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Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn't you love to love her?
Takes to the sky like a bird in flight
And who will be her lover?
All your life you've never seen
A woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?
She is like a cat in the dark
And then she is the darkness
She rules her life like a fine skylark
And when the sky is starless
All your life you've never seen
A woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?
Will you ever win?
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
She rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn't you love to love her?
She rules her life like a bird in flight
And who will be her lover?
All your life you've never seen
A woman taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?
Will you ever win?
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Rhiannon
Taken by, taken by the sky
Taken by, taken by the sky
Taken by, taken by the sky
Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind
Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind
Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind
Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind
| michaelc (Walnut Creek, CA) | Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 16:01 So is she singing about them tasty little sausages ?  |
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: Feb 20, 2013 - 18:04 terrapin52 wrote: Stevie Nicks used to be so hot. So did I. |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Feb 20, 2013 - 18:04 We be dancing in my church... love this song... |
| Bozo (Steeler Penguin Pirate land) | Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 08:40 Bill, how about playing something from the Buckingham Nicks album? That baby rocked!!! |
| linden (Santa Cruz, CA) | Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 19:17 fuzzy wrote: The segue from Mazzy Star - Fade Into You to this song doesn't work at all. Agreed, but I like both songs so I'll go with it. |
| Radio_Dweeb (Maryland) | Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 19:15 fuzzy wrote: The segue from Mazzy Star - Fade Into You to this song doesn't work at all. I'll agree on this. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 07:40 terrapin52 wrote: Stevie Nicks used to be so hot. Well, to be fair, that was about 35 years and 500-pounds-of-cocaine ago for her. Good song. |
| Ahnyer_Keester (Chicago Il) | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 07:39 I can only take Stevie Nicks in little bits. This is one of those bits. Not a favorite Mac song but a classic nonetheless. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 21:14 Cynaera wrote: Good point, domine-astronomy - the world does NOT revolve around me.  The other Mac songs you mention are also pretty mainstream. Still, I can listen to "Go Your Own Way" without diving for the volume control. I hope "Sisters..." makes it onto the playlist. And I'd still love to hear "Fall From Grace" here... *wistful sigh*Miss you so much, Ann... rest in peace... |
| lshinkawa (Berkeley, CA) | Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 21:10 Nice to hear this on RP! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 08:48 Stingray wrote: Romeo - will you please change your avatar? I want to think about good things, when seeing you writing, not about a nightmare-in-disguise! There is just no pleasure in life for you other than meanness... I love this song, and this whole album... |
| Stingray (NWO reloaded) | Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 14:01 romeotuma wrote: I love this song soooo much... I am playing it on my piano in my hotel room right this minute... What piano is it, you're playing on? Steinway in acryl? Or an old PC with piano-function? I will not die, before I have seen your Hotel-room, and met any of your imaginairy friend, Romeo - will you please change your avatar? I want to think about good things, when seeing you writing, not about a nightmare-in-disguise! |
| Stratocaster (Bermuda) | Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 14:00 romeotuma wrote: I love this song soooo much... I am playing it on my piano in my hotel room right this minute... LOL, you are gonna FREAK when you finally get your hotel bill!!! |
| terrapin52 (Terrapin Station, SC) | Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 13:59 Stevie Nicks used to be so hot. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 06, 2011 - 18:40 I love this song soooo much... I am playing it on my piano in my hotel room right this minute... |
| kurt_from_kanada (carleton place ontario) | Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 13:59 Quelle merde.... |
| christopherwoods (West Midlands, United Kingdom) | Posted: Jul 02, 2011 - 08:52 Having been born unto the mid 80s, my first exposure to FM was through the parents' record collections! (I was transfixed by the cover for Tango in the Night...) This track always makes me turn the stereo up. This time around was no exception! Always a delight for me to hear a Mac track played on RP. 8/10, |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: May 31, 2011 - 17:54 domine-astronomy wrote: I can't agree with you about "Rhiannon" being overplayed though — maybe it's overplayed in the U.S., but not here (here the overplayed-to-death ones are "Little Lies," "Everywhere," "Seven Wonders," and, to a lesser extent, "Go Your Own Way"). Remember that RP has listeners all over the world. By the way, I've uploaded "Sisters of the Moon" a few days ago - it's currently under review on the LRC (shame it wasn't insta-added). Good point, domine-astronomy - the world does NOT revolve around me. The other Mac songs you mention are also pretty mainstream. Still, I can listen to "Go Your Own Way" without diving for the volume control. I hope "Sisters..." makes it onto the playlist. And I'd still love to hear "Fall From Grace" here... *wistful sigh* |
