version first.
I agree. This live version is rather terrible.
I concur.
@@Pico_Farad I don't think the live version is terrible but I think Daniel should listen to the studio version for two reasons: 1) To hear it, and 2) I think it's a better version.
for them to make this the official video it's obvious they're trying to rewrite history of the past and make this the new go to it's really sad.
No doubt.
One of the greatest breakup songs ever - this was one of two main songs that came from the Stevie Nicks/Lindsay Buckingham breakup. I believe the "chain" is the band. And I personally equate the drum beat at the start as a heartbeat.
..and Silver Spring
In my humble opinion, this live version was Fleetwood Mac at it's best. Also in my humble opinion, Lindsey Buckingham is at least in the top five best guitar players of all time (just watch him). Thank you for reacting to this; I'm surprised it did not get blocked. Best song by them is "Go Your Own Way" (same performance). Please react to that one.
He is also a great singer to boot!
Lindsey is also a great music writer and producer. He is very passionate about whatever he does.
Yes, I have the dvd (&cd) of this concert. Every song is incredible.
The live version is okay, but IMO, it's not nearly as haunting as the studio version. It's worth noting Mick Fleetwood, the drummer, was voted the best rock drummer in the Playboy magazine musician rankings (something a lot of people took seriously back then) for something like 12 years straight, over drummers like Carl Palmer, Neil Peart, and Bernard Purdie, et. al.
Better than Palmer or Peart??
@@Yosef1952 Yep... Palmer and Peart were 2 and 3 usually (swapping places often), but Mick Fleetwood was #1. There were so many arguments about this in my HS, but that's how Playboy saw it. I didn't know enough to argue about it either way. I was (actually, still am) a huge Billy Joel fan, so I was always looking to see where he finished in the keyboards/piano category.
What makes Fleetwood Mac a special band is that the band itself is none than a separate living organism which holds those five musicians together through all those years of dramas and some sort of misunderstanding between each of them. The fact that they've written songs about each other and address them to each other being live on stage, eye to eye, makes their performances as tough as is the daily life. And while most of the people very often are trying to escape from the old wounds and memories in attempts not to trigger them and therefore not to ruin their mental health, there is a band whose nature, in opposite, lies in making those wounds resurge again and again. Hardly anyone is capable of this. We could only imagine.
Very well written Valentin! Back in the day, everyone had this album. The writing, the music, the voices, the musicianship, rarely replicated. It remains one of my most treasured CDs.
Great song and reaction. Unfortunately the bass solo just doesn't come through like the studio version, which is my favorite part.
Yeah I agree. John McVie is an amazing bass player.
It sounds 'muddy' on this performance. :(
My favorite Fleetwood Mac song is Hypnotized. It's...hypnotic.
Lindsey is such an underrated guitarist
This performance came from a concert to mark Fleetwood Mac's 834th reunion. It was called "The Dance" and was released as CD and also as DVD. There are several fantastic tracks in the show, and I would recommend "Tusk", again from "The Dance" as your next Mac reaction. Fantastic song, again with Lindsay Buckingham's lead vocals and some really cool surprises.
"Landslide" is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Stevie Nicks' voice is so sweet and tender. You can feel her pain. Just amazing.
Wow..don't know how...but totally forgot about this song!!! Brought back lots of good memories :) Glad you liked it Daniel!!! It is the only song written and created by all 5 member's of the band from old songs...as you know. Thats why it is so good, they all love this song too.
This was their “reunion” tour. Great stuff. The live Landslide from this tour is great.
Fleetwood Mac is/was in a league of their own - especially with this album, "Rumours".
However, PLEASE... listen to the studio version of "The Chain", as well - You won't be disappointed!
That's everyone's response, "I want to hear that again" :) For me, they are the perfect blend of female and male energy. I love them so much ❤. I hope you give their entire Rumours album a listen in your free time. I feel so happy you liked it!
"There's a lot going on in this song." You are a master of understatement. But the song is indeed worth it.
Their live version of 'Rhiannon' is spectacular. One of the best groups of the 70s. Then follow up with Stevie Nicks solo career.
Another reason to listen to the studio version? It was written and recorded while all the breakups/hookups were actually happening so those studio versions really resonate and hold up over time.
