Now Listening To (The Resurrection), Musical Musings Options

[treydog]

The Saturday Late Night Random 10:

Funplex- The B-52s

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed- Allman Brothers

The Way- Fastball

Daydream Believer- The Monkees

I Ain't Superstitious- Howlin' Wolf

What I Like About You- The Romantics

Skating- Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas)

A Sight for Sore Eyes- Tom Waits

Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand- Glenn Miller

Style- U.R. Penetrators

As usual, it really is a random mix, esp. with the Vince Guaraldi in there...

[bbqplatypus]

And now I'm listening to Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.

Do I really need to explain this one? This album sold about seventy-six kazabatrillion copies and went platinum about eight jillion times. Anyone who doesn't own it has already heard it nearly in its entirety if they have ever listened to classic rock radio for any period of time.

For those of you who have been living under a rock, allow me to enlighten you. Rumours is the second album recorded by the fifth and most commercially successful lineup of the band Fleetwood Mac, a band that at one time changed lineups and even frontmen more often than I change my underwear. The only thing that every lineup of the band has in common is the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, neither of whom contributed any songs. In other words, the band consisted of a stable group of sidemen supplanted by a rotating crew of frontmen, which makes it the opposite of, I don't know, pretty much every other band in fucking history.

But this incarnation of the band, unlike previous ones, had staying power - so much so that it's the only one most people have ever heard of (which is a bit of a shame, but I digress). The important thing is that they, unlike the previous lineups, produced catchy, melodic (if not particularly meaningful) 70s soft rock. Basically, they're a pop band descended from a blues outfit. But they're a good pop band, and this is their best album. The melodies are top-notch, and every song on it catches your ear in some way, from the creepy Stevie Nicks dirges to the swinging Christine McVie numbers to the generally perky and genial Nicks-Buckingham collaborations.

This is an album that I like to listen to when I'm in a lighter mood. Now, if you're interested in hearing some earlier Fleetwood Mac, I recommend Bare Trees. But that's another album for another time.

This post has been edited by bbqplatypus: Sep 25 2008, 02:15 AM