Fleetwood Mac's Mirage (Side A)

That's Alright

I always forget about this album.

“You shee yo gypshay”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN0czUMRMU8

Oh NEAT. So that's vaporwave, huh?

And it was invented by someone really into a McVie deep cut?

And also big on Episode 18 of Cowboy Bebop.

This is promising.

book. of. love

i mean it’s gypsy, but still

This album is SO precisely played.

Gypsy is just so much better than almost anything else

kinda hard to say there’s anything better than “book of love” or “gypsy” but i’m giving my vote to “love in store” ... just love the texture of the guitars playing off mcvie’s vocals & the use of backing vocals. every time i press play on this album and “love in store” starts i think “this was a good decision”

Yep. It's like starting Tusk with "Over and Over" -- you ease into The Biggest Band in the World's album.

Voted for "Book of Love" over "Gypsy" and "That's Alright." A shame Nicks couldn't hit those notes again.

alternate That's Alright is gorgeous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngO6-a6NAIc

“Book Of Love” for its weird 50s-isms that completely work. For me it teeters between annoying and sublime and I love it.

the repetition in 'only over you' creates this gently lifting and expanding quality that becomes something magical over the course of the song, by the end you're floating, it's amazing. i like daniel lopatin generally, and i'm ok with some vaporwave, but i find it interesting that he presumably heard this incredible sort of hallucinatory quality that drew him to this song and then totally failed to capture or enhance it in any way with his edit

wait what

refering to 'angel,' linked above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRa1roeb9S4

"Gypsy", if you'd asked for votes for second-best it would be "That's Alright".
Buckingham's songs here were a real disappointment after having listened to Tusk for decades beforehand. Obviously I wasn't expecting cardboard box drumming and marching bands, but hoped for something of this flavour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd7L4xd6caI

Very strange that there seems to be little synth on this record compared to the digital deluge on Tango in the Night.

You addressed your own point. Warhorse bands in 1982, the last year of the '70s, weren't yet fully embracing synths into a bit later.

It's a bit like the leap from Wild Things Run Fast to Dog Eat Dog, but that was three years instead of five.

exactly!

I'm browsing through old 80s copies of Musician magazine online and just reading the amount of tech turnover expected for an au courant album is exhausting.

Bucky didn't sign for his Fairlight until Go Insane.

Hard not to vote for Gypsy here.

Can we poll tango side 2 next?

Even if the correct answer is “Gypsy”, I feel like the gonzo intensity of “Book of Love” transformed me as a person.

It’s like Buckingham was thinking “yes, I’ve done “Secondhand News” and I’ve done “Not That Funny”, but I’ve never done both at the same time”

Can we poll tango side 2 next?

No, next poll is "Best Side 1 Track 4 written by Bob Welch"

This is a wonderful LP side for last-minute guitar solos.

yeah, that "Book of Love" solo

Not side one, but few moments in music affect me as deeply as when the guitar solo bursts through the surface of the arrangement in the final stretch of "Eyes of the World"

(I've always wondered whether Disco Inferno were thinking about it when they made "The Last Dance")

Bucky's solo on Gypsy is soooo tight. I think he said that's one of the solos that took the most amount of concentration live. Iirc this album also set in motion the pattern of the band pleading with Lindsay to come back into the fold and put his solo career on hold.

This was just barely pre Fairlight, but I wonder to what extent the loops and whatnot were created manually, with meticulous tape splices and edits. This is definitely a kind of fussy, or at least fussed over, record.

I don't think it's Fleetwood drumming on "Eyes of the World" imo

I think there's a lot of looped Mick on this. he was getting pretty loopy at this point, too.

I've always thought it was Richard Dashut and Lindsey doing the tape loops. There is a lot of looped stuff and tape manipulation on Law and Order which i think was being recorded at around this time.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I could never really make out a lot of those lyrics… does she really sing “so I’m back to the velvet underground”?

It was the name of a clothing store she frequented.

The Velvet Underground was a hippy clothing shop at 471 Broadway St in North Beach neighborhood of SF, owned and curated by Lesley Kamstra who did set and clothing design for the Gypsy Rose Lee morning TV show broadcast on local TV (KGO) in the late 60s.

Ahh okay