It’s Friday again and that means it’s time for another isolated track. Today we’ll listen to the isolated vocals from Fleetwood Mac’s big hit “You Can Go Your Own Way, (this is a Spotify link)” the first single from the band’s huge 1977 Rumours album. Here are some things to listen for (the track starts at 0:07).
1. Check out all the the breaths on the track. You can hear lead singer Lindsey Buckingham take a big breath of air before most vocal phrases, and the whole band before each harmony chorus. We’d probably delete these today in our DAW world.
2. There’s a nice medium length delayed reverb on the vocals. There’s more there than what you think is there when you listen with the instrumental track.
3. The lead vocal is at the top of the harmony stack, which is somewhat unusual.
4. The harmonies begin to get sloppy with the releases towards the end of the song at 3:30. You can hear all vocalists ending the phrases at different times, which doesn’t happen earlier on.
