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Stranded on Buckingham Island

Trouble

3 votes

Holiday Road

6 votes

Don't Look Down

2 votes

Go Insane

1 votes

Bwana

0 votes

Countdown

1 votes

Show You How

0 votes

Love Runs Deeper

0 votes

Cast Away Dreams

0 votes

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 04 2011 08:17 AM

Fun Facts about Lindsey Buckingham: * His brother Greg won a silver medal in swimming at the 1968 Olympics. * His latest album, GIFT of SCREWS (2008), was actually conceived and recorded in the 1990s but redone by the record co as the Fleetwood Mac album SAY YOU WILL. The '08 album has 3 songs from that initial project plus new stuff. * Was recruited by Mick Fleetwood to join Fleetwood Mac as a guitarist but insisted his then-girlyfiend, Stevie Nicks, come with or no deal. * Prefers not to use a pick when playing his little guitars: Most of his work is fingerpicked. * Only charted a couple times as a solo artist but have a listen sometime, it's really astonishing stuff he does. * Hard to find available, embeddable copies of LB recordings. His record company are hawks and he just didn't have the hits. But do the best you can to seek out the studio albums. * I'm on a total LB bender right now. You get one song of Lindsey's to put on your desert island Mix Tape. Which of these do ya want? (feel free to suggest a write in). Trouble [youtube:2uvkfhwf]YGfZScJI-u0[/youtube:2uvkfhwf] Holiday Road [youtube:2uvkfhwf]_nLiQBV6A7c[/youtube:2uvkfhwf] Don't Look Down [youtube:2uvkfhwf]gAeHvfJnhco[/youtube:2uvkfhwf] Go Insane [youtube:2uvkfhwf]rSIq_cmDPWw[/youtube:2uvkfhwf] Bwana [youtube:2uvkfhwf]vWd8E-CnfOg[/youtube:2uvkfhwf] Countdown [youtube:2uvkfhwf]nt-PImUuhDU[/youtube:2uvkfhwf] Show You How [youtube:2uvkfhwf]J_fWOmVbJTU[/youtube:2uvkfhwf] Love Runs Deeper [youtube:2uvkfhwf]6U1iUnok410[/youtube:2uvkfhwf] Cast Away Dreams [youtube:2uvkfhwf]24i6Ekk-oXw[/youtube:2uvkfhwf]

Edgy DC Apr 04 2011 08:24 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Good one. I'm leaning toward "Trouble," but I need to do some listenin'. Say You Will was an annoyingly overproduced Fleetwood Mac album, but probably would have made a pretty decent solo album. Greg Buckingham forsook his brother's afro stylings and went with the the Steve Garvey Vitalis special.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 04 2011 08:29 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I'm already going between "Holiday Road" (yeah yeah yeah) and "Trouble," and that's without listening to the rest. But I'll have to step away from this for the morning, I think... clear my head of the anger I feel for Fuckingham. It's weird, but he does something to me. Does LB irrationally hack anyone else off? For some reason, I see his face, and I forget the hooks and fretwork, and I just want to punch, hard.

metirish Apr 04 2011 08:39 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I don't know any of these songs......and work has blocked youtube again, but if I know anything about him it's his other work....

The Second Spitter Apr 04 2011 08:48 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I wonder how much the movie killed "Holiday Road" for me. I like FM quite a bit but his solo career was too.....pop-y.

metsguyinmichigan Apr 04 2011 09:40 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I love "Trouble." The counting in the beginning is a little odd, but it works!

TransMonk Apr 04 2011 10:57 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I've got a soft spot for Buckingham and would take his solo work over his Mac stuff. The dude can play guitar! I love "Trouble" and voted for it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 04 2011 11:08 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I get the sense LB's a bit of a paranoid maniac. I much prefer his stuff to Stevie's, and I'm sure it made him crazy knowing that not only was her solo stuff outselling his by the millions, but she was shtupping everyone from Mick Fleetwood to the FM tour manager while she did it. His work is a delicate mess, kinda Brian Wilsonish, crazy production but loaded with high-flying vocals and guitar virtuosity. I'm wavering between Holiday Road (about as straight as he plays it); Don't Look Down and a write-in, Right Place to Fade (not available here).

