Adding that Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is the 8th best selling album worldwide right after Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever. Just looked it up because I was curious.
@@Pico_Farad I don't think the live version is terrible but I think Daniel should listen to the studio version for two reasons: 1) To hear it, and 2) I think it's a better version.
In my humble opinion, this live version was Fleetwood Mac at it's best. Also in my humble opinion, Lindsey Buckingham is at least in the top five best guitar players of all time (just watch him). Thank you for reacting to this; I'm surprised it did not get blocked. Best song by them is "Go Your Own Way" (same performance). Please react to that one.
The live version is okay, but IMO, it's not nearly as haunting as the studio version. It's worth noting Mick Fleetwood, the drummer, was voted the best rock drummer in the Playboy magazine musician rankings (something a lot of people took seriously back then) for something like 12 years straight, over drummers like Carl Palmer, Neil Peart, and Bernard Purdie, et. al.
@@Yosef1952 Yep... Palmer and Peart were 2 and 3 usually (swapping places often), but Mick Fleetwood was #1. There were so many arguments about this in my HS, but that's how Playboy saw it. I didn't know enough to argue about it either way. I was (actually, still am) a huge Billy Joel fan, so I was always looking to see where he finished in the keyboards/piano category.
One of the greatest breakup songs ever - this was one of two main songs that came from the Stevie Nicks/Lindsay Buckingham breakup. I believe the "chain" is the band. And I personally equate the drum beat at the start as a heartbeat.
What makes Fleetwood Mac a special band is that the band itself is none than a separate living organism which holds those five musicians together through all those years of dramas and some sort of misunderstanding between each of them. The fact that they've written songs about each other and address them to each other being live on stage, eye to eye, makes their performances as tough as is the daily life. And while most of the people very often are trying to escape from the old wounds and memories in attempts not to trigger them and therefore not to ruin their mental health, there is a band whose nature, in opposite, lies in making those wounds resurge again and again. Hardly anyone is capable of this. We could only imagine.
Very well written Valentin! Back in the day, everyone had this album. The writing, the music, the voices, the musicianship, rarely replicated. It remains one of my most treasured CDs.
Almost any Fleetwood Mac song is worth covering, they are brilliant. My favourite by far is Rhiannon - the 1976 live version please, ruclips.net/video/wgmRb3MlpHQ/видео.html
This performance came from a concert to mark Fleetwood Mac's 834th reunion. It was called "The Dance" and was released as CD and also as DVD. There are several fantastic tracks in the show, and I would recommend "Tusk", again from "The Dance" as your next Mac reaction. Fantastic song, again with Lindsay Buckingham's lead vocals and some really cool surprises.
Wow..don't know how...but totally forgot about this song!!! Brought back lots of good memories :) Glad you liked it Daniel!!! It is the only song written and created by all 5 member's of the band from old songs...as you know. Thats why it is so good, they all love this song too.
That's everyone's response, "I want to hear that again" :) For me, they are the perfect blend of female and male energy. I love them so much ❤. I hope you give their entire Rumours album a listen in your free time. I feel so happy you liked it!
Stevie's solo album (Bella Donna) is almost as good as Rumors. Leather and Lace, Edge of Seventeen and of course with Petty Stop dragging my heart around.
Fleetwood Mac is/was in a league of their own - especially with this album, "Rumours". However, PLEASE... listen to the studio version of "The Chain", as well - You won't be disappointed!
Fleetwood Mac could be a deep rabbit hole to explore. With a number of songwriters and singers in the band, song style & sound varies considerably. Welcome to the world of Fleetwood Mac (my favorite band).
Rumours is in the top ten bestselling albums of all time. Stayed on the charts for years. And this is one of the most famous breakup songs of all time. The whole album is well worth a dive.
You have got to listen to "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac. It's not only their greatest song but one of the greatest songs of all time. And when you get a chance, listen to the entire Rumors album. It's also one of the greatest albums of all time.
Another reason to listen to the studio version? It was written and recorded while all the breakups/hookups were actually happening so those studio versions really resonate and hold up over time. Regardless, great to see you doing Fleetwood Mac - very enjoyable.
There was so much emotion because the two front-people in the song was going through a really rough breakup. Lindsey Buckingham was so in love with Stevie Nick's but she said he was stifling her freedom. This and my very favorite Fleetwood Mac song Go Your Own Way we're both about their relationship and breakup. Please watch this in the studio version and Go Your Own Way in both studio and live. Studio for technically amazing and live for true emotion. Stevie looking at Lindsey says it all.
So many layers to explain why I’m a huge Fleetwood Mac fan. It starts with the uniquely brilliant voice of Stevie Nicks and songs she sings lead vocals. As much as I love them live, they’re masters in the studio and it generally is what one wants to listen to if they want to capture the essence of the song. Dreams, Rhiannon, Tusk, Gypsy, Sara, Little Lies and Everywhere are just a few iconic songs to start with.
Best performance of a Fleetwood Mac song that has been long overlooked. Say You Love Me The Dance 1997 One of their best. If you have never watched the full concert The Dance it was a great concert.
