Only Over You

"Only Over You" is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from their 1982 album Mirage. It was written by Christine McVie for her boyfriend at the time, the Beach Boys' drummer Dennis Wilson.^[1] The record sleeve states, "With thanks to Dennis Wilson for inspiration."^[2] Biographer Jon Stebbins characterized the song as McVie's "last declaration of love" toward Wilson.^[2]

McVie wrote the song as a message to her then-boyfriend, Dennis Wilson (pictured 1971).^[2]

"Only Over You"
Song by Fleetwood Mac
from the album Mirage
Released	June 18, 1982 (1982-06-18)
Length	4:08
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Christine McVie
Producer(s)	Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat
Licensed audio
"Only Over You" on YouTube

Release and reception

"Only Over You" appeared as the sixth track on their 1982 album Mirage. In the UK, the song was issued as the B-side to their single "Oh Diane".^[3] An alternate mix of "Only Over You" was included on the 2016 deluxe reissue of Mirage.^[4]

Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club characterised "Only Over You" as "an old-fashioned torch song".^[5] Writing for Rolling Stone, John Milward highlighted McVie's vocal delivery on the song's opening line, "I'm out of my mind", and drew a lyrical parallel to "Over My Head".^[6] The Guardian and Paste ranked the song number 26 and number 24 respectively on their lists of the 30 greatest Fleetwood Mac songs.^[7][8]

Influence

In 2009, musician Daniel Lopatin (credited as "sunsetcorp") reworked "Only Over You" as a hypnagogic pop music video titled "angel".^[9] The lyrics "Angel please don't go, I miss you when you go" were slowed down and looped with a phaser effect applied to certain phrases.^[10] A year later in 2010, he would release the track as "Untitled A2" under the pseudonym "Chuck Person" of Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1.^[11]

References

1. Howe, Zoë (2014). Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams and Rumours. Omnibus. ISBN 9781783231287.
2. Stebbins, Jon (2000). Dennis Wilson: The Real Beach Boy. ECW Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-55022-404-7.
3. "Fleetwood Mac - Oh Diane". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
4. "Fleetwood Mac's 'Mirage' is Getting a Deluxe Reissue". 12 May 2016.
5. Zeleski, Annie (25 July 2016). "Fleetwood Mac's Mirage is a well-crafted diamond in the rough". AV Club. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
6. Milward, John (16 August 1982). "Mirage". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
7. Petridis, Alexis (19 May 2022). "Fleetwood Mac's 30 greatest songs – ranked!". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
8. Mitchell, Matt (7 August 2023). "The 30 Greatest Fleetwood Mac Songs". Paste. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
9. Bach, Anders (2020). "The Reproduction". In Schulze, Holger (ed.). The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound. Bloomsbury. p. 390. ISBN 9781501335419.
10. Trainer, Adam (2016). "From Hypnagogia to Distroid: Postironic Musical Renderings of Personal Memory". The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality. Oxford University Press. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-19-932128-5.
11. Hansen, K. Nkanza (2 September 2020). "Eccojams Vol. 1 Was the Blueprint for Vaporwave". Talkhouse. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2024.