Track Listing

1. I Want You
2. Go Insane
3. Slow Dancing
4. I Must Go
5. Play in the Rain
6. Play in the Rain (Continued)
7. Loving Cup
8. Bang the Drum
9. D.W. Suite

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12336 in Music
• Released on: 1999-12-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Surreal Erotica
The 1980s saw Stevie Nicks emerge as a major recording star--and in the wake of her success Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie also released solo efforts. While McVie's self-titled effort was enjoyable and well executed, it broke no new ground; Lindsey Buckingham's GO INSANE, however, was unexpectedly memorable.

The album is very much of its time, relying heavily on synthesizer and drawing a great deal from both late 1970s "New Wave" idioms and the slick rock-pop-dance music that dominated the airwaves of the 1980s. But even so, and although it generated an unexpected number of hits, GO INSANE is hardly the sort of recording that one would expect to make the charts: glitchy, anxious, and deliberately surreal, it merges everything from random sound to Scottish melodies to flashes of Middle Eastern guitar and snatches of South African harmonies.

Buckingham is, I think, one of the most under-recognized guitar players out there, and now and then on GO INSANE one hears that increasingly intense guitar that made many of Fleetwood Mac's recordings so memorable. But this album is less about guitar than it is about production: in general, the recording uses layered sound (including vocals) in an extremely disorienting and disconcerting fashion, bits of music that sound as if they were played in reverse, and everything from the sound of breaking glass to the sound of pouring water.

The lyrics are covertly erotic, with virtually every cut dealing in some form or fashion with sexual desire, and Buckingham's edgy voice serves the material extremely well throughout. Indeed, it is almost impossible to single out any one cut for praise above the others, but I will note that I have always been particularly fond of the jumpy "I Want You" (opening with the sound of an alarm clock ringing), the Dada-ish "Play In The Rain" parts one and two, and the intense "Loving Cup." Whatever the case, it's all good and very unusual stuff, and while it won't necessarily please Fleetwood Mac fans it's certainly a reference point for those who wondered where all the strangeness of the earlier TUSK and the later SAY YOU WILL comes from.

This is the one!
On first listen this is a wierd album, but one that rewards bigtime on repeated plays. The guitar solo on 'I want you' is amazing and every track that follows has a distinctive hook. One wishes he would produce more solo albums. Here's hoping.

Insanity Is Not Buying This!
Lyndsey is a genius..period! I worked backwards to this album from Gift of Screws, (buying all his 5 solo albums as a result) which was because I love Fleetwood Mac and his contribution to their style and success. I didn't necessarily like all of them at the first outing....but I soon did...and that's something very unusual... to go backwards in time with an artist and love every minute of them.
Lyndsey possesses a vast array of musical styles but all of them delivering on the serious pop/blues front with finesse and raw emotion.