(2018) Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac [Deluxe Edition]
Review: …Before the album that became Fleetwood Mac was made, the British-based blues-rockers had been a quartet: Mick Fleetwood and John McVie had served as the rhythm section (drums and bass, respectively) since the group’s inception in 1967; Christine McVie had contributed vocals and keyboards since 1970. The group’s most recent album, 1974’s Heroes Are Hard to Find, was the last for singer/guitarist Bob Welch, a member since 1971. When Welch left to join the band Paris, Fleetwood took a suggestion from producer Keith Olson, who’d just done an album with Buckingham and Nicks – singers, songwriters and romantic partners whose distinctive styles proved to be the necessary creative boost the band was looking for. Armed with tracks written for both Buckingham Nicks and a never-completed follow-up album, Fleetwood Mac were now a powerful, straightforward rock outfit with a myriad of unique creative perspectives that connected with wide swaths of the record-buying public. Fleetwood Mac became the band’s first major success in America, where it topped the Billboard 200 for a week in the fall of 1976–more than a year after its release–sold more than 5 million copies and put three singles in the American Top 20: “Over My Head,” “Rhiannon” and “Say You Love Me.” (Years later, in 1998, a live version of the beloved, Nicks-penned “Landslide” became a Top 10 adult contemporary hit.) While the band was headed for unbelievable tension, as all five members’ relationships (four of which were with other band members) ended simultaneously, the result was the unprecedented smash album Rumours and a destiny of entering the pop-rock canon. Having been previously expanded on CD in 2004 with four single mixes and an unreleased studio jam, this new version of Fleetwood Mac turns up the unreleased content. A double-disc edition retains all those bonus tracks (with the mixes appending the original album on Disc 1) and adds another 16 outtakes, including early versions of every song on the album and a 1976 live-in-studio set.
Track Listing: CD 1: Remastered album
1.Monday Morning
2.Warm Ways
3.Blue Letter
4.Rhiannon
5.Over My Head
6.Crystal
7.Say You Love Me
8.Landslide
9.World Turning
10.Sugar Daddy
11.I’m So Afraid
12.Over My Head (Single Version) (single A-side – Reprise RPS 1339, 1975)
13.Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) (Single Version) (single A-side – Reprise RPS 1345, 1975)
14.Say You Love Me (Single Version) (single A-side – Reprise RPS 1356, 1975)
15.Blue Letter (Single Version) (U.K. B-side to “Warm Ways” – Reprise K 14403, 1975)
CD 2: Studio outtakes
1.Monday Morning (Early Take)
2.Warm Ways (Early Take)
3.Blue Letter (Early Take)
4.Rhiannon (Early Take)
5.Over My Head (Early Take)
6.Crystal (Early Version)
7.Say You Love Me (Early Version)
8.Landslide (Early Version)
9.World Turning (Early Version)
10.Sugar Daddy (Early Take)
11.I’m So Afraid (Early Version)
12.Over My Head (Live from The Burbank Studios – 1/26/1976)
13.Rhiannon (Live from The Burbank Studios – 1/26/1976)
14.Why (Live from The Burbank Studios – 1/26/1976)
15.World Turning (Live from The Burbank Studios – 1/26/1976)
16.Jam #2
17.I’m So Afraid (Early Take Instrumental)
CD 3: Live
1.Get Like You Used To Be (Live @ The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ – 10/17/1975)
2.Station Man (Live @ Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT – 10/25/1975)
3.Spare Me a Little (Live @ Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT – 10/25/1975)
4.Rhiannon (Live @ Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT – 10/25/1975)
5.Why (Live @ Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT – 10/25/1975)
6.Landslide (Live @ Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT – 10/25/1975)
7.Over My Head (Live @ Campus Stadium, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA – 5/2/1976)
8.I’m So Afraid (Live @ The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ – 10/17/1975)
9.Oh Well (Live @ The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ – 10/17/1975)
10.The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown) (Live @ The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ – 10/17/1975)
11.World Turning (Live @ The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ – 10/17/1975)
12.Blue Letter (Live @ The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ – 10/17/1975)
13.Don’t Let Me Down Again (Live @ Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT – 10/25/1975)
14.Hypnotized (Live @ Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT – 10/25/1975)
Media Report: Genre: pop, soft rock
Country: UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
