It's a life at a crossroads song. Stevie was deciding in 1973/74 after the failure of the Buckingham Nicks album (it's wonderful and on KZfaq - never officially released on CD or Streaming) and being dropped from their record label whether to take up her father's offer to pay for her to finish college or stay with Lindsey Buckingham (the guitarist on this) musically and romantically. She decided on the latter and this song was made for their second album (unfinished) but landed on the first Fleetwood Mac (self titled) album they did (along with other BN developed songs - Rhiannon, Monday Morning & I'm So Afraid)

There is a stunning live version of this with some intense interaction between Stevie nicks and Lindsey Buckingham that take this beautiful studio version to a whole other level. From that same tour there is another song called silver Springs that has a similar vibe and is also haunting and gorgeous. Highly recommend looking up that live video and reaction to it Also smashing pumpkins do a great cover of this as do the Dixie Chicks

No matter how many times I hear this, it still gives me goosebumps.

Rock is incredibly diverse with many flavors, styles and influences. We grew up with lots of folk music which influenced this song, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell , Crosby Stills and Nash and more. This kind of guitar playing is called “ finger picking style”. Anyone who played guitar back then also strive to master this style.

The live version is SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH BEH'UH! Its from their official channel and they call it the official music video for the song. Its THAT amazing.

Such perfect lyrics for reflection on life, 'I've been afraid of changes' cuts to the truth of life's changes. It does resonate with the wife and mother I am. You are so perceptive Syed, great analysis always.

That clean and melodic style of lead guitar was part of the California sound in the seventies ie Grateful Dead, Byrds etc. great reaction.

And Stevie is 74 and a hard core rock and roller and kicking ass

It was my understanding that this was about the breakup off her and Lindsey Buckingham. What made it more powerful is that it is really a duet with her singing her words and Lindsey on guitar. So it was interesting to see them perform this live.

The live version of Rhiannon on the Midnight Special is really worth it.

Rock music generally encompasses anything guitar-centric. This is just a general rule. Therefore anything you do with a guitar - from light acoustic playing to heavy distortion - you will find falls under the "rock" genre. The guitar is generally considered the most versatile and expressive instrument and the only real boundary is the player's talent and imagination. So, therefore, like you just saw with the Beatles, you will get songs like "Yesterday" but you will also get songs like "Helter Skelter" and everything in between.

I'm more of a metal/hip hop guy. But Lyndsey Buckingham is a beast on guitars. And since you mentioned it, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins delivers emotional, passionate vocals in their cover of the song. Guitars are a bit fuller. Maybe better production. It's a great song.

I love the comparison you made about how hip hop fans view rock music and vice-versa... It's very accurate. There is so much depth to both genres if you give them the chance.

I saw her perform this song live with just the guitar. She dedicated this song to her daddy.

Love this reaction Syed...you put into words the feelings that I get every time I hear this song...being a woman, a mother, a lover and now a grandmother makes each listen more meaningful than the first time I ever heard it...💙 lyrics from the heart

Love Fleetwood Mac! Would really love to see you react to "Tusk" live with the USC marching band. You won't be disappointed. Primal AF

Fleetwood Mac is one of those bands that is sort of in its own category. Of course. Stevie Nicks is amazing; I'm on record calling her the best female vocalist in Rock 'n' Roll, and I stand by that. But, Fleetwood Mac has multiple singers (like the Eagles or the Beatles) and can put out a bewildering variety of songs in different styles. Check out "Gold Dust Woman" for Stevie at her most blistering, and "The Chain" for Lindsay Buckingham at his best, and "Tell Me Lies" for my favorite Christine LeVie track. I could recommend half a dozen other songs, but let me finish by telling you to check out a live version of Rihannon (preferably this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLdxfpmku9XahZ8.html) ; I wouldn't normally recommend a live track over studio for a first listen, but Rihannon is special. While the studio track starts out much cleaner, live performances build to such a crescendo that they'll knock you off your feet by the end; if you just stuck to the studio you'd miss out on half the song - not to mention an incredible experience: it starts off like a pretty routine rehearsal, but I think Stevie is literally channeling Rhiannon in some sort of religious ecstasy by the end in that video. It's a must watch.

Fleetwood Mac’s album “Rumors” would be a great one to analize

I heard this song when it first came out. The older I get, the better this song becomes.

Of you want some acoustic wizardry I'd listen to Never Going Back Again and Big Love (live The Dance is best version). Then listen to a live I'm So Afraid to see the other side of Buckingham as a guitarist. He had never played lead before joining the band. He wasn't comfortable playing with a pick and had to adapt his finger picking style to playing lead electric. It worked and he is one of the more unique rock guitarists.