Some of my favorites besides the chain are, gold dust Woman, second hand news, I don't want to know, go your own way, gypsy, dreams, Rhiannon, never going back again, Silver Springs, everywhere
One of the bands, if not the only, to have 3 lead singers and score Top 10 hits with each of them doing lead vocals. And one, "Little Lies", with all 3 singing distinct individual parts, which is why it's my favorite. And, on top of it, they've got to be the only band to have all 3 lead singers score their own solo Top 10 hits. It's amazing.
Fleetwood Mac is a Super Group. They are on the Upper Plateau of Talent ! up there with Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Eagles, RUSH, Led Zeppelin, Heart and Queen.
Thank you, Daniel -- what you said was "official video" though, is LIVE -- pretty good, but you should also hear the original album track... keep it up!
You REALLY HAVE TO sit and put head phones on and listen to the whole RUMOURS album. It is a masterpiece created when the band was in turmoil. This performance was twenty years later and a make up tour that lasted a year or so until someone got mad and left. The reunite again and again. Stevie Nicks is the best female vocalist since Aretha Franklin and Linsey Buckingham has his own guitar styling. Amazing.
The song is credited to all five members as writers. It's obviously about broken relationships and the two couples - John and Christine McVie, as well as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were going through breakups as this album is being made. Even years later when this video was made, there are raw emotions onstage, especially between Stevie and Lindsey. And for the record, he is one of the most overlooked guitarists out there - absolutely masterful player!
Randy, :) The way that Stevie sings to Lindsey instead of the audience - her eyes & emotions burn with a fire in his direction. :) Fleetwood Mac was so good!! My son said he never cares to hear another of their songs again because I played them constantly. He got sick of them! :)
Another excellent job looking at both the emotional impact of a song AND its history. Many other reactors on RUclips lately have done Elvis Presley's "If I Can Dream," but almost none of them seem to be aware of its dramatic history. It is also a song of great emotional impact. I don't see that you have done any Elvis, and I think that this song might surprise you. I have been a subscriber for some time and I have seen many of your videos, and I think you would like this song. you will definitely appreciate its history. Enough said. I don't want to prejudice your reaction.
Thank you for taking the plunge into Fleetwood Mac! Go Your Own Way, Landslide, Dreams and You Make Loving Fun are all great songs to check out. You also mentioned, as an aside, that you need to get back to Neil Young, so may I recommend The Needle and the Damage Done, Helpless, Hey Hey My My, Heart of Gold, Take Me To The River and Rockin' In The Free World? All great songs, and when you check out Neil the best way to do it is to watch one of his live performances! Enjoy!
Not my original comment, but the most accurate: Taylor Swift writes songs about all of her exes. Stevie Nicks makes her ex eternally sing a song about what he did. LOL.
Lynsey’s guitar playing is excellent, very creative and melodic. Maybe try his solo song “trouble” or more live Mac from 75-77 I think that’s their most inspired period.
I love this formation of the group, however you will really dig Fleetwood Mac’s early blues based material. I recommend ‘Looking For Someone’. It’s a banger.
Thats the proper live performance to see because the one is Boston doesn't have Christy mcvie and some of the earlier stuff from the 70s just has poor sound quality even though stevie nicks vocals are clearly better (cocaine use messed up her nose). Some highlights from "the dance" include "im so afraid", "big love" (solo Buckingham) and a couple where stevie really shines with "rhiannon", and "gold dust woman" (such a great poet). But mcvies vocals were always underrated and adds greatly to the overall harmonies that help capture that distinguished fleetwood mac sound.
Hi Daniel - in the video that I sent to you some weeks ago (has it arrived yet?) in the accompanying letter I talk about my brief connection with a member of Fleetwood Mac. I'm hoping that you'll be opening it in the next mail received video. Cheers!
my personal favourite is "Go Your Own Way", especially the one vocal on the line "don't go away". Some songs, one line just sets it's hooks into you. I also love "Don't Stop".
The reason why their songs are so passionate and have so emotion, it's because the feeling were real. The songs were written while they were experiencing these emotions
Daniel, I'm curious if you listen to the studio versions after listening to live versions of such an iconic song? This is incredible, but the studio/album version is glorious. Not suggesting a public reaction, just wondering which versions you would add to your personal playlist.
I scrolled the comments quickly so I may have missed it, but it seems nobody has mentioned the song Landslide. Written by Stevie Nicks and on the first Fleetwood Mac album after she joined. This is the song performed most: “Nicks has sung it on every Fleetwood Mac tour since joining the band . . . as well as on all of her own solo tours from 2005 onwards. She is 70 and still going strong. As with many, Covid-19 interrupted her most current tour. Landslide is an audience pleaser, and I sure love it. The album was released in 1975 (what a great year for music) and I first heard it while taking an early morning outdoor water coloring class that spring given by the Brooklyn Museum -but we painted in the Botanic Gardens next door, weather permitting. It was a gorgeous spring and I’ll always associate Landslide. Maybe Fleetwood Mac fans here have a favorite version. If so, please say so. Otherwise, listen to the original. I know I’ve heard a few live versions but don’t know which/when. The Smashing Pumpkins (love them!) did a cover version; so did the country music group, The Dixie Chicks. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think their cover of Landslide was there biggest hit.
