Fleetwood mac dreams portable#

She's reminding him of his fear of loneliness (which he's trying to stifle), and telling him hes making a mistake of letting his opportunity for love and happiness leave. In the stillness of remembering, what you had,Īnd what you lost and what you had and what you lost' Again she addresses the player sarcastically saying that she just wants to ruin things for him (which is what he thinks shes doing).

She is saying that she can see whats going to happen but she's not telling anyone about the disaster she sees coming. I keep my visions to myself, it's only me 'Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions But she warns him that one day he'll regret this lifestyle choice, and will realize how empty he is. She's expressing disgust at how he takes human beings-women-and disposes of them over and over. In the same way that thunder only happens when its raining, players like him are heartless and never love you instead they fill the need for love with sex. When the rain washes you clean, you'll know, you'll know' Say women they will come and they will go Players only love you when they're playing He is constantly finding love, and loosing it, then gets it again, and gives it away again She is telling him that despite how many women he has had, he is extremely lonely, and he cannot achieve the happiness he's been seeking. In the stillness of remembering what you hadĪnd what you lost, and what you had, and what you lost' Strong.She is sarcastically telling a player that he should be able to play women as he pleases Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc.

^ 'Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada'.

' 'If you're gonna have a hit': intratextual mixes and edits of pop recordings'.

^ a b 'From the Archive: Christine McVie - KeyboardMag'.

^ 'BBC Four - Fleetwood Mac's Songbird - Christine McVie'.

Lindsey Buckingham – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals.

Christine McVie – Vox Continental organ, electric piano, lead vocals.

The single version is also available as a bonus track on the 2004 remastered CD release of the Fleetwood Mac album.Ĭash Box said that 'versatility is again demonstrated with a boiling rhythm subtly driving a soft McCartney-like vocal, shaded by organ and sweet, answering harmony.' Personnel The aforementioned remixed/edited version is the one included on the compilation album The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac. Further, while the album version has a relatively wide stereo spectrum, the single version is mixed very narrowly (essentially mono) with stereo reverberation effects on some bongo passages and select guitar flourishes. Additionally, the single version fades during its three-bar instrumental outro whereas the album version tape-loops it to six bars upon fade-out.

The single version is distinguished by a cold start (rather than the fade-in intro on the LP version), louder guitar strums in the choruses, and less ensemble vocal work overall. The 45 RPM single version of the song released for radio airplay was a remixed, edited version that differed from the version on the Fleetwood Mac album. The single's success helped the group's eponymous 1975 album sell eight million units. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1976. In the U.S., Reprise Records selected 'Over My Head' as the lead single from the 1975 LP Fleetwood Mac, a decision that surprised the band, who believed that the song was the 'least likely track on Fleetwood Mac to be released as a single.' Nevertheless, the song reached No. In a 1975 review, Billboard described McVie's vocal performance as 'a completely distinctive voice, with a sexy huskiness that is unique in pop today.' Other instruments were added later to embellish the song, including McVie's Vox Continental organ. The original rhythm track consisted of just vocals, drums and a Dobro. So I took that feeling I was feeling, and I turned it into a song'. 'He was that kind of a guy, he could be cold as ice, and then he could be great. The lyrics for were inspired by her working relationship with bandmate Lindsay Buckingham.

Fleetwood mac dreams portable#

Christine McVie composed the song using a portable Hohner electric piano in a small apartment in Malibu, California, where she and then-husband John McVie (Fleetwood Mac's bassist) resided after completing a concert tour to promote the previous album, Heroes Are Hard to Find.