Check out Don't Stop so you can hear some of Christine McVie on lead vocals. Tusk is a good song too but it isn't a typical first time like song. It needs several plays to get used to it.
I agree with Andy. I wasn't expecting a rhyme. No rhyme intended pretty sure. It's just telling a story. If they had intended for a rhyme to be there...it WOULD have been there! Lindsay Buckingham was a perfectionist a-hole...so I've heard. Goosebumps SO many times. I don't know where the "Stevie goes nuts" opinion came from however. 🤔 TUSK next - TOTALLY different vibe!!!
I'm going to keep chiming in for this, greatest live Female Rock Vocal performance ever. I really like the midnight special performance, but I actually like the rehearsal more than the aired version. Mix isn't as good, but raw and amazing. th-cam.com/video/W_O4Ygcgh8w/w-d-xo.html
@@matthewdawson129 Watch Gold Dust Woman live Japan 1977. By the end, she is "tribal" just verbalizing... No words spoken. Mick is crazy on drums, as is Lindsey on guitar. I put link in the pinned section. :)
When you see Gold Dust Woman performed live, you get Stevie bascially going into a trance on stage and whirling and spinning around with her flowing lace and all that whacky stuff. Mesmerizing.
It's SUCH the cool sight to see (and hear)! Tori Amos manifests this same sort of mesmerizing presence in many of her live performances of "The Waitress" out there. A four-minute studio song, she bolts on a tour-de-force chorus in concert, during the last two minutes of which she is like a woman possessed, a goddess bewitched, Rhiannon indeed.
It was a fucking privilege to see both Fleetwood mac live and see Stevie live on her own. Each time she brought her fucking a game And gold dust woman is always the one that stands out.
This song is about Stevie’s cocaine addiction. She’s one of the survivors of that period....so many musicians didn’t make it through.....The Line “take your silver spoon, dig your grave” is so haunting, and the music arrangement...so dark....goes so perfectly with the subject matter. I got chills listening to it.......haven’t heard it in years......still a truly powerful testament to the time in which it was written.
I never noticed the chorus doesn't rhyme. Heard it a thousand times. This makes it even more brilliant. I have always found this song hauntingly beautiful.
"As she like, danced across it!" OMG!! What a truly profound way to describe Stevie's approach to this tune! You guys nailed it! Her approach was hypnotic, it was otherworldly, it was etherical!!
At one time, I believe everyone in the civilized world had a copy of Rumors. It is simply a masterpiece. All the members of Fleetwood Mac were insanely talented. If you want to hear Stevie Nicks get intense Rhiannon, or Edge of Seventeen are your best choices. If you want to get lost in endless layers of bliss, Sara is the song to listen to. Great reaction guys. I think the two of you are falling under Stevie's spell. Most of us have. LOL. Something you should listen to is the song "Bad Company," by Bad Company off the album Bad Company. How can you resist that?
Yea I’m not saying it’s a negative, just giving my thoughts on something that stuck out to me, it was close enough of a rhyme that it didn’t seem intentionally off or close enough to be a slant, somewhere in the middle which is atypical.
I was fortunate to see them live twice in '77. Stevie hit these notes EXACTLY as heard on the recorded version. An unforgettable experience for my ears.
A lot of the Peter Green stuff (Oh Well, Part I... Green Manalishi... Black Magic Woman, Albatross) is so good, and has sadly been forgotten. Peter Green is one of those "your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist" guys.
Pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac is the best Fleetwood Mac. Personally, I find this iteration of the band boring. The albums -Then Play On; Kiln House - . THAT’S the Fleetwood Mac I love.
The strange dynamics within the group, the emotional highs and lows, the breakups...all made for great songs. I wonder if they wouldn’t have been so good if their love lives weren’t in turmoil!?
I'm not sure this generation gets the meaning of it that we do. Silver spoons were more common in the 70s. I even wore one on a chain back then and I'm a small town nobody. It was just that prevalent back then.
@@kenwelch198 tbh I was around at the time but when I heard it first I took it in its more traditional meaning, about the rich kid "born with a silver spoon in their mouth" - and I think the lyric works quite nicely on that level as well.
I was 17 when I was first turned on to Fleetwood. Still listen today and I am 56. Entertaining to hear today’s take on music. “ Pick up your pieces and go home”
I fell in love with this song when I was young, and used it as my music for a creative dance class. Mick's "intricate and exacting" hi-hat offers a stoic intensity. The strange yet lovely sounds from guitar picking bring you into a whole other world. Stevie's pretty voice haunts throughout. Love the wolfman cries near the end.
When this album was released in 1977 it was a MONSTER! It was the Summer of Fleetwood Mac, The Season of Rumors... it was everywhere, and the Album of the Year. BTW, this is the same year Aja by Steele Dan was released.
She didn't even sing the words in the same tone...I've heard the song a million times and never once thought about those words not rhyming. Cuz she wasn't trying to rhyme them.
I appreciate that you guys understand how much things were different back then. When an album came out, you would buy it and look at all the artwork on the album first, read through some of the lyrics, notice who played drums, bass, guitar, lead vocals, on which track Then you would put your headphones on and listen to side A all the way through, then side B. That has been lost today.
Agreed. And when you owned an LP, you didn't listen to one song in isoation - it was too difficult to lift the needle and move it over. The positive point of that is you experienced the whole album in the intended sequence. The negative side is you had to suffer through the bad songs on albums that weren't very complete.
I actually appreciate Christine McVie's more pop-oriented compositions like "You Make Loving Fun" "Don't Stop" and "Songbird". I think they get overlooked sometimes because of Buckingham/Nicks greatness.
Still have the vinyl from the year I met my wife. Steely Dan’s Aja or this was our first communal property. Oh still have the wife too. She was 22 when we met and a BEAUTIFUL 65 now!
Never married, but still with my significant other from those days. (1978) and we are happier than we have ever been. I think we all have a good pat of the back coming for that one! BTW. I listened to Aja constantly back then, much to his dismay. He was more of a Led Zepplin, Van Halen guy. Not that I didn't enjoy those bands tremendously, but in my mind they couldn't hold a candle to Steely Dan!
