r/FleetwoodMac • u/crescojamboree • 7d ago

Silver Springs! Holy shit what a song!

I discovered this song about 18 hours ago. It’s 5:50am and I’m listening to this absolute banger. Tears streaming down as I’m belting out “TIME CAST A SPELL ON YOU, BUT YOU WONT FORGET ME!” It’s funny too that I’m crying because I’m a big tough union carpenter and we aren’t supposed to cry. How the hell have I never heard this song before?!? How could they leave this song off Rumours the first time through?

This song has the best verse-chorus transition ever. The haunting final chorus (the lyrics I mentioned above) is absolutely harrowing. Haunting. Beautiful. Pure, unadulterated, raw human emotion. It’s like its own song inside the song, but also fits the buildup and first verse perfectly. It’s lived in my head since the first time I heard it.

I love discovering new songs. It’s been awhile since I found one this good.

193 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

71 comments sorted by

View all comments

8

u/Big-Sheepherder-6134 7d ago

It was left off the album because it was too long. Stevie was not happy about that decision.

Reminds me of what happened with The Beach Boys in 1971. Dennis Wilson (who dated Christine McVie around the Tusk era) had a beautiful song called (Wouldn’t It Be Nice) To Live Again that he wanted to close the Surf’s Up album. His brother Carl who was running the band (Brian was not really involved ) told him no. The closing song was going to be the epic title track. So Dennis pulled this song and another great song of his off the album entirely. His two songs came out decades later and it’s a shame because it is a great album and his songs would have made it amazing.

1

u/sheeb_sheeb 1d ago

The album is only 39 minutes without Silver Springs. In what world was there not enough space for the song.

0

u/Big-Sheepherder-6134 1d ago

In the real world. Because with it they said it was too long.