The Best Of Lindsey Buckingham: What's your dream tracklist?

This was gut wrenching to not include some songs, to fit onto 1 CD, but here goes...

The Right Place To Fade — The Gift of Screws
Trouble — Law & Order
Countdown — Out of The Cradle
Go Insane — Go Insane
Holiday Road — National Lampoon's Vacation Soundtrack
That's The Way That Love Goes — Seeds We Sow
Bang The Drum — Go Insane
She Smiled Sweetly — The Gift of Screws (1995 version)
Soul Drifter — Out of The Cradle
Cast Away Dreams — Under The Skin
Red Rover — Say You Will/The Gift of Screws (1995 version)
It Was I — Law & Order
Dancin' Across the USA — National Lampoon's Vacation Soundtrack
Make Me A Mask — FM 25 Years: The Chain
Try For The Sun — The Gift of Screws (1995 version)
Time Bomb Town — Back to the Future Soundtrack
Under The Skin — Under The Skin
Come — Say You Will/The Gift of Screws (1995 version)
She Acts Like You — This Is 40 Soundtrack
Love Runs Deeper — The Gift of Screws
Say Goodbye — The Gift of Screws (1995 version)
Say We'll Meet Again — Out of The Cradle

Note: some of these made it onto FM albums, notably Say You Will, but were intended as solo. And in some cases I far prefer the Gift of Screws 1995 versions than other versions which followed.

 

Time Precious Time is crucial. And I'd want true LB solo versions of Red Rover, Say Goodbye, and Miranda. Need Mick Fleetwood's "I Want You Back" from I'm Not Me.

As an unreleased track, I'd love to hear a finished version of this:

 

I posted this on a Lindsey thread from some time ago. Any "Best Of" should include the Letterman performance of Countdown. It rocks:

 

Without looking at the rest of your ideas, this is what I came up with for a one-disc set:

1. Trouble
2. Holiday Road
3. Dancin' Across The USA
4. Go Insane
5. Slow Dancing
6. Time Bomb Town
7. Don't Look Down
8. Wrong
9. Soul Drifter
10. You Do Or You Don't (I may have missed an OOTC song, but didn't want overload)
11. On The Wrong Side (so good)
12. Not Too Late (only because he maddeningly decided to play this in promo appearances when Under The Skin came out)
13. Show You How
14. Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind (yes/no?)
15. Did You Miss Me
16. Wait For You (over Right Place To Fade, as it sounds like a rewrite of "Second Hand News" at times)
17. Gift Of Screws
18. Seeds We Sow
19. In Our Own Time
20. End Of Time

The songs he did for This Is 40 are not really great, with "Love Is Here To Stay" being a better version of that soundtrack's "She Acts Like You." I didn't use any of the McVie album songs, even though many of LB's songs were done independently of that project.

 

Having original (as intended) Gift Of Screws songs would be very interesting, heck just release the whole late nineties (as intended) version as a bonus disk on the “The Best Of....” before the Fleetwood Mac name was slapped on many of the songs

 

1995 version? I thought 1999 was the earliest possibly set date for it? Also did he ever do my little demons in the studio?

 

As with George Harrison and other artists who are better known for bands than their solo careers, I bet the label will insist on solo live versions of “Go Your Own Way.” “Big Love” and one or two other Fleetwood Mac songs.

 

I have one I put together right after he got fired which I suppose favors the more commercial sounding stuff I prefer:
Don't Look Down (with intro)
Trouble
When She Comes Down
Soul Drifter
You Do Or You Don't
End Of Time
Under the Skin
Gone Too Far
Time Precious Time
Did You Miss Me
Underground
Holiday Road
Down On Rodeo
DW Suite

 

Not wishing to thread crap but ...

I'm currently listening to a playlist I've put together of 21st century tracks by Fleetwood Mac and the individual members. Included are all the tracks from the recent B/M album, the most commercial tracks from Say You Will, many LB solo tracks and a few Nicks solo cuts.

It sounds far far better than I imagined, maybe because it is heavily weighted towards LB.

 

Guess there's no way to avoid "Holiday Road" - not sure why I hate that song so. But would appreciate a decent sampling from LB's albums going back to the 80s. Loved Gift of Screws btw.

 

I've made a list of Lindsey Buckingham B-sides that could be used as bonus tracks.

Law And Order:

Lunch Hour
Era Yo = It Was I
The Visitor (Bwana)
Trouble (Studio Ace take)
Trouble (Extended)

Go Insane:

Go Insane (Extended Remix)
Slow Dancing (Extended Version)
Holiday Road
Dancin' Across The USA

Out Of The Cradle:

This Was Nearly Mine (Live)
Street Of Dreams (Live)
Countdown (Soft Mix)
Trouble
Wrong (Edit)

Gift Of Screws:

Did You Miss Me (KBCO C Sessions)
Time Precious Time (KBCO C Sessions)
Big Love (KBCO C Sessions)

Seeds We Sow:

Sleeping Around The Corner (Original Version)
End Of Time (Acoustic)
Seeds We Sow (Electric)

Feel free to add any tracks I've missed, but pleased note what album they belong to. Also, please notify me if I've made any mistakes.

 

Didn't he do a whole concert for MTV/VH1 for "Out Of The Cradle"? I believe it was his first ever solo gig.

 

That's a very interesting list. I'll have to check these versions out. I'll be quite happy, though, if I never again hear another '80s extended mix. Often they're abominations that strip the original of its warmth and elegance.

 

Thanks for this reminder. I managed to download the original GoS batch of songs back in the Napster days and listened to it repeatedly. I was pretty disappointed when several of these songs fell through the cracks as Lindsay released his albums over the past 15 years. Apparently, Deep Dense disappeared from my radar. Hearing it again after many years is such a treat. This is Lindsay's 'sweet spot" for me. Infectious hook laden melodies around simple chord structures, played with wild enthusiasm.... This could have easily been a Tusk outtake. Stuck in my head for days to come!!

Thanks again!

 

I like the song with the fast picking pattern

 

I'm not real familiar with Lindsey's catalog, but I would love these to be included:

Without a Leg To Stand On - B/Nicks
On With The Show - B/McVie

and the songs from Vacation:

Holiday Road
Dancing Across the USA

 

Yeah, great clip...Exciting in ways that Fleetwood Mac never is.

 

And imagine my disappointment when he didn't play this at his incredible show I saw at the Bayou in D.C supporting OoTC. LOVE this song!!! Watched my VHS recording of this for years.

 

I don't see "Lunch Hour" as a B-side. Someone point me there?

 

Lunch Hour" was the B-Side to the original 45 of "It Was I" by Skip and Flip back in 1959. It is not the B-side of "It Was I" 45 by Lindsay Buckingham, according to Discogs.

 

My personal picks would be (in no particular order):

1. Big Love
2. Big Love (Extended mix)
3. Big Love (Live 11/28/2014 - Los Angeles, CA)
4. Big Love (Demo)
5. Big Love (Live 1997)
6. Big Love (Instrumental version)
7. Big Love (Alternate take)

 

Would love to see his SNL performances too

 

Me too...

 

Everybody's a comedian.

 

Knowing how much Lindsey loves "Big Love", those 7 versions might just round out disc 2