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This is Rocknroll Dreams by Meatloaf with Angelina Jolie in it which is kindof cool, because she’s now more famous than he is, and her dad was in Deliverance which is cool as well…. “tweedle ing-ding, ing-ding, ing-ding ding” it goes. “twadle ank-dang, ank-dang, ank-dang dang”. Marvellous.

Anyway. The beginning is EXACTLY THE SAME (almost) as Sisters of The Moon by Fleetwood Mac… which you can hear here:

But which is one of those slightly annoying fan ones - although at least this time they didn’t superimpose it over the soppy bits from Dr Who

Coincidence? You decide.

Anyway, whatever. Fleetwood Mac.

In the 70s every middle-class family in the world had “that” album - Fleetwood Mac acquired this kindof “The Good Life” (UK comedy from the 70s about self-sufficient farming in suburbia) vibe… but for a while there they fucking rocked. They were over-the-top. The did it. Properly.

They out-drank, out-drugged and generally out-shambled anyone and everyone that made ‘taking it to the limit’ their thing, and top of that, their songs were about catastrophic emotional fuckups happening within the band at the time, so they got to sing the love/hate songs looking across the stage to the very people who were doing their heads in, and were stuck in the studio with them 18 hours a day etc… And they went for it.

Check this out:

Check out how Mick Fleetwood starts the same song… that’s him playing the drums at the same time as downing a bottle of beer… then again (which is the funny bit) about 1.30 mins in. I look at that guy’s face in this clip and realise I haven’t even started.

I would use that version as the main example… but then Stevie Nicks changes the fucking tune. Why do people do that? It does my head in. I’ve been in bands where the singer does that. It’s like they don’t understand their own song.

In this one the whole point of the verse is to create the landscape from which springs a single note - like a single pure blue ray of light…. where she sings “to meeee….” (she’s a bit self-obsessed is Stevie). Anyway, if this the song’s in Em it should be a high e. All lines lead to that point… hit that note and hang on to it like an orgasm. Fucking about with the tune is like bungling a wank… where that thing happens when you suddenly have this overwhelming impression that all your dead family members are looking down on you right at the crucial bit. (the correct technical term for this phenomena is “Ancestral Wank”).

It’s a bit like Ceiling Cat

It’s just not right.