Lindsey Buckingham — Go Insane
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Two kinds of people in this world
Winners, losers
I lost my power in this world
'Cause I did not use it
So I go insane
Like I always do
And I call your name
She's a lot like you
Two kinds of trouble in this world
Living, dying
I lost my power in this world
And the rumors are flying
So I go insane
Like I always do
And I call your name
She's a lot like you
Winners, losers
I lost my power in this world
'Cause I did not use it
So I go insane
Like I always do
And I call your name
She's a lot like you
Two kinds of trouble in this world
Living, dying
I lost my power in this world
And the rumors are flying
So I go insane
Like I always do
And I call your name
She's a lot like you
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Originally listed this a 7. Then I bought it on iTunes. Listened to it once. Now I've got to downgrade to 4.
Typical, but not a bad Lindsey B song. I prefer 'Trouble' mucho better.
not my music - 2
serinde wrote:
Boy, is my face red. I parsed your earlier comment as Dripping With Sarcasm. Sorry 'bout that.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
maynard wrote:
EXACTLY! Let's get more relevant music: Britney Spears!
Boy, is my face red. I parsed your earlier comment as Dripping With Sarcasm. Sorry 'bout that.
serinde wrote:
Yes, because nothing is ever worth listening to except in the immediate year it was written. What, your brain can only handle so much, you have to wipe the slate clean constantly?
And what the heck does that even mean, a song being "relevant"? It's not like it's ranting about the Free Silver movement, here. Bah.
EXACTLY! Let's get more relevant music: Britney Spears!
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Oh - I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
Than have to have a frontal lobotomy,
just different ways,
to end the pain the same
Eject.
maynard wrote:
a song for the modern age! Buckingham was sooo ahead of his time. I mean, it's relevant. Today, like. Can we hear Turning Japanese next?
Yes, because nothing is ever worth listening to except in the immediate year it was written. What, your brain can only handle so much, you have to wipe the slate clean constantly?
And what the heck does that even mean, a song being "relevant"? It's not like it's ranting about the Free Silver movement, here. Bah.
C'mon...it's not that bad. Not great, no, but not horrific. Milli Vanilli was horrific.
someone has probably already said this... but this song is making me go insane. It's terrible, and i usually respect Lindsey Buckingham.
Crocky insane from dees noise!!!
a song for the modern age! Buckingham was sooo ahead of his time. I mean, it's relevant. Today, like. Can we hear Turning Japanese next?
friend2dogs wrote:
Sorry but this is so wimmpy and so 80s teenie-bopper. I remember this song from my high school days and I hated! hated! hated! it then. now it just makes me gag a bit.
It makes me think of girls in anklewarmers and lace headbands and HUGE hair, and guys in members only jackets with the rolled up sleeves and big-wave disco hair. UGH!
yeah. i thought i was listening to The New Kids on the Block or some s*** like that. I think I'm going to need therapy now.
Beanie wrote:
Tell me your bottom wasn't shakin', just a little.
Yes, but not in a good way.
Sorry but this is so wimmpy and so 80s teenie-bopper. I remember this song from my high school days and I hated! hated! hated! it then. now it just makes me gag a bit.
It makes me think of girls in anklewarmers and lace headbands and HUGE hair, and guys in members only jackets with the rolled up sleeves and big-wave disco hair. UGH!
I can't believe all the trashing this song is taking. I have to stand up for it and say I love the song.
Gotta say, without Stevie, Lindsey is just background music. 
dogturd21 wrote:
And on this date, that is EXACTLY what happend. Lindsey yes, Jon Astley no.
Astley, Hmmmmmm...
I'm 22 now, and i remember hearing this in the car with my mam when i was a kid and being sick everwhere.. weird
Snazzy dresser, too!
This is very bad. How can anyone produce this. Im jumping to another station for 3 minutes
Some musicians that came to mass success during the 70s, just got their inspiration lost across the 80s. Just could not recycle themselves. This is a clear example. Dull. Expendable. Forgetable.
I admit, "Go Insane" isn't one of my favorite songs by LB. It's far too commercialized and doesn't give enough credit to his astonishing guitar work. I personally loved "Trouble" - a beautiful, whimsical, almost dreamlike song of wistful and reluctant love. Also - every time a Buckingham song plays, I'm compelled to remember Buckingham-Nicks, and how that album (specifically, "Frozen Love") was what got them into Fleetwood Mac.
