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Fleetwood Mac contained three main songwriters: Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie. One of Stevie’s songs, Landslide, is a major favourite among fans and has gained legendary.

A version of “Landslide” from the 1998 live Fleetwood Mac album The Dance was released as a single, and while it barely dented the charts, it introduced a whole new generation of listeners to the. 'Landslide' is a song written by Stevie Nicks and performed by British-American music group Fleetwood Mac. It was first featured on the band's self-titled 1975 album, Fleetwood Mac. The original recording also appears on the compilation albums 25 Years – The Chain (1992) and The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (2002), while a live version was. “Landslide” is so in The Chicks’ wheelhouse that you almost forget that Nicks, in part, invented that wheelhouse while those “chicks” were still little girls. Lead singer Natalie Maines has mentioned that part of the song’s appeal was that she was the same age as Nicks when the Fleetwood Mac singer had written and performed the song.

Song Released: 1975

Covered By: Glee Cast (2011), Chicks, The (2002), Stevie Nicks (2007), Chloe Kohanski (2017), Smashing Pumpkins (1994), Bush (2011)

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Landslide Lyrics

I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
’till the landslide brought me down
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I...

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Faustus
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Jun 6th 2011report
My wife was always Stevie's biggest fan, but I never was, and our tastes in music differed widely. Then, one day, in her early thirties, she died of a massive heart attack in my arms, and now I find myself waking up with this song running through my head. And every word in it resonates with me, making me think Stevie wrote it about loss.
Loss of Lindsey, loss of childhood, potential loss of her relationship with her father.
Left with two small children to raise alone, I realize my wife was right to love this song; and I can't help understanding intimately what it's like to 'build my life around you', and then to lose that person. Pretty hard to handle the seasons of your life alone - whether for Stevie or me. Losing someone who you love, who is the center of your soul, is indeed a landslide, and I think Stevie understood this very well. Your heart either breaks, or freezes. Freezing hurts less, so you take your love down. Or you learn to take the pain, and sail through the changing ocean tides. And try to survive. Stevie has.
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anonymous
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Feb 26th 2007report
i like this song
the first part of the song relates to compromising love for self gain. Taking down her love is alluding to tying desire to material dreams and ambition and enslaving it as fuel for the climb up the rocky steep slope to 'success'. Having achieved this, in a moment of what is meant to be triumph she turns to see the view, and is confronted with the icy cold exterior that is symbolic of a frozen heart reflected back at her from snow covered hills which represent the ambition and drive of others who have achieved materially. In this moment of self realisation at what she has become, the disturbance is so great a landslide brings this mask tumbling down. The need for true love and acceptance on a personal level seemingly overpowering the escapist need for fame and fortune which proves to be cold and lonely.
This brings her to place of now asking the mirror in the sky what is love as opposed to the cold lifeless reflections of attainment in the world. Feeling newly born she recognises this inner child has led her to hide her fears in a drive for success and wonders if she can rise above this . She then questions whether she can move to a place of maturity in the world where presumably what she desires truly is.
Then comes the chorus, the fear of changing which has been precipitated by an internal collapse of the world as she knew it and the persona she had adopted 'built my life around you' . But there comes the hope, almost childlike, of children getting bolder and older with the resulting strength to effect change and the reference to herself in her childlike state, getting older too. So you see, this is a very hopeful and powerful song. It references underworld awakenings and deep tribal imagery and , best of all, it is like a small boat on a deep ocean that floats beautifully on the surface, but is held aloft by the immensity of the deep:)
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anonymous
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May 13th 2016report
You can go to you tube and hear Stevie Nicks tell you what Landslide means in her own words, but to sum up, it was 1974, and she was a waitress and absolutely sick of doing it, and she had no money, 'only enough to eat and put gas in the car,' and the anxiety of constantly being on the brink like that was destroying her relationship. 'The fear was destroying it' And what she really feared was that if her relationship failed, it would bring down all that they had worked for, all the music and what they were trying to achieve that way. So the landslide, is her way of describing the life altering effect of a relationship ending, especially when you've built so much together. It really makes sense now that I've heard her explain it. She also said that she was thinking about going back to school to get a better job if the album they were doing didn't pan out. So that might be where she's talking about getting bolder and children growing older. That might be self-reflective, the child might be herself. The rest of it, the landslide, is obviously the wreckage that occurs when a relationship ends.
anonymous
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Aug 24th 2019report
I feel like this song is her love affair with cocaine. The reflection in the snow covered hills is her probably doing lines off of a mirror. The landslide is the comedown and depression from not having coke. She’s afraid to change because she built her world around her addiction and is scared that being sober may put her in a state of depression. I feel like though she wants to quit and go a new path because she speaks of how all of us are getting older especially herself. And when she speaks of us seeing her reflection in the snow covered hills it’s almost like a warning to not do coke because the landslide will bring you down just like it did to her. Anyways that’s my interpretation because most songs during that decade were about drugs but they had to be cryptic about it in their lyrics.
anonymous
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May 19th 2019report
My mom, who is now deceased, played this sing for me on her guitar when I was a little girl. She told me the song was about lifes journeys and that along the way of climbing lifes mountains I might make a mistake that would cause me to fall to the bottom..but no matter how old I became I needed to know she would always be there to help me when needed.
Now that I have 3 children of my own I have added a little to the way my Mom told the story..I think as a parent it is also about letting your child go to spread their wings and make their own mistakes. Its about having to accept change, and that your children cannot be sheltered by you forever. Its about unconditional love being reflected in both the face of the parent and child. Its about letting them have their success by always being supportive and behind them..and if their success falters, they have a comfort knowing you, as their parent, are there to support and push them to get back on their feet.
This is the song my son and I will be dancing to at his wedding in 3 weeks

Song Released: 1975

Covered By: Glee Cast (2011), Chicks, The (2002), Stevie Nicks (2007), Chloe Kohanski (2017), Smashing Pumpkins (1994), Bush (2011)

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