Fleetwood Mac - the soap opera

The last period - with a relatively stable line-up until the mid-90's when Christine McVie took her retirement.

Just a pointless thread to complete the career of FM since I opened a thread about the previous two careers.

I named this thread the Soap Opera because of their love adventures in between in each other that were the talk of most schoolgirls (along with ABBA's internal affairs), and therefore our girlfriends.

Catchy pop songs with two good looking babes, but hardly worth the discussion compared to the previous phases!!

cobb wrote: That's a bit of a brush of for a band that produced rumours first up. Yes they were catchy pop songs, but they were very well written catchy pop songs, so well written that just about every song of it entered the charts at one time or another. I only know Albatross from their beginning period, and only worked it out to play on guitar, but it didn't seem that grand... Weren't they just a California surfy band? Not mush different to becoming one of the top LA bands

Did not mean to demean them, BTW..> just that they are out of context for the site

They started out as a British band> With McVie and Fleetwood and Peter Green coming out of John Mayall's Bluesbreaker

Nicks and Buckingham were US citizens and the band settled in LA. so they became Californian by adoption

Geck0 wrote: Stevie Nicks a babe? I have to disagree. I also always felt Lindsey Buckingham was a little evil, maybe it was his hair?

Her career in the 80's dressed as a gypsy girl was a major turn-on for most of us males. She reminded me of an ex as a teenager.

But I did prefer Christine McVie more distinguish looks

Sean Trane wrote: Geck0 wrote: Stevie Nicks a babe? I have to disagree. Her career in the 80's dressed as a gypsy girl was a major turn-on for most of us males. She reminded me of an ex as a teenager. But I did prefer Christine McVie more distinguish looks

Good Lord! That husky voice, that hat, the flowing dresses and low cut ... never mind ...

Stevie singing Rhiannon is pretty intoxicating to me ... I think she also wrote some of the best material in the post 1975 phase ...

Trotsky wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Geck0 wrote: Stevie Nicks a babe? I have to disagree. Her career in the 80's dressed as a gypsy girl was a major turn-on for most of us males. She reminded me of an ex as a teenager. But I did prefer Christine McVie more distinguish looks Good Lord! That husky voice, that hat, the flowing dresses and low cut ... never mind ... Stevie singing Rhiannon is pretty intoxicating to me ... I think she also wrote some of the best material in the post 1975 phase ...

But once you got passed the vaseline on the camera lens, misty look, I was always struck the photographer was trying to hide that  her nose was the least attractive thing about her face.

I am definately into Fleetwood Mac in their most succesful line up, it's no crap at all, it's good commercial stuff, good and catchy tunes... but "Prog" ? No, it ain't.

The WOMEN in the band are just as much "Babes" as you like... and though Stevie Nicks somehow lost her flow of writing great songs I like a lot of her solo-stuff, too, especially "The Wild heart" and "Trouble in Shangri-La" !

Rumours is still one of the best ( contemporary ) pop-albums of all time, and its predecessor isn't any weaker, "Tusk" isn't that tight but still great... genuine emotions delivered though it was kind of a soap opera the way it got sold...