The Smashing Pumpkins did a great cover of this

FM is brilliant band and a very, very deep rabbit hole. Soooo many great songs it's hard to recommend just one. The Chain, Gold Dust Woman, Rhiannon {the live version for sure}, Pretty much any song from the Rumors album. Edge of Seventeen from Stevie's solo career. She, and they, are amazing with a great back story. I would wiki their time making Rumors as it's a convoluted story of brilliant music coming out of a lot of angst and anger.

This song is just beautiful, words and all.

It is an universal theme....we are all feeling our mortality in this life and will we or can we handle the seasons (4 seasons: Winter means death; Spring means new life; Summer means Celebration of life; Fall means Transformation or Change). Can we handle these entities of our life here on Earth. Meanwhile, time moves on and with every movement of time, we get older and we feel that. And we weep.

It’s for her dad, in a version of it I heard when I younger. At the beginning of the song she said “this is for you daddy”

Glad to see Bridges being built through music many different kinds of music with possibly within the same category

Once again, nicely job young man. Love watching you explore the music I was fortunate enough to catch the first time around.

Stevie writes these songs that are so simple and yet really good. It's tough to write something simple and that good. Somehow she she puts it together with a truly unique female voice. It's like each of her songs is a little gift to her audience. Good choice for a reaction! I'm curious if this brings to mind any hip hop songs to recommend.

Damn, I'm likin' your reactions, descriptive, clear, concise, and you also feel the music...you've got another sub...great work!

I loved it when you said "what a beautiful sound to this thing ". Well said. Plain and simple. The sweet syrupy voice of Stevie Nicks coupled with the bright beautiful guitar work of Lindsey Buckingham. Beautiful sounding thing. Yup 😁

The "Rock" you were describing in your analysis of being like Zeppelin, AcDc, and others is based on blues based scales, and usually in minor keys, giving them a darker edge. This is more folk rock, in C major, and gives it that uplifting, happier feel. minor keys are just the dark side of the major keys. C major is the same as A minor, but the chord progressions dictate which "key" it is in. This song and, funny you should mention it, No quarter and this are done in the same scale, (A minor) but with different (minor) key chord progression under it.

Have to continue to give props for how open you are to new things and how much insight you bring. I myself don't think I'd have the capability to do something similar with hip hop, a genre I know nothing about except my own (surely incorrect) preconceived notions. (Actually, I think it would be great if you could introduce here - or maybe create a 2nd channel for -- similar analyses videos but for hip hop classics or tracks you feel are essential for understanding that genre. I for one would sign up for that.)

I didn’t know she wrote this while in Colorado. She was in a very intense relationship with Joe Walsh (Rocky Mountain Way?) who was living in Colorado around this time. Both of them admitted to a love-at-first-sight. They supposedly broke up due to heavy cocaine use/abuse. This could very well be her reflecting on that breakup

MUST HEAR Classics,, Fleetwood Mac "The Chain",, "Hypnotized" & "Peacekeeper" ...TRUST ME!!

Checkout the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac. Peter Green ... Consummate blues guitarist but unparalleled innovator. Wrote Black Magic Woman....... Santana, Green Manalishi .... Judas Priest ........ La Grange.(?) ZZ Top ....opening riff. Billy Gibbons said it started out as Oh Well. At the time the graffiti was 'Clapton Is God' .... A little later 'The Green God'.

I so wanted to be Stevie Knicks. Still do, she's such a goddess. I finally saw them Live in the 80's and it was one of the best shows I've ever witnessed. ✌💖😎

Great reaction ❤

This is soft rock with some old folk roots!

Another superb reaction.

For your next video can you react to Bob Dylan, Shelter from the storm then after while still recording react to the 1976 live version of Shelter From the Storm played in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Great song but each version is almost totally different

You Are Absolutely Right,, Rock Has Many Different Faces/Forms & Can Be Very Thought Provoking,, Much Like This Absolute Must Hear Classic,, Ralph McTell "Streets Of London"

What a beautiful sound to this thing that was great Love you

She dedicated this song to her dad!

Stevie loves writing songs about her x but gets them to sing with her

Not sure if the cover you're referring to is The Chicks (formerly The Dixie Chicks), but I'll be honest, I heard that cover before I ever heard the original Fleetwood Mac version and it's still secretly my favourite. But I love all versions of it! It's just a gorgeous song no matter who's singing it

Here we have Stevie Nicks singing a song about her breakup with bandmate (even before Fleetwood Mac, see Buckingham-Nicks) Lindsey Buckingham while he plays amazing finger-style accompaniment. And then they do this over and over and over on tour and for the next 30 years. Imagine Lindsey during all this. Of course, he wrote more than one breakup song, too, but Stevie didn't sing them 🙂

I always loved Cat Stevens. You will find some very personal writing in Father and Son, and discover such a talent.