| FluorideFreeMN (Land of Sky Blue Waters) | Posted: May 31, 2011 - 17:52 thumbs down on this one....FM's catalog is much too broad and diverse to make us suffer thru this track. |
| Krispian (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: May 31, 2011 - 17:49 Randomax wrote: I liked FM before the ladies came around....  ??? |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: May 31, 2011 - 17:49 There are the "this song is commercially overplayed rules" and then there are exceptions: for me this is an exception. . . |
| domine-astronomy (Poland, Europe, Earth) | Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 16:26 Cynaera wrote: I really love Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks, but I feel this song really IS overplayed - on ClearChannel, every AM radio station to which I have access, and most of the FM stations. To hear it at the one place where I hide from commercialism, it's a bit of a disappointment. Still - it's Fleetwood Mac, and is still compelling, even after all this time. I wish someone would upload "Sisters of the Moon" off the Tusk CD, or "Fall From Grace" from Stevie's "Trouble In Shangri-La" CD (my personal favorite of hers.) I'd do it, but I gave the CD to my radio music programmer friend, and I have no idea what happened to it after he left... No, there's no point to this post. I can't agree with you about "Rhiannon" being overplayed though — maybe it's overplayed in the U.S., but not here (here the overplayed-to-death ones are "Little Lies," "Everywhere," "Seven Wonders," and, to a lesser extent, "Go Your Own Way"). Remember that RP has listeners all over the world. By the way, I've uploaded "Sisters of the Moon" a few days ago - it's currently under review on the LRC (shame it wasn't insta-added). |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 13:38 I really love Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks, but I feel this song really IS overplayed - on ClearChannel, every AM radio station to which I have access, and most of the FM stations. To hear it at the one place where I hide from commercialism, it's a bit of a disappointment. Still - it's Fleetwood Mac, and is still compelling, even after all this time. I wish someone would upload "Sisters of the Moon" off the Tusk CD, or "Fall From Grace" from Stevie's "Trouble In Shangri-La" CD (my personal favorite of hers.) I'd do it, but I gave the CD to my radio music programmer friend, and I have no idea what happened to it after he left... No, there's no point to this post. |
| htowncoog (Texas) | Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 13:24 One those songs I wish I could of witnessed the recording of...just perfect. |
| grogg | Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 13:23 That was definitely a rough transition. Two great songs, though. |
| ziakut (A place with air, water and chocolate.) | Posted: Jan 25, 2011 - 20:15 roulleau wrote: Following Mazzy Star with this is really bumming me out. Oh couldn't agree more! I'm surprised at such a slap in the face that was. Usually the transitions are flawless...but no can do here. |
| ziakut (A place with air, water and chocolate.) | Posted: Jan 25, 2011 - 19:24 roulleau wrote: Following Mazzy Star with this is really bumming me out. Oh couldn't agree more! I'm surprised at such a slap in the face that was. Usually the transitions are flawless...but no can do here. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 25, 2010 - 11:00 perfect... |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 25, 2010 - 10:41 Hello RP-Listeners! I wish all of you "MERRY CHRISTMAS", wherever you are - whoever you wanna be! Christmas is a sweet-naive tradition - not a religious event! I like it anyway! Still - I hope Bill takes the chance to rock the christmas-tree to pieces tonight! "Happy Christmas your "BAD SANTA", aka STINGRAY -from Cologne/Germany- PS Sermon of the day (promise: I'm serious): The "Three Wise Men" - Melchior, Balthasar + Caspar are buried in a golden sarcophage in"our" dome, the famous "Cologne dome" - the third highest church-building in the world - right in the very centre of town, next to the Rhine. A gothic building of extra-class! Have a look: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Koelner_Dom_bei_Nacht_1_RB.JPG&filetimestamp=20060517174554 The "grave" for the non-believers: http://www.koelner-dom.de/17450.html?&L=1 + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Three_Kings |
| kysmet (Central Florida) | Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 17:51 one of my favorite songs of all-time and I'm enjoying it after Mazzy Star but that's the kind of mood I'm in, I guess. |
| roulleau | Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 17:50 Following Mazzy Star with this is really bumming me out. |
| tompoll (Seattle WA USA) | Posted: Oct 29, 2010 - 16:58 S-E-X-Y-!!! |
| Rooney (Near Paradise) | Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 09:13 Randomax wrote: I liked FM before the ladies came around.... you poor, suffering soul you.  |
