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Fleetwood Mac: The very best of Fleetwood Mac

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Label: Reprise Records
Released: 2002.10.15
Time:
 66:07 / 75:07
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists...
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.fleetwoodmac.net
Appears with: Stevie Nicks
Purchase date: 2010.02.10
Price in €: 2,00





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Disc 1:
[1] Monday Morning (L.Buckingham) - 2:45
[2] Dreams (S.Nicks) - 4:15
[3] You Make Loving Fun (Ch.McVie) - 3:33
[4] Go Your Own Way (L.Buckingham) - 3:40
[5] Rhiannon [Single Version] (S.Nicks) - 3:46
[6] Say You Love Me (Ch.McVie) - 4:03
[7] I'm So Afraid [edit] (L.Buckingham) - 6:01
[8] Silver Springs (S.Nicks) - 4:30
[9] Over My Head [Single Version] (Ch.McVie) - 3:08
[10] Never Going Back Again (L.Buckingham) - 2:14
[11] Sara (S.Nicks) - 6:26
[12] Love in Store (Ch.McVie) - 3:10
[13] Tusk (L.Buckingham) - 3:34
[14] Landslide (S.Nicks) - 3:17
[15] Songbird (Ch.McVie/Winchester) - 3:20
[16] Big Love [Live, 1997] (L.Buckingham) - 2:48
[17] Storms (S.Nicks) - 8:00

Disc 2:
[1] The Chain (L.Buckingham/M.Fleetwood/Ch.McVie/J.McVie/S.Nicks) - 4:29
[2] Don't Stop (Ch.McVie) - 3:12
[3] What Makes You Think You're the One (L.Buckingham) - 3:30
[4] Gypsy (Hayward/S.Nicks) - 4:22
[5] Second Hand News (L.Buckingham) - 2:52
[6] Little Lies (Ch.McVie/Quintela) - 3:39
[7] Think About Me [Single Version] (Ch.McVie) - 2:42
[8] Go Insane [Live, 1997] (L.Buckingham) - 4:20
[9] Gold Dust Woman (S.Nicks) - 4:59
[10] Hold Me (Ch.McVie/Patton) - 3:44
[11] Seven Wonders (Ch.McVie/D.Stewart) - 3:38
[12] World Turning (L.Buckingham/Ch.McVie) - 4:24
[13] Everywhere (Ch.McVie) - 3:41
[14] Sisters of the Moon [Single Version] (S.Nicks) - 4:41
[15] Family Man (L.Buckingham/Ch.Cross/Dashut/Fenn/Frye/M.Oldfield/Pert) - 4:01
[16] As Long as You Follow (Ch.McVie/Quintela) - 4:18
[17] No Questions Asked (S.Nicks) - 4:42
[18] Skies the Limit (Ch.McVie/Mendonca/Quintela) - 3:46
[19] Paper Doll (Black/Herron/S.Nicks/Vito) - 3:58

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Lindsey Buckingham - Guitars, Vocals, Producer, Compilation Producer
Mick Fleetwood - Drums, Percussion, Producer, Compilation Producer
Christine McVie - Keyboards,  Vocals, Producer, Compilation Producer
John McVie - Bass, Producer, Compilation Producer
Stevie Nicks -  Vocals, Percussion, Producer, Compilation Producer

Richard Dashut - Producer
Keith Olsen - Producer
Greg Ladanyi - Producer
Elliot Scheiner - Producer
Ken Caillat - Producer
David McLees - Compilation Producer
Sheryl Crow - Author
Dan Hersch - Remastering
Bill Inglot - Remastering
Andrea Kinloch - Product Manager
Sheryl Farber - Editorial Supervision
Mark McKenna - Creative Services Coordinator
Hugh Brown - Art Direction
April Milek - Project Assistant
Ken Perry - Project Assistant
Randy Perry - Project Assistant
Gary Peterson - Discographical Annotation
Tim Scanlin - Liner Note Coordination
Sam Emerson - Photography, Cover Photo
Norman Seeff - Photography
Mark Seliger - Photography
Ron Slenzak - Photography
David Wild - Liner Notes
Steve Woolard - Project Assistant
Herbert Worthington - Photography
Neil Zlozower - Photography

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2002 CD Reprise 73775
2002 CD Warner Bros. 8122737752
2003 CD WEA/Warner 114734

This single-disc 21-track Fleetwood Mac collection spans three decades of material and reflects their many personnel changes. From their late 1960's blues-rock, to their late 1980's radio friendly pop, to 1997's 'The Dance' project - all eras of the band's history are covered. Twelve top 40 hits are featured, including their 1968 no.1 single 'Albatross'.



There's a certain relief that the 2002 double-disc set The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac doesn't even attempt to dabble in the early blues work of the Peter Green band, and treats the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks as ground zero. The two eras of the band don't sit well together, and it's best to isolate them, since those that want the hits don't need to hear the blues. Here, it's the prime of the platinum years, with almost all of the big songs in their original hit versions (the one real exception is a live version of "Big Love" from 1997, but most listeners aren't going to be too upset with the substitution). The biggest complaint is that chronological order would have been welcome, but the sequencing here is still nice, and all the big hits and radio staples are here, along with enough great album tracks ("Think About Me," "World Turning," "What Makes You Think You're the One") to whet the appetite for full albums for novices, who will surely find this to be a good introduction. It's not dynamic or sharply sequenced to be a truly classic collection, but it gets the job done, and it will certainly satisfy those who just need the hits, plus a little bit more for the illusion of depth.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide



