Landslide

Before Stevie Nicks wrote "Landslide," she and Lindsey Buckingham had been dropped by Polydor Records after their debut album, Buckingham Nicks, before they could release a follow-up. Nicks was supporting them both by working as a waitress and a cleaning lady. She wrote the song while visiting Aspen, Colorado, sitting in someone's living room and looking out at the Rocky Mountains, thinking about the avalanche of everything that had come crashing down on them. She was weighing a return to school against carrying on professionally with Buckingham.

Fleetwood Mac put it on their 1975 album Fleetwood Mac. On the studio recording Buckingham played a Martin D-18 acoustic guitar with a Travis picking technique, his thumb alternating between bass notes, in what he called a three against four pattern that crosses the bar line. He bristled at any link between the band and country music. He recalled someone at the label who talked about putting them on Country Music Television.

It was never a single until a live version from The Dance came out in 1998 and reached No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100. In January 2026, after it was used in the series finale of Stranger Things, the studio version debuted at No. 41 on the Hot 100 and No. 20 in the UK. On May 4, 2026, Nicks sang it with Sabrina Carpenter at the Met Gala.