Friday Musical Interlude - Never Forget

 Fleetwood Mac's song Never Forget from the 1979 album Tusk. 

Friday Musical Interlude - Oh Well

Oh Well = very old Fleetwood Mac from 1969 when Peter Green was still in the band.

Friday Musical Interlude - Empire State

Fleetwood Mac's Empire State from the underappreciated 1982 Mirage album:

Friday Musical Interlude - The Chain (live)

Fleetwood Mac live in Japan, 1977.

Friday Musical Interlude - Angel

Fleetwood Mac's Angel from the Tusk album in 1979.

Friday Musical Interlude - Reaction videos

As a change of pace, I thought I'd include something that I've started watching recently: people reacting to music videos for songs they have never heard before. It falls into a couple of categories from what I've seen, either people stepping outside of their own genre of musical tastes or younger people reacting to older songs they've never heard before.  It's interesting to watch, especially when they are surprised they love their discovery.

Here are two reaction videos from WeeabooReacts.  I'm starting here because his reaction videos were the first ones that made an impression on me.  I don't recall but one of his might be the first reaction video I ever saw. 

First Fleetwood Mac's Dreams and second, Van Halen's Eruption guitar solo, in a live performance.  Warning - he swears a lot, but the reactions are priceless.

Friday Musical Interlude - Sara

Fleetwood Mac's Sara from the 1979 album Tusk. The song was released in December of 1979.

Friday Musical Interlude - unusual Landslide cover

An unusual cover version; a Korean gayageum cover of Fleetwood Mac's 1975 song Landslide by Luna.

Friday Musical Interlude - Man of the World

Early Fleetwood Mac melancholy from 1969.

Friday Musical Interlude - Silver Springs

Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac.  Destined originally for Rumours, possibly the best song not put on an album.  It was instead released two decades later, as a live song on The Dance, garnering a Grammy nomination for that version.

Friday Musical Interlude - Storms

In 2003 Camper Van Beethoven made a song for song cover of the entire 1979 Fleetwood Mac album Tusk.  This is a cover of the beautiful Stevie Nicks ballad Storms. Not nearly as good as the original, but a noble and relatively faithful effort.



For comparison purposes (and because I love the song), here's the original.

Friday Musical Interlude - Gold Dust Woman Remixes

Via Soundcloud, a couple of remixes of a Fleetwood Mac classic, Gold Dust Woman.

Friday Musical Interlude - Go Your Own Way

I think I posted this one before, years ago, but a theme developed this month, and it fit. Completing a month of Friday Musical Interludes with songs directly or indirectly about Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way from 1977, was a scathing attack on her, for which she had to sing the backing vocals.  Ouch.

Friday Musical Interlude - Fleetwood Mac live 1977

The Rosebud film from 1977. Fleetwood Mac in the Rosebud documentary.



And as a bonus, a backstage documentary of the Rumours tour.

Friday Musical Interlude - Gold Dust Woman, live

Fleetwood Mac's Gold Dust Woman should have been a single.  In fact every song from Rumours should have been, along with the haunting Silver Springs which was the B-side of Go Your Own Way, and belonged on that album,possibly as it's best song.  In any case, here are a couple of live versions performed by Stevie Nicks.  One as a guest performer with bob Welsh who had left Fleetwood Mac to pursue a solo career before Stevie Nicks joined.  The second is of Stevie performing the song with Fleetwood Mac. The first is rare because of Stevie's mini-skirt. Not her trademark. The second is mystical, and trademark Fleetwood Mac in Japan in 1977.

Friday Musical Interlude - Dreams remix

Psychemagik remixes  Fleetwood Mac's Dreams, using Stevie Nicks' vocals as an instrument.  Brilliantly done and true to the ethereal feel of the original.

Friday Musical Interlude - Cover Version

My favorite band of all time, Fleetwood Mac, re-imagined by one of my favorite recent bands, The Lumineers. It'd be hard for me not to like this one.

Go Your Own Way:

Friday Musical Interlude - The Ledge covered by The 88s

The 88s covering Fleetwood Mac's 1979 Tusk album non-single The Ledge fairly faithfully.  The 88s remind me of Vampire Weekend meets Mumford & Sons.

Great cover of a song that holds up well 35 years later.

Here's the original for comparison purposes.

Friday Musical Interlude - String Quartet covers

Here's some bonus musical interludes - string quartet covers of pop songs.

First, the Black Eyed Peas:


Next, U2:


Finally, Fleetwood Mac:

Friday Musical Interlude - Best album EVER.

A bonus musical interlude today, what I would argue, holistically is the best album ever.  Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is a true work of art.  On top of that the music is listenable, enjoyable and just plain great.