Would be awesome if guys do the full album reaction. RUMORS would be a perfect pick. Like all "proper" albums (at least in my opinion) it works better as a whole experience, and I think watching you two experience it for the first time with fresh ears would feel like a re-discovery for me and your other subscribers. Keep it up dudes, you're owning it!
Not to be contrarian (You Make Lovin' Fun is a good song), but the production and guitar work in Oh Daddy are far superior and IMHO, it may be Christine's best hidden gem.
It might be lacking that traditional banging rock crescendo you were hoping for, but there’s plenty of that on Rumours, and if memory serves me, Gold Dust Woman was the final track (second side) of the album. The mood/style of the song serves that purpose quite well. If you’ve listened to the entire album from start to finish, you’ve been through a roller-coaster of emotions in song (a lot of it is dark/sad/angry, but not all... for example “Don’t Stop” is Christine’s upbeat positive anthem). By the time you get to this song, you’ve been through it all and then they just drop you into this weird, tribally, trippy zone that fades out in a haunting tone of near madness, with Stevie’s distorted wails. No happy, tied-up-in-ribbon closure here. You’re left on edge, in a strange place. It’s quite an effective album sign-off. Just some thoughts. Thanks for the video.
M. Gideon Hoyle for sure, I wasn’t sold the rhyme had to happen, it was surprising to me and briefly took me out of the music so I figured I’d note it but not against it.
Haha . . Andy was floating around - you got caught up in her web! You were teased, scrambled, flustered & left wanting more was the definitive purpose. . . THAT was the craziness! Andy describing the “uncanny valley of rhyme” . . love it! Good work fellas. 😎Look into BTO’s (Bachman Turner Overdrive) Let It Ride or Taking Care of Business sometime.
If nobody had ever heard of Stevie Nicks and she went on one of those cookie cutter, everybody sounds the SAME singing contest shows, they probably would tell her she wasn't any good. You always know it's Stevie when she sings. Can't say that about the crap being churned out today.
For me personally the most powerful song of Fleetwood Mac is the live version of “Silver Spring“. I believe it’s from 1990. Stevie Nicks wrote it before she joined the band and it’s about her relationship and break up with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Really powerful live performance of it. I recommend that.
It's from the live show/ album "The Dance" - 1997. Yeah it's freaking awesome. Especially with the video with it too. The looks that Stevie and Lindsey give each other are chilling
Luuk Hulsman yeah, it was. I’ve read about the history of this song. Stevie really really wanted it to be on the Rumours album but the band decided against it and that hurt her a lot. But if memory serves she wrote it before joining the band. She did an album just with Lindsey Buckingham called “Buckingham Nicks” and I think it’s on that album. Point being she brought it with her into the band so it did originate before her time in Fleetwood Mac. If I’m not mistaken! :-)
Gunnery Sgt Hartman right on. Yes, they are fairly far apart on stage during that show but both are turned sideways singing to each other. It actually brought me to tears, The people, music and lyrics together in that live setting we are very powerful to me, even though it was about 20 years after the fact.
This is true Stevie ...... sliding off into the night, leaving you standing there in a swirl of haunting screams ...... and Mick's drums throbbing in the background.
You also have to understand that this song is a part of an entire album that seamlessly fits together, this is a piece of a whole, and someday when you listen to the whole album you will see how this fits into the whole. The whole album is wizard level creatively. Next up: Rhiannon. Then you will hear Stevie cut loose.
Well, hold up, you just went on about the whole of this album and how it's wizard level and then say "Next up: Rhiannon" which is a song that isn't on this album.
live version of silver spring from their 90s era live show and cd. her and lindsey (her ex) stare at each other as they sing the lyrics when the song builds to a climax and she is almost shouting them at him haha. love it. goose bump inducing.
Actually, this song is about shallow, beautiful women who latch onto guys for the high life, namely "gold dust" or cocaine. Very common in the 70's and 80's. I had friends who would fall for these gorgeous women, and they were there for them in every way as long as there was a party to attend and he was buying... I have witnessed fortunes squandered because this life is so addictive that you will sell your soul and all of your worldly possessions to live it.. The song has a seductive back beat, twist and turn lead guitar by Lindsey Buckingham, and John McVie keeps everything moving with his tantalizing bass riffs .. "Did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love? Tell me is it over now, did you know how, to pick up the pieces and go home??" …. a LOT of guys experienced that heartache first hand and lost everything.
Well said...from a young woman who was a bartender in a high end club early 80s...the dj, the owner, the sports figures..they would tip me grams! I knew it was a very dangerous and slippery slope! Cleaned up. Got out and joined the Navy! Perfect succinct and on point!
Stevie has said that this song is (in part) about cocaine (which she hadn't yet become addicted to at this point - but noticed a lot of the groupies that hung around them used it to keep up) which she thought (due to its price) was like gold dust (take your silver spoon, dig your grave - ironically it did almost kill her... just shows sometimes you should take your own advice). If you notice, much of the song doesn't have a formal rhyme scheme, which, along with the chaotic yet structured breakdown as the song progresses reflects the discord that drugs bring into the narrator's life. Stevie's writing power lays in the words and phrases she chooses. It's not just about making the next set of lines rhyme, it's also about the turn of a phrase (from The Chain, on the same album: "If you don't love me now, you will never love me again / I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain" - Rhymes on paper but not in an American accent.) I mean, if you're going to get that picky, never listen to The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. He sets up rhymes all over the place in that song, but rarely ever does rhyme.
During the writing of their song “September” in the late 1970’s, Maurice White, the founder of the band, Earth, Wind & Fire, has been quoted as having said, “Never let a lyric get in the way of the groove”. I think Stevie believed the same when she wrote this song around the same time. It’s not about the rhyme it’s about the rhythm and how the song makes you feel. Being too literal when listening to music from this era can take away from the whole experience. Also remember, this was the era of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Most people only listened to music to “get lost in the sauce”. LOL A listen to “September” would demonstrate the point. The lyrics are mostly nonsensical but you can never deny how that song makes you feel. Guys, I love watching your reactions to music that I enjoyed when I was your age and it was just hitting the charts. Many of the artists/bands you react to I’ve seen perform live when they were at their prime and again now as so many of them are still touring 40 some years later - Fleetwood Mac and Earth, Wind & Fire included. It makes me happy to see a whole new generation of young adults find pleasure in the same music I did in my youth. It fills me with hope.
