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some sites for when you’re bored and looking for new music

spotalike creates a playlist based on a song

magicplaylist creates a playlist based on a song

dubolt creates a playlist based on an artist

boilthefrog creates a playlist between any two artists

predominant suggests you albums based on cover art color

music-map suggests similar artists

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#rock around the clock #bside

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sorry people are talking about fleetwood mac drama again and I can feel the infodump energy so here are some great bits of information esp. w regards to Rumours (1977)

- The album isn’t as pessimistic as everyone says it is!! Dreams and Don’t Stop are pretty positive! Songbird isn’t melancholy so much as it is just kind of introspective! Gold Dust Woman has a determination to it that lifts it out of being just morose!

- Having said that though, You Make Lovin’ Fun is about Christine’s new boyfriend after she dumped John and he was the FLEETWOOD MAC LIGHTING GUY imagine having to play bass on a song about how cool your ex’s new dude is lmfao

- Are they gonna YES I’M GONNA MAKE THIS ABOUT THE EAGLES bc around this time was when Stevie Nicks started hanging out with Don Henley and his first year lit major ass was like “you shouldn’t put the emphasis on the second syllable of “washes” in the line “when the rain washes you clean you’ll know” and Stevie told him to fuck off and anyway Rumours won Album of the Year in 1977 so Hotel California whomst?

- The other hysterical thing is the fact that not long after Rumours Stevie and Don Henley dated and like… 70s Don Henley looked almost EXACTLY like Lindsay so like… imagine breaking up w ur gf and she starts dating ur doppelganger

- The song Oh Daddy isn’t about Christine’s dad or partner or like anyone related to her in that way it’s about Mick Fleetwood bc the band calls him Big Daddy it’s like POV ur Mick Fleetwood’s wife

- Also like after this album but BEFORE the Don Henley era Stevie and MICK had an affair??? Like during the album tour??? and then Stevie was like oh Mick omg ur married and Mick was like so true bestie and then left his wife and married Stevie’s best friend Sara like the messy bitch energy in this band is just neverending

- This isn’t relevant to rumours but their next album (Tusk) involved Lindsay doing all this weird experimental shit in the studio while everyone was just balls deep in drugs and like can you imagine being Dennis Wilson (whom Christine was dating at the time) showing up to see all that and just being like not this fucking shit again after the Smiley Smile fiasco w his brother Brian like god what a mess

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WAIT I FORGOT

- While they were recording Rumours Stevie was like… not needed a lot of the time bc she didn’t do any instrumentals so she would occasionally fuck off to Sly Stone’s studio and just like crochet there

- The drumming on go your own way is so bonkers Jeff Porcaro - for those of you who don’t know he’s the drummer from Toto and is generally considered like… a drumming god - anyway, Jeff Porcaro was like “Mick Fleetwood my dude my bro what the fuck,,,, how did you even come up with these rhythms” and Mick had to be like “Lindsay actually told me to do something completely different but I’m dyslexic and fucked it up” SDHFDSHSHDF

#fleetwood mac

like. i know that the billboard hot 100 is by no means the only important measure of the success of a song or musician because it reflects trends and popularity and sales not necessarily cultural impact or importance etc etc. however. the fact that bruce springsteen has never had a number one song as a solo performer makes me want to walk into the atlantic

#bruce springsteen #bside

i’m always confused bc i think ‘a little less conversation’ is playing but it’s ‘peace frog’ and then i’m confused bc ‘peace frog’ is not the name of ‘joy to the world’