The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac (2CD)
The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac packs 2 CDs with 36 hit singles and popular album tracks spanning 1975-1997. Features the #1 'Dreams' plus the classic hits 'Over My Head,' 'Rhiannon,' 'Go Your Own Way,' 'Don't Stop,' 'You Make Loving Fun,' 'Tusk,' 'Sara,' 'Hold Me,' 'Little Lies,' the live 'Go Insane' from The Dance and 'Silver Springs' currently out of print, and much more. The CD is also enhanced with exclusive footage of Fleetwood Mac making their new 2003 album - their first studio album in 15 years! Plus the vaults - rare live performances, interviews, music videos and more. Only available on this CD. Slipcase. Reprise. 2002.
Spanning 22 years, this double-disc, 36-track compilation chronicles the initially unlikely and ultimately triumphant conflation of a failing, veteran English neo-blues band (Mick Fleetwood and the McVies) with a pair of mercurial American also-rans (the baroque folk-rock genius Lindsey Buckingham and crypto-songbird Stevie Nicks). The creative alchemy was immediate, as 15 epochal tracks ("Dreams," "Say You Love Me," "The Chain," "Don't Stop") from Fleetwood Mac and Rumours here attest. They could have arguably repeated that mega-successful formula for a decade, but chose a more musically expansive tack, represented "Sara," Think About Me" and the other core tracks drawn from the ambitious Tusk. While the band's megahit luster faded as the solo careers of Buckingham and Nicks took flight in the '80s, their power was still apparent in the dusky-bright pop of Christine McVie's "Hold Me" and "Little Lies." Sequenced with compelling listening rather than chronology in mind, this set also includes the strongest of the Mac's latter-day recordings (Nicks's "Paper Doll," "Silver Springs," and "No Questions Asked"; McVie's "As Long As You Follow"), as well the Lindsey Buckingham showcases "Go Insane" and "Big Love" from '97's The Dance. --Jerry McCulley
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The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac (2CD) Reviews
It is a true crowd pleaser. I love this stuff. True power rock and an all day listener.
This is the next door neighbor complilation of Fleetwood Mac. Nothin' sweeps across the mid/late '70's like "Don't Stop", "You Make Lovin' Fun", "Dreams", "Go Your Own Way". There is no historically true timeline of compostion and no booklet that explains the intrigue of the songs. This CD is for those who pop it in the Toyota and travel back. The sound is embarrassingly mediocre, the old scratched LPs have a better sense of depth and detail. You borrowed it to play, maybe cassette tape your favorite songs. This is a wrong-headed swirl of cuts/hits from "Fleetwood Mac" (1975) "Rumours" (1977) "Tusk" (1979) and various so-called rarities. otherwise you would have bought the essential LPs from which these songs were culled.
And the remastered sound is awesome courtey of pros Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch. This is a great collection of the Buckingham-Nicks Fleetwood Mac era. The only true ommissions here seems to be with Warm Ways,Blue Letter and the studio versions of I'm So Afraid and Big Love(they are presented in live versions from The Dance)but thats a very small quibble,pretty much all the great stuff is here,like I sais before. Two thumbs up. 36 great songs. A+ A great collection of songs from 1975-97. Almost all of the great stuff from that period is HERE.
I LOVE Fleetwood Mac, and I still havent thought of ONE song missing. What more can I say. ITS GREAT
The album hit number one, both Nicks' "Gypsy" and McVie's "Love In Store" captured the sound, but the fire that burned in "The Chain" was nowhere to be found. While Bob Welch and Peter Green each contributed, they came and went quickly and the alchemy that gelled when the band entered the studio for Rumours, frankly, didn't happen until this line-up was in place. But the creative chemistry was almost immediate: the Fleetwood Mac album made huge inroads in the US and "Rhiannon" became the greeting card that marked the arrival of Stevie Nicks. For many of us in our 40's and 50's, a great part to the soundtrack of our lives. However, if you were listening to the radio from the mid-70's through the end of the 80's, these were the songs and sounds that filled the airwaves. Since the relationships had hit their peaks of instability already, the band took advantage of their status to experiment with the wildly ambitious (but overblown) Tusk. Same for Tango in the Night, which often felt like Buckingham's solo work with "Family Man" and "Big Love" leading the parade.
That is where this double CD Best Of picks up the story. To this day, "The Chain," "Don't Stop" and "Rhiannon" can lift memories from the past. After that, where would anyone go. When the band reconvened for Mirage, the results were still pretty.but not revelatory.
It was impossible not to relate to at least something there, making "Rumours" one of the best selling albums of all time. Nicks' sensual spaciness balanced Christine McVie's earthiness, Buckingham's guitar playing brought new spark to the band, and his sonic ingenuity prodded Mick Fleetwood and John McVie to new heights. By now, the band was also feeling their own personal creative powers, which meant just about all members hitting the solo spotlight (and the bona-fide superstardom of Nicks once Bella Donna emerged). Featuring one of the most bizarre top ten singles from a star band ever in the title track, it also has to claim responsibility for the wave of pop songs incorporating marching bands. Which means that most of these songs are from that incredible one/two punch of "Fleetwood Mac" and "Rumours," with the band baring themselves even as their emotional lives were splintering. It makes songs like "Dreams" drip with emotion, even as "Go Your Own Way" cajoles the lover on the way out the door. When Fleetwood mac took a longshot chance on an obscure Los Angeles duo named Buckingham/Nicks, even they probably had no clue just how greatly their fortunes would turn. The studio versions would have been better, hence the four star ranking.
For all you whiny purists who grouse that the pre-Buckingham/Nicks material is not here, this is a HITS compilation. The mad tinkering was balanced by the hits, which included Nicks' "Gypsy.". Even so, Nicks and McVie balanced things out with "Seven Wonders" and "Little Lies." Buckingham split at this point, and his creative sense was missed on Behind the Mask (represented here by only one song). Even though the band reunited once President Bill Clinton asked them for a performance of "Don't Stop," the only album they recorded together was the live The Dance, and three songs are from that (including Buckingham's solo "Go Insane"). It covers a quarter century of a band that centered on the core members (even as they revolved in and out) from 1975 on.
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