Love In Store (stripped down)

[WatchChain]

Pure pop perfection! As mentioned earlier, Fleetwood Mac was at their best when utilizing the three part vocal harmony.

Unpopular Opinion: "Love in Store" should have been the first single from "Mirage".

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by WatchChain

Pure pop perfection! As mentioned earlier, Fleetwood Mac was at their best when utilizing the three part vocal harmony.

Unpopular Opinion: "Love in Store" should have been the first single from "Mirage".

You won't believe this but I was driving today thinking about Love In Store and I thought about the same thing. Hold Me got deadlocked at #4 for months. Imagine Love In Store with a video on MTV. Its a good hit that makes it to #9 or #11. Then Hold Me is released. It could have been #1 since that deadlock would have passed. But of course that is a pipe dream to release 2 Chris songs back to back.
If Little Lies was the first single from Tango it would have been a #1 hit no doubt.
The Gypsy video was filmed before Hold Me. However no way the band was going to release a Stevie single from their new album with Bella Donna still high on the charts and its 4th single entering the top 40.

[WatchChain]

"Mirage" would have been a much bigger album had the band bothered to stick around and work the album sales circuit. "Love in Store" should have been a top 10 hit, but the single was an afterthought.

2 videos and a short 6 week tour -- and they ran off into the night toward various solo projects.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by WatchChain

"Mirage" would have been a much bigger album had the band bothered to stick around and work the album sales circuit. "Love in Store" should have been a top 10 hit, but the single was an afterthought.

[/B]2 videos and a short 6 week tour[B] -- and they ran off into the night toward various solo projects.

It was an afterthought because of the short promotion, otherwise LIS would have fit perfectly within the album momentum.

According to Mick's book (yeah well if you can stand Homer's obsession with the goat, you can also stand mind with that book ).

I felt sick when we stopped touring. Mirage was number one and sales were strong in cities where we'd played. I wanted to be on the move, touring until the cows came home, but the others were less enthusiastic. Christine had sessions for her own solo album scheduled, and we'd been lucky to get Stevie at all. As soon as we left the road, Mirage died after five weeks at number one. The Australian band Men at Work, who had opened for us on the road, saw their album go to numberone shortly thereafter.

[Macfan4life]

She consults her book

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

According to Mick's book (yeah well if you can stand Homer's obsession with the goat, you can also stand mind with that book ).

I am not obsessed with Old Goatsy. I'd give ANYTHING if she'd bit the big one instead of Christine. One less crazy, self absorbed narcissist in this world.

[DownOnRodeo]

This stripped down version has only amplified my apathy for this song, but it has also helped me better identify what I dislike about it:
- the persistent beat (like a pounding headache)
- Lindsey's doo-wops

Change the beat to something much more dynamic,
and swap out Lindsey's doo-wops for some distorted guitar licks,
and I won't be able to fight it.
Basically make it more edgy like YMLF and less toothless like Honey Hi (which is still funkier than this).

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by DownOnRodeo

This stripped down version has only amplified my apathy for this song, but it has also helped me better identify what I dislike about it:
- the persistent beat (like a pounding headache)
- Lindsey's doo-wops

Change the beat to something much more dynamic,
and swap out Lindsey's doo-wops for some distorted guitar licks,
and I won't be able to fight it.
Basically make it more edgy like YMLF and less toothless like Honey Hi (which is still funkier than this).

Funny because all those things you dont like about it are the things that I love about it. I love the pounding beat and Lindsey's doo-wops.
The drumming is spectacular IMHO. Meshed with Chris's playing creates a very bouncy track which I find appealing and very catchy.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I am not obsessed with Old Goatsy. I'd give ANYTHING if she'd bit the big one instead of Christine. One less crazy, self absorbed narcissist in this world.

Oh come on Homer!!! I even read threads in Christine or any forum where the topic has nothing to do with Stevie, and then you mention her. It doesn't annoy me, but I don't find it necessary for her to always be present in our posts, especially after what she did.

I mean, I think like Oscar Wilde: There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. That means if you speak badly or speak well of someone, in both cases you are doing them a favor. Ignoring them is the best punishment and actually drives them crazy, specially someone narcissistic.

PS: I don't wish death on anyone, not even the guy who stole my mobile that night.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Oh come on Homer!!! I even read threads in Christine or any forum where the topic has nothing to do with Stevie, and then you mention her. It doesn't annoy me, but I don't find it necessary for her to always be present in our posts, especially after what she did.

I mean, I think like Oscar Wilde: There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. That means if you speak badly or speak well of someone, in both cases you are doing them a favor. Ignoring them is the best punishment and actually drives them crazy, specially someone narcissistic.

PS: I don't wish death on anyone, not even the guy who stole my mobile that night.

How do you talk about FM, without mentioning ~the most popular~ member? Even though she's a talentless hack, she's the seat filler. So it's pretty much impossible to leave her out of the discussions. Ideal FM for me would be if Mick had shown her the door when she issued her Lindsey ultimatum.

You wouldn't trade Stevie for Christine? I'd push the old bat straight back off a cliff. "Ooh look, Christine's back! All is well in the world!"