Tuesday, January 20, 2015

"Open up; Everything's waiting for you"

The live versions were of such low quality, so here's the studio version. Kicks.



I was going to post Stay With Me by Faces for F but I'd already posted that at least once. Then I thought about a Peter Frampton tune, but that was a little bit poppy for my mood. So it had to be Fleetwood Mac; I think that's where the initials "FM" come from. Or it should have.

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  1. Thanks, Pauli. You spared the group the Foghat that I was going to post.

    I think this live version is terrific (albeit poor quality video). I dig the fingerstyle rock guitar technique of The Great Lindsey Buckingham next to the comatose apathy of Stevie Nicks (she gets slightly more energetic once her vocals are over).

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    1. The song was penned in the middle of a triple-breakup -- see this -- but I guess the song was really roughest on Stevie Nicks. From the linked article: "I very much resented him telling the world that 'packing up, shacking up' with different men was all I wanted to do," Nicks later told Rolling Stone. "He knew it wasn't true. It was just an angry thing that he said. Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, 'I'll make you suffer for leaving me.' And I did."

      Musically, it is really an interesting song. As a whole, the thing just seamlessly grooves. The chorus is a steady rock beat, almost a march. The verses are as blissfully unaware of time signatures as a Gregorian chant. The other song like this which comes to mind is Touch and Go by the Cars. It was on their least successful album, Panorama.

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