BEg2 chapter 2 - analyze this? - which compilation?
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 08:12:15 UTC 2022
"In the wake of her separation...from...Horst..., after too many hours
indoors with the blinds drawn listening on endless repeat to Stevie Nicks
singing "Landslide" on a compilation tape she ignored the rest of..."
Wikipedia credits Stevie Nicks with 5 compilations,but of the 3 released
before the time frame of BE, none of them includes "Landslide"
Therefore, we turn to Fleetwood Mac - 18 studio albums, 9 live albums, and
a mindbending *23* compilation albums!
of course there's an even more mindbending selection of media from Discogs,
& keeping in mind it's a tape, cassette (most likely not 8-track!)
https://www.discogs.com/release/10421836-Fleetwood-Mac-25-Years-The-Chain
1992 - 4 cassettes, "Landslide" on side E
There's something haunting in some Stevie Nicks lyrics, eg in "Landslide" -
presumably the cad who deserted her is climbing a mountain, and she wants
him to turn around and look down at the snow-covered hills, where he will
see her reflection. Seismic activity, however, will bring it down, possibly
even right while he's looking at it. There's cold, disruption, passage of
time, unrelieved lamenting. An attempt at resignation but there's that
landslide she's dreading? seeing? foreseeing? invoking?
Now there are 71 other songs on the compilation & she ignored them all.
-----the one i would put on heavy rotation is "Station Man", but that isn't
Stevie Nicks & not breakup music...
or "Hypnotized" - again, not apropos
So going on the cruise where she met Reg is a good move, if only to hear
some variety in music
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