'75 Fleetwood Mac - Analyze Your Least Favorites

[CreepingDeath]

Worst Lyrics - Sugar Daddy

The "used to likes" - Blue Letter

Songs that could have been better - Landslide

Everybody's favorite but not mine - Crystal- Lindsey sounds like a eunuch.

Much better performed live - Rhiannon

Overall least favorite - Warm Ways

[David]

Worst lyrics
Warm Ways

The "used to likes"
Say You Love Me

Songs that could have been better
The vocal on Landslide could have been a lot better.

Everybody's favorite but not mine
I'm So Afraid

Much better performed live
Monday Morning & World Turning

Overall least favorite
Warm Ways

[michelej1]

Worst Lyrics - Sugar Daddy

The "used to likes" - Dreams

Songs that could have been better - Running Through the Garden

Everybody's favorite but not mine - You Make Loving Fun

Much better performed live - Not That Funny

Overall least favorite -Sweet Girl

[Conga]

Worst lyrics
Over My Head. Catchy pop tune, though, so doesn't matter

The "used to likes"
still like 'em all

Songs that could have been better
none

Everybody's favorite but not mine
n/a

Much better performed live
World Turning

Overall least favorite
Sugar Daddy

[darklinensuit]

Worst Lyrics – World Turning

The "used to likes" - Monday Morning - still not bad, it's just the one that has slipped the most compared to how much i used to like it

Songs that could have been better – Warm Ways – Sounds like Chris singing (albeit beautifully) over muzak & makes me feel like I’m waiting to see the orthodontist

Everybody's favorite but not mine – World Turning

Much better performed live – Over My Head

Overall least favorite – World Turning


- Jake

[jellyman10]

Worst Lyrics - I think Christine is pretty weak, lyrically, most of the time but this album is close to her worst. Honestly, has anyone ever made sex sound quite so flaccid as in 'Warm Ways'?

The "used to likes" - I still like LB's very high, sweet voice on 'Crystal', and I massively prefer it to his present singing-through-a-mouthful-of-vomit stylee. But I don't really like the song any more. 'Crystalline knowledge' is so naff it could've been written by C. McVie.

Songs that could have been better - Most of CM and LB's tracks would have benefited from making Stevie's backing vocals audible?

Everybody's favorite but not mine - 'I'm So Afraid'. Awww, diddums.

Much better performed live - Well, this would have to be 'Rhiannon', back in the day. I quite like the piano intro of later years, though, too.

Overall least favorite - The ghastly 'Sugar Daddy', a song that amply demonstrates why Christine McVie's proper place was always right where she started: filling in a bit of bluesy piano in her boyfriend's pub band.

[Fiver]

Originally Posted by jellyman10

The ghastly 'Sugar Daddy', a song that amply demonstrates why Christine McVie's proper place was always right where she started: filling in a bit of bluesy piano in her boyfriend's pub band.

[McTrouble]

Worst Lyrics: Warm Ways

The "used to likes": Landslide

Songs that could have been better: Over My Head

Everybodys favourite but not mine: Rhiannon

Much better performed live: World Turning

Overall least favourite: Sugar Daddy

[ButterCookie]

Originally Posted by jellyman10;959569[B

Overall least favorite[/B] - The ghastly 'Sugar Daddy', a song that amply demonstrates why Christine McVie's proper place was always right where she started: filling in a bit of bluesy piano in her boyfriend's pub band.

Are you f*ing kidding me? Are you actually...

I can't. I'm just logging off here and now.

[RickRobert]

Though as much as I hate to admit it he was right about this much:

"I massively prefer it to his present singing-through-a-mouthful-of-vomit stylee"

[jellyman10]

^^^ OK, OK, I admit that last bit about Christine was harsh. I admit it. But it's not a million miles away from the sort of thing the woman has said about herself from time to time. I mean, does anyone read the Blue Letter Archives at all any more? I just went and had a quick look and found this:

"Let's face it, I'm an adequate amateur at best. At heart, I still like to play the blues more than anything else."
C. McVie, interview in "Contemporary Keyboard" (1980)

But it was harsh, and as was predicted earlier in the thread, this type of poll does provoke negativity. ButterCookie, you've said the same yourself on the Stevie forum.

Loz (female - I know, I have a stupid username)

[David]

Originally Posted by jellyman10

^^^ OK, OK, I admit that last bit about Christine was harsh. I admit it. But it's not a million miles away from the sort of thing the woman has said about herself from time to time. I mean, does anyone read the Blue Letter Archives at all any more? I just went and had a quick look and found this:

"Let's face it, I'm an adequate amateur at best. At heart, I still like to play the blues more than anything else."
C. McVie, interview in "Contemporary Keyboard" (1980)

Chris was referring only to her piano skills.

I agree with her self-assessment; but it doesn't take into consideration something that has become clear over the years: the style in her conceptions & executions.

Imagine a far greater technician of the keyboard -- Roy Bittan of the E Street Band -- writing the electric piano & organ parts for Dreams. The style would have been all wrong.

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by David

Chris was referring only to her piano skills.

I agree with her self-assessment; but it doesn't take into consideration something that has become clear over the years: the style in her conceptions & executions.

Imagine a far greater technician of the keyboard -- Roy Bittan of the E Street Band -- writing the electric piano & organ parts for Dreams. The style would have been all wrong.

Her piano skills were partly what I was referring to, too, as part of my wider opinion that 'Sugar Daddy' exemplifies very well the bottom end of what she was able to accomplish in terms of composition in her years in FM.

The bit about her proper place being in a pub band was harsh, as I've conceded. But I really would urge all Ledgies to spend a little time reading the archives on this board, because it's easy to build up an image of someone that is quite at variance with most things they've ever said or done in public.

For example, read the first four articles in the Christine section of the Blue Letter Archives and then tell me that that incarnation of her doesn't make you feel just a little bit queasy? She was a feminist's nightmare. So was Stevie, up till at least Tusk, and in many ways still is.

[KarmaContestant]

Ooh, fun.


Worst Lyrics - Warm Ways

The "used to likes" - I used to like Rhiannon. I also used to like Over My Head.

Songs that could have been better - Crystal

Everybody's favorite but not mine - Rhiannon

Much better performed live - I'm So Afraid

Overall least favorite -Warm Ways

[MacShadowsBall]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Worst Lyrics - Sugar Daddy

The "used to likes" - Dreams

Songs that could have been better - Running Through the Garden

Everybody's favorite but not mine - You Make Loving Fun

Much better performed live - Not That Funny

Overall least favorite -Sweet Girl

This is just for the songs from the white album.