Play some Door,s/ Road House Blue,s/ Changeling/ LA Woman/ I saw Fleetwood Mac in 1976/ I went up front with my Nikon Camera,snapped up a picture of Stevie twirling around in her black witches dress,and she smiled at me! I had the photo blown up to an 8/10, but lost it moving a few year,s later, Damn ,Clay, PS, more Steely Dan,Good job guy,s you take me back to the 70,s gracefully!
You are spot on about the guitar response from her ex. Still pretty bad ass move to make him play guitar while she's bitching about him being a "lousy lover"!
I just want to tell you guys I’m 67 years old I’ve been playing guitar since 1965 in different bands I am so hooked on you guys thank you I enjoy you guys. You guys are funnier than fuck man
Gary Harris that was so creative. I heard it for the first time at a friend's, before we all headed to the Risk album concert. I didn't fully appreciate until I heard it a third time. It was just so new.
Guys, check out Badfinger and start with “Baby blue”. They were signed by the Beatles to there Apple record company. They had a short period of success due to bad management decisions and 2 suicides to key members of the band. They had a few other hits with “Day after day”, “No matter what” and “Come and get it”. Baby blue actually made it onto the final scene in the Netflix series “Breaking bad”.
You need to react to the whole album. It is an S tier ALBUM and you will see how every song builds on each other and why it is one of the best albums of all time.
don't forget "Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed" I looove that song. Then again, I loooove Thin Lizzy :-D edit: imho "Johnny the Fox" is one of the best rock albums of the seventies. For real.
If you want rhyming lyrics, check out Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone. I was 15 years old, laying on the beach on the shores of Lake Erie when I first heard it. I completely blew my mind. It was like nothing that was being played on the radio at the time. It changed the way music could be played on the radio forever. One of the most important songs ever recorded.
The lyrics are a tale with an antithetical statement being drivin home like a stake to the heart. Not all artist rely on bubblegum pop rock nursery rhymes to imprint a catchy verse into their audiences mind.
V7avalon I think you don’t understand what I was saying, or if you did you’re intentionally sensationalizing what I said. Clearly I don’t think bubblegum pop rock competes with this lyrically. However, if you truly thought I meant that I’d be more than happy to clarify my thoughts if you’d like
This song is the last song on the album, so it's not being set up for what follows, it's the coda to the whole thing. Also, re the rhyme thing, "shattered your illusion of LOVE" , and "pick up the pieces and go HOME" - the illusion has been shattered, so obviously the next line is not what you expected. It's brilliant!
Love Fleetwood Mac. This album released in 1977, I was a sophomore in high school, wore out the vinyl. One of the best selling records of all time, 40 million copies worldwide. Suggestions for more Fleetwood Mac- ‘Big Love’ video from the live ‘The Dance’ 1997. Older Fleetwood Mac ‘Albatross’ live and ‘Oh Well’ parts 1 and 2. Also, you have to ‘know’ Stevie Nicks writing style to understand her songs and her personal history and who she is as an individual and also what was going on with the group when this album recorded. I would guess that she wasn’t necessarily trying to rhyme the words.
This is the magic of you guys...I grew up on this song as it happened, and because of that it is perfect. However...it's been years since I've listened to this, and like you guys...it actually does promise something that isn't quite delivered, so I understand what you're saying, but back in the day it just awesome. I get the feeling even though you guys loved the song, it is your job to be honest and you did it in a way that isn't disrespectful. Good job.
No Tusk! Just about any other Mac song but that one... Please do Neil Young "Like a hurricane", Traffic "Low spark high heeled boys", Santana @ Woodstock video of "Soul Sacrifice, Joe Walsh "Rocky mountain way", "Turn to stone", "Meadows", Outlaws "Green grass and high tides", Robin Trower "Too rolling stoned"
I cringe at the thought of wasting a FM review on Tusk. By far their most boring of songs.. great Album, many better songs than the title song. They'd be bored.
Low spark high heel boys I love the drum fill in that tune I would love a reaction to joe Walsh ILBT If u have never heard it check it out you will lovd it Its off of you bought it you name it
Everything on this album is fire. I’d recommend “I’m So Afraid” from the album just before this one. It’s the first album after Lindsey and Stevie joined the band. 👍
OH WELL!!!! PART1 PART 2.(Peter Green Classis Pre Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham) The Green Manalishi, Rhiannon, So Afraid from the DANCE!!!!(Lindsey's awesome banging solo at the end.....) Teaser. Black Magic Woman, Sentimental Woman (Bob Welch)/ Ebony Eyes. Song bird Christine McVie Blue Eyes( Christine McVie) Stand Back Live Stevie.
You guy's should also check out early Fleetwood mac with Peter Green on guitar probably their best guitarist more hard rock and blues. Oh well is a good song to start with.
Leather and Lace- Stevie Nicks & Don Henley Second Hand News- Fleetwood Mac Gypsy- Fleetwood Mac Dreams- Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way- Fleetwood Mac Cliffs of Dover- Eric Johnson The last song is an amazing instrumental performance that guitar players everywhere so should see at least once. Eric’s tone and technical ability is amazing.
Never realized what a great song this was until I heard your reaction. Unbelievable... took songs for granted in the '70s, surrounded by so much other great music
I’d love you to do some Fleetwood Mac from the very earliest when it was named Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac... Oh Well, Green Manalishi are so great. Peter Green was the guitarist’s guitarist... he could play better than any
Was time to do some more FLEETWOOD MAC!! You guys asked for Gold Dust Women! Here we are! Hope you guys have a bangin’ weekend! Cheers friends! 🔥🤟🏻
Try Monday Morning off the white album. It's a Banger!
Check out Don't Stop so you can hear some of Christine McVie on lead vocals.
Tusk is a good song too but it isn't a typical first time like song. It needs several plays to get used to it.
