tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722496310963904361.post6091057016642855201..comments2023-05-14T00:40:25.436-07:00Comments on One Sweet Song: Fleetwood Mac//The Ledgeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07877299206208698657noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722496310963904361.post-64498457653450730812009-06-26T12:44:55.701-07:002009-06-26T12:44:55.701-07:00You win the comment-of-the-week award, Justin... e...You win the comment-of-the-week award, Justin... especially your description of FM as glam-and-ballet crap.ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877299206208698657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8722496310963904361.post-29917899206193742112009-06-26T00:13:03.744-07:002009-06-26T00:13:03.744-07:00a few years back, i was in a record store - a cool...a few years back, i was in a record store - a cool, independent, ashtrays-on-the-glass-display-cases-every-five-feet, 100,000-vinyl kind of record store - with a friend when i spotted "rumours". i knew i shouldn't, especially with my music-snob friend in tow (guy made an acid jazz album in the early 80s and turned down a record contract from columbia), but i bought the damn thing. my friend and the clerk both made fun of me. i still catch flak about it when i go in there. <br /><br />for a totally different fleetwood mac vibe, though, track down an album called "mystery to me". fantastic stuff, earlier stuff. not so early as the peter green blues stuff, but not the glam-and-ballet crap they ended up degenerating into, either (like, yeah, rumours. the one i paid money for. go figure). i won't go so far as to call it swamp rock, but it's not at all out of place riding through a muddy river bottom in a jeep on fourth of july weekend. i had to order it. from that record store. i think i won some grudging respect back from the clerk.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15609306141435859655noreply@blogger.com