Billboard 500 best pop songs. Dreams is #17

HomerMcvie · #1 10-30-2023, 10:54 AM

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It's not the best song. It's the most popular Fleetwood Mac song, worldwide. If you play FM songs to any non fan, millenials & centennials included, the highest probability of recognize a song, or heard before at least once, is definitely Dreams. Again, I'm thinking worldwide. Everywhere, Dont Stop and Gypsy probably recognized but some too, but not as much as Dreams.

In terms of popularity (including outside the fans, beyond Generation X), Dreams is kind of the "Hotel California" or the "Stayin’ Alive" of Fleetwood Mac.

I would say that GYOW is their Hotel California.

jmn3 · #2 10-30-2023, 11:30 AM

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I would say that GYOW is their Hotel California.

100% this right here

bwboy · #3 10-30-2023, 11:54 AM

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I would say that GYOW is their Hotel California.

And here I thought Don’t Stop was their Hotel California, especially after Clinton made it his presidential theme song.

Macfan4life · #4 10-30-2023, 12:02 PM

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And here I thought Don’t Stop was their Hotel California, especially after Clinton made it his presidential theme song.

Don't Stop is pretty close to an anthem. But GYOW is the band's most forward rock song that charted. Rock stations still play it even if they may not play much else from the band. The band sensed that too because they made it their closer. Even in Mick's book (where are you Villavic) he said they would turn up the volume during Lindsey's guitar solo in Japan and blast them out of the arena during the guitar jam.
I love Lindsey's playing but he always saw himself as so many other things than a guitar player. The songs from Lindsey I like the most are when he jams.
Long story short, its their most guitar and rock orientated single. Post Rumours the band switched over to folk rock, soft rock, and pure pop.

**jbrownsjr** · #5 10-30-2023, 12:24 PM

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Don't Stop is pretty close to an anthem. But GYOW is the band's most forward rock song that charted. Rock stations still play it even if they may not play much else from the band. The band sensed that too because they made it their closer. Even in Mick's book (where are you Villavic) he said they would turn up the volume during Lindsey's guitar solo in Japan and blast them out of the arena during the guitar jam.
I love Lindsey's playing but he always saw himself as so many other things than a guitar player. The songs from Lindsey I like the most are when he jams.
Long story short, its their most guitar and rock orientated single. Post Rumours the band switched over to folk rock, soft rock, and pure pop.

Which charted higher? Or, was it a tie?

HomerMcvie · #6 10-30-2023, 02:37 PM

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And here I thought Don’t Stop was their Hotel California, especially after Clinton made it his presidential theme song.

Don't Stop sounds far more dated than GYOW.

bwboy · #7 10-30-2023, 04:01 PM

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Don't Stop sounds far more dated than GYOW.

Yep, I agree. And Go Your Own Way has always been the song that represented Fleetwood Mac to me the most. My top 10 list may vary day to day, but GYOW is always my #1.

HomerMcvie · #8 10-30-2023, 04:13 PM

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Yep, I agree. And Go Your Own Way has always been the song that represented Fleetwood Mac to me the most. My top 10 list may vary day to day, but GYOW is always my #1.

That acoustic guitar IS WHAT MAKES GYOW work. Something about that part really makes it feel fresh.

**jbrownsjr** · #9 10-30-2023, 07:04 PM

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That acoustic guitar IS WHAT MAKES GYOW work. Something about that part really makes it feel fresh.

And he never wrote like that again! literally...

HomerMcvie · #10 10-30-2023, 07:30 PM

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And he never wrote like that again! literally...

He got that talent leech surgically removed from his back(and front).

Villavic · #11 10-30-2023, 11:37 PM

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Yep, I agree. And Go Your Own Way has always been the song that represented Fleetwood Mac to me the most. .

However let's keep in mind that curiously it was Christine who won most of the "favorite songs grouped by singer" album polls in The Ledge Rumours forum.

About GYOW, I just say it is the song that, not necessarily represented, but made me think FLEETWOOD MAC ROCKS!

Villavic · #12 10-30-2023, 11:13 PM

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I would say that GYOW is their Hotel California.

My point is current worlwide popularity. GYOW nowadays is not as popular as Dreams, Dont Stop or Everywhere in Peru, Argentina, Spain, etc.

Hotel California and Dreams are still usually played in 70s-80s music radios (southamerica and some eruopean countries i have visited). Go Your Own Way unfortunately is not.

Dreams is recognized by millenials, centenials. Not a lot, but some of them know that song. As they know HC. GYOW is not known.

Again, I'm talking about today popularity, presence on radios, not talking about quality or artistic work.

HomerMcvie · #13 10-31-2023, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

My point is current worlwide popularity. GYOW nowadays is not as popular as Dreams, Dont Stop or Everywhere in Peru, Argentina, Spain, etc.

Hotel California and Dreams are still usually played in 70s-80s music radios (southamerica and some eruopean countries i have visited). Go Your Own Way unfortunately is not.

Dreams is recognized by millenials, centenials. Not a lot, but some of them know that song. As they know HC. GYOW is not known.

Again, I'm talking about today popularity, presence on radios, not talking about quality or artistic work.

Whatevs. I hear GYOW THREE TIMES as much on the radio as Dreams. YMMV.

**jbrownsjr** · #14 10-31-2023, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

My point is current worlwide popularity. GYOW nowadays is not as popular as Dreams, Dont Stop or Everywhere in Peru, Argentina, Spain, etc.

Hotel California and Dreams are still usually played in 70s-80s music radios (southamerica and some eruopean countries i have visited). Go Your Own Way unfortunately is not.

Dreams is recognized by millenials, centenials. Not a lot, but some of them know that song. As they know HC. GYOW is not known.

Again, I'm talking about today popularity, presence on radios, not talking about quality or artistic work.

I would agree. I hear Everywhere, literally Everywhere. I heard it in Paris, London, on a cruise ship, even Barcelona.