Here's the Live Gold Dust Woman 1977 - Tribal!! th-cam.com/video/x6hkY4VvQAA/w-d-xo.html
You need to check out "You Make Loving Fun" - one of my all time favorites. Christine McVee primary vocalist on that one.
I agree with Andy. I wasn't expecting a rhyme. No rhyme intended pretty sure. It's just telling a story. If they had intended for a rhyme to be there...it WOULD have been there! Lindsay Buckingham was a perfectionist a-hole...so I've heard.
Goosebumps SO many times. I don't know where the "Stevie goes nuts" opinion came from however. 🤔
TUSK next - TOTALLY different vibe!!!
If you really want Stevie going off - Rhiannon
They might have to see the live Midnight Special performance to understand what she does with Rhiannon? Mick said it was like an exorcism.
I'm going to keep chiming in for this, greatest live Female Rock Vocal performance ever. I really like the midnight special performance, but I actually like the rehearsal more than the aired version. Mix isn't as good, but raw and amazing. th-cam.com/video/W_O4Ygcgh8w/w-d-xo.html
This is the one where she goes off, not gold dust woman......
@@matthewdawson129 Watch Gold Dust Woman live Japan 1977. By the end, she is "tribal" just verbalizing... No words spoken. Mick is crazy on drums, as is Lindsey on guitar. I put link in the pinned section. :)
Tom Ward That is one of her best!
When you see Gold Dust Woman performed live, you get Stevie bascially going into a trance on stage and whirling and spinning around with her flowing lace and all that whacky stuff. Mesmerizing.
Yep, saw it a couple years ago on her 24 Karat Gold tour. A trance is right!! Amazing. 🙌🏼
She is a damn good witch
isn't she doing this with every song? :D
It's SUCH the cool sight to see (and hear)! Tori Amos manifests this same sort of mesmerizing presence in many of her live performances of "The Waitress" out there. A four-minute studio song, she bolts on a tour-de-force chorus in concert, during the last two minutes of which she is like a woman possessed, a goddess bewitched, Rhiannon indeed.
It was a fucking privilege to see both Fleetwood mac live and see Stevie live on her own. Each time she brought her fucking a game
And gold dust woman is always the one that stands out.
This song is about Stevie’s cocaine addiction. She’s one of the survivors of that period....so many musicians didn’t make it through.....The Line “take your silver spoon, dig your grave” is so haunting, and the music arrangement...so dark....goes so perfectly with the subject matter. I got chills listening to it.......haven’t heard it in years......still a truly powerful testament to the time in which it was written.
It’s also about what a nasty person cocaine can turn you into. It doesn’t just anaesthetise the nose. It deadens the conscience and boosts the ego.
Rumours is an absolute masterpiece.Easily one of the top 10 albums in rock history.Every song is good.
Best breakup album.
Except for one that I cannot abide!
I never noticed the chorus doesn't rhyme. Heard it a thousand times. This makes it even more brilliant. I have always found this song hauntingly beautiful.
65sheilakay ditto. Never noticed, decade after decade, own the album, now the cd.
Well glad I picked up on it 😊
Perfect description, hauntingly beautiful.
Its does rhyme...in the repetition of the vowels. It IS more theoretical than "actual" in practice for sure.
"As she like, danced across it!" OMG!! What a truly profound way to describe Stevie's approach to this tune! You guys nailed it! Her approach was hypnotic, it was otherworldly, it was etherical!!
That WAS a righteous phrase, lol!
If you want to hear Stevie belt some vocals, the live version of Rhiannon from the Midnight Special, 1976, is a must listen.
That is fantastic. Probably my fave version.
Thank you. That was awesome.
Seven Wonders too
This, yes, THIS.
Her eyes win that Version of Rhianon gives away the Gold Dust Women theme as well :)
At one time, I believe everyone in the civilized world had a copy of Rumors. It is simply a masterpiece. All the members of Fleetwood Mac were insanely talented. If you want to hear Stevie Nicks get intense Rhiannon, or Edge of Seventeen are your best choices. If you want to get lost in endless layers of bliss, Sara is the song to listen to. Great reaction guys. I think the two of you are falling under Stevie's spell. Most of us have. LOL.
Something you should listen to is the song "Bad Company," by Bad Company off the album Bad Company. How can you resist that?
'Rumours'
Stevie's singing is haunting & fits perfectly with Mick's drumming style. And Lindsey playing guitar with no guitar pick !!
which is why Rhiannon is already overdue here. this song illustrates this rhythmic combo perfectly.
@@flubblert Yes! That's in their top 5 of all songs (maybe top 2 or 3).
Heh, I just commented about that. I should read more before typing. He and Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) did some amazing finger picking.
Rhiannon is one of my favorites - Also love "Blue Lamp" on her Belladonna album.
You can’t go wrong with any Fleetwood song. Another Stevie at her finest is Gypsy.
Songs, and poems, don't need to rhyme. It's a form of poetry called Free Verse. If you read the lyrics, the song doesn't have any end rhymes!
Not rhyming creates more tension is some cases. It seemed to work here.
eXactly Dave~ *the thought was complete but not contrived* Don't you love this channel? *💜*
Yea I’m not saying it’s a negative, just giving my thoughts on something that stuck out to me, it was close enough of a rhyme that it didn’t seem intentionally off or close enough to be a slant, somewhere in the middle which is atypical.
@@alexfromandyandalex8032 Kismet! Was online same time as U. Most of us understood your sentiment, Alex.
@@armadillotoe exactly
I was fortunate to see them live twice in '77. Stevie hit these notes EXACTLY as heard on the recorded version. An unforgettable experience for my ears.
I saw them twice then, too! Totally agree! 👊🏻
Earlier Fleetwood Mac has a song called “Oh Well”. Try that experience someday guys. Much love to you and yours.
I'll second this ✌️
A lot of the Peter Green stuff (Oh Well, Part I... Green Manalishi... Black Magic Woman, Albatross) is so good, and has sadly been forgotten. Peter Green is one of those "your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist" guys.