Much prefer the studio version. The sound of their trio of classic 70's albums (Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk) is impossible to top. Would be interesting to see you react to their first incarnation with Peter Green on guitar: Oh Well, The Green Manalishi...
Good job, Daniel! Quite a similar career arc for Mac as Tull! Both started as British blues/rock bands in 1967, and both morphed into something vastly different than their early incarnations, and both became endlessly creative, and iconic linchpin classic rock bands.
Loved this band even before the Stevie/ Lindsay era. Daniel, as a guitar player this is a must-see performance: “Big Love” live - the hottest solo by Lindsay Buckingham !
Thank you for getting to FM. I would suggest doing Rhiannon, live on the Saturday Night tne Special. "76, I think.. Stevie kills that performance, but there is so much more! ALSO, Christie McVie never got enough credit for her talent. A beautiful song from her is Songbird. (Pronouned McVee). Please do more! One of my top fave bands. They came out of the turmoil as great friends. Also, Stevie at 72 just dropped a new and powerful video called Show Them the Way.
Daniel, this song means so much to this group. The chains they're talking about are the fame and popularity this group have together. Just look at the history and see pictures of all the singers. They started out around you age. Have lived and loved together and apart. The name of the group is derived from the drummer's name. They go back a long way as so many others. Try James Taylor's Mud Sly Slim album.
Fleetwood Mac Rumors still ranks as one of my all time favorite LP’s after 69 years. How many artists can you say that you liked every single song on a LP that they recorded? But for me there aren’t very many.
Best band ever. The five of them are amazing. Three songwriters, three vocalists, all with their unique, fantastic style, and when they come together its amazing. It's true you should listen to any song of theirs and you will be happy. This was the only song the entire band wrote together.
Next time you do something from this Rumors album, you should consider showing us the album. There is an insert photo and I believe the lyrics are inside that original album.
Prettiest song from this album is, "Songbird." "Rumours", was such a successful album that on their follow up album. Fleetwood Mac hired the USC marching band to play backup for the album, "Tusk." However this album was a disappointment to many critics and fans. Before his solo career with hits like, "Ebony Eyes" & "Sentimental Lady", Bob Welsh is fantastic on the Fleetwood Mac song, "Hypnotized." ✌
"Damn the dark, damn the light." Imagine and reflect on the despair and mental state of the person who wrote that line. Brings me to tears everytime I hear it, even some 40 years later.
You need to react to Lindsey Buckingham playing "Big Love" live; his finger-picking is unbelievable. In an interview about "The Chain" Stevie Nicks said that John McVie had come up with that bass riff and asked Buckingham if he could write a melody around it. At the same time, Buckingham was working on a demo for a song he tentatively titled "Running in the Shadows", but all he had that he was happy with was the guitar solo. Nicks wrote the lyrics and presented them as a way to tie together these disparate parts into a song. Fleetwood recorded the drum track demo, and the band went to work on the mixing board. The rest, as they say, is history.
MUST do "Rhiannon" (PLEASE) Live on The Midnight Special 1976...... Lindsey has a phenomenal guitar solo and Stevie Knicks' vocals are amazing.... she goes OFF at the end!!!!! (lyrics are very interesting too) It's one of their most well known songs. Also, if u got a kick out of the drummer's facial expressions here then, you're gonna LOVE his expressions in this "Rhiannon" performance. BTW, the drummer is none other than Mick Fleetwood! Also further recommendations: "Gold Dust Woman", "Dreams", "Landslide", "Gypsy" and THEN........ Stevie Knicks' "Edge of Seventeen", "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" duet with the Tom Petty and "Leather and Lace" duet with Don Henley (lead singer of "The Eagles")...... FUN FACT: Stevie Knicks is the ONLY woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TWICE..... Once with Fleetwood Mac and once as a Solo artist for her 1981 solo album "Bella Donna". You'll never hear a female voice like hers.... Its haunting and soul piercing and her lyrics are "genius". I realize these things are subjective but I felt like sharing my opinion for whatever it's worth to anyone out there. Peace and God Bless :)
"Oh Well" with original line-up. Though I always preferred the Rockets' cover since that is the one I always heard on the radio. Edit* Another cover comparison with Fleetwood Mac is "The Green Manalishi" compare it with the Judas Priest cover.
A lot of people seem to prefer the studio version. I recommend a live show from when they were young, and the passion and heartache was fresh. Even the piano strings were sobbing. The voices more emotional. There were 2 couples breaking up, the whole family falling apart
You need to discover more Fleetwood Mac you won't be disappointed. The Rumours album was such a huge hit in the 70s and still remember when I first heard it and it brings back many memories from that time.
I'm sorry for spamming but Ive never seen this live version. Yeah. FM is my all time fave. Think about this line: And IF you don't love me now (you DON'T love me now) Get it? OR And IF (you DON"T) you don't love (love me now) now That drummer is THE Mic Fleetwood. Please do Hypnotize.
