Love In Store Single

[jbrownsjr]

This was really interesting. I know MacFan and I followed it (in 1982/1983) and wanted it to go to at least # 10. I didn't hear this on the radio much. After Hold Me and Gypsy, the radio was tired w/ FM.

[Macfan4life]

Where I lived you would have swore it was a top 10 song. Its one of my favorites. It was fantastic in the Mirage concert too. It was released during the explosion of MTV. I know they hated doing the Hold Me video and would never have done another video. However I think a video could have made it climb another 10 spots. Unheard of that any song would be in early 1983 and not have a video. It was still on the charts when the Mirage show debuted on HBO in February 1983.
Mick was right. Mirage was #1 and charting hits and huge videos. Once the Mirage tour ended at the end of October, 1982, the album fell. Just imagine if they had a normal or typical tour that went into January 1983 with a video for Love In Store. As Steve would say....it would have been a hit and Lindsey did not have to leave the band.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Where I lived you would have swore it was a top 10 song. Its one of my favorites. It was fantastic in the Mirage concert too. It was released during the explosion of MTV. I know they hated doing the Hold Me video and would never have done another video. However I think a video could have made it climb another 10 spots. Unheard of that any song would be in early 1983 and not have a video. It was still on the charts when the Mirage show debuted on HBO in February 1983.
Mick was right. Mirage was #1 and charting hits and huge videos. Once the Mirage tour ended at the end of October, 1982, the album fell. Just imagine if they had a normal or typical tour that went into January 1983 with a video for Love In Store. As Steve would say....it would have been a hit and Lindsey did not have to leave the band.

Did you hear it on the radio much? Lis? Anyone. Like "Think About Me" I don't think it got much play.

[Penguin Emeritus]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Did you hear it on the radio much? Lis? Anyone. Like "Think About Me" I don't think it got much play.

I don't remember ever hearing either song on the radio!! Once in a blue moon they'd play the video for Think About Me on MTV but that was a real rarity.

--Lis

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

I don't remember ever hearing either song on the radio!! Once in a blue moon they'd play the video for Think About Me on MTV but that was a real rarity.

--Lis

There's a video for Think About Me?

[Penguin Emeritus]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

There's a video for Think About Me?

Yeah, there was, it was sort of a compilation of some clips from (what I now know is ) the Rumours backstage footage. It was basically just a bunch of clips strung together while the song played... roadies setting up the stage w the big red trunks..mick kicking out his foot..maybe chris and stevie putting on their make up? i can't recall much more than that. VERY rare to see it played on MTV.

--Lis

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by Penguin Emeritus

I don't remember ever hearing either song on the radio!! Once in a blue moon they'd play the video for Think About Me on MTV but that was a real rarity.

--Lis

I didn't hear Love in Store on the radio. Besides Hold Me and Gypsy, it was Can't Go Back what I did hear.

Was the Think About Me video an extract from the Tusk documentary?

[Penguin Emeritus]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I didn't hear Love in Store on the radio. Besides Hold Me and Gypsy, it was Can't Go Back what I did hear.

Was the Think About Me video an extract from the Tusk documentary?

I think some tusk doc footage and a bit of the backstage rumours footage were mainly what made up the video...? hard to remember..

--Lis

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Did you hear it on the radio much? Lis? Anyone. Like "Think About Me" I don't think it got much play.

I remember hearing both songs on the radio. In both cases, I’d think “oh, yeah, there’s that hit, too…” Nowadays, I see these two songs like the mid-sized hits you find on a Foreigner compilation, you know the whole “wow, I forgot they had so many hits” thing.

Love In Store is such a fun, peppy, song that celebrates a GROUP identity. All five of them are on it and it’s hard to deny their collective chemistry. Compared to the other two hits, its arrangement is rather simple. But that’s its charm! It reminds me of those really catchy, no-frills tunes Nick Lowe would write—a song entirely reliant on its hooks to come across, and without inflating it with a lot of studio gimmicks.

[jbrownsjr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrFNSJguUos

Puts me in such a good mood!

[Villavic]

This reminds me the time I used to decorate my bedroom walls with vynil records.



Walls were updated in the 90s with CD paperboard longboxes.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

This was really interesting. I know MacFan and I followed it (in 1982/1983) and wanted it to go to at least # 10. I didn't hear this on the radio much. After Hold Me and Gypsy, the radio was tired w/ FM.

I remember hearing it. Not as much as Hold Me, of course, but I remember it on the radio.

[WatchChain]

"Love In Store" is sensational. The harmony vocals blend so beautifully - it should have charted in the Top 10. By this point, the band was done.

The "Mirage" album has never received the love and recognition it deserves.

[Macfan4life]

Here is a funny story about the song. I became a fan during the Mirage HBO days. I loved the live version of Love In Store. About a year later I was going through cassette tapes I made from the radio with my tape recorder (yes in those days we recorded songs from the radio on a tape recorder) and I found out that I recorded the song from the radio before I was a fan. I liked the song enough to hit record. I don't think I knew who it was when I recorded it though. I sort of unearthed Fleetwood Mac artifacts I had before I became a rabid fan.

[soul_drifter333]

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember those days. I can't find it, but I had a cassette with an interview with Mick and John from a local radio station. It was the Rumours tour and the band postponed their Charlotte show because Stevie had fallen asleep (passed out ) with her contacts in and damaged her eyes. Mick and John were already in town and wanted to let fans know that the show would be rescheduled. Later, I found out that it happened days earlier and Stevie was suppose to wear badges on her eyes, but decided to remove them for the show the night before (Greensboro, I think) and damaged her eyes more.

To satisfy fans, the same station played one of those King Biscuit radio concerts. which I recorded on the same tape. I played that show to death! It was the first time I heard Rhiannon live and I was HOOKED! The was start of my super fandom. Unfortunately, I was too young to figure out how to get tickets to the rescheduled show, but I would have loved to have been there.

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Here is a funny story about the song. I became a fan during the Mirage HBO days. I loved the live version of Love In Store. About a year later I was going through cassette tapes I made from the radio with my tape recorder (yes in those days we recorded songs from the radio on a tape recorder) and I found out that I recorded the song from the radio before I was a fan. I liked the song enough to hit record. I don't think I knew who it was when I recorded it though. I sort of unearthed Fleetwood Mac artifacts I had before I became a rabid fan.