Stevie Nicks wrote “Silver Springs” to "haunt" Lindsey Buckingham

Young lady, would it have killed you to run a brush through that hair?

Yeah whatever anyway.

It's crazy how damaged some people can be (mostly women) for something that happened going on 50 years ago. My mother is the same way. My parents were going through a nasty divorce around the same time, right after I was born. My mother absolutely never recovered or found true love again, no relationships that I ever knew off. It is a sad heavy burden that just becomes who you are. And my brother and I have ended up carrying that sadness as well for ourselves and for our father and mother our entire lives.

It was cuntish Christine McVie who forbade that track on the album. She knew how good it was.

"...I'll follow you down till the sound of my voice will haunt you..." Is actually pretty darn harsh now that I think about it.

Does anybody remember drama?!

I love Fleetwood Mac but damn, am I tired of Stevie Nicks raking the long-dead coals of her relatively brief relationship with Lindsey. That is, when she isn't acting like Tom Petty's widow.

Retire, Goat Woman.

Beautiful song and a mistake for not including it on Rumours.

They were completely right not putting it on Rumours. They didn't need yet another "instense" 5-minute break up song. The songs would've started blending into one another. I Don't Want To Know is good song that keeps the album flowing. They also needed a more upbeat song from Stevie.

Personally, I don't even think the recorded version of SS is that great.

[quote] "instense"

"intense"*

A really beautiful song

That interview isn't new. It's a hodge podge of interviews over the years - not like she's just stating this as some new story.

Thank you, r13. Online magazines write new articles with old material all the time, but that seems to confuse most posters on here.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

This whole inspiration is so funny and weird to me.

It's Silver Spring, Maryland. A body of water, a spring, that looks silver when it shimmers. Silver spring.

And she seems to still think after all these years that someone named a town in Maryland after, what, a vat of silver coils?

R4: where did you hear that about Christine? I always heard Mick told Stevie it couldn’t go on the album as it was too long and wouldn’t fit (back in the day when records were limited by song length), not because the song itself wasn’t wanted by anyone.

R16 I think you're retarded. She has described the town, and clearly referenced that it just sounded lovely. She obviously knew/knows it's named after a body of water.

Her fajitas will haunt you in other ways…

Who's that playing the Stevie at R19? She's not bad.

Not great, but not bad.

I love that clip from The Dance at r5. Stevie looks fabulous and she sings it at Lindsey the way she always intended-“fuck you, you’ll never get over me.”

You can also see in that clip why the band didn’t want it on the album. Imagine the drama if Stevie had sung that at him every night like that for two years on tour. They probably would have broken up.

I Don't Want to Know is a great fucking song. So is Silver Springs, but as mentioned upthread, it's another dirge, and there were plenty of dirges on Rumors.

It’s just that “Silver Springs” shows a vulnerability rather like Molly Shannon’s Catholic school girl character.

It helps me side with Stevie when she’s kicking fans in the cunt bone. I often wonder if moth are just part of their manipulative charms.

Yes, the town in Maryland is called "Silver Spring," not Silver Springs.

I think I'll go and listen to the song, now.

IMO, it's a better song than "I don't wanna know."

If you’ve ever seen Stevie and Lindsay on stage together with Fleetwood Mac the electricity between them and in the entire venue changes when they do this song. The chemistry/negativity is palpable.

[quote] I often wonder if moth are just part of their manipulative charms.

Moth! Moth! Moth! Moth, moth, moth!

It’s a great song and “follow you down till the sound of my voice will haunt you” is a powerful lyric. It might not have been right for Rumours.

R8- GOAT woman???

R20, that's Lucy Lawless, Xena herself. They need to have her back. She was a bright spot.

Did she have to punish the rest of us?

In OPs picture she looks like a golden doodle

Lindsay and Stevie will make up again before one of them kicks it, at least I hope they will. The latest messiness seemed pretty stupid and I hope they realize that.

Best Nicks song ever.