| Kite_Flyer (Red Sox Nation) | Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 08:51 I really thought that song was "dead" to me.. But liked hearing it today. |
| lsfeder (At the wheel of a Benzo) | Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 08:49 Fleetwood was best with Stevie |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 09:42 love it... |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 09:37 gatorade wrote: If you're gonna play Fleetwood Mac, why oh why not play one of the songs featuring the lovely vocals of Christine McVie, or early songs w/Jeremy Spencer instead of highly over rated Stevie Nicks????? They play plenty of Fleetwood Mac here - there are over 40 over their tunes on the playlist and not all Buckingham/Nicks era stuff. |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 09:36 Randomax wrote: I liked FM before the ladies came around.... and on this of all songs ~ my apologies to all the ladies |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 09:34 Dreams unwind Loves a state of mind |
| Randomax (Wimberley, TX) | Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 09:34 I liked FM before the ladies came around.... |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Jun 17, 2010 - 13:04 sfListener wrote: Are we going to hear Witchy Woman today? You mean Witch-ay Woman, Elaine and Puddy's couple song. |
| gandalfbmg (3 mi from Paradise (Missouri)) | Posted: Jun 17, 2010 - 12:50 ScottFromWyoming wrote: Surprised to find that at some point in the distant past, I gave this a miserly 5. Sure it's overplayed and I don't need to hear it again. But when it came on just now I thought "ahh..." and listened to the bass and didn't hear Stevie being the caricature that she would become and have to up it to 7 at least. Plus, a few months ago, I heard Alice Cooper in his radio DJ gig stumble over how to pronounce Rhiannon and he confessed that he'd never heard the song before, since he was on the road so much he missed out on a lot of the other music of the 70s. So having that amusing trivia forever associated with this song makes it a little more enjoyable somehow. I always thought this was my parent's 70's crap, but then I heard a local band play a cover at one of my favorite brew pubs (in Des Moines), and I had a rediscovery of it, and Fleetwood Mac in general (this was also shortly after I discovered RP, so I'm sure that played into it as well). |
| spindrift (Philadelphia PA) | Posted: Jun 17, 2010 - 12:49 xkolibuul wrote: Because Stevie, at this stage of her career, was an equally lovely vocalist. gatorade wrote: If you're gonna play Fleetwood Mac, why oh why not play one of the songs featuring the lovely vocals of Christine McVie, or early songs w/Jeremy Spencer instead of highly over rated Stevie Nicks????? Hear, hear! |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: May 16, 2010 - 18:18 Surprised to find that at some point in the distant past, I gave this a miserly 5. Sure it's overplayed and I don't need to hear it again. But when it came on just now I thought "ahh..." and listened to the bass and didn't hear Stevie being the caricature that she would become and have to up it to 7 at least. Plus, a few months ago, I heard Alice Cooper in his radio DJ gig stumble over how to pronounce Rhiannon and he confessed that he'd never heard the song before, since he was on the road so much he missed out on a lot of the other music of the 70s. So having that amusing trivia forever associated with this song makes it a little more enjoyable somehow. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 16, 2010 - 18:00 When this album first came out, I went to the record store and bought it brand new... I still have the album, all these decades later... I learned to play the guitar part on my electric piano, and our garage band played it at bunches of parties... I love this song... |
| xkolibuul (Chuckanut sandstone) | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 23:39 Because Stevie, at this stage of her career, was an equally lovely vocalist. gatorade wrote: If you're gonna play Fleetwood Mac, why oh why not play one of the songs featuring the lovely vocals of Christine McVie, or early songs w/Jeremy Spencer instead of highly over rated Stevie Nicks????? |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 14, 2010 - 09:50 spaceman wrote: Do you like this song? Just wondering.  I apologize... I cannot hold myself back... I love this song! |
| spaceman (Vienna, Austria) | Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 19:40 romeotuma wrote: Jan 10, 2010 - 08:36: awesome... Nov 08, 2009 - 14:32: This really is a cool song... Oct 30, 2009 - 16:49: I always love to hear this song... Sep 06, 2009 - 13:27: love it... Jun 03, 2009 - 13:33: This song is soooo good for the ears... May 02, 2009 - 20:41: This really is a fantastic song... Do you like this song? Just wondering. |
| RParadise (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY) | Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 19:39 furaha wrote: Always loved the fact the band is named after the rhythm section. As a fellow member of the "brotherhood of the bottom" (being a drummer) I think this is the best bass and drum duo in the business. Unquestionably. Rock solid, yet flowing. |
| furaha (Lake Tahoe) | Posted: Feb 10, 2010 - 19:37 Always loved the fact the band is named after the rhythm section. As a fellow member of the "brotherhood of the bottom" (being a drummer) I think this is the best bass and drum duo in the business. |