Great reaction to a great song - and this live version is spectacular! (although studio version is as well) If you want to be truly blown away by Lindsay's guitar work, just listen to I'm So Afraid (from this concert) - off the chain (pun intended) would be best descriptor! Also Big Love & Go Insane from this live album would also be absolute musts! Other Fleetwood Mac musts: Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon, Songbird, Everywhere, Little Lies, Seven Wonders, Tusk, Dreams, Gold Dust Woman (studio version is incredible), Landslide. So many wonderful tracks.
Also, you have a new Sub..... been watching your reactions for a bit and am very impressed with your intelligence and TRUE appreciation for the songs as a "whole". That being said........ I KNOW everyone has done it BUT......... could you please react to "Black" Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged. For such a young person you have a very wise soul. I think we'd all be interested to hear your opinion/take on the lyrics(especially) and the way Eddie Vedder delivers them in this particular performance. The lyrics are MASTERFULLY intelligent, powerful and filled with beautiful (albeit painful) metaphors..... love to hear your thoughts on them, especially on the "five horizons" line/verse. Feel free to be honest if you don't agree. These channels are a hate free zone and should remain that way. Thanks for your consideration. Somehow, I think you're gonna make a bigger impact on some peoples lives than you ever expected. Keep 'em coming....
I think you might have done Oh Well, which was from the Peter Green incarnation of the band. They were a heavy blues rock band. Green and other early members left in the early '70s, and the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in 1974 completely transformed the band. (The early version was good too.) Stevie Nicks was added because Buckingham, her partner, refused to join without her. Rumours is one of the best albums ever made. The '75 album, Fleetwood Mac, had two more of their biggest hits, Landslide, which the Dixie Chicks later covered, and Rhiannon. The studio version of Rhiannon is good, but any live version will blow you away.
Fleetwood Mac Songs: Rianana Tusk Dreams Gold Dust Woman Go Your On Way Landslide Stand Back Silver Springs Lindsey Buckingham does the song "Holiday Road" for National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Stevie Nicks has sooo many great songs with Fleetwood, by herself, and duets with Tom Perry, Don Henley, and others. You can never go wrong with Fleetwood Mac.
You really can't go wrong with any song off the Rumours album. They're all terrific.
One of the best albums of all time, definitely one to own
Adding that Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is the 8th best selling album worldwide right after Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever. Just looked it up because I was curious.
You are so right!
Very True. All Good.
except for Oh Daddy.
Definitely worth listening to the studio version first.
I agree. This live version is rather terrible.
I concur.
@@Pico_Farad I don't think the live version is terrible but I think Daniel should listen to the studio version for two reasons: 1) To hear it, and 2) I think it's a better version.
for them to make this the official video it's obvious they're trying to rewrite history of the past and make this the new go to it's really sad.
No doubt.
Great song and reaction. Unfortunately the bass solo just doesn't come through like the studio version, which is my favorite part.
Yeah I agree. John McVie is an amazing bass player.
It sounds 'muddy' on this performance. :(
In my humble opinion, this live version was Fleetwood Mac at it's best. Also in my humble opinion, Lindsey Buckingham is at least in the top five best guitar players of all time (just watch him). Thank you for reacting to this; I'm surprised it did not get blocked. Best song by them is "Go Your Own Way" (same performance). Please react to that one.
He is also a great singer to boot!
Lindsey is also a great music writer and producer. He is very passionate about whatever he does.
Yes, I have the dvd (&cd) of this concert. Every song is incredible.
The live version is okay, but IMO, it's not nearly as haunting as the studio version. It's worth noting Mick Fleetwood, the drummer, was voted the best rock drummer in the Playboy magazine musician rankings (something a lot of people took seriously back then) for something like 12 years straight, over drummers like Carl Palmer, Neil Peart, and Bernard Purdie, et. al.
Better than Palmer or Peart??
@@Yosef1952 Yep... Palmer and Peart were 2 and 3 usually (swapping places often), but Mick Fleetwood was #1. There were so many arguments about this in my HS, but that's how Playboy saw it. I didn't know enough to argue about it either way. I was (actually, still am) a huge Billy Joel fan, so I was always looking to see where he finished in the keyboards/piano category.
One of the greatest breakup songs ever - this was one of two main songs that came from the Stevie Nicks/Lindsay Buckingham breakup. I believe the "chain" is the band. And I personally equate the drum beat at the start as a heartbeat.
..and Silver Spring
My favorite Fleetwood Mac song is Hypnotized. It's...hypnotic.
Lindsey is such an underrated guitarist
What makes Fleetwood Mac a special band is that the band itself is none than a separate living organism which holds those five musicians together through all those years of dramas and some sort of misunderstanding between each of them. The fact that they've written songs about each other and address them to each other being live on stage, eye to eye, makes their performances as tough as is the daily life. And while most of the people very often are trying to escape from the old wounds and memories in attempts not to trigger them and therefore not to ruin their mental health, there is a band whose nature, in opposite, lies in making those wounds resurge again and again. Hardly anyone is capable of this. We could only imagine.
