lol Fleetwood Mac has a song about the Bermuda Triangle. Like, a seemingly serious, "What are the Feds hiding from us???" kind of song. It's not even a metaphor.
(Yes, it's time to listen to some Fleetwood that ISN'T Rumors on repeat.)

Maybe they broke up over it.

"C'mon Lindsey, not the Bermuda song again. Audiences hate that one."

"Not this again. You know it's real. How do you explain the ship disappearances??"

"We got booed last time. Can't we just play Landslide twice like I wanted?"

"You're in on it. Admit it. How much did the Air Force pay you?

"Our fans think it sucks, man."

"But the SHIPS, Stevie!"

If you don't love me at my Bermuda Triangle Song, you can't have me at my Don't Stop Believing.

This is why I'm digging into Fleetwood's deeper library. The banger ratio is lower on their earlier stuff (none of its bad, just, less good). But then you find stuff like this.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5gBaFSNhSW7FMjjmDmNqWX

Why

Fleetwood Mac ยท Mystery to Me ยท Song ยท 1973

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I mean, look at that baboon. He has his cake and is eating it too. But he's CRYING! Why is the beach baboon crying? What does it mean??

Oh, the Penguin album is actually starting out well. This is a mood.

(I'm going backwards from Rumors.)

Bare Trees is a solid album, too.

(The last track is creepy af.)

#AbuseCulture #FleetwoodMac

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

And then there's Stevie Nicks on stage with Lindsey Buckingham.

@corbden okay, I'm intrigued, especially after a quick look at the band's history! I'm going to have to pull up the discography and give some of Fleetwood Mac's early works and non-hits a listen.

#music

@ktneely To me the most intriguing part of their story is the nasty breakup and how they kept touring. Though we're back to their popular library, a watch of their live Rumors breakup tracks is also worth it.

I'm having trouble finding the best ones I've seen, but certainly the linked Go Your Own Way and The Chain. There's a good version of Dreams and Gold Dust Woman out there somewhere too, possibly also from this 1982 performance. They stare daggers at each other while they play these breakup songs they wrote about each other. There's this tension among all band members, and maybe drugs, but also they care about the audience having a good time. It's some high level authenticity art.

https://youtu.be/Gus8O0oE0yE

https://youtu.be/kBYcbJBtjgE

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain - Live 1982 Mirage Tour

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@corbden I always thought of "Thoughts on a Grey Day" (by Mrs. Scarrott) as a reading by the band's sweet elderly neighbor. I don't get the poetry, though, and curious about your take on it. Also TIL there's a wild claim that the reader might have been Mick Fleetwood himself!?!? https://fleetwoodmac.fandom.com/wiki/Aileen_Scarrott
Aileen Scarrott

Aileen Scarrott, credited as Mrs Scarrott, was a resident of Headley in Hampshire where Fleetwood Mac lived between 1971 and 1974. She was featured reciting her poem Thoughts On a Grey Day on the band's 1972 album Bare Trees. She was born Aileen Katie Mary Huggett in 1904 at Eastbourne in Sussex. At the time of the recording she was married to Harry Scarrott, the third marriage for both of them. Harry had lived in Headley for at least forty years beforehand. Her previous marriages were to Alfred

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@sushidude The innocent-seeming sweetness about love but then it being about the child having to obey and kiss her hand and the overall possessive vibes.
@corbden major Mac-head here, including pre-Buckingham-Nicks days going back to Kiln House at least. Looking forward to these posts!
@sushidude I am not expecting to be as completionist as I'd like, because my whims change quickly. But glad someone is reading so long as I'm posting about it! I have a number of playlists that Fleetwood has great tracks for, so lots of reasons to keep going.