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Lindsey and Stevie sing to each other, not the audience, and even Christine McVie sings watching them, not the audience. The rest of the song might as well be "Get a room!" time. All three voices come in, Nicks knows Buckingham is using his guitar to raise the stakes and she goes all in with her voice. You can't blame Lindsey for the look, because he is ready to use his guitar to elevate the song to a whole different emotional level. Whoah, Nelly, there is a lot of fire!įor the first two minutes, the song is a lovely ballad, artfully constructed in its own right, but just before we get to the chorus (I guess that's what I call it), the "time cast a spell on me" section, the camera shows Lindsey casting a look Stevie's way that is nothing short of "it's on!" You can see it at the 2:03 mark in the link. The link below is to the live performance, which is when I first heard it, blown away by what Nicks later called "the fiery take on the song." Heavens above, that is an understatement. Fleetwood Mac, the epitome of "can't live with them/can't live without them" dysfunction.) The live version was released as a single, and while it didn't necessarily blow the doors off of everything else in 1997, Nicks' song did deservedly get rescued from a B-side cut-out bin. She got redemption when Fleetwood Mac finally featured "Silver Springs" on The Dance, their 1997 CD capturing their reunion concert tour. Really, we all are lucky Stevie Nicks didn't become Aileen Wournos. Humiliation #3 - the song is the b-side to that scathing song your ex-lover wrote about you, "Go Your Own Way." You remember that one, right? The one about how "shacking up is all you wanna do?" Humiliation #2 - this masterpiece is being relegated to a b-side.
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So, Stevie, humiliation #1: "Silver Springs" ain't making the record. Heck, b-sides are where rock and rollers stick hobbled together Christmas songs, as Bon Jovi did with "I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas" as the flip side to "Keep The Faith." John Lennon stuck Yoko on many of his b-sides seeing that he willingly put Ono songs on albums, what does this say about "Open Your Box," the flip side to "Power To The People?" Ono's lyrics included "open your box/open your trousers/open your sex/open your legs/open, open, open." Uh, no thank you.(But as usual, I digress.) In between, it gets stuck as a B-side: you know, the side of the 45 that no one listens to, stuff that often can't even fill up side two of an album. Later, when Nicks wants to release it as a solo song, then Mick Fleetwood, her next lover in the band, refuses to let her because he wants it on a Fleetwood Mac Box Set. Myth has it that Lindsey Buckingham, well-known as a recording studio control freak, championed that decision, citing length and tempo. Given that it is a marvelous song, it is safe to assume that many others associated with the recording of the album felt the same way. "Silver Springs" is well-known for being left off of Rumours, much to songwriter Stevie Nicks' frustration and consternation.
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