Shutting up now.
Beanie wrote:
and by the way, i was glad to hear this stuff i haven't heard for a while... so, thanks Bill.
Oh, c'mon you guys! This is like that "squeezy cheez" in a can. You know, at one level, it's not technically "food"...on the other hand, it's just irresistible.
that was hillarious... thanks! and by the way, i was glad to hear this stuff i haven't heard for a while... so, thanks Bill.
I've never heard a bad Lindsey Buckingham song, this one included.
The acoustic version on the Mac live album was at least a gazillion times better than this eighties'tastic cheestacular.
Just goes to show how badly you can mutilate a fine song with overproduction and unneccessary gloss.
Oh, c'mon you guys! This is like that "squeezy cheez" in a can. You know, at one level, it's not technically "food"...on the other hand, it's just irresistible.
Tell me your bottom wasn't shakin', just a little.
well... that was certainly unpleasant.
daveesh wrote:
the next thing you know we're gonna hear some other 80s crap like jon astley or something!
And on this date, that is EXACTLY what happend. Lindsey yes, Jon Astley no.
Lame-o! I'm sure it sounded great in the 80s.
It sounds as he looks on the cover. He's a better man than this.
the next thing you know we're gonna hear some other 80s crap like jon astley or something!
sure does make me wonder why I've gotten "Sorry" on some of my uploads
Catch him on the Soundstage television show. I just love him. One of our greatest living guitarists (watch the show and then decide for yourself :-).
Laurie
This song gets one of the few 1's I've given on RP. This is the kind of song people are referring to when they (unfairly) say the 80's sucked.
yick...I like Buckingham fine, but this was a song that should have died in the 80s.
Two kinds of people in this world: those who put people in categories and those who don't.
Any consideration of L Buckingham's talent aside, I can't believe how many people think this song is something great, especially the acoustic version. At least the original was an honest pop song. The acoustic take on it is just overblown garbage, laden with angular overplayed sentimentality like too much Karo Syrup poured over not enough pancakes. It strikes me as an attempt to squeeze out some kind of nonexistent deeper meaning. (If anyone wants to debate this, make it good. No "you just don't understand" stuff.) Not only hasn't the song aged well, but this over the top emotional cry for attention kills whatever life may have been left in it.
I like hearing acoustic takes on non-acoustic songs occasionally, and some of them are more interesting than others. However, I don't think that the journey to acoustic automatically brings out any deeper meaning and may actually expose its flaws rather than revealing hidden beauty. I believe that "Go Insane" is a perfect example.
The old version was fine.
This one, well, he actually does sound insane.
Which, while it may have fulfilled his artistic vison, is also a little creepy.
Can't think of the name of his album in the 90's but remember seeing him in the Gorge at George -- awesome solo show. I think he, musically, outperformed Tina Turner, for whom he was opening that night........and all the diverse instruments on stage with him. It was great! Wish there were more from him lately.
Sounds a LOT..... LIKE..... POOO......
mcklein18 wrote:
It is amazing how different this version is from the live one you play occasionally from the DVD. this sounds like some type of channeling of mr. roboto from 1981. that live version is so big and powerful with just LB and his great playing and singing. no production required.
Agree... that live version is brilliant. This one doesn't hold up too well, esp compared to some of his better work.
I remember this from the 80's.
randomprime wrote:
Like many songs from the 80's this one hasn't aged very well. I think you
have to be a slavish Fleetwood Mac fan to like this.
Or a fan of going insane. Personally I like this, but only in small occasional doses - hmm, much the way I like my insanity.
Like many songs from the 80's this one hasn't aged very well. I think you
have to be a slavish Fleetwood Mac fan to like this.
Love Lindsay's solo stuff! Play more.....
Lindsey alone or with Fleetwood Mac... it's all good to me :)
this is a joke, right? it reminds me of ghostbusters. seriously though, is this a joke?
It is amazing how different this version is from the live one you play occasionally from the DVD. this sounds like some type of channeling of mr. roboto from 1981. that live version is so big and powerful with just LB and his great playing and singing. no production required.
Thank you RP for turning me on to this song!!! Lindsay Buckingham is great, I may have to pick up a solo album.
radiojunkie wrote:
Bill, you're killing me again this afternoon! I'm supposed to be making a phone call to Europe right now! I can't stop listening!
