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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Jackie Blue on 24 Jun 2008, 00:24
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fucking awesome.
Really, people.
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Jesus Christ yes they were. There are days where the only thing i care is "Rumours VS Tusk"
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Hell yeah. Anyone who thinks otherwise is stupid.
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That reminds me, I never got around to buying Camper Van Beethoven's complete cover of Tusk. I think I shall search thee webbernets for it right...
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...after I get A LITTLE MORE STONED DUDE.
Also: Fuck you, Courtney Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcBc9iwPN50)
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I approve of Fleetwood Mac, and I approve of this thread.
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Fleetwood Mac are basically the shit.
Except for the parts where they were a shitty blues band.
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I'll admit they had some bad material, for sure. Sometimes awesome bands turn into bad bands (see: Jefferson Airplane vs. Jefferson Starship).
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I pretty much only like Fleetwood Mac's stuff with Peter Green in the band. Oh Well is such an amazing song and great fun to play on the guitar as well.
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i love flleetwood mac
i hate stevie nicks
am i insane?
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Wow, really? No one has an alternate opinion on this band? They did "Go your own way"! All I associate them with is Time Life commercials, ugly beards and coke. Cheesy cheese filled with cheese.
But that's cool if you like them!
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I used to think so too, until a manager at an old job started to put on Rumours all the time when we were closing. That album started to really grow on me.
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enh they're not bad and I've definitely rocked out to them, but when i want classic rock, they're low on the list.
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Fleetwood Mac are basically the shit.
Except for the parts where they were a shitty blues band.
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But they weren't a shitty blues band. They were a pretty damned good blues band. Then they turned into a shitty pop band, then they turned into a pretty damned good pop band (Rumours era), then they got shitty again.
They've been around a lot longer and gone through more changes than most people realize because they struck gold with Rumours and sold like 30 bazillion copies, but as much as I like that version of the band, the earlier incarnations produced some more interesting music.
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Fleetwood Mac are so precise. Everything is so beautifully in perfect time. Not only is the music good, but they had some very good production.
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True! This is what happens when the drummer and bassist are the band leaders and best friends. Your band is tight!
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100% dad rock.
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Yeah, because if old people are playing it, it can't be any good.
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dad. rock.
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dad. rock.
lol that pretty much sums it up
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I'm not sure if Khar meant it to have negative connotations, but I don't necessarily think it should.
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It is Dad Rock, i guess. Just like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and The Beatles and The Stones.
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Indeed. Dads are people too.
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I'm not making any value judgements at all, just saying that if you look up 'Dad Rock' in the dictionary there's just a picture of Fleetwood Mac.
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"Even the dads are getting younger these days", grumble, grumble. ;-)
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I believe they recently replaced it with a picture of Wilco.
Who doesn't wish Nels Cline or Glenn Kotche was their dad?
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What I am saying is if you assembled any random group of dads they would probably decide to llisten to Fleetwood Mac, that being their rock.
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That's just plain wrong. You might find a few dads that are cool enough to listen to early Fleetwood Mac, the blues version, but once the Buckingham-Nicks version became popular, males stopped listening to them, and that's the version of the band that most people think of, including dads. Is "mom rock" a term? Because later Fleetwood Mac would be mom rock.
No version of Fleetwood Mac was ever in the same league as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or Led Zeppelin, though.
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early fleetwood mac was good.
stevie nicks ruined it.
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once the Buckingham-Nicks version became popular, males stopped listening to them
Um. No.
Every male-oriented classic rock radio station in America plays that-era material literally every day, at least twice.
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Yeah, because women are a huge demographic.
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once the Buckingham-Nicks version became popular, males stopped listening to them
Um. No.
Every male-oriented classic rock radio station in America plays that-era material literally every day, at least twice.
What the hell is a "male-oriented classic rock" station? How common is it to have two classic rock stations in the same market, one for the guys and one for the girls?
Classic rock stations play the hell out of Buckingham-Nicks era Fleetwood Mac, because it's classic rock. But if guys ever played it, it was in the presence of girls whose panties they were trying to remove. I have never thought of it as "male-oriented classic rock" and neither have any of the guys I grew up with. And if there was such a thing as a "male-oriented classic rock station" they sure as hell would not play Buckingham-Nicks era Fleetwood Mac.
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is that a veiled "women are inherently superior to men" argument?
if so, i'd be inclined to agree on that point.
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Yeah, because women are a huge demographic.
OK all of you who don't live in the Bible Belt of America, out of this discussion. If you heard the classic rock stations here you would know within 30 minutes that basically every song on it is aimed at 30-50 year old men who are listening to it at work or while driving around. I'm not gonna even argue this point with someone who lives in fucking Canada. :roll:
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What I am saying is if you assembled any random group of dads they would probably decide to llisten to Fleetwood Mac, that being their rock.
Honestly, I would think Zeppelin, Skynyrd, or Doobie Brothers would be more likely. Maybe CCR or ZZ top as well. Might just be the dads I know, though. And of course, you are in England, where as I am in Colorado.
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Well, my older son is a dad (like, he's 40ish and has five kids). Before he left home he listened to Fleetwood Mac, along with ZZ Top, Dire Straits, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, Marillion, and more I don't recall. Mind you, I've no idea if he does now; as he's in the music business (he fits out studios and records gigs as a freelance), he's probably picked up plenty of newer acts along the way.
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OK all of you who don't live in the Bible Belt of America, out of this discussion.
What about those of us who live in the Bible Belt of Canada?
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Imagine the most redneck part of Canada.
Now imagine it being 100 times more redneck.
That's what 2/3 of America is like, basically.
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I don't understand your argument, I genuinely don't. If dudes like that music, then they'll enjoy it, but a lot of middle-aged women enjoy the musical stylings of Stevie Nicks. A radio station geared towards dudes will play that Fleetwood Mac because it brings in a slightly different demographic than the usual. who might stick around because they also, say dug Aerosmith at one point.
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OK see this is where your not having an understanding of the area is showing.
These classic rock stations play songs that will attract the kind of people who will spend money on the station's advertisers.
The American South is still a place where the norm is that a man makes the money and spends the money and the woman stays home and raises kids. This is especially true of the kind of people who listen to Classic Rock.
Therefore the stations have DJs that appeal to men - either sexists male DJs or flirtatious female DJs. Therefore they play songs that appeal to men primarily - and sure, there are lots of women here who like the music too but they're not being targeted by these stations because the ads are all for trucks, lawn equipment and so forth.
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What zerodrone is trying to say, is that if you listen to classic rock you are a sexist.
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ITT: Canada is claimed to be less redneck than the United States.
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ITT: Canada is scientifically proven to be less redneck than the United States.
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Nice one, Barry (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LceF3VCchmw).