Skies the Limit explained

Skies the Limit
Cover:Fleetwood Mac - Skies the Limit Single Cover.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Fleetwood Mac
Album:Behind the Mask
B-Side:
  • "The Second Time"
  • "Lizard People"
Released:July 1990[1]
Genre:Rock
Length:3:44
Label:Warner Bros.
Producer:
Prev Title:Save Me
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:In the Back of My Mind
Next Year:1990

"Skies the Limit" is a song by British-American band Fleetwood Mac from their album Behind the Mask. In the US, the song was released as the album's second single in July 1990. Four months later, the song was issued as the album's third single in the UK.[2] While the single did not chart on the US Billboard Hot 100, it did reach number 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and number 40 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The moderate success of "Skies the Limit" and "Save Me" helped to push their parent album into the US and Canadian top 20, albeit only briefly.[3]

"Skies the Limit" was the only track from Behind the Mask included on The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac 2-CD Set in 2002.[4]

Background

McVie wrote "Skies the Limit" as an upbeat song with the intention of offsetting some Behind the Mask tracks that she thought sounded too depressing. "Everything was getting to the point of where it was a downer album. It sounded like this was a potential suicide band, which it wasn't. I decided to write a song that was really up, it was a rally song."[5]

GQ labeled "Skies the Limit" as one of the ten best post-Rumours songs, saying that "the misspelled opening from the album" is "a belter, the only truly memorable song from the album".[6]

Track listings

US 7-inch vinyl and cassette single (7-19867, 9 19867-4)[7] [8]

A. "Skies the Limit" – 3:42

B. "The Second Time" – 2:30

German 7-inch single (5439-19740-7)[9]

A. "Skies the Limit" – 3:45

B. "Lizard People" – 4:48

German maxi-CD single (7599-21709-2)[10]

  1. "Skies the Limit" (LP) – 3:45
  2. "Little Lies" (live) – 4:14
  3. "The Chain" (live) – 5:12

Personnel

Fleetwood Mac

Additional personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1990)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[11] 155
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade)[12] 4

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Book: Fleetwood, Mick . My 25 years in Fleetwood Mac. 1993 . Hyperion . 0-297-81336-6.
  2. Book: Fleetwood, Mick . My 25 years in Fleetwood Mac. 1993 . Hyperion . 0-297-81336-6.
  3. Web site: Giles. Jeff. How Fleetwood Mac Moved On Without Lindsey Buckingham For 'Behind the Mask' Read More: How Fleetwood Mac Moved On Without Lindsey Buckingham For 'Behind the Mask'. Ultimate Classic Rock. 10 April 2015 . 30 September 2016.
  4. Web site: Erlewine. Stephen. The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac [Reprise]]. AllMusic. 23 June 2015.
  5. Web site: Italie. Hillel. 22 July 1990 . Christine Talks to Tulsa World (July 1990). 19 May 2023. The Blue Letter Archives. https://web.archive.org/web/20160101191611/http://bla.fleetwoodmac.net/index.php?page=index_v2&id=5959&c=2 . 1 January 2016.
  6. Web site: Allen . Ben . 11 April 2020 . The best Fleetwood Mac songs after Rumours . 27 January 2024. British GQ . en-GB.
  7. Skies the Limit. Fleetwood Mac. 1990. US 7-inch vinyl disc. Warner Bros. Records. 7-19867.
  8. Skies the Limit. Fleetwood Mac. 1990. US cassette single sleeve. Warner Bros. Records. 9 19867-4.
  9. Skies the Limit. Fleetwood Mac. 1990. German 7-inch vinyl disc. Warner Bros. Records. 5439-19740-7.
  10. Skies the Limit. Fleetwood Mac. 1990. German maxi-CD single liner notes. Warner Bros. Records. 7599-21709-2.
  11. Web site: Bubbling Down Under. www.bubblingdownunder.com. 13 August 2021.
  12. Web site: Tipparade-lijst van week 34, 1990. dutch. Dutch Top 40. 25 March 2023.
  13. Top 100 Adult Contemporary Tracks of 1990. RPM. Library and Archives Canada. 23 April 2020.

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