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Hello everyone.
This is my first review on debaser and I hope I can best express my views on this work.
This album was released in 1987 and originally started as a solo project by Lindsey Buckingham.
Now, tastes are tastes, but comparing this umpteenth work to the '60s Fleetwood with Peter Green would be pointless: by then the band had long abandoned that famous psychedelic blues to embrace more pop/rock tones and was riding the wave of a new chapter thanks also to Buckingham and Nicks’ elegant songwriting and the freshness that their voices brought to the band.
Let's move on to the music:
The feeling that the title itself and the title track evoke in me is melancholic: the memory of a passionate love that keeps you up at night, an endless tango of emotions screamed by Lindsey accompanied by a riff that doesn't hurt (at times and especially in the early minutes it reminds me of the restlessness of Sinead in The Lion And The Cobra).
His distinctive voice, not too sweet and not too virile, narrates about a wild "Caroline" in another piece, which starts in an epic manner intertwining a link between a female lament and some percussion. "Big Love" is along with "Little Lies", "Seven Wonders" and "Everywhere" one of the driving singles of the album and features lyrics of love and promises on a continuous rhythm followed by the gasps of two lovers. Christine Perfect (or McVie) masters the keyboards and sings in "Everywhere" and "Little Lies" (better small lies or big terrible truths?). "Family Man" doesn't fully convince me and in my opinion the last track of the album, that is "You & Me Part II", didn’t fit there (maybe better "When I See You Again"). Nonetheless, the rock is not missing, and here is "Isn’t It Midnight" and there are also references to Stevie Nicks' troubled experience of rehabilitation in "Welcome To The Room Sara".
Personally, I really appreciate these songs especially because I like torch songs and there certainly is no lack of emotions brought out here.
I recommend it to those who are dancing their own "tango" with nostalgia (darn).
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
02 Seven Wonders (03:45)
Well, long ago
Certain place
Certain time
You touched my hand
All the way
All the way down to Emmiline
But if our paths never cross
Well, you know I'm sorry, but
If I live to see the seven wonders
I'll make a path to the rainbow's end
I'll never live to match the beauty again
The rainbow's end
Never
Never
So it's hard to find
Someone with that kind of intensity
You touched my hand
I played it cool
And you reached out your hand to me
But if our paths never cross
Well, I'm that sorry, but
If I live to see the seven wonders
I'll make a path to the rainbow's end
I'll never live to match the beauty again
The rainbow's end
Never
Never
So long ago
It's a certain time
It's a certain place
You touched my hand
And you smiled
All the way back you held out your hand
If I hope
And I pray
Oooh, then it might work out someday
If I live to see the seven wonders
I'll make a path to the rainbow's end
I'll never live to match the beauty again
If I live to see the
(Seven wonders)
If I live to see the seven wonders
(I'll make a path to the rainbow's end)
Well, I'll make a path, well
(I'll never live to match the beauty again)
I'll never live to see the beauty
That beauty
That same, same beauty again
(If I live to see the seven wonders)
If I live to see that
(I'll make a path to the rainbow's end
I'll never live to match the beauty again)
Oh, well, if I hope and I pray
Well, then it might work out someday
(If I live to see the seven wonders)
If I live to see the seven wonders
(I'll make a path to the rainbow's end)
I'll make a path, well
I'll never live to match the beauty again).
03 Everywhere (03:49)
Can you hear me calling
Out your name
You know that I'm falling
And I don't know what to say
I'll speak a little louder
I'll even shout
You know that I'm proud
And I can't get the words out
Oh I...
I want to be with you everywhere
Oh I...
I want to be with you everywhere
(Wanna be with you everywhere)
Something's happening
Happening to me
My friends say I'm acting peculiarly
C'mon baby
We better make a start
You better make it soon
Before you break my heart
Oh I...
I want to be with you everywhere
Oh I...
I want to be with you everywhere
(Wanna be with you everywhere)
Can you hear me calling
Out your name
You know that I'm falling
And I don't know what to say
Come along baby
We better make a start
You better make it soon
Before you break my heart
Oh I...
I want to be with you everywhere
Oh I...
I want to be with you everywhere
Oh I...
I want to be with you everywhere
Oh I...
I want to be with you everywhere
(Wanna be with you everywhere)
04 Caroline (03:57)
She's so crazy
She's so lazy
Keeps on coming
Keeps you running
*Chorus*
Caroline
Caroline
Time recedes
With a fatal drop
Dusty fury
On the mountain top
Cut the cord if you can
Caroline
Caroline
She's so cagey
She's so stagey
So attractive
So reactive
*Chorus*
*Repeat Chorus*
06 Mystified (03:12)
Oh...
Pretty baby
This feeling I just can't hide
You got me mystified
Oh...
Pretty darling
This feeling is deep inside
You got me mystified
The light that shines around you
It blinds my eyes
There's a magic surrounds you
Tell me where your secret lies
Oh...
Pretty darling
This feeling is deep inside
You got me mystified
Oh...
Pretty baby
This feeling I just can't hide
You got me mystified
You got me mystified
Mystified
Mystified
Mystified
Mystified
07 Little Lies (03:43)
If I could turn the page
In time, then I'd rearrange just a day or two
Close my,
Close my,
Close my eyes
But I couldn't find a way
So I'll settle for one day to believe in you
Tell me,
Tell me,
Tell me lies
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh no, no you can't disguise
(You cant Disguise, No you cant disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
Although I'm not making plans
I hope that you understand there's a reason why
Close your,
Close your,
Close your eyes
No more broken hearts
We're better off apart
Let's give it a try
Tell me,
Tell me,
Tell me lies
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh no, no you can't disguise
(You can't disguise, no you can't disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
If I could turn the page
In time then I'd rearrange just a day or two
Close my,
Close my,
Close my eyes
But I couldn't find a way
So I'll settle for one day to believe in you
Tell me,
Tell me,
Tell me lies
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh no, no you can't disguise
(You can't disguise, no you can't disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh no, no you can't disguise
(You can't disguise, no you can't disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me, tell me, tell me lies)
10 Isn't It Midnight (04:16)
Written by Christine McVie.
So cool, calm and collected
You had a style, a rakish style
Well my poor heart never connected
You'd stay so long on my mind.
Well, isn't it midnight on the other side of the world
Do you remember t
The face of a pretty girl
The face of a pretty girl
Looking back so long ago
You had a knack, a knack of making women know
Ooh there wasn't the time
And I knew you'd nver be mine
Well, isn't it midnight on the other side of the world
Do you remember
The face of a pretty girl
The face of a pretty girl
The face of a pretty girl
Isn't it midnight on the other side of the world
Do you remember
The face of a pretty girl
The face of a pretty girl
The face of a pretty girl
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