Regardless, great to see you doing Fleetwood Mac - very enjoyable.
Fleetwood Mac could be a deep rabbit hole to explore. With a number of songwriters and singers in the band, song style & sound varies considerably. Welcome to the world of Fleetwood Mac (my favorite band).
I'm usually big on live but this song, I think, needs the studio version, which is absolute magic.
Fleetwood Mac is one of the best bands ever.
stevie is legend. i suggest Silver Spring and Gold Dust Woman
Stevie's solo album (Bella Donna) is almost as good as Rumors. Leather and Lace, Edge of Seventeen and of course with Petty Stop dragging my heart around.
Almost any Fleetwood Mac song is worth covering, they are brilliant. My favourite by far is Rhiannon - the 1976 live version please, ua-cam.com/video/wgmRb3MlpHQ/v-deo.html
Yeah that’s great version.
This is better. ua-cam.com/video/W_O4Ygcgh8w/v-deo.html
Yes, the Midnight Special version is the best version of this song
@@TwelveDeck I agree it's an excellent version although it's missing Stevie's smile near the start ;)
Fleetwood Mac every track unique. Try Tusk.
Love FM, Gold Dust Woman, Landslide 2 of my favorites.🔥
Best performance of a Fleetwood Mac song that has been long overlooked.
Say You Love Me The Dance 1997
One of their best. If you have never watched the full concert The Dance it was a great concert.
Thanks for reacting. I love watching someone discover a terrific song from a classic band.
Lots of great songs to react to!
One of my favorite songs of all time! So emotional. Awesome band!! Takes you to another plane!
Unfortunately the chain could not keep them together. Lindsey Buckingham is a criminally underrated guitar player.
Rumours is in the top ten bestselling albums of all time. Stayed on the charts for years. And this is one of the most famous breakup songs of all time. The whole album is well worth a dive.
"Breakup Album" of all time. The entire album was about the two couples breaking up.
Telynn S Oh, absolutely.
Another excellent job looking at both the emotional impact of a song AND its history. Many other reactors on UA-cam lately have done Elvis Presley's "If I Can Dream," but almost none of them seem to be aware of its dramatic history. It is also a song of great emotional impact. I don't see that you have done any Elvis, and I think that this song might surprise you. I have been a subscriber for some time and I have seen many of your videos, and I think you would like this song. you will definitely appreciate its history. Enough said. I don't want to prejudice your reaction.
P.S. The "68 Comeback Special" video is the best version on UA-cam.
So many layers to explain why I’m a huge Fleetwood Mac fan. It starts with the uniquely brilliant voice of Stevie Nicks and songs she sings lead vocals. As much as I love them live, they’re masters in the studio and it generally is what one wants to listen to if they want to capture the essence of the song. Dreams, Rhiannon, Tusk, Gypsy, Sara, Little Lies and Everywhere are just a few iconic songs to start with.
You have got to listen to "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac. It's not only their greatest song but one of the greatest songs of all time. And when you get a chance, listen to the entire Rumors album. It's also one of the greatest albums of all time.
Dreams may be the most perfect song ever created.
Nestled gently within the center of my Boston/Styx/Kansas high school years, unavoidable yet great and epic in it's own way.
The reason why their songs are so passionate and have so emotion, it's because the feeling were real. The songs were written while they were experiencing these emotions
Having become familiar with your musical tastes, young man, it's imperative you give "Go Your Own Way" and "Landslide" a listen.
This song is off the chain!😄😄😄
Howya Daniel, The studio version of this song is superior IMHO.
There was so much emotion because the two front-people in the song was going through a really rough breakup. Lindsey Buckingham was so in love with Stevie Nick's but she said he was stifling her freedom. This and my very favorite Fleetwood Mac song Go Your Own Way we're both about their relationship and breakup. Please watch this in the studio version and Go Your Own Way in both studio and live. Studio for technically amazing and live for true emotion. Stevie looking at Lindsey says it all.
One of the bands, if not the only, to have 3 lead singers and score Top 10 hits with each of them doing lead vocals. And one, "Little Lies", with all 3 singing distinct individual parts, which is why it's my favorite. And, on top of it, they've got to be the only band to have all 3 lead singers score their own solo Top 10 hits. It's amazing.
