Only Over You
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| artist = Fleetwood Mac
| album = Mirage
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| released = {{Start date|1982|6|18}}
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| length = 4:08
| label = Warner Bros.
| writer = Christine McVie
| producer = Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat
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"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.{{cite book |last1=Howe |first1=Zoë |title=Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams and Rumours |date=2014 |publisher=Omnibus |isbn=9781783231287 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqQdBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT292}} The record sleeve states, "With thanks to Dennis Wilson for inspiration."{{cite book|last=Stebbins|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Stebbins|title=Dennis Wilson: The Real Beach Boy|url=https://archive.org/details/denniswilsonreal0000steb/|year=2000|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55022-404-7|url-access=registration|page=212}} Biographer Jon Stebbins characterized the song as McVie's "last declaration of love" toward Wilson.
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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".{{Cite web |title=Fleetwood Mac - Oh Diane |url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Fleetwood+Mac&titel=Oh+Diane&cat=s |access-date=24 May 2024|website=hitparade.ch}} An alternate mix of "Only Over You" was included on the 2016 deluxe reissue of Mirage.{{cite web | url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/fleetwood-mac-mirage-reissue/ | title=Fleetwood Mac's 'Mirage' is Getting a Deluxe Reissue | date=12 May 2016 }}
Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club characterised "Only Over You" as "an old-fashioned torch song".{{Cite web |last=Zeleski |first=Annie |date=25 July 2016 |title=Fleetwood Mac’s Mirage is a well-crafted diamond in the rough |url=https://www.avclub.com/fleetwood-mac-s-mirage-is-a-well-crafted-diamond-in-the-1798250016 |access-date=26 November 2024 |website=AV Club |language=en-US}} 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".{{Cite web |last=Milward |first=John |date=16 August 1982|title=Mirage |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/mirage-190540/ |access-date=26 November 2024|website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}} The Guardian and Paste ranked the song number 26 and number 24 respectively on their lists of the 30 greatest Fleetwood Mac songs.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/may/19/fleetwood-mac-ranked-30-best-songs|title=Fleetwood Mac's 30 greatest songs – ranked!|first=Alexis|last=Petridis|work=The Guardian|date=19 May 2022|accessdate=18 September 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/fleetwood-mac/30-best-fleetwood-mac-songs|title=The 30 Greatest Fleetwood Mac Songs|first=Matt|last=Mitchell|work=Paste|date=7 August 2023|accessdate=18 September 2023}}
Influence
In 2009, musician Daniel Lopatin (credited as "sunsetcorp") reworked "Only Over You" as a hypnagogic pop music video titled "angel".{{cite book |last1=Bach |first1=Anders |editor1-last=Schulze |editor1-first=Holger |title=The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound |date=2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=9781501335419 |page=390 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jy8LEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA390 |chapter=The Reproduction}} 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.{{cite book|last=Trainer|first=Adam|title=The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1wFCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA409|year=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-932128-5 |chapter=From Hypnagogia to Distroid: Postironic Musical Renderings of Personal Memory|page=412}} 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.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.talkhouse.com/eccojams-vol-1-was-the-blueprint-for-vaporwave/ |last=Hansen |first=K. Nkanza |title=Eccojams Vol. 1 Was the Blueprint for Vaporwave |magazine=Talkhouse |date=2 September 2020 |access-date=26 November 2024|archive-date=15 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115213202/https://www.talkhouse.com/eccojams-vol-1-was-the-blueprint-for-vaporwave/ |url-status=live }}
References
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Category:Songs about the Beach Boys
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