Edgy DC Apr 04 2011 11:55 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I see what LWFS is getting at, as a seventies afro-sporting, classic-rock-bandleading, America-touring, hateful-breakup memoiring, check-cashing, Stevie Nicks-duetting colleague of Don Henley's, it's hard to get past the idea that if you met Buckingham in person, he too would be an absolute prick. Plus he's got that whole Brian Wilson-y thing of having a great act but forgetting that music is made by bands and not studios, and always wanting to produce his tracks a little more, and a little more, and a little more. It's like he thought that in order to make a great record first had to ruin a good one and then save it in the studio. Sometimes that worked, and sometimes it made a holy mess. He's a madman, is what he is.

seawolf17 Apr 04 2011 12:23 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I picked "Holiday Road" before I even opened the thread.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 04 2011 12:33 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

He's also a manscaped madman, who took apparent pride in his 70s hairy chest but appears freshly mown in those recent clips.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 04 2011 12:48 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Edgy DC wrote: I see what LWFS is getting at, as a seventies afro-sporting, classic-rock-bandleading, America-touring, hateful-breakup memoiring, check-cashing, Stevie Nicks-duetting colleague of Don Henley's, it's hard to get past the idea that if you met Buckingham in person, he too would be an absolute prick. Plus he's got that whole Brian Wilson-y thing of having a great act but forgetting that music is made by bands and not studios, and always wanting to produce his tracks a little more, and a little more, and a little more. This. The difference is that Brian Wilson's best stuff makes you think, "Life really is too beautiful to depict using mere words" or, "Wow-- maybe God does exist," while Lindsey Buckingham's best stuff makes you think, "Pretty damn good, but that could stand to lose four or five vocal overdubs."

Fman99 Apr 04 2011 08:16 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I refuse to participate as nothing LB did solo compares to the Buckingham/Nicks album that they did together, pre-Fleetwood Mac, circa 1974 or so. They never re-released it, on CD or any other medium, for whatever reason, but I have it digitally and it is TREMENDOUS.

Ashie62 Apr 04 2011 08:41 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Not a big Buckingham fan, but a fan of "Vacation" so let it be "Holiday Road"!

Edgy DC Apr 04 2011 09:23 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I immediately went nuts for the nu wave/mariachi crossover madness of "Don't Look Down." There's my vote. I read an interview with John Stewart, who had a mid-career breakthrough smash with "Gold." Lindsay plays guitar on that track, Stevie sings, I think Lindsay does also, and maybe Mick Fleetwood plays drums. You may not have heard it at the time it was on the radio every five minutes, but in retrospect, that song sure sounds like a Fleetwood Mac track. Anyhow, Stewart had been a folkie and earlier in his career had been been a member of the Kingston Trio. He heard Lindsay's guitar playing and realized he played guitar like a banjo player, and wanted him on his album as he transitioned from folk to rock. And that's probably the deal --- Lindsay was probably a banjo player first, and taught himself guitar with his banjo technique. My friend Rusty had the wedding reception men dream of, where he got to pick every song the band played --- including their own songs, but covers by Big Star, Nick Lowe, Replacements, Jayhawks. They had to learn what they didn't know. They were allowed to change arrangements if they dared risk pissing him off --- Rusty could be vindictive --- and he let them surpise him with the order. Anyhow, when they broke into "Second Hand News," the dancefloor suddenly filled like nickles pouring out of a slot machine. Everybody was knocked out. It's fantastic when you suddenly hear a song you've heard your whole life and as if it's brand new.

MFS62 Apr 04 2011 09:32 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Edgy DC wrote: Greg Buckingham forsook his brother's afro stylings and went with the the Steve Garvey Vitalis special. Multiple Buckinghams? This is getting to be kind of a drag. Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 05 2011 09:35 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

We need a tiebreaker here. Strap some on and vote, I did all the work for ya.