Time for The Chain I think!

This was actually their second self-titled album. Both their first (aka Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac) and this their tenth (aka The White Album) are titled "Fleetwood Mac". This was their first album with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

She's singing about whether she should go back to college or continue in music after her and Lindsey's record contract was dropped.

Great

Your reactions and analysis are really a joy to watch...keep it up. You should've been a teenager in 1975 to get the full experience of Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks in particular 🙂

One of my favorite FM songs. 💙

Also, besides being an incredibly personal and touching song about Stevie's life, it made an incredibly heart warming budweiser super bowl commercial several years back. Check it out if you havent seen it.

Fleetwood Mac has a few EPIC live performances that are worth checking out as well - Rhiannon (an amazing vocal performance) and Go Your Own Way (an incredible guitar solo).

When talking about Fleetwood Mac, you have to remember that there are THREE iterations of this band. The original band featured Peter Green (Black Magic Woman, Green Manalishi, Oh Well), then there was the Bob Welsh era (Hypnotized), and the Buckingham/Nicks era. All three were successful, but the biggest success came when Buckingham/Nicks joined the group.

Live baby!!

Stevie Nicks can rock out with the best of them, she has that power in her voice, but when she sings tenderly it's truly heart breaking. I would say this is much more in a country vein than rock, she has that twang in her voice. In fact this was the debut album where Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham (who were a musical duo and a couple) joined the mid- 70's line-up of Fleetwood Mac, and brought a more country feel to the band. Previously the original 60's line-ups where very much blues influenced which developed into rock. I would highly recommend checking out that earlier era with Peter Green on lead vocals and lead guitar, he had hits with some superb singles. Peter had a very bluesy style, but also had some tender acoustic numbers too.

Stevie the goddess. No substitutes even possible, never mind accepting them.

Funny you mentioned the lyrics made you think of your mother. Stevie Nick's does a live version of this song that she dedicates to her father.

Actually Stevie wrote this and she said she wrote RHIANNON in about 20 minutes. So incredibly talented. Big fan. Great singer. She has a rock side Rhiannon performance on Midnight Special in 76 sure proves it. That's the one to react to if u choose to. She's still performing

Other Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks songs worth exploring include Rhiannon, Silver Springs, and Gypsy, which were all hits. I love also the lesser known song, Beautiful Child off of the Tusk album.

Man, the first cassette I ever owned was Blowfly which I bought in sixth grade circa 1979. My favorite MCs are Rakim, Nas, and MF DOOM. Unfortunately, I can’t get with most modern music, including hip hop. My parents played Fleetwood Mac often and, to this day, I still love listening to them.🖖🏼

Great song

Stevie first hurt her voice in 1975. If you listen to this song you can hear how pure and angelic her voice sounds. There is no gravel to her voice that would first show up on Rumors. Some people love that gravel tone. I think it has its place depending on the song. But for a song like Dreams it lends much more to the angelic voice that is in this song Landslide. If you want to hear Stevie’s pure angelic tone, this is the best album. Of course Rumors can be a greatest hits album. It’s that good. But don’t sell this album short either. It sold 7.5 million copies and was the prelude to Rumors! ❤️❤️❤️

You need to watch the live version from The Dance concert video.

Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac..... Next please ...similar but forgotten gem

She wrote it for her dad when he was in failing health that’s why when she says children get older and I’m getting older too

You should try "Frozen Love" from the Buckingham Nicks album. Made before they joined Fleetwood Mac. Has one of the most blistering guitar solos ever from Lindsey. That solo is what got them into Fleetwood Mac. Album didn't get promoted well and didn't sell but it's become a cult favorite and really is superb.

Should really check out the chain by Fleetwood Mac on same album. Also Stevie Nick's solo track Age of seventeen. GREAT songs.

If you want to her some Stevie Nicks that sounds more like classic rock, try her solo tracks. "violet and blue" or "Blue Lamp"

Lindsay Buckingham is quite a versatile guitarist. Not as Page or Gilmour are but some exceptional stuff nevertheless. Listen to 'Big Love' studio and then live by Lindsay solo. It's like he's playing two guitars at once.

Only live aurora. No copyright strikes so you can play the vids.