Very well written Valentin! Back in the day, everyone had this album. The writing, the music, the voices, the musicianship, rarely replicated. It remains one of my most treasured CDs.
Almost any Fleetwood Mac song is worth covering, they are brilliant. My favourite by far is Rhiannon - the 1976 live version please, ruclips.net/video/wgmRb3MlpHQ/видео.html
Yeah that’s great version.
This is better. ruclips.net/video/W_O4Ygcgh8w/видео.html
Yes, the Midnight Special version is the best version of this song
@@TwelveDeck I agree it's an excellent version although it's missing Stevie's smile near the start ;)
This performance came from a concert to mark Fleetwood Mac's 834th reunion. It was called "The Dance" and was released as CD and also as DVD. There are several fantastic tracks in the show, and I would recommend "Tusk", again from "The Dance" as your next Mac reaction. Fantastic song, again with Lindsay Buckingham's lead vocals and some really cool surprises.
"Landslide" is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Stevie Nicks' voice is so sweet and tender. You can feel her pain. Just amazing.
This was their “reunion” tour. Great stuff. The live Landslide from this tour is great.
Wow..don't know how...but totally forgot about this song!!! Brought back lots of good memories :) Glad you liked it Daniel!!! It is the only song written and created by all 5 member's of the band from old songs...as you know. Thats why it is so good, they all love this song too.
Their live version of 'Rhiannon' is spectacular. One of the best groups of the 70s. Then follow up with Stevie Nicks solo career.
Unfortunately the chain could not keep them together. Lindsey Buckingham is a criminally underrated guitar player.
That's everyone's response, "I want to hear that again" :) For me, they are the perfect blend of female and male energy. I love them so much ❤. I hope you give their entire Rumours album a listen in your free time. I feel so happy you liked it!
stevie is legend. i suggest Silver Spring and Gold Dust Woman
Stevie's solo album (Bella Donna) is almost as good as Rumors. Leather and Lace, Edge of Seventeen and of course with Petty Stop dragging my heart around.
Fleetwood Mac is/was in a league of their own - especially with this album, "Rumours".
However, PLEASE... listen to the studio version of "The Chain", as well - You won't be disappointed!
Fleetwood Mac could be a deep rabbit hole to explore. With a number of songwriters and singers in the band, song style & sound varies considerably. Welcome to the world of Fleetwood Mac (my favorite band).
I'm usually big on live but this song, I think, needs the studio version, which is absolute magic.
Rumours is in the top ten bestselling albums of all time. Stayed on the charts for years. And this is one of the most famous breakup songs of all time. The whole album is well worth a dive.
"Breakup Album" of all time. The entire album was about the two couples breaking up.
Telynn S Oh, absolutely.
You have got to listen to "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac. It's not only their greatest song but one of the greatest songs of all time. And when you get a chance, listen to the entire Rumors album. It's also one of the greatest albums of all time.
Dreams may be the most perfect song ever created.
This song is off the chain!😄😄😄
Another reason to listen to the studio version? It was written and recorded while all the breakups/hookups were actually happening so those studio versions really resonate and hold up over time.
Regardless, great to see you doing Fleetwood Mac - very enjoyable.
Fleetwood Mac every track unique. Try Tusk.
Fleetwood Mac is one of the best bands ever.
There was so much emotion because the two front-people in the song was going through a really rough breakup. Lindsey Buckingham was so in love with Stevie Nick's but she said he was stifling her freedom. This and my very favorite Fleetwood Mac song Go Your Own Way we're both about their relationship and breakup. Please watch this in the studio version and Go Your Own Way in both studio and live. Studio for technically amazing and live for true emotion. Stevie looking at Lindsey says it all.
So many layers to explain why I’m a huge Fleetwood Mac fan. It starts with the uniquely brilliant voice of Stevie Nicks and songs she sings lead vocals. As much as I love them live, they’re masters in the studio and it generally is what one wants to listen to if they want to capture the essence of the song. Dreams, Rhiannon, Tusk, Gypsy, Sara, Little Lies and Everywhere are just a few iconic songs to start with.
Best performance of a Fleetwood Mac song that has been long overlooked.
Say You Love Me The Dance 1997
One of their best. If you have never watched the full concert The Dance it was a great concert.
Having become familiar with your musical tastes, young man, it's imperative you give "Go Your Own Way" and "Landslide" a listen.
Some of my favorites besides the chain are, gold dust Woman, second hand news, I don't want to know, go your own way, gypsy, dreams, Rhiannon, never going back again, Silver Springs, everywhere
Rhiannon live on The Midnight Special, 1976, was a tremendous display of showmanship.
"There's a lot going on in this song." You are a master of understatement. But the song is indeed worth it.
One of the bands, if not the only, to have 3 lead singers and score Top 10 hits with each of them doing lead vocals. And one, "Little Lies", with all 3 singing distinct individual parts, which is why it's my favorite. And, on top of it, they've got to be the only band to have all 3 lead singers score their own solo Top 10 hits. It's amazing.