Definitely Oh Well...that was the first song I heard by them..my brother had the 45..So good
I prefer the Rockets version but that is because it was the first version I heard.
Pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac is the best Fleetwood Mac. Personally, I find this iteration of the band boring.
The albums -Then Play On; Kiln House - . THAT’S the Fleetwood Mac I love.
The strange dynamics within the group, the emotional highs and lows, the breakups...all made for great songs. I wonder if they wouldn’t have been so good if their love lives weren’t in turmoil!?
"take your silver spoon, dig your grave" - gets me every time
I'm not sure this generation gets the meaning of it that we do. Silver spoons were more common in the 70s. I even wore one on a chain back then and I'm a small town nobody. It was just that prevalent back then.
@@kenwelch198 tbh I was around at the time but when I heard it first I took it in its more traditional meaning, about the rich kid "born with a silver spoon in their mouth" - and I think the lyric works quite nicely on that level as well.
It both refers to being from wealth and Stevie did coke out of a bottle with a small silver spoon to scoop it out
@@jordanlake471 tons of it
I was 17 when I was first turned on to Fleetwood. Still listen today and I am 56. Entertaining to hear today’s take on music.
“ Pick up your pieces and go home”
Remember, this is the 70s, silver spoon has a "special" meaning, *sniff sniff*
yea it's a anti-drug song
lol so true
Less anti drug song than an actual lament of her own misery
I doubt anything Fleetwood Mac did in those days was anti-drug. They didn't clean up until years later.
..which makes all the older live performances hard to watch. Mainly Mick and Stevie
I fell in love with this song when I was young, and used it as my music for a creative dance class. Mick's "intricate and exacting" hi-hat offers a stoic intensity. The strange yet lovely sounds from guitar picking bring you into a whole other world. Stevie's pretty voice haunts throughout. Love the wolfman cries near the end.
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Mothman that’s what I’m saying but how is there already one dislike
He was quick on the trigger
I second that
@Mothman
Haha thanks man! 🤟🏻🔥
It's because they're AUTHENTIC 🙂
When this album was released in 1977 it was a MONSTER! It was the Summer of Fleetwood Mac, The Season of Rumors... it was everywhere, and the Album of the Year. BTW, this is the same year Aja by Steele Dan was released.
and I believe as was "Hotel California"
Some heavy competition…
I was 14. Remember my dad cringing when Mic Fleetwood came to the grammy awards in White sneakers, Lept onto the stage to get the award.
She didn't even sing the words in the same tone...I've heard the song a million times and never once thought about those words not rhyming. Cuz she wasn't trying to rhyme them.
@The Donald
That’s what I was sayin’ to em’
@@andyandalex He never listens.
The Donald Love ya Mr. President! Rock on.
@@rexvisitor44 Keep America Great, my son.
keeping music great again.. oh crap...
1969 Fleetwood Mac song "Oh Well"
Albatross
Hypnotized.
I appreciate that you guys understand how much things were different back then. When an album came out, you would buy it and look at all the artwork on the album first, read through some of the lyrics, notice who played drums, bass, guitar, lead vocals, on which track Then you would put your headphones on and listen to side A all the way through, then side B. That has been lost today.
E X A C T L Y !! thought this the other day #lostartofdiscovery
@@maryannanderson1744 and buying an album wasn't taken lightly. It was almost 3 hours pay for me. back then min wage was around 3$/hr
You nailed it. Played this on my Radio Shack tape player with head phones.
Agreed. And when you owned an LP, you didn't listen to one song in isoation - it was too difficult to lift the needle and move it over. The positive point of that is you experienced the whole album in the intended sequence. The negative side is you had to suffer through the bad songs on albums that weren't very complete.
Always taped the LPs then put them away carefully
The prettiest song she ever sang, Dreams, imo
Not on Rumors and not even Fleetwood Mac, but you really should check out Stevie's duet with Tom Petty on 'Stop Draggin' My Heart Around.'
or even some Petty, they haven't done any yet
Randy Gibson great call. Great song.
Randy Gibson love that song and video!!!
YES, and Check out some Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Music too!!!
Insider awesome too but not as well known.
I'm 65 this year...and I am so very happy that the young are listening to all these cool artist ....makes me love all over again 💕
I actually appreciate Christine McVie's more pop-oriented compositions like "You Make Loving Fun" "Don't Stop" and "Songbird". I think they get overlooked sometimes because of Buckingham/Nicks greatness.
"Over My Head" from Tango is awfully good as well.
Songbird is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
@@heatherk1200 It is indeed!
@@flubblert I agree
@@flubblert YES. Now that you've mentioned it, 'Over My Head' is my favorite of her tunes with Fleetwood Mac.
Still have the vinyl from the year I met my wife. Steely Dan’s Aja or this was our first communal property. Oh still have the wife too. She was 22 when we met and a BEAUTIFUL 65 now!
Two albums on my top ten list!
good for you Mr. Schuck....mine shit the bed after 2 yrs...
Mr05chuck I’m the same age. Don’t we just love classic rock? I can’t get into hip hop because we had such good music. 👍
Oooo Aja is wonderful!!
Never married, but still with my significant other from those days. (1978) and we are happier than we have ever been. I think we all have a good pat of the back coming for that one! BTW. I listened to Aja constantly back then, much to his dismay. He was more of a Led Zepplin, Van Halen guy. Not that I didn't enjoy those bands tremendously, but in my mind they couldn't hold a candle to Steely Dan!
Would be awesome if guys do the full album reaction. RUMORS would be a perfect pick. Like all "proper" albums (at least in my opinion) it works better as a whole experience, and I think watching you two experience it for the first time with fresh ears would feel like a re-discovery for me and your other subscribers.
Keep it up dudes, you're owning it!
Ok Boys. You're now ready fro either "Second hand news" or "Monday Morning" for your next Fleewood jam !
“Second Hand News” is so fun.
Yes... both great! They really showcase Lindsay’s incredible voice ♥️
To me, a bookend to this song is "Sisters of the Moon" another Stevie song from the "Tusk" album.
Stevie the witch
They have another female singer named Christine McVie. Check out You Make Lovin Fun.