One of my all-time favorite concerts. (And, I've seen A LOT.)
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Good job, Daniel! Quite a similar career arc for Mac as Tull! Both started as British blues/rock bands in 1967, and both morphed into something vastly different than their early incarnations, and both became endlessly creative, and iconic linchpin classic rock bands.
Fleetwood Mac is a Super Group. They are on the Upper Plateau of Talent ! up there with Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Eagles, RUSH, Led Zeppelin, Heart and Queen.
"Damn the dark, damn the light." Imagine and reflect on the despair and mental state of the person who wrote that line. Brings me to tears everytime I hear it, even some 40 years later.
Not my original comment, but the most accurate: Taylor Swift writes songs about all of her exes. Stevie Nicks makes her ex eternally sing a song about what he did. LOL.
It's mutual, she still has to sing "Go Your Own Way".
@@KingOfNebbishes Yes. I was kind of joking. Hence the LOL.
Christine McVie makes her ex play bass on a love song she wrote to her side man. That's cold.
And then years later she kicks him out, and in 2019, he has a disabling heart attack, post lawsuit stress.
Prepare to be amazed!!!! That bass
That riff!!!
those drums
that tambourine
those vocals
those harmonies
Thank you for taking the plunge into Fleetwood Mac! Go Your Own Way, Landslide, Dreams and You Make Loving Fun are all great songs to check out. You also mentioned, as an aside, that you need to get back to Neil Young, so may I recommend The Needle and the Damage Done, Helpless, Hey Hey My My, Heart of Gold, Take Me To The River and Rockin' In The Free World? All great songs, and when you check out Neil the best way to do it is to watch one of his live performances! Enjoy!
Also, you have a new Sub..... been watching your reactions for a bit and am very impressed with your intelligence and TRUE appreciation for the songs as a "whole". That being said........ I KNOW everyone has done it BUT......... could you please react to "Black" Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged. For such a young person you have a very wise soul. I think we'd all be interested to hear your opinion/take on the lyrics(especially) and the way Eddie Vedder delivers them in this particular performance. The lyrics are MASTERFULLY intelligent, powerful and filled with beautiful (albeit painful) metaphors..... love to hear your thoughts on them, especially on the "five horizons" line/verse. Feel free to be honest if you don't agree. These channels are a hate free zone and should remain that way. Thanks for your consideration. Somehow, I think you're gonna make a bigger impact on some peoples lives than you ever expected. Keep 'em coming....
The song is credited to all five members as writers. It's obviously about broken relationships and the two couples - John and Christine McVie, as well as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were going through breakups as this album is being made. Even years later when this video was made, there are raw emotions onstage, especially between Stevie and Lindsey. And for the record, he is one of the most overlooked guitarists out there - absolutely masterful player!
Randy, :)
The way that Stevie sings to Lindsey instead of the audience - her eyes & emotions burn with a fire in his direction. :)
Fleetwood Mac was so good!!
My son said he never cares to hear another of their songs again because I played them constantly. He got sick of them!
:)
Rhiannon live on The Midnight Special, 1976, was a tremendous display of showmanship.
Thank you, Daniel -- what you said was "official video" though, is LIVE -- pretty good, but you should also hear the original album track... keep it up!
Lynsey’s guitar playing is excellent, very creative and melodic. Maybe try his solo song “trouble” or more live Mac from 75-77 I think that’s their most inspired period.
Great reaction my friend.......
my personal favourite is "Go Your Own Way", especially the one vocal on the line "don't go away". Some songs, one line just sets it's hooks into you.
I also love "Don't Stop".
One of the most recognized bass lines in rock.
Am I senile, or is that bass riff in an Alan Parsons Project? Every time I listen to this I swear it is...???
"Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon (Live - Midnight Special)" it's incredible... they are incredible! Stevie Nicks solo also very good!
You REALLY HAVE TO sit and put head phones on and listen to the whole RUMOURS album. It is a masterpiece created when the band was in turmoil. This performance was twenty years later and a make up tour that lasted a year or so until someone got mad and left. The reunite again and again. Stevie Nicks is the best female vocalist since Aretha Franklin and Linsey Buckingham has his own guitar styling. Amazing.