Howya Daniel, The studio version of this song is superior IMHO.
Fleetwood Mac is a Super Group. They are on the Upper Plateau of Talent ! up there with Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Eagles, RUSH, Led Zeppelin, Heart and Queen.
Nestled gently within the center of my Boston/Styx/Kansas high school years, unavoidable yet great and epic in it's own way.
Thank you, Daniel -- what you said was "official video" though, is LIVE -- pretty good, but you should also hear the original album track... keep it up!
You REALLY HAVE TO sit and put head phones on and listen to the whole RUMOURS album. It is a masterpiece created when the band was in turmoil. This performance was twenty years later and a make up tour that lasted a year or so until someone got mad and left. The reunite again and again. Stevie Nicks is the best female vocalist since Aretha Franklin and Linsey Buckingham has his own guitar styling. Amazing.
Great reaction my friend.......
One of the most recognized bass lines in rock.
Am I senile, or is that bass riff in an Alan Parsons Project? Every time I listen to this I swear it is...???
The song is credited to all five members as writers. It's obviously about broken relationships and the two couples - John and Christine McVie, as well as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were going through breakups as this album is being made. Even years later when this video was made, there are raw emotions onstage, especially between Stevie and Lindsey. And for the record, he is one of the most overlooked guitarists out there - absolutely masterful player!
Randy, :)
The way that Stevie sings to Lindsey instead of the audience - her eyes & emotions burn with a fire in his direction. :)
Fleetwood Mac was so good!!
My son said he never cares to hear another of their songs again because I played them constantly. He got sick of them!
:)
Another excellent job looking at both the emotional impact of a song AND its history. Many other reactors on RUclips lately have done Elvis Presley's "If I Can Dream," but almost none of them seem to be aware of its dramatic history. It is also a song of great emotional impact. I don't see that you have done any Elvis, and I think that this song might surprise you. I have been a subscriber for some time and I have seen many of your videos, and I think you would like this song. you will definitely appreciate its history. Enough said. I don't want to prejudice your reaction.
P.S. The "68 Comeback Special" video is the best version on RUclips.
Thank you for taking the plunge into Fleetwood Mac! Go Your Own Way, Landslide, Dreams and You Make Loving Fun are all great songs to check out. You also mentioned, as an aside, that you need to get back to Neil Young, so may I recommend The Needle and the Damage Done, Helpless, Hey Hey My My, Heart of Gold, Take Me To The River and Rockin' In The Free World? All great songs, and when you check out Neil the best way to do it is to watch one of his live performances! Enjoy!
Not my original comment, but the most accurate: Taylor Swift writes songs about all of her exes. Stevie Nicks makes her ex eternally sing a song about what he did. LOL.
It's mutual, she still has to sing "Go Your Own Way".
@@KingOfNebbishes Yes. I was kind of joking. Hence the LOL.
Christine McVie makes her ex play bass on a love song she wrote to her side man. That's cold.
And then years later she kicks him out, and in 2019, he has a disabling heart attack, post lawsuit stress.
I'd love to hear your take on Leon Russell ,"Tightrope" I think you'll really enjoy it
"Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon (Live - Midnight Special)" it's incredible... they are incredible! Stevie Nicks solo also very good!
Lynsey’s guitar playing is excellent, very creative and melodic. Maybe try his solo song “trouble” or more live Mac from 75-77 I think that’s their most inspired period.
I love this formation of the group, however you will really dig Fleetwood Mac’s early blues based material. I recommend ‘Looking For Someone’. It’s a banger.
Thats the proper live performance to see because the one is Boston doesn't have Christy mcvie and some of the earlier stuff from the 70s just has poor sound quality even though stevie nicks vocals are clearly better (cocaine use messed up her nose). Some highlights from "the dance" include "im so afraid", "big love" (solo Buckingham) and a couple where stevie really shines with "rhiannon", and "gold dust woman" (such a great poet). But mcvies vocals were always underrated and adds greatly to the overall harmonies that help capture that distinguished fleetwood mac sound.
Hi Daniel - in the video that I sent to you some weeks ago (has it arrived yet?) in the accompanying letter I talk about my brief connection with a member of Fleetwood Mac. I'm hoping that you'll be opening it in the next mail received video. Cheers!
my personal favourite is "Go Your Own Way", especially the one vocal on the line "don't go away". Some songs, one line just sets it's hooks into you.
I also love "Don't Stop".
The reason why their songs are so passionate and have so emotion, it's because the feeling were real. The songs were written while they were experiencing these emotions
Well done, Daniel
Daniel, I'm curious if you listen to the studio versions after listening to live versions of such an iconic song? This is incredible, but the studio/album version is glorious. Not suggesting a public reaction, just wondering which versions you would add to your personal playlist.
Gold dust woman is amazing. So is the soundtrack for Guardians of the Galaxy - Lot's of great classic rock!
Lots of great songs to react to!