That and Songbird! Just Christine and a piano! Pure perfection.
Everybody focuses on Stevie but I was always a Christine fan. Over My Head and Say You Love Me are great too.
Not to be contrarian (You Make Lovin' Fun is a good song), but the production and guitar work in Oh Daddy are far superior and IMHO, it may be Christine's best hidden gem.
spicy321
Over My Head is a great pop song!
Or another one she sings is ,Tell me lies
My God, what an album. I drove the record store and bought the album about 5 seconds after hearing this song in 1977. Thank God I was born in 1952.
They spoiled us so much back then, can you imagine being 15 when this came out!
I was 16...I feel ya!
14 here.
First summer out of high school.
No one can hypnotize you like Fleetwood Mac. This song, unbelievable. Great reaction as always.
Check out early Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac, songs like Oh Well, Albatross, and Black Magic Woman.
Don't forget the Green Manalishi, Man of the World, Shake Your Money Maker, and Oh Well Part 2
Also the incarnation of the band right before this one. 'Mystery to Me' is a great album.
Check 'The City'.
Oh Well, could possibly be my Favorite Fleetwood song! Zeppelin said that song inspired their "Black Dog" song.
@@dwanpyrtle3134 isnt hypnotized on the mystery to me album?
Yes.
It might be lacking that traditional banging rock crescendo you were hoping for, but there’s plenty of that on Rumours, and if memory serves me, Gold Dust Woman was the final track (second side) of the album. The mood/style of the song serves that purpose quite well. If you’ve listened to the entire album from start to finish, you’ve been through a roller-coaster of emotions in song (a lot of it is dark/sad/angry, but not all... for example “Don’t Stop” is Christine’s upbeat positive anthem). By the time you get to this song, you’ve been through it all and then they just drop you into this weird, tribally, trippy zone that fades out in a haunting tone of near madness, with Stevie’s distorted wails. No happy, tied-up-in-ribbon closure here. You’re left on edge, in a strange place. It’s quite an effective album sign-off. Just some thoughts. Thanks for the video.
I think the non-rhyme is actually a way better choice. Not fulfilling expectations is definitely a legit writing strategy.
M. Gideon Hoyle for sure, I wasn’t sold the rhyme had to happen, it was surprising to me and briefly took me out of the music so I figured I’d note it but not against it.
@@alexfromandyandalex8032 I hear you. It's one of those things that can seem weird the first time around, but you may actually come to love later on.
Haha . . Andy was floating around - you got caught up in her web! You were teased, scrambled, flustered & left wanting more was the definitive purpose. . . THAT was the craziness! Andy describing the “uncanny valley of rhyme” . . love it! Good work fellas. 😎Look into BTO’s (Bachman Turner Overdrive) Let It Ride or Taking Care of Business sometime.
Seeing the whole album is about failed and failing relationships, a failed "attempt" at a rhyme seems appropriate. imho
If nobody had ever heard of Stevie Nicks and she went on one of those cookie cutter, everybody sounds the SAME singing contest shows, they probably would tell her she wasn't any good. You always know it's Stevie when she sings. Can't say that about the crap being churned out today.
For me personally the most powerful song of Fleetwood Mac is the live version of “Silver Spring“. I believe it’s from 1990. Stevie Nicks wrote it before she joined the band and it’s about her relationship and break up with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Really powerful live performance of it. I recommend that.
It's from the live show/ album "The Dance" - 1997. Yeah it's freaking awesome. Especially with the video with it too. The looks that Stevie and Lindsey give each other are chilling
Luuk Hulsman Yep, it was.
yep.
Luuk Hulsman yeah, it was. I’ve read about the history of this song. Stevie really really wanted it to be on the Rumours album but the band decided against it and that hurt her a lot. But if memory serves she wrote it before joining the band. She did an album just with Lindsey Buckingham called “Buckingham Nicks” and I think it’s on that album. Point being she brought it with her into the band so it did originate before her time in Fleetwood Mac. If I’m not mistaken! :-)
Gunnery Sgt Hartman right on. Yes, they are fairly far apart on stage during that show but both are turned sideways singing to each other. It actually brought me to tears, The people, music and lyrics together in that live setting we are very powerful to me, even though it was about 20 years after the fact.
This is true Stevie ...... sliding off into the night, leaving you standing there in a swirl of haunting screams ...... and Mick's drums throbbing in the background.
You also have to understand that this song is a part of an entire album that seamlessly fits together, this is a piece of a whole, and someday when you listen to the whole album you will see how this fits into the whole.
The whole album is wizard level creatively.
Next up: Rhiannon. Then you will hear Stevie cut loose.
Absolutely correct!
Well, hold up, you just went on about the whole of this album and how it's wizard level and then say "Next up: Rhiannon" which is a song that isn't on this album.
@@paulthomas8335 Are they allowed to listen to songs from other albums? Is that OK with you?
If Rumours isn’t in someone’s top ten albums then I don’t know what to say
live version of silver spring from their 90s era live show and cd. her and lindsey (her ex) stare at each other as they sing the lyrics when the song builds to a climax and she is almost shouting them at him haha. love it. goose bump inducing.
Yes you know a song is good when it gives you goosebumps
My favorite Fleetwood Mac song is "I Don't Want to Know." You should give that one a listen.
Fair rating of A for the song. But the album is most definitely S tier. Rumors is one of those defining albums in rock 'n roll.
I forgot how much I love this song ty both for the reminder guys.
Was it just me, or did anyone else here copy Stevie's hair?
She was THE coolest.
Karen Kriske Stevie is a goddess!!
Karen Kriske - I desperately tried... and failed miserably!
Her and Farrah Faucett’s (spelling) hair!!!
I tried, got my long hair permed...BAD move! 😂😂😂
Karen Kriske I had the hair naturally but it was a pain in the neck!
She wore long flowing gowns and danced around the stage very gracefully.
