While I was just now looking for a good version of "Monday Morning" on YouTube, saw many comments about "this is the soundtrack of my youth" and "this is real music," etc.
During my own youth, when I first started to buy albums and listen to album-rock stations, Fleetwood Mac was shoved down my throat by the media! I was 10 when their first album came out (then into Bay City Rollers and KISS), and 12 when "Rumours" took over every radio station. Their music meant nothing to me at all. I wasn't into their "mellow vibes" or "relationship feelings." In fact, I was mostly irritated whenever their music came on. I wanted to hear Punk/New Wave! The Knack, The Go-Gos, U2, Eurythmics, Vapors, Clash... ENERGY! For a long time, I continued to completely relate to the 1986 film "Sid and Nancy" when Nancy spots herself in a shop window and shrieks in horror: "Oh my god, I look just like Stevie Nicks!"
I didn't start listening more seriously to Fleetwood Mac until about 6 or 7 years ago (after I was in my 50s). The 1975 "Fleetwood Mac" album and the 1977 "Rumours"---pretty much the same album---are actually GREAT! Buckingham, Nicks, and McVie are all quite different songwriters, but in these two albums, their diverse music meshes naturally---McVie probably the best mainstream writer, my younger self liking Buckingham's exuberant pop the most, and Nicks the most lyrically profound and poetic, soaring into spaces that I did not fathom when I was a very young woman...
My apologies, Fleetwood Mac, for doubting you when I was 10 and 12! :)
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