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Fleetwood Mac: Mystery to Me

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Reprise Records
Released: 1973
Time:
 47:49
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.fleetwoodmac.net
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2001.01.25
Price in €: 7,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Emerald Eyes (R.Welch) - 3:37
[2] Believe Me (Ch.McVie) - 4:06
[3] Just Crazy Love (Ch.McVie) - 3:22
[4] Hypnotized (R.Welch) - 4:48
[5] Forever (Ch.McVie/R.Welch/R.Weston) - 4:04
[6] Keep on Going (R.Welch) - 4:04
[7] City (R.Welch) - 3:35
[8] Miles Away (R.Welch) - 3:47
[9] Somebody (Welch) - 5:00
[10] Way I Feel (Ch.McVie) - 2:46
[11] For Your Love (G.Gouldman) - 3:44
[12] Why (Ch.McVie) - 4:56

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Mick Fleetwood - Drums, Percussion, Producer
John McVie - Bass, Producer
Robert Welch - Guitar, Vocals, Producer
Christine McVie - Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
Robert Weston - Lead Guitar, Slide, Producer

Martin Birch - Acoustic Guitar on [6], Producer, Engineer

Paul Hardiman - Engineer
Desmond Majekodunmi - Engineer
Desdmond Majekodunmi - Assistant Engineer
Paul Hardiman - Assistant Engineer
Richard Hewson - String Arrangements
Modula - Cover design, Art direction
Clive Arrowsmith - Photography

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


At this point, Fleetwood Mac is a mainstream rock band whose songs alternate between guitarist/singer Robert Welch and keyboard player/singer Christine McVie.

William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide



Before the Black and White covers...

Yesterday I asked my stockbroker, 28, whether he liked and what he knew about Fleetwood Mac. He admitted 2 years ago that he'd grown up with his parent's music, and generally buys music he remembers from their (large, like most affluent folks born in the 50s) collection. He admitted only owning the "Greatest Hits" collection from 1998--a single disc covering the 1975-1998 era, but twitched when I mentioned songs like "Oh Well" and "The Chain". I had a new project!--suggest the best works from the 'Time Before Fleetwood Mac's second lp called "Fleetwood Mac"'(their first release was also titled that) that would shower him in pixel dust with the glory of the way-WAY-bygone years. Of the 17 numbers I scrunched down to, 5 Bob Welch songs got included ("Angel" was co-written by Christine McVie). 2 are from "Mystery To Me"--'Emerald Eyes' and 'Hypnotized'. The latter is my top choice for best Fleetwood Mac song, any lineup, ever. It's the feel of the song,the playing, the lead singing, and Christine's backup singing, AND the production (I've heard other versions in and out of studio by them), even more than Welch's words, that made me stamp 'Hypnotized' a singluar, stellar,untouchable Classic piece of music, any genre. "Mystery To Me" has a host of other bright (but not as quite as powerful)lights, including a forceful, acknowledging-of-forerunners version of Graham Gouldman's "For Your Love" (first recorded by the Yardbirds), and Christine McVie's first star sparkle song "Just Crazy Love", (foreshadowing her better known, equally warm and endearing songs on "Fleetwood Mac (75)" and thereafter). Oh--of the 12 non-Welch songs I suggested to my broker to hook in, 5 were by Peter Green, 1 each by Christine, Lindsey and Danny, 2 band works ("The Chain" and "Tell Me All The Things You Do", an Elmore James blues, and a cover of the Donnie Brooks late 50s hit "Mission Bell" to lighten it up.) As the body of work on "Mystery To Me" remains uncompiled, as do it's flankers "Bare Trees", "Kiln House, "Penguin" and "Heroes Are Hard To Find", I suggest you get each before the lawsuits over rights get settled and they disappear for all time and appear in bits and smurges on something like "Greatest Hits Volumes 4-6: The Non-Hits".

Elessar Tetramariner from Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 16, 2000



Remains Surprisingly Fresh and Inventive

More than any other Fleetwood Mac outing, 1973's Mystery to Me is Bob Welch's outing. Fleetwood, the McVies, and short-time recruit Bob Weston all figure prominently in these grooves, but just as Danny Kirwan dominated 1972's Bare Trees, and Lindsey Buckingham controlled the artistic direction of 1979's Tusk, Welch is Mystery's artistic lynchpin. Credited with no less than six songs (plus one collaboration) his eclectic songwriting style shows itself to great advantage. He can rock (Miles Away) as well as brood (Hypnotized); Weston supplies an ideal axe for the more aggressive solos. The album's opening cut, Emerald Eyes, establishes a stately pace, while Welch and Weston's guitars soldily frame each bar. A good song is made great when Christine McVie's alto adds a warm, soothing dimension to the chorus. In fact, the Welch-McVie vocal pairing is perfectly matched throughout. Her presence on all of his songs (including her eerie seductiveness on Hypnotized, and her bluesy pinache on Somebody) signals the band's newfound tightness and emerging pop identity. When she grabs the vocal on the guitarist's thickly arranged Keep On Going, her effortless vocals steal the show. Her own songs provide above-standard pop fare. If Just Crazy Love and Believe Me are no better or worse than any number of her charming compositions, it's her warm, healing voice that renders them magic. Overall, this set is strong, and--not withstanding the occasional dud--the songs are as surprisingly fresh today as they were twenty seven years ago.