Actually, this song is about shallow, beautiful women who latch onto guys for the high life, namely "gold dust" or cocaine. Very common in the 70's and 80's. I had friends who would fall for these gorgeous women, and they were there for them in every way as long as there was a party to attend and he was buying... I have witnessed fortunes squandered because this life is so addictive that you will sell your soul and all of your worldly possessions to live it.. The song has a seductive back beat, twist and turn lead guitar by Lindsey Buckingham, and John McVie keeps everything moving with his tantalizing bass riffs .. "Did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love? Tell me is it over now, did you know how, to pick up the pieces and go home??" …. a LOT of guys experienced that heartache first hand and lost everything.
See: Epidemic of Gold Digging Whores by Bill Burr
Well said...from a young woman who was a bartender in a high end club early 80s...the dj, the owner, the sports figures..they would tip me grams! I knew it was a very dangerous and slippery slope! Cleaned up. Got out and joined the Navy! Perfect succinct and on point!
It is about coke
Rhiannon!!!!!!!! From this one - Rulers make bad lovers, you better put your kingdom up for sale - is one of the greatest lines in all of songwriting!
Stevie has said that this song is (in part) about cocaine (which she hadn't yet become addicted to at this point - but noticed a lot of the groupies that hung around them used it to keep up) which she thought (due to its price) was like gold dust (take your silver spoon, dig your grave - ironically it did almost kill her... just shows sometimes you should take your own advice).
If you notice, much of the song doesn't have a formal rhyme scheme, which, along with the chaotic yet structured breakdown as the song progresses reflects the discord that drugs bring into the narrator's life.
Stevie's writing power lays in the words and phrases she chooses. It's not just about making the next set of lines rhyme, it's also about the turn of a phrase (from The Chain, on the same album: "If you don't love me now, you will never love me again / I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain" - Rhymes on paper but not in an American accent.)
I mean, if you're going to get that picky, never listen to The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. He sets up rhymes all over the place in that song, but rarely ever does rhyme.
During the writing of their song “September” in the late 1970’s, Maurice White, the founder of the band, Earth, Wind & Fire, has been quoted as having said, “Never let a lyric get in the way of the groove”. I think Stevie believed the same when she wrote this song around the same time. It’s not about the rhyme it’s about the rhythm and how the song makes you feel. Being too literal when listening to music from this era can take away from the whole experience. Also remember, this was the era of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Most people only listened to music to “get lost in the sauce”. LOL
A listen to “September” would demonstrate the point. The lyrics are mostly nonsensical but you can never deny how that song makes you feel.
Guys, I love watching your reactions to music that I enjoyed when I was your age and it was just hitting the charts. Many of the artists/bands you react to I’ve seen perform live when they were at their prime and again now as so many of them are still touring 40 some years later - Fleetwood Mac and Earth, Wind & Fire included.
It makes me happy to see a whole new generation of young adults find pleasure in the same music I did in my youth. It fills me with hope.
Wow! Somebody who knows about the great band Earth, Wind and Fire and September is their greatest song!
How funny! A rhyme, or lack thereof, never even crossed my mind. It simply flows. 😍
Jocelyn Haeberle I do think it flows very well
Great pick guys! Probably my favorite by them. You need to watch a live performance when she's dressed in black lace! SUPER HOT!!
Play some Door,s/ Road House Blue,s/ Changeling/ LA Woman/ I saw Fleetwood Mac in 1976/ I went up front with my Nikon Camera,snapped up a picture of Stevie twirling around in her black witches dress,and she smiled at me! I had the photo blown up to an 8/10, but lost it moving a few year,s later, Damn ,Clay, PS, more Steely Dan,Good job guy,s you take me back to the 70,s gracefully!
Yea this is classic that will never get old. Thanx Alex and Andy. This was a great Request
"Say You Love Me" is an irresistible tune with lead vocals by Christine McVee.
I loved Christine's voice.
You are spot on about the guitar response from her ex. Still pretty bad ass move to make him play guitar while she's bitching about him being a "lousy lover"!
In my opinion, "lousy lover" was her reaction to Buckingham's "Shacking up's all you want to do" on "Go Your Own Way".
I just want to tell you guys I’m 67 years old I’ve been playing guitar since 1965 in different bands I am so hooked on you guys thank you I enjoy you guys. You guys are funnier than fuck man
I would love to see you check out BTO (Bachman Turner Overdrive). I’m thinking “Let It Ride”
hopefully they will
As musicians, BTO is perfect for them! I hope they get around to their music!
Totally agree!
Gimme Your Money Please
Oh. Hell. Yes. I loved be that sing so much. It kills!
The VERY BEST 2 Fleetwood Mac Songs are: "Secondhand News" and MY
Personal Favorite: "Monday Morning". Both Songs, I TOTALLY Relate
to(Lyricly).
Yeahhh boyeeee. Guys try some of Christine McVie's sung Fleetwood Mac tunes.
Christine McVie written aswell, eg Songbird
Definitely. I think she gets the short end behind Stevie, Christie is under rated
@@Largeagegaplove TRUMP 2020
The live version of this must be on your list. Trust us all.
I wish you would give “Tusk” a listen. The song stays full ham played with the USC Trojan marching band.
They DEFINITELY don't make em like Tusk anymore.
Gary Harris that was so creative. I heard it for the first time at a friend's, before we all headed to the Risk album concert. I didn't fully appreciate until I heard it a third time. It was just so new.
Before we headed to the Tusk concert. Autocorrect. Not "risk".
@@Live2swim you can edit original comments. Don't need an entire new comment to explain a mistake no one has reacted to.
Amazing song!
"Rhiannon" for Stevie, "Second Hand News" for Lindsey
Guys, check out Badfinger and start with “Baby blue”. They were signed by the Beatles to there Apple record company. They had a short period of success due to bad management decisions and 2 suicides to key members of the band. They had a few other hits with “Day after day”, “No matter what” and “Come and get it”. Baby blue actually made it onto the final scene in the Netflix series “Breaking bad”.
Glen did you see the final episode of Breaking Bad when Baby Blue played.
Robert Dennis Hicks ...Oh yeah. A fantastic ending to a fantastic series.
Yet another timeless classic! 70's music magic and creativity abounding...
The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown) and Albatross.
Fleetwood Mac will never be the same Stevie and Lindsay are the two best voices ever in this band.