Some of my favorites besides the chain are, gold dust Woman, second hand news, I don't want to know, go your own way, gypsy, dreams, Rhiannon, never going back again, Silver Springs, everywhere
I love this formation of the group, however you will really dig Fleetwood Mac’s early blues based material. I recommend ‘Looking For Someone’. It’s a banger.
My favorite version. Learned to play this version on guitar.
Loved this band even before the Stevie/ Lindsay era. Daniel, as a guitar player this is a must-see performance: “Big Love” live - the hottest solo by Lindsay Buckingham !
Dan - You must review - BAND on the Run - McCartney and the Wings
Daniel, this song means so much to this group. The chains they're talking about are the fame and popularity this group have together. Just look at the history and see pictures of all the singers. They started out around you age. Have lived and loved together and apart. The name of the group is derived from the drummer's name. They go back a long way as so many others. Try James Taylor's Mud Sly Slim album.
This is about Stevie and Lindsey's actual breakup.
I scrolled the comments quickly so I may have missed it, but it seems nobody has mentioned the song Landslide. Written by Stevie Nicks and on the first Fleetwood Mac album after she joined. This is the song performed most: “Nicks has sung it on every Fleetwood Mac tour since joining the band . . . as well as on all of her own solo tours from 2005 onwards. She is 70 and still going strong. As with many, Covid-19 interrupted her most current tour.
Landslide is an audience pleaser, and I sure love it. The album was released in 1975 (what a great year for music) and I first heard it while taking an early morning outdoor water coloring class that spring given by the Brooklyn Museum -but we painted in the Botanic Gardens next door, weather permitting. It was a gorgeous spring and I’ll always associate Landslide. Maybe Fleetwood Mac fans here have a favorite version. If so, please say so. Otherwise, listen to the original. I know I’ve heard a few live versions but don’t know which/when.
The Smashing Pumpkins (love them!) did a cover version; so did the country music group, The Dixie Chicks. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think their cover of Landslide was there biggest hit.
The second half of this, from the bass rif, has introduced BBC F1 coverage for many years.
Gold dust woman is amazing. So is the soundtrack for Guardians of the Galaxy - Lot's of great classic rock!
Great song and reaction, the second part of the song (from the bass you mentioned) was used by the BBC for their Formula 1 show from 1978 to 1996
I believe that Fleetwood Mac are blockers so this might not stay up for long but glad you took the time to do this just the same.
Rhiannon 1976 Live Version. Amazing performance.
Well done, Daniel
Pretty much wore this album out back in the day. This was my favorite track.
Daniel, I'm curious if you listen to the studio versions after listening to live versions of such an iconic song? This is incredible, but the studio/album version is glorious. Not suggesting a public reaction, just wondering which versions you would add to your personal playlist.
Best band ever. The five of them are amazing. Three songwriters, three vocalists, all with their unique, fantastic style, and when they come together its amazing. It's true you should listen to any song of theirs and you will be happy. This was the only song the entire band wrote together.
Fleetwood Mac Rumors still ranks as one of my all time favorite LP’s after 69 years.
How many artists can you say that you liked every single song on a LP that they recorded? But for me there aren’t very many.
Thank you for getting to FM. I would suggest doing Rhiannon, live on the Saturday Night tne Special. "76, I think.. Stevie kills that performance, but there is so much more! ALSO, Christie McVie never got enough credit for her talent. A beautiful song from her is Songbird. (Pronouned McVee). Please do more! One of my top fave bands. They came out of the turmoil as great friends. Also, Stevie at 72 just dropped a new and powerful video called Show Them the Way.
Great band! Seem them lives their amazing!
Good choice!!!!! This is my 2nd favorite Fleetwood Mac song falling right in between Rhiannon and Gold-dust Woman. Stevie Nicks had a great solo career too with songs like Edge of Seventeen, Stop Dragging My Heart Around and Stand Back (She's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, with FM and as a solo performer) while Lindsay had a few good solo tunes too (like "Go Insane").
An true classic--strongly suggest listening to the studio version on your own, Daniel, the production on this song and really everything on Rumours is truly phenomenal. Rumours is definitely a top 5 all-time album for me.