I scrolled the comments quickly so I may have missed it, but it seems nobody has mentioned the song Landslide. Written by Stevie Nicks and on the first Fleetwood Mac album after she joined. This is the song performed most: “Nicks has sung it on every Fleetwood Mac tour since joining the band . . . as well as on all of her own solo tours from 2005 onwards. She is 70 and still going strong. As with many, Covid-19 interrupted her most current tour.
Landslide is an audience pleaser, and I sure love it. The album was released in 1975 (what a great year for music) and I first heard it while taking an early morning outdoor water coloring class that spring given by the Brooklyn Museum -but we painted in the Botanic Gardens next door, weather permitting. It was a gorgeous spring and I’ll always associate Landslide. Maybe Fleetwood Mac fans here have a favorite version. If so, please say so. Otherwise, listen to the original. I know I’ve heard a few live versions but don’t know which/when.
The Smashing Pumpkins (love them!) did a cover version; so did the country music group, The Dixie Chicks. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think their cover of Landslide was there biggest hit.
Much prefer the studio version. The sound of their trio of classic 70's albums (Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk) is impossible to top. Would be interesting to see you react to their first incarnation with Peter Green on guitar: Oh Well, The Green Manalishi...
the first is not an incarnation, but the second one is
Prepare to be amazed!!!! That bass
That riff!!!
those drums
that tambourine
those vocals
those harmonies
The second half of this, from the bass rif, has introduced BBC F1 coverage for many years.
Good job, Daniel! Quite a similar career arc for Mac as Tull! Both started as British blues/rock bands in 1967, and both morphed into something vastly different than their early incarnations, and both became endlessly creative, and iconic linchpin classic rock bands.
Loved this band even before the Stevie/ Lindsay era. Daniel, as a guitar player this is a must-see performance: “Big Love” live - the hottest solo by Lindsay Buckingham !
Love FM, Gold Dust Woman, Landslide 2 of my favorites.🔥
One of my all-time favorite concerts. (And, I've seen A LOT.)
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My favorite version. Learned to play this version on guitar.
Thank you for getting to FM. I would suggest doing Rhiannon, live on the Saturday Night tne Special. "76, I think.. Stevie kills that performance, but there is so much more! ALSO, Christie McVie never got enough credit for her talent. A beautiful song from her is Songbird. (Pronouned McVee). Please do more! One of my top fave bands. They came out of the turmoil as great friends. Also, Stevie at 72 just dropped a new and powerful video called Show Them the Way.
One of my favorite songs of all time! So emotional. Awesome band!! Takes you to another plane!
Daniel, this song means so much to this group. The chains they're talking about are the fame and popularity this group have together. Just look at the history and see pictures of all the singers. They started out around you age. Have lived and loved together and apart. The name of the group is derived from the drummer's name. They go back a long way as so many others. Try James Taylor's Mud Sly Slim album.
Stevie Nicks Edge of Seventeen, live version.
Stevie Nicks the blonde front singer just sold her whole catalog of songs for $100 million.
There are two blondes.
Fleetwood Mac Rumors still ranks as one of my all time favorite LP’s after 69 years.
How many artists can you say that you liked every single song on a LP that they recorded? But for me there aren’t very many.
Best band ever. The five of them are amazing. Three songwriters, three vocalists, all with their unique, fantastic style, and when they come together its amazing. It's true you should listen to any song of theirs and you will be happy. This was the only song the entire band wrote together.
There is an earlier live version of this song from 1982 that's absolutely wild.
Rhiannon 1976 Live Version. Amazing performance.
Thanks Daniel classic
This is about Stevie and Lindsey's actual breakup.
Next time you do something from this Rumors album, you should consider showing us the album. There is an insert photo and I believe the lyrics are inside that original album.
Thanks for reacting. I love watching someone discover a terrific song from a classic band.
Landslide. Yeah. I love the way Buckingham holds his lyrics a little longer and dirtier than Stevie or Chrissy. So good!!
Prettiest song from this album is, "Songbird." "Rumours", was such a successful album that on their follow up album. Fleetwood Mac hired the USC marching band to play backup for the album, "Tusk." However this album was a disappointment to many critics and fans. Before his solo career with hits like, "Ebony Eyes" & "Sentimental Lady", Bob Welsh is fantastic on the Fleetwood Mac song, "Hypnotized." ✌
"Damn the dark, damn the light." Imagine and reflect on the despair and mental state of the person who wrote that line. Brings me to tears everytime I hear it, even some 40 years later.
"I love his finger picking style"
You ought to check out "Never Going Back Again," "Big Love," or "Miranda."
I personally love the live version of “Big Love”. I hope Daniel reacts to that some day!
I believe that Fleetwood Mac are blockers so this might not stay up for long but glad you took the time to do this just the same.
May I suggest their song "Hypnotized" off their Mystery To Me album. 70's. Actually everything on that album is killer.
Agreed. So HYPED when I saw the album in a second hand store.
I saw Fleetwood Mac when Bare Trees was released. I also wore out Mystery to Me. It's ashamed that more people haven't heard these two LPS.
Pretty much wore this album out back in the day. This was my favorite track.
