This song is very special to me or rather its very special. I had shared the song with few people, and asked if they could figure out something attractive or different or unique about the song.
Irony is nobody listened to the song, forget identifying something unique or attractive. I always I have wondered my tastes in music haven't met a match or a similar person in my known circle.
Believe it or not, when my German colleague shared a Fleetwood Mac album as his favorite on Facebook - boom, I realized, I finally found one person who shares a common musical interest, be it Fleetwood Mac or be it Pink Floyd! (Though I am not a huge fan of Floyd - just a okie dokie fan).
I am a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac, and I consider it to be the World's #1 most under rated band ever.
Let me come to the song as is, before I forget the intention of the whole post.
1. I initially felt the song to be unique because of the lyrics which was telling a story about personal lives of the band mates.
2. Then I saw the video and heard the singing of Stevie - I kind of liked the way - Stevie pronounced the phrase - "Sea of Love". So I felt, this could be the highlight of the song.
3. But then in the beginning of the song - in the video - I could see - Stevie trying to move her shoulders and dance trying to groove to the tune, which again I felt was very special and thought as the highlight of the song. She's fully covered and trying to move shoulder and hips looks very petite and pretty.
4. Christine McVie's hands on the piano play was too good, so I thought this overshadows everything else.
5. Then I felt, Lindsay's guitar picking too felt too good which again over shadowed the above points.
6. But then again, I found something more concrete and more attractive. In the song, Stevie does backing vocals too, which sounds amazing and she's full of confidence. All the other versions of the same song, have other people doing backing vocals, but here, starting at 2:05, Stevie herself does backing vocals. Believe me doing singing and backing vocals during live program - you need to be at your best. So this fitted to be the highlight of the song and very well it was for sometime.
But then again, I listened to the remastered version of this song on my mobile using a good headset and boy what I observed was something totally different, then I felt, I had to write about it.
I have covered most instruments in the song, except two, John's bass guitar and Mick's drums. John's guitar gets overshadowed by Mick's drums.
So, finally I realized the highlight of the song was the drums and you need to carefully observe why the drums are the highlight over here. The sound of the drums are very distinct over here.
Listening to the sound and watching the video, you realize, the instruments used are ::
- bass drum - high hat - and a floor drum
If you see, how Mick is playing the drum set, it needs two feet and two hands all occupied.
A leg for bass drum, a leg for high hat,
two hands for floor drums.
Imagine all four playing throughout the song in sync with one another and in sync with singing and other instruments - o boy - there you get your answer.
Mick's drumming was the most difficult part, because, two hands and two legs have to co-ordinate amongst themselves, before they co-ordinate with others and instruments.
Again no credits stolen from Stevie - who now happens to the only woman to be inducted into RocknRoll hall of fame 2 times! Its her song!
I have listened to the song multiple times and each time, the bass drum just impresses me more and more! Mind you, you need to have a good speaker, headphone or sound system to get impressed!
Imagine, how much practice is needed to get to this level of perfection, and yet you see the effortless drumming of Mick, Mick my respect to you!
Cheers to Mick!
Glad I got this post through, waiting in line for over 3 weeks.
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