Oh no that is live you should do the studio version! Love you
There is an earlier live version of this song from 1982 that's absolutely wild.
Thanks Daniel classic
Oh and if you wanna see one of their best live performances check out Rhiannon live 76. It was for the Midnight Special show.
Prettiest song from this album is, "Songbird." "Rumours", was such a successful album that on their follow up album. Fleetwood Mac hired the USC marching band to play backup for the album, "Tusk." However this album was a disappointment to many critics and fans. Before his solo career with hits like, "Ebony Eyes" & "Sentimental Lady", Bob Welsh is fantastic on the Fleetwood Mac song, "Hypnotized." ✌
This song is OFF the chain
Good stuff, my man. The studio version is better, though. "Monday Morning" and "Crystal" (studio versions) off the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album are both very solid. In fact "Crystal" is, imho, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.
Great reaction to a great song - and this live version is spectacular! (although studio version is as well)
If you want to be truly blown away by Lindsay's guitar work, just listen to I'm So Afraid (from this concert) - off the chain (pun intended) would be best descriptor! Also Big Love & Go Insane from this live album would also be absolute musts!
Other Fleetwood Mac musts: Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon, Songbird, Everywhere, Little Lies, Seven Wonders, Tusk, Dreams, Gold Dust Woman (studio version is incredible), Landslide.
So many wonderful tracks.
Fleetwood Mac once was a pretty heavy rock band before the chicks joined. Check out ; “Well Well Well”. A big number back before the day. 🎶
Beautiful music coming out of chaos.🎵
You need to react to Lindsey Buckingham playing "Big Love" live; his finger-picking is unbelievable.
In an interview about "The Chain" Stevie Nicks said that John McVie had come up with that bass riff and asked Buckingham if he could write a melody around it. At the same time, Buckingham was working on a demo for a song he tentatively titled "Running in the Shadows", but all he had that he was happy with was the guitar solo. Nicks wrote the lyrics and presented them as a way to tie together these disparate parts into a song. Fleetwood recorded the drum track demo, and the band went to work on the mixing board. The rest, as they say, is history.
A lot of people seem to prefer the studio version. I recommend a live show from when they were young, and the passion and heartache was fresh. Even the piano strings were sobbing. The voices more emotional. There were 2 couples breaking up, the whole family falling apart
this album is easily implanted on my list of top 10 all-time greatest !
Stevie Nicks Edge of Seventeen, live version.
MUST do "Rhiannon" (PLEASE) Live on The Midnight Special 1976...... Lindsey has a phenomenal guitar solo and Stevie Knicks' vocals are amazing.... she goes OFF at the end!!!!! (lyrics are very interesting too) It's one of their most well known songs. Also, if u got a kick out of the drummer's facial expressions here then, you're gonna LOVE his expressions in this "Rhiannon" performance. BTW, the drummer is none other than Mick Fleetwood! Also further recommendations: "Gold Dust Woman", "Dreams", "Landslide", "Gypsy" and THEN........ Stevie Knicks' "Edge of Seventeen", "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" duet with the Tom Petty and "Leather and Lace" duet with Don Henley (lead singer of "The Eagles")...... FUN FACT: Stevie Knicks is the ONLY woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TWICE..... Once with Fleetwood Mac and once as a Solo artist for her 1981 solo album "Bella Donna". You'll never hear a female voice like hers.... Its haunting and soul piercing and her lyrics are "genius". I realize these things are subjective but I felt like sharing my opinion for whatever it's worth to anyone out there. Peace and God Bless :)
So many great Fleetwood Mac songs both from this Anglo American iteration of the band, and it's Peter Green based original so many great songs to checkout
You need to discover more Fleetwood Mac you won't be disappointed. The Rumours album was such a huge hit in the 70s and still remember when I first heard it and it brings back many memories from that time.
The passion comes from all of the broken relationships, especially Stevie & Lindsey.
Much prefer the studio version. The sound of their trio of classic 70's albums (Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk) is impossible to top. Would be interesting to see you react to their first incarnation with Peter Green on guitar: Oh Well, The Green Manalishi...
the first is not an incarnation, but the second one is
I love yours reactions. I love Fleewood Mac to. Please react to Rhianon live 1977.Steve is amazing singer