:nodhead:
Bill, you're killing me again this afternoon! I'm supposed to be making a phone call to Europe right now! I can't stop listening!
Nice birthday present: playing a song I uploaded. Thanks, Bill.
You're KILLING me tonight, Bill! What did you do, spy on me, talk to all my friends, invade my dreams and find the unwritten list with every single one of my all-time favorite songs? 
This brings it back. . . the Hacyon Days of MTV, and my gloriously misspent youth. 
bajafisher wrote:
For fear of sounding stupid.....is this a cover or has it been covered? Maybe Its my youth speaking.
I was curious too, and found on allmusic that there is a version on the Very Best of Fleetwood Mac which one would assume is a different recording (with the band instead of solo).
he he... I hope this isn't too juvenile, but does anybody else think that that low horn instrument sounds like a fart?
For fear of sounding stupid.....is this a cover or has it been covered? Maybe Its my youth speaking.
Must agree that "Cradle" was indeed a brilliant album.... some of it rather poppy, some more experimental, but a great piece of work nonetheless.
Mark1970 wrote:
Well said!! Especially the part about "Out Of The Cradle".... probably one of the best studio albums in the last 30 years.
Massively talented guy. Marginal song. Esp when compared to the FM stuff.
DIdn't he do the theme song for National Lampoon's Vacation?
Edit: He certainly did. "Holiday Road" Love that in-ter-net. :)
reedifus wrote:
No way, dude. You can't dismiss Lindsey Buckingham's solo work like that. His albums are fascinating -- plus, much of his work of FM's Tusk is essentially solo material anyway, so your statement can't hold much water, especially when based on the studio recording of "Go Insane").
Go Insane, the album, was almost entirely experimental. If you heard it, you would know. It contains some very moving lyrics, melodies and interesting studio effects. Lindsey's first solo album Law & Order contains some classic compositions -- some moving, some very fun --- and was experimental as well. Lindsey plays every instrument but a couple, including Mick Fleetwood on one of the drum tracks. Lindsey's third album, Out of the Cradle, could be considered a masterpiece. It contains amazing guitar solos (classical as well as electric), compositions and studio experimentation.
Well said!! Especially the part about "Out Of The Cradle".... probably one of the best studio albums in the last 30 years.
nolands wrote:
great voice, amazing guitartist, but this song is still proof that members of fleetwood mac shouldn't go solo...
No way, dude. You can't dismiss Lindsey Buckingham's solo work like that. His albums are fascinating -- plus, much of his work on FM's Tusk is essentially solo material anyway, so your statement can't hold much water, especially when based on the studio recording of "Go Insane").
Go Insane, the album, was almost entirely experimental. If you heard it, you would know. It contains some very moving lyrics, melodies and interesting studio effects. Lindsey's first solo album Law & Order contains some classic compositions -- some moving, some very fun --- and was experimental as well. Lindsey plays every instrument but a couple, including Mick Fleetwood on one of the drum tracks. Lindsey's third album, Out of the Cradle, could be considered a masterpiece. It contains amazing guitar solos (classical as well as electric), compositions and studio experimentation.
One final point (and request) I'd like to make: The studio version of "Go Insane" should be archived. Lindsey's SOLO performance of the song from The Dance should be the default for play. He takes the song to a completely new level. It's intensely personal, energized -- and Lindsey the guitarist really defines himself.
Mac-less and cheese?
nolands wrote:
great voice, amazing guitartist, but this song is still proof that members of fleetwood mac shouldn't go solo...
Stevie has done pretty well solo, I would say.
great voice, amazing guitartist, but this song is still proof that members of fleetwood mac shouldn't go solo...
gregorbill wrote:
The songwriting is pretty good, but the production style has really not aged well. Pretty much the same Linn drum and prophet 5 stuff that Peter Gabriel used at that time to record Security, but that album ages a whoooole lot better.
Yep - this hasn't aged as well but I still have to give it a 7 because he's just so talented! He's got some better stuff.....
I love his voice.
The songwriting is pretty good, but the production style has really not aged well. Pretty much the same Linn drum and prophet 5 stuff that Peter Gabriel used at that time to record Security, but that album ages a whoooole lot better.
Thought I recognized this.. but it wasn't until the chorus that I *KNEW* that I knew this song.. 