That's How We POLL It In L.A.: Lindsey Buckingham's Law and Order

"I'll Tell You Now," but side one is A+ all the way.

Never seen this before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jln6OJW3F_8

buck on T.O.T.P.

this record and LB's songs on tusk were clearly a big influence on avey tare... this slasher flicks demo that came out a couple weeks ago made me think of this record: https://ourfirst100days.bandcamp.com/track/visit-the-dojo-slasher-flicks-demo

Buck cavorting in his own gatefold in the "It Was I" video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_XCXx_PnA

First side is all good great but voting "Bwana" cuz it's the daffiest

the guitars on "Johnny Stew" are ungodly

I love how while on paper "Johnny Stew" is a tribute to folky John Stewart, in execution it sounds like the theme to some nutty Golan-Globus Beverly Hills Cop rip-off.

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love this album. kinda reminds me of the early mccartney solo lps in its scrappiness and carefree pastiche. it’s def minor but in a delightfully liberated way, feels like he was able to chill relative to the pressure and fraught dynamic of a mac lp and just goof around in the studio

how are the other LBuck solo lps?

STEREOGUM: “Trouble” was your first solo single. You played basically everything on Law And Order, but “Trouble” had George Hawkins on bass and a drum loop from Mick Fleetwood.

BUCKINGHAM: It was probably a departure from much of that album, and much of what I am not as much a fan of about it now is that it was kind of a reaction to the political climate in a post-Tusk environment. In a moment when I realized the only way I was going to explore the left side of my palate was to do solo work, Law And Order was a bit, shall we say, sarcastic as a body of work, a bit camp, maybe a bit too camp, almost verging on a comedy album in some ways in terms of the irony that was there and the sensibility. “Trouble” was a song that was very absent of that, and that’s probably one reason that they picked it out as a single.

how are the other LBuck solo lps?

― flopson, Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Go Insane is his entry into the Boomer with Fairlight genre; I may be in the minority thinking the songs don't measure up but it's worth a listen.

Out on the Cradle is otoh luscious guitar pop.

buck on T.O.T.P.

He's definitely on something, that much is obvious.

I mean, not only is “Trouble” irony-free but it’s basically the Fleetwood Mac song that never was. Almost like a slowed down “Gypsy”.

it’s one of the best songs he’s ever written. I love how it’s basically just letting a few swirling loops run their course; the ‘ahhhh’ female backup vox, couple guitar arpeggios (the bluesy palm-muted one that holds it down and the baroque one), his ‘no no no think im in’, think i hear a harpsichord deep in the mix too

Those “ahhh” female backing vox are his, stacked and pitched.

I came to this hoping for more Tusk, but only liked "Trouble", "Johnny Stew" and "September Song". Like Mirage, most of his songs here are 50s pastiches. He's really not a lyrics guy; the three covers probably have more words than the eight originals put together.