Not sure about that r32. Didn’t he almost die from a heart attack right after she had him fired from the band and their last tour (which I believe was cancelled midway through due to COVID).

R34 she said they spoke when that happened and she told him he better get his shit together before he dies, or something like that.

It's a terrific song but I also think it was probably the right call to leave it off "Rumours." It's of a similar tempo and structure as "Gold Dust Woman" and the rear part of the album really needs the energy boost that "I Don't Wanna Know" provides.

It would fit better on their Mirage album.

I listened to it today for the first time in a long time.

It's a long, long build-up to "Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me," which is the chorus where you can hear Christine McVie and Buckingham.

Long build-up, but that chorus is amazing.

It shoulda replaced Oh Daddy on the album. That’s the weakest link, but Christine had more seniority.

Go Your own way,Song Bird,then Silver Spring. My top 3 favorite Mac songs. I like very many others,but these are the ones I still listen to constantly. I also have to say I am SICK of hearing about this. All of them are assholes because creative people usually are. Its no fucking mystery why they didnt make it,assholes rarely date each other. Give it a rest Stevie and lyndsay !

R39 Agreed. I love Christine, but I really hate "Oh Daddy."

*cough*

*cough* not really the same thing, R42

r42 Silver Springs is a song she wrote. One could've just posted this non-article there instead of starting a whole new thread.

R44 Yet here you are - this topic intrigues you for some reason

R45 yup. Always on every thread trying to delegate. Take some time to see his posting history. He should worry about himself.

I never thought I would end up hating Stevie Nicks.

She was up there with Joni, Kate, Tori, and some great artists.

She is an EGOMANIAC. Fuck this bitch.

Great song however, but this woman has become a joke.

R47 Great contribution to this thread

R48 Is Stevie's assistant Karen.

R48- Read any of Stevie's reactions to tragedies in the last 20 years-

EVERYTHING is about HER.

The Roe Vs Wade shit was hilarious. Truly the best.

She is an egotist and a supremely sad woman.

Her last single was a JOKE. What was that one about? How everything since Martin Luther King affects Stevie. It was HILARIOUS. She is a lost soul.

Who among us are the same people we were 30-40 years ago ? People change as they get older,sometimes better,sometimes worse. Stevie has always been deeply self involved,but lets not forget that at one point she was pretty much a superstar and quite a pretty lady. Of course she was self involved ! Show me a mega star that isnt .

R50- You are a sweetheart. I respect what you said and I do agree 100%..

I was a serious Stevie fan until 2015 or so.. And I slowly started to despise her- as a person.. ( Idiscovered her way late- around 1996? Went to around 3 shows on that Enchanted Tour in 1998 and was a diehard)

Love her music- (Her voice from 79-83- was truly otherworldly) And I dig The Wild Heart- the entire album- don't know why-

But her ego- its really, really, messed up.

[quote]Imagine the drama if Stevie had sung that at him every night like that for two years on tour.

Yet they sang "Go Your Own Way," in which Lindsey claims "Shackin' up's all you wanna do." Stevie has called that song hurtful yet performs it anyway, so why shouldn't whiny bitchface Lindsey do the same?

If they had to leave off SS from the album, they could have at least included the version of Oh Daddy that had Stevie singing backing vocals.

R53, thanks for linking that. I quite enjoyed it but must say that I think prefer the album version. Stevie went a bit too big and I prefer Chris and Lindsay’s voices blended on that song. Related, I love Oh Daddy and was surprised to see it come in for some criticism on this thread. To me it’s a song with a happy ending, the joyful Never Forget from Tusk.

Stevie: I would have said to you on a Bible, it wasn't hurting my voice. It was totally hurting my voice! I mean the stories have already been everywhere about my nose. I have a huge hole in my nose, which is affecting me now. It affects my voice now. Chris: What is the hole in your nose from? Stevie: From snorting cocaine, cuz it's like Ajax; it just ate right through my nose.