I Think, Therefore I Count Down: Think About Me (#3)

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Goofing off, working on the car (not mechanically, mind you, just personalizing it), and watching baseball games took me away from here most of the evening. Before I retire for the evening I'll give you another song from my list of favorites with "think" or some variation in the title. And oh, what a shock, this is a commercial song! Here it is. #3: Think About Me - Fleetwood Mac It's amazing the similarities between the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in the mid-to-late 70s you can make. Both had gazillion-selling, critically-acclaimed masterpieces (Hotel California and Rumours), both had long hiatuses between that album and the follow-up....and, in my opinion, both follow-ups, The Long Run for the Eagles and Tusk for Fleetwood Mac, would have made good EPs but weren't all that good as full-length albums. Tusk in particular was annoying because it was a double album, which doubled the misery. (Oh, if you didn't know, the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac had something else in common: someone in the band was, ahem, "friendly" with Stevie Nicks. Nicks has confirmed the longstanding rumor that she was at one time pregnant with Don Henley's baby. She chose an abortion, then later wrote the song "Sara" about the child she didn't have.) There are very few albums that I've owned in my life that I couldn't make it through. The first Boston album lost me by the end of side one. I didn't make it past the first three minutes of "Macho City," the song that encompasses all of side two of Steve Miller's Circle of Love album (and he lost me pretty much for good with the follow-up album, Abracadabra). You can add Tusk to that list. I wasn't alone, either. Nearly 38 years after the fact, now people are praising this as a White Album-type "experimental" album. Back then, however, the reviews were harsh, from critics and fans alike. I tried, but I just could not get into this album. "Think About Me," a Christine McVie song, was a sterling exception. The life in her voice is back after the pain on Rumours (with "Songbird" being one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs, period), where you could tell she was lying as she sang "You Make Loving Fun." Yes, you could say it's the song that sounds more like the Fleetwood Mac the mainstream world became familiar with. But dang, this is a great song. I just wish it had more songs of this caliber around it on that album. Think About Me Written by Christine McVie Recorded by Fleetwood Mac From Tusk, 1979 Maybe that's why you're around: