I think just about everyone has a favourite Fleetwood Mac song. Mine is Go Your Own Way, though just about anything from Rumours would be good.

It’s easy to look at Rumours and say, sure it has some big hits, but how is this one of the greatest rock albums of all time, almost 50 years later? Because at its core, a lot of rock music is about love, and when Rumours was being written, the whole band was sleeping around with each other, cheating on each other, betraying each other, and they all put the band ahead of their grudges and put all that frustration and anger into something quite beautiful. And while there have been many lineup changes over the years, for the most part the core of the band has remained the same, and they have been consistently good through the 1970s and 1980s.

If you looked at the video (which is really just audio played over an image of the Rumours album), you noticed Mick Fleetwood’s balls. I’m not asking — you had to have noticed. We all did. So the story there is, apparently in the UK, toilets work a little differently, and they have these metal balls on or in them somewhere. I read once what they do, but I’m not very clear on it. Anyway, one of the band members swiped a pair off a toilet in the 1960s or early 1970s and gave them to him to hang on his belt, for that very reason — they will be noticed. He wore those for decades, until someone swiped them off him. He got another pair, but decided it wasn’t the same, and stopped wearing the new ones.

These days, young people touch their thumb and pointer together in an “O” and hold out their other three fingers (when I was a kid, holding this up was sign for “okay” as in, I’m okay or I understood what you said or something like that, similar to the thumbs up) below their belt, so when you look, they can say you were looking at their junk. Mick Fleetwood was doing that before many of us (myself included) were born. Except he could literally tell you, “you were looking at my balls, weren’t you?”.

I’ll take “shit that would never fly in the modern age” for $200, Alex…

…As for the song, I just really like how it sounds to me. There are many others which are very nearly as good. I won’t argue which Fleetwood Mac song is best. If you have an opinion on the matter, we at least agree that the band was good, and that’s good enough for me. (I don’t think any reasonable person would say that they weren’t, but there are some 8 billion people out there.)