Do not question it, accept it.
Speaking of other shit, Chris Bertram on Fleetwood Mac:
Sorry Belle … I think it is partly an allergy stemming from a certain view of their history: the great British blues band (with Peter Green) morphing into an American soft-rock ensemble. When Rumors (1977) came out, the UK was in the throes of punk and I was 18 …. they were everything I hated and I’ve never been able to shake the association.Peter Green's sort of dull, but there's a degree to which I sympathize with the view of Fleetwood Mac as near-worthless wallpaper. Rumours and Tusk I now find terrific almost all the way through, so in advance of Chris's comment I wrote:
Almost all of Rumors and Tusk is worth a listen. Personally I was put off by how smooth it all was when I was younger, and repulsed by the idea that they spent $1,000,000 recording Tusk. I suppose I am now just as dull as they were.Hooray for me getting on Fleetwood Mac's lawn! Everybody else GET OFF IT.
The weakening of Fleetwood Mac was in the Bob Welch era:
Welch evidently thought the rough edges should have been smoothed off and re-recorded it:
That is a song that never rose above feeble drowsiness and never aspired to. Kinda catchy though...
Meanwhile Rumours starts off with this, which was a little loud for dad at the time:
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"Abo" is a thoroughly offensive word too, so bonus points to Substance!
"Ly"?
Yes, playing with the racist dictionary, so ABO's cromulence is not in question.
LY's a continuation of something or other. Lessee, EASILY.
One thing I think you should know
I ain't gonna miss you when you go
Been down so long
I've been tossed around enough
Aw Couldn't you just
Let me go down and do my stuff
Such a great song. I believe I have played that one live, but with none of the genius of Lindsey Buckingham.
And just three chords on "Second Hand News," which should resonate with the back-to-basics sentiment.
I dunno, whatever's the first one handy. Somehow it has PERV but not PERVY.
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