If you want to hear a song considered “hard rock” that is super mellow (and hauntingly beautiful), “Bother” by Stone Sour (Cory Taylor of Slipkot is the frontman). Also, cool thing about Taylor is that he has among the top five widest vocal octave range of all living rock vocalists. I think the guy from Faith No More has the widest vocal range.

Stevie is a very good songwriter.

Have you ever reacted to Karen Carpenter? One of the most angelic voices ever, but a whole different genre of music she and Stevie are in their own lanes. Check her out if you have not the band she sings in is called the Carpenters it's her and brother Richerd on piano.

👍👍👍 The Chain ☑️

she dedicated this song to her dad...

All testosterone lade boys think rock is all Sturm and drang blasting them off into the stratosphere with driving beats and soaring guitar riffs. As the fever breaks in our twenties, we discover rhythm and vocalizations as essential to a great rock song. Finally we reach the ballad in our 30s, where nuance and storytelling can be appreciated after we experience enough of real life to feel the context of our music in relation to our own lives, turning into nostalgia as we try to find that depth of emotion that we had as youngsters.

Soft Rock, has a bit of folk sound to it, too.

The live version of this with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks blows this version out of the water

I’d love to hear you wade into Joni Mitchell. Everything about her: totally unique phrasing, writing, fantastic vocals and guitar tuning and style she invented. There’s a reason jazz greats worked with her and that she was just be of Princes all time favorite musicians s d likely the only woman songwriter whom Dylan deeply respected early on (he could be kind of a misogynistic dick). There’s early stuff from Blue and Ladies of the Canyon but you may want to hit songs like Coyote, Amelia, Dreamland for a really different track. If you listen to a whole album hit Blue then Hejira. Tho her 90s album Turbulent Indigo is also incredible.

You should watch this live version from "The Dance" concert: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNl8rM57lp2zqJc.html (Fleetwood Mac - The Dance -1997- Landslide) And you should also check out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZx3aMhnmr_Ip3U.html (Fleetwood Mac - The Dance - 1997 - Go Your Own Way) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oOB_prRystrUnWQ.html (Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon - The Dance -1997)

We use to just call it "Soft Rock"

Professor of Rock explained what was happening, that caused her to write Landslide.. Do yourself (and us) a favor, Please--> When you listen to Fleetwood Mac's Chain, watch it live. (Yeah, studio versions are usually better, but sometimes not!) There is a version that is better than the studio version. Stevie is doing these things vocally that are not on the album. Lindsey Buckingham is killing it, finger picking. And there us extra picking for the intro. You want to know what they look like! ALL of them. The drumming is exciting to watch. Pick the one on the channel Lindsey Buckingham's Gems. You have to look for the thumbnail with Lindsey wearing a straw hat. (In the other one they are older and maybe a little bored.)

What about a track featuring christine mcvey

Oh daddy

Can you just do this to every single song of fleetwood mac and Stevie nicks in the world please

😎🤘🏼❤💥✊🏽

Syed, I dunno why you happen to pick so many of my favorite tracks for your reactions, I’m guessing you have a brilliant advisor. This is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Great job! My 2nd fave if theirs is Rhiannon, especially the amazing live performance from The Helen Reddy Show. But a fantastic song is “Gypsy.” You should watch it with the original video, one of the first elaborate music videos and still one of the very best. The song is gorgeous, but the whole song and video exceed the sum of their parts: Stevie and other band members are at their very best and the story and dancing are breathtaking. link below: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o92XmpSB2pzHfps.html In a somewhat similar vein, I urge you to react to “Wildest Dreams” by the Moody Blues, and gorgeous retrospective story with another outstanding, early video and a cameo by Elton John. Sort of an emotional history of Rock and Roll. Moody Blues have a deep well of powerful, unique songs and a terrific, varied catalogue, please dig into them. Cheers friend! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odOdg6mj0Nu0oWQ.html

Please 🙏 do The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. It's my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. If you do I promise I'll subscribe.

Beleave me this song grows on u. It shows the versatility of Stevie & her band. Yes I said her band. Everybody takes a back seat to Stevie especially the members in this band.

This Is not a rock song. Its a country ballad.

I think the live version is much better.

Not every great guitar solo has to be fast. I prefer precision, and clarity. Don't get me wrong, when I saw Zeppelin in 73, I went as nuts as anyone.

you want views, do aurora's early stuff. I would like to see allman bros Melissa.

ONCE AGAIN YOU CAN'T JUST LISTEN TO THE SONG TO ACTUALLY FEEL IT AND YOU COMPLETELY MISS THE POINT.