I really intended to keep it to just a week. But there was too much good material.
Like this song. This song was a bit of a happy accident, made by splicing together a bunch of stuff from the cutting room floor. Little of the original song's instruments were recorded together, nor the vocals. It was a spliced-up mess, right down to the seemingly nonsequetor closing baseline. I've talked pretty extensively about how fractured the band was during the recording of the Rumours album. What a better allegory for that than a song that the players couldn't even get together to record!
And it STILL worked!
22 January 2018
19 January 2018
19 January 2018 - Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me
So many good Fleetwood Mac songs, right? We're not done yet!
Released as the first single from the Mirage album in 1982, this is one of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits, and yet it is often forgotten when discussing their best songs. And, indeed, the band was a mirage at the time. Notice how very little they are on screen together during this video. That's because none of them were getting along. At all. Stevie Nicks was broken up with TWO of her bandmates, neither of whom were really fond of her. Neither was the video producer, who complained about her diva behavior. John McVie was largely drunk throughout the shoot, and Christine McVie was just sick of all the drama.... which didn't endear her to her bandmates, either.
Did you get all that? I had to draw it all out. But the Magrite-inspired video that ensured from the chaotic drama sure turned out pretty, and the song itself is a sweet Christine McVie-Lindsey Buckingham duet, written by McVie.
Released as the first single from the Mirage album in 1982, this is one of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits, and yet it is often forgotten when discussing their best songs. And, indeed, the band was a mirage at the time. Notice how very little they are on screen together during this video. That's because none of them were getting along. At all. Stevie Nicks was broken up with TWO of her bandmates, neither of whom were really fond of her. Neither was the video producer, who complained about her diva behavior. John McVie was largely drunk throughout the shoot, and Christine McVie was just sick of all the drama.... which didn't endear her to her bandmates, either.
Did you get all that? I had to draw it all out. But the Magrite-inspired video that ensured from the chaotic drama sure turned out pretty, and the song itself is a sweet Christine McVie-Lindsey Buckingham duet, written by McVie.
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