You need to react to Lindsey Buckingham playing "Big Love" live; his finger-picking is unbelievable.
In an interview about "The Chain" Stevie Nicks said that John McVie had come up with that bass riff and asked Buckingham if he could write a melody around it. At the same time, Buckingham was working on a demo for a song he tentatively titled "Running in the Shadows", but all he had that he was happy with was the guitar solo. Nicks wrote the lyrics and presented them as a way to tie together these disparate parts into a song. Fleetwood recorded the drum track demo, and the band went to work on the mixing board. The rest, as they say, is history.
MUST do "Rhiannon" (PLEASE) Live on The Midnight Special 1976...... Lindsey has a phenomenal guitar solo and Stevie Knicks' vocals are amazing.... she goes OFF at the end!!!!! (lyrics are very interesting too) It's one of their most well known songs. Also, if u got a kick out of the drummer's facial expressions here then, you're gonna LOVE his expressions in this "Rhiannon" performance. BTW, the drummer is none other than Mick Fleetwood! Also further recommendations: "Gold Dust Woman", "Dreams", "Landslide", "Gypsy" and THEN........ Stevie Knicks' "Edge of Seventeen", "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" duet with the Tom Petty and "Leather and Lace" duet with Don Henley (lead singer of "The Eagles")...... FUN FACT: Stevie Knicks is the ONLY woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TWICE..... Once with Fleetwood Mac and once as a Solo artist for her 1981 solo album "Bella Donna". You'll never hear a female voice like hers.... Its haunting and soul piercing and her lyrics are "genius". I realize these things are subjective but I felt like sharing my opinion for whatever it's worth to anyone out there. Peace and God Bless :)
"Oh Well" with original line-up.
Though I always preferred the Rockets' cover since that is the one I always heard on the radio.
Edit* Another cover comparison with Fleetwood Mac is "The Green Manalishi" compare it with the Judas Priest cover.
A lot of people seem to prefer the studio version. I recommend a live show from when they were young, and the passion and heartache was fresh. Even the piano strings were sobbing. The voices more emotional. There were 2 couples breaking up, the whole family falling apart
Great song and reaction, the second part of the song (from the bass you mentioned) was used by the BBC for their Formula 1 show from 1978 to 1996
Fleetwood Mac once was a pretty heavy rock band before the chicks joined. Check out ; “Well Well Well”. A big number back before the day. 🎶
You need to discover more Fleetwood Mac you won't be disappointed. The Rumours album was such a huge hit in the 70s and still remember when I first heard it and it brings back many memories from that time.
I'm sorry for spamming but Ive never seen this live version. Yeah. FM is my all time fave.
Think about this line:
And IF you don't love me now (you DON'T love me now)
Get it?
OR
And IF (you DON"T) you don't love (love me now) now
That drummer is THE Mic Fleetwood.
Please do Hypnotize.
Great reaction to a great song - and this live version is spectacular! (although studio version is as well)
If you want to be truly blown away by Lindsay's guitar work, just listen to I'm So Afraid (from this concert) - off the chain (pun intended) would be best descriptor! Also Big Love & Go Insane from this live album would also be absolute musts!
Other Fleetwood Mac musts: Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon, Songbird, Everywhere, Little Lies, Seven Wonders, Tusk, Dreams, Gold Dust Woman (studio version is incredible), Landslide.
So many wonderful tracks.
Also, you have a new Sub..... been watching your reactions for a bit and am very impressed with your intelligence and TRUE appreciation for the songs as a "whole". That being said........ I KNOW everyone has done it BUT......... could you please react to "Black" Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged. For such a young person you have a very wise soul. I think we'd all be interested to hear your opinion/take on the lyrics(especially) and the way Eddie Vedder delivers them in this particular performance. The lyrics are MASTERFULLY intelligent, powerful and filled with beautiful (albeit painful) metaphors..... love to hear your thoughts on them, especially on the "five horizons" line/verse. Feel free to be honest if you don't agree. These channels are a hate free zone and should remain that way. Thanks for your consideration. Somehow, I think you're gonna make a bigger impact on some peoples lives than you ever expected. Keep 'em coming....
I think you might have done Oh Well, which was from the Peter Green incarnation of the band. They were a heavy blues rock band. Green and other early members left in the early '70s, and the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in 1974 completely transformed the band. (The early version was good too.) Stevie Nicks was added because Buckingham, her partner, refused to join without her. Rumours is one of the best albums ever made. The '75 album, Fleetwood Mac, had two more of their biggest hits, Landslide, which the Dixie Chicks later covered, and Rhiannon. The studio version of Rhiannon is good, but any live version will blow you away.
I really wish you'd react to the studio version.
Fleetwood Mac Songs:
Rianana
Tusk
Dreams
Gold Dust Woman
Go Your On Way
Landslide
Stand Back
Silver Springs
Lindsey Buckingham does the song "Holiday Road" for National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Stevie Nicks has sooo many great songs with Fleetwood, by herself, and duets with Tom Perry, Don Henley, and others.
You can never go wrong with Fleetwood Mac.