GREAT Tune..!!! But "The Chain" is the Banger!
Never Going Back Again, from the same album. It's Lindsey Buckingham singing and showing off some fingerstyle acoustic guitar.
What a perfect song! Check out Second Hand News next! I am and will forever be in love with Stevie Nicks!
Seemingly simple, and she dances across it got me. Awesome.
You need to react to the whole album. It is an S tier ALBUM and you will see how every song builds on each other and why it is one of the best albums of all time.
Next one: You Make Lovin Fun. Time to do a Christine McVie compilation guys. It's a banger!!!!
Time to dive into the iconic Thin Lizzy catalog. Jail Break, Cowboy Song, Boys are Back in Town to name a few
don't forget "Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed" I looove that song. Then again, I loooove Thin Lizzy :-D
edit: imho "Johnny the Fox" is one of the best rock albums of the seventies. For real.
"Dedication" rocks, too!
The Rocker.
If you want rhyming lyrics, check out Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone. I was 15 years old, laying on the beach on the shores of Lake Erie when I first heard it. I completely blew my mind. It was like nothing that was being played on the radio at the time. It changed the way music could be played on the radio forever. One of the most important songs ever recorded.
The lyrics are a tale with an antithetical statement being drivin home like a stake to the heart. Not all artist rely on bubblegum pop rock nursery rhymes to imprint a catchy verse into their audiences mind.
V7avalon I think you don’t understand what I was saying, or if you did you’re intentionally sensationalizing what I said. Clearly I don’t think bubblegum pop rock competes with this lyrically. However, if you truly thought I meant that I’d be more than happy to clarify my thoughts if you’d like
This song is the last song on the album, so it's not being set up for what follows, it's the coda to the whole thing.
Also, re the rhyme thing, "shattered your illusion of LOVE" , and "pick up the pieces and go HOME" - the illusion has been shattered, so obviously the next line is not what you expected. It's brilliant!
The Urban Grouse I do think it’s a good line more so wanted to bring it up since I noticed it and have a dialogue as to why in the comments
Love Fleetwood Mac. This album released in 1977, I was a sophomore in high school, wore out the vinyl. One of the best selling records of all time, 40 million copies worldwide. Suggestions for more Fleetwood Mac- ‘Big Love’ video from the live ‘The Dance’ 1997. Older Fleetwood Mac ‘Albatross’ live and ‘Oh Well’ parts 1 and 2. Also, you have to ‘know’ Stevie Nicks writing style to understand her songs and her personal history and who she is as an individual and also what was going on with the group when this album recorded. I would guess that she wasn’t necessarily trying to rhyme the words.
This is the magic of you guys...I grew up on this song as it happened, and because of that it is perfect. However...it's been years since I've listened to this, and like you guys...it actually does promise something that isn't quite delivered, so I understand what you're saying, but back in the day it just awesome. I get the feeling even though you guys loved the song, it is your job to be honest and you did it in a way that isn't disrespectful. Good job.
No Tusk! Just about any other Mac song but that one... Please do Neil Young "Like a hurricane", Traffic "Low spark high heeled boys", Santana @ Woodstock video of "Soul Sacrifice, Joe Walsh "Rocky mountain way", "Turn to stone", "Meadows", Outlaws "Green grass and high tides", Robin Trower "Too rolling stoned"
Traffic is an excellent band.
hate tusk,
...can't tell u why. Weird.
I cringe at the thought of wasting a FM review on Tusk. By far their most boring of songs.. great Album, many better songs than the title song. They'd be bored.
Low spark high heel boys
I love the drum fill in that tune
I would love a reaction to joe Walsh ILBT
If u have never heard it check it out you will lovd it
Its off of you bought it you name it
danoh's toolbox turn to stone with felder live 1976 Houston...check it out
Most folk won’t believe that Fleetwood Mac started out as a blues band. I think you’ll love their earlier years too!
Inside Looking Out by Grand Funk Railroad 😁 keep up the great videos gents! ✊🏼
Stevie doesn't write to rhyme. She writes and sings what comes from her heart.
It naturally happens in a poets work.
Everything on this album is fire. I’d recommend “I’m So Afraid” from the album just before this one. It’s the first album after Lindsey and Stevie joined the band. 👍
yes!
Was that line “ pick up the pieces and go home?...”Any thing they did is really good.
OH WELL!!!! PART1 PART 2.(Peter Green Classis Pre Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham) The Green Manalishi, Rhiannon, So Afraid from the DANCE!!!!(Lindsey's awesome banging solo at the end.....) Teaser. Black Magic Woman, Sentimental Woman (Bob Welch)/ Ebony Eyes. Song bird Christine McVie Blue Eyes( Christine McVie) Stand Back Live Stevie.
That second vocal, behind Stevie, is Lindsey Buckingham. Their voices fit perfectly together.
You guy's should also check out early Fleetwood mac with Peter Green on guitar probably their best guitarist more hard rock and blues. Oh well is a good song to start with.
Leather and Lace- Stevie Nicks & Don Henley
Second Hand News- Fleetwood Mac
Gypsy- Fleetwood Mac
Dreams- Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way- Fleetwood Mac
Cliffs of Dover- Eric Johnson
The last song is an amazing instrumental performance that guitar players everywhere so should see at least once. Eric’s tone and technical ability is amazing.
Never realized what a great song this was until I heard your reaction. Unbelievable... took songs for granted in the '70s, surrounded by so much other great music
You guys really need to do Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster". Kind of a One Hit Wonder, but dang; it's a fun one.
The lead singer lives about 30 minutes from my house
This whole song gives me chills and tears. Especially the end. WOW.
Stevie Nicks solo - Edge of Seventeen. That's one of her best songs of all time.
No Autotune fake singing, no studio fake tracks, no shitty hip-hop nor crappy rap. True musicians and singers.
I’d love you to do some Fleetwood Mac from the very earliest when it was named Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac... Oh Well, Green Manalishi are so great. Peter Green was the guitarist’s guitarist... he could play better than any
Chantel McGregor does a fantastic version of Gold Dust Woman, both solo with an acoustic guitar, and with her band. Both on youtube.