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 - Amazon.com



Die ursprünglich britische Erfolgsband Fleetwood Mac hat eine der erstaunlichsten Metamorphosen der Rockgeschichte gemeistert. Von der reinen Bluesband Ende der 1960er-Jahre bis zur Megagruppe mit Laid Back Rock kalifornischen Zuschnitts bis zum Anfang der 90er-Jahre. Beide Phasen sind nun auf der CD The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac vereint, wobei unter den 21 Stücken jene Welt-Hits mit der Los Angeles-Besetzung überwiegen. Ungewöhnlich war schon die erste Besetzung von (Ex-John Mayalls Bluesbreakers) Schlagzeuger Mick Fleetwoods Quartett, denn hier saß - für damalige Zeiten ein absolutes Novum - mit Christine Perfect (später McVie) eine Frau an den Keyboards. Dem Meistergitarrist Peter Green verdankt die Gruppe ihren ersten Hit "Black Magic Woman", 1968, ein Bluesrock-Klassiker, den er mit dem verträumten Instrumental "Albatross" noch übertraf. Nach Umbesetzungen und einem Umzug nach Los Angeles reformierten sich Fleetwood Mac mit zwei, wenn auch verkrachten Ehepaaren: Christine und Bassist Mike McVie als britische Fraktion, das Songwriter-Duo Stevie Nicks und Lindsey Buckingham als US-Vertretung. Das Konzept mit zwei Frauen und stimmgewaltigen Musikern ging auf. Zwischen 1975 und 1987 führte das Quintett mit "Over My Head", "Go Your Own Way", "Don't Stop", "Sara", "Gypsy" oder "Little Lies" die internationalen Hit-Paraden an. 1979 gelang es ihnen diese sogar mit "Tusk", einem indianisch inspirierten Tanz zu einer Blaskapelle zu erobern. "The Chain" entstand 1994 bei einer Renunion für die Arbeit an der Hit-Box 25 Years - The Chain. Das Geheimnis der Band war es, eingängige, entspannte Melodien im Spannungsfeld von maskulin-feminin zu komponieren, die noch heute durch ihre fantasievolle Produktionen bestechen.

Ingeborg Schober - Amazon.de



The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac? Frankly, it depends where you live, in a sort of "I say tom-ar-toe, you say toe-may-doe" kind of way. Broadly speaking, the most notably interesting (and commercially successful) periods of Fleetwood Mac's episodic history remain the grubby blues of the original Peter Green-led incarnation of the late 1960s (big in Britain but a non-entity in America) and the refined, mid-1970s divorce-dissecting AOR of the Buckingham / Nicks Rumours era (big everywhere). It is fairly safe to assume that neither British nor American passport-holders are particularly interested in what happened in between. So then, the UK retail version of The Very Best of rightly condescends to throw in such Peter Green classics as the instrumental "Albatross" (a Number One single) and "Black Magic Woman" but--and here's the gripe--omits both "On Well" and "Green Manalishi" in favour of such peripherals as the less-than-spectacular 1988 Number 54 hit "Family Man". It could be worse. The American Very Best of (unlike its British counterpart, a two-CD set available on import) incredulously neglects to include anything from the Peter Green line-up at all, not even the sulky brooding of the sensuous "Man of the World" (possibly the finest song ever written), a little matter that American audiences ought to find time to raise with the United Nations. Still, there can be no quarrel with most of what is on here, after all, there's a sizeable chunk from the Lazarus-style comeback of Tango in the Night and the multi-platinum Rumours(the gossamer-like timelessness of "Dreams" even managing to withstand a recent faux-folky mauling from the Corrs) it's just that there isn't enough of it. Can someone please hurry up and make CDs that play for two hours?

Kevin Maidment - Amazon.co.uk



For years, Fleetwood Mac was a chameleonic beast, shifting mood and sound as members came and went. The band's steady if unspectacular career arc changed dramatically, however, with the arrival of Yankee interlopers Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks -- and that's the lineup chronicled on this 36-song set. The vast majority of the material on the two discs is culled from the late-'70s period that made the Mac a mainstay at rock radio. While all the hits from that era, such as Nicks's spiraling "Rhiannon" and the driving "Go Your Own Way," are included, fans can also find a healthy smattering of tunes that don't often make the airwaves. The haunting studio version of "Silver Spring," better known in its live incarnation and long available only as the B-side to "Go Your Own Way," is probably the best known of the set's lesser-heard songs, but several of the other obscurities -- like "As Long as You Follow" and "No Questions Asked," both of which were previously released only on the band's 1988 Greatest Hits set -- are worth honing in on. The collection flags a bit when the focus turns to latter-day material, but a passel of live tracks, including a nice take on Buckingham's solo hit "Go Insane," makes up for those missteps. Mac enthusiasts might want to hunt down a copy of the sprawling, now-out-of-print box set, The Chain, for a full career retrospective, but anyone with a soft spot for Fleetwood Mac's commercial peak will be more than satisfied with this collection.

David Sprague - Barnes & Noble



Fleetwood Mac are a great band who have never had a great compilation. The pinnacle of their achievements is the three albums they released between 1975 and 1979: Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, two immaculate pop records about sexual infidelity and cocaine, and Tusk, a weird, sprawling masterpiece. Those albums are well-served here; The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac showcases the results of having three strong songwriters and a willingness to spend months in the studio sweating the smallest details -- but including nine of Rumours' eleven tracks was probably overkill. Their music after that became more syrupy, although the sugar sometimes coated a wonderfully poisonous pill such as Christine McVie's "Little Lies." Unfortunately, this two-disc collection completely discards the first eight years of Fleetwood Mac's career, when they were an excellent British blues band, in favor of superfluous oddities such as an acoustic version of Lindsay Buckingham's 1984 solo single "Go Insane."

GAVIN EDWARDS - Nov 28, 2002
RollingStone.com
 

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