Willets Point Apr 05 2011 09:49 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

This thread needs the original video for "Go Insane" just for the glory of Lindsey Buckingham nesting dolls. This video was in constant rotation on MTV ca. 1984 and thus the only Buckingham solo track I was aware of (although now I know he did that National Lampoon's Vacation theme as well).

batmagadanleadoff Apr 07 2011 10:11 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Was at J&R Music today. The entire Buckingham catalog is selling in their bargain bin.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 07 2011 10:14 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

You'd be a fool to to let it sit there.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 07 2011 10:17 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 07 2011 10:25 AM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: You'd be a fool to to let it sit there. Then I was a fool. My favorite Buckingham song is World Turning. I know little about Buck sans Mac. And I know little about Mac sans Peter Green.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 07 2011 10:25 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: You'd be a fool to to let it sit there. Whaddya recommend, best to least best?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 07 2011 10:38 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Hmmmm. 1. Out of the Cradle: Could be the strongest overall, criticized above for too much vocal tracking but IMO out there in a good way. Includes Don't Look Down and Countdown from above, + Soul Drifter, You Do or You Don't. 2. Law & Order: 1st solo record, opens with the 1-2 punch of Bwana (the studio version must be heard, the vid here doesn't do it justice -- like something off Graceland with all kinds of silly flourishes) and Trouble. I think it's listenable for a whacky record. 3-5: Go Insane: Most 80s-ish of 'em. I'd prolly take "Screws" over "Skin" now, but haven't really listened to either a lot. PS, many consider Tusk a LB solo album minus the songs sung by McVie. That album has really gained in popular opinion since it's release (when it was considered a flop compared to Rumours).

G-Fafif Apr 07 2011 11:32 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Went with "Countdown" based on having heard it exactly once, somewhere in Connecticut, and it remaining in my head for a couple of years.

Willets Point Apr 15 2011 10:27 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

I find it interesting that "Holiday Road" is basically two lines: Lindsay Buckingham wrote: I found out long ago / It's a long way down the holiday road Jack be nimble, Jack be quick / Take a ride on the West Coast kick There are plenty of songs out there that make do with a paucity of lyrics - "Hanky Panky" by Tommy James and The Shondells and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by the Beatles come to mind - but somehow "Holiday Road" seems to have more to it than it really does. Maybe it's the enunciation and drawing out of vowels? I dunno, but I'm impressed.

Edgy DC Apr 15 2011 11:20 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Well, that's the advantage to being a composer/performer/producer. You can have 40 seconds of music as a composition, but do the real composition work by looping and layering in the studio. "Show You How" sounds like an update of Donovan's "Chase the Wind" and maybe with references to other folk classics thrown through the Buckingham machine. There's a pretty song in there.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 26 2011 09:46 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Wish I could provide more of this one: [url]http://www.pandora.com/music/song/lindsey+buckingham/right+place+to+fade

Edgy DC Sep 03 2011 06:48 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

New Buckingham release. Tour to follow. Possible Fleetwood Mac return after that. Hints of a Buckingham Nicks tour. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... r-20110830

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 06 2011 08:40 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

wham [youtube:3qzn9rqm]2o6XEmi6oaM[/youtube:3qzn9rqm]

Lefty Specialist Sep 06 2011 01:00 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Holiday Road. That song has stayed buried in the back of my mind for nearly 30 years only to pop up whenever I take a long drive.

Edgy DC Sep 06 2011 07:18 PM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: wham [youtube]2o6XEmi6oaM[/youtube] If that had the Fleetwood Mac label on it, it would be a smash. A sensation.

seawolf17 Sep 07 2011 08:16 AM Re: Stranded on Buckingham Island

Edgy DC wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: wham [youtube]2o6XEmi6oaM[/youtube] If that had the Fleetwood Mac label on it, it would be a smash. A sensation. In 1983.