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View Poll Results: Which Of These "Post-Rumours" lineup album do you like more? | |||
Behind The Mask-1990 | 25 | 71.43% | |
Time- 1995 | 10 | 28.57% | |
Voters: 35. You may not vote on this poll |
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Christine has 5 songs on Time, most of which are excellent.
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#17
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Yes, Christine. (and Lindsey's even on one track)
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You beat me to it, Mary Anne!
Time's a pretty good album. And yeah, BTM sounds like crap. Whoever mastered that album needs to go reclaim their job at Burger King!
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Christine McVie- she radiated both purity and sass in equal measure, bringing light to the music of the 70s. RIP. - John Taylor(Duran Duran) |
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I voted for BTM because, as many have said although the production is a bit dodgy, the songs are quite good. Time has some good songs on it but I cannot stand These Strange Times and also what the hell was Dave Mason doing on a FM album? Fleetwood Mac should be a five piece band with no Daves! Gail |
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Yeah, both Daves just didn't seem to be right for Fleetwood Mac.
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Agreed. But then again, I don't think Bekka was right for FM either *hides*
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Bekka is a great singer(way better than you know who!), and had this lineup been given a chance, I think they really could've amounted to something. There ARE just too many people who wouldn't give ANYONE a chance in those shoes. (IMO)
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Christine McVie- she radiated both purity and sass in equal measure, bringing light to the music of the 70s. RIP. - John Taylor(Duran Duran) |
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For starters, there was too much similarity to Stevie - so it came off like she was a cheap replacement. Secondly, she didn't write her own songs, she doesn't play any instruments - what does she really bring to the band apart from her looks and her voice And I don't like any other woman for FM apart from Stevie and Christine - another personal opinion. |
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Having a chick in the band has been a part of Fleetwood Mac's identity since 1970. With Christine retired from the road and Stevie out of the band, it created the need for another female. So she didn't write songs. Lots of singers don't write their own songs. I don't believe Janis Joplin was a songwriter. I know her most popular songs were penned by others. Yet Stevie fans don't diminish the worth of Janis like they do Bekka. Where people make the mistake with Bekka is comparing her to Stevie. Christine is a much nicer comparison. Christine was a good keyboardist when she joined, but her singing and songwriting paled in comparison to her later work. She DEVELOPED into the Christine McVie that wrote a butt load of hit songs. If "Future Games" was all we knew of Christine, we'd like her, but wouldn't be utterly in awe/blown away by her, especially when put up against Peter Green just a year and change earlier.
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^^^What.he.said.too.
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Christine McVie- she radiated both purity and sass in equal measure, bringing light to the music of the 70s. RIP. - John Taylor(Duran Duran) |
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As far as Dave Mason goes, just remember, when he joined the band, there were no other guitarists. So, really, Billy Burnette coming back to the group may be partially responsible for why it didn't work. I'm not blaming Billy. It's just that the vision Mick had when putting the group together changed after Billy came back, since it became very clear in a short period of time that there was a chemistry between Bekka and Billy. If he hadn't left the band, they might have realized fairly quickly that there was something between Bekka and Billy, gotten a lead guitarist who didn't sing (i.e. Greg Wright) and focus on the Bekka-Billy dynamic a bit more.
Still, with no guitarists or male vocalists, Dave Mason, especially considering his past AOR creds and his history with the Bramlett family, was a fairly obvious choice at the time. Billy's return pretty much negated the value of having Dave in the band.
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On your other point, I don't see how apart from the touring aspect, why another female was necessary for FM. They could get away with replacing guitarists, because FM needs a guitarist - but replacing either two females, like it or not, who were the main focal point of the band, would never work... |
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I think your logic in this is just skewed, insanely skewed. If Fleetwood Mac would've just packed it in when Peter Green left, then we wouldn't have all this "Stevie/Bekka" bull****...because we all know that Fleetwood Mac, for all intents, was just crap once Peter left. Yes, there was a bucketload of sarcasm in my last comment.
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Sheer technical ability alone is never enough to succeed in rock music. I'm sure there are many more technically gifted keyboard players than Christine but what she does (sorry did) with Fleetwood Mac was perfect (pun intended). Gail |
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I wish I could agree. But their tours were done before the album was released, and they stopped touring right as the album was released. They never really gave Bekka a shot at fronting the band behind an album she appeared on. I think there would have been further changes in personnel, but I think if they had focused the band around Bekka and Billy, things would have been much better.
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