Tony Leuzzi from Rochester, NY, February 8, 2000

 

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Emerald Eyes

You don't know what she means to me
She's a heart that beats close to me
And gettin' back to the way I feel
Her honest word is my only real thing
When she comes to me then I feel fine
And I'm not afraid but so gratified
Emerald eyes is a mystery
Starin' through to the heart of me

Find, emerald eyes in the night
Gleamin' shiny and bright
As if covered with silver
She's still a mystery to me
The way she sails away slow
Makes your day to day life easy

Emerald eyes is a mystery
She's my place of serenity
And gettin' back to the way I feel
Her honest word is my only real thing
Only an honest word, maybe a sky report
Could be a weather bird it was so close to me
Emerald eyes is a mystery
She's my place of serenity


Believe Me

You got to believe
I'm gonna be with you baby
In everything you've done
Even though you've stopped the sun from shining
Well I've tried my best, but it may not be enough
And times have been so tough, that I can't tell you
What can you say to accuse me
When you know I'm not to blame
You know you're gonna use me
I guess I'll always feel the same
Oh, when will we be together
In this crazy world we're in
Is it really such a sin to love you
Well I've tried my best, but it may not be enough
And times have been so tough that I can't tell you


Just Crazy Love

You've got a sweet, sweet way
You know you'll always be the only one
And if you'll let me say
You'll never be a lonely one
Well you've just got something
Makes a girl start feeling crazy
And I'll do anything if you'll let me be your baby

Even when everybody tells me
I'm just being a fool
Something inside says I've got to have you
And I can't play by the rules

Ooh baby baby tell me there's a chance for me
'Cos I'm crazy about you and I know this is love for me
Well you just got something
Makes a girl start feeling crazy
And I'll do anything if you'll let me be your baby


Hypnotized

It's the same kind of story
That seems to come down from long ago
Two friends having coffee together
When something flies by their window
It might be out on that lawn
Which is wide, at least half of a playing field
Because there's no explaining what your imagination
Can make you see and feel

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized

Now it's not a meaningless question
To ask if they've been and gone
I remember a talk about North
Carolina and a strange, strange pond
You see the sides were like glass
In the thick of a forest without a road
And if any man's ever made that land
Then I think it would've showed

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized

They say there's a place down in Mexico
Where a man can fly over mountains and hills
And he don't need an airplane or some kind of engine
And he never will
Now you know it's a meaningless question
To ask if those stories are right
'Cause what matters most if the feeling
You get when you're hypnotized

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized


Forever

I like the way the light falls today
Slow, too lazy for anything
I see boats that go sailin' past me (But not too fast)
You know, I wish this day could keep on goin' and last forever

Please don't fool around with my happiness
I like the way the light falls today
Please just let it stay that way
Slow, easy, forever


Keep On Going

For a little peace in any season
I'd give up anything but your love
I don't want to trade, tryin' to be happy
That's only playin' anyway
But if I dream about it, it makes me wonder
For every good thing, must you get bad
But I won't worry, and if I'm living on borrowed time
I'm gonna keep on the way I'm going

For every crime, there's retribution
And every vally has a mountainside
No, I don't like to trade just to be happy
That kind of deal won't turn out right
See it ain't good to stare inside yourself too long
For every true thing theree's one more lie
But I won't worry 'cause if I'm living on borrowed time
I'll just try to keep on the way I'm going


The City

Gonna stay out of New York
There's something there that drives me crazy
Gonna stay out of New York
There's something there that bleeds me dry
It gets so bad that I stop breathin'
And then the sun don't wanna shine

There's something wrong with New York
It's a prison without walls
No I won't go back there
I just don't like that place at all
You might call it sophistication
But I say time is runnin' out

I won't go back to New York
There's a darkness all around
No, I just can't handle it
You know that place is gettin' me down
You can say it's sophistication
But I say time is runnin' out


Miles Away

The swamp is getting deeper all the time
And the faces that I see don't seem to shine
Now there's too much Warhol hanging off the wall
And the mystery that there used to be is gone

Let me go
Miles away
Let me ride
Just miles away
Don't wanna know
I'm not gonna miss it much
Gonna be drivin' once again

Don Juan goes up in a cloud of smoke
And all those Hare Krishnas turned out to be a joke
And it's restless, restless, restless all the time
Slidin' up and down the surface of this life
Now I know that I can't say what's black and white
But if I could fly I think I'd try tonight


Somebody

Don't think your dreams are sane
They're taking over your life
I stuck to you but I found out
That you was the crazy kind
Now way inside your heart
Do you have a grain of love for me
'Cause all I see is decadence
And the end of everything

You can bend over backwards
I ain't gonna kiss your ring
Somebody

I looked into your eyes
And saw a real bad thing
I saw desires that burned in you
The need for power to be a king
And I saw that you would use this world
You know you might have to crawl
But it's one of my eyes for one of yours
And you'll never get no love at all


The Way I Feel

Once in everyone's life
You know a feeling has to grow
And you may be having a bad time
And you really shouldn't let it show
You're taking a risk, but it doesn't matter
'Cos you know, you know that it's real
I can't conceal the way that I feel
I can't conceal the way, the way that I feel
How many times have I told you
Oh, I adore you
And if it meant anything at all
I'd do anything for you
But it's too late and I know I'm making
A fool, a fool of myself
But I can't conceal the way that I feel
I can't conceal the way, the way that I feel


For Your Love

I'd give you everything and more and that's for sure
I'd bring you diamond rings and things right to your door
To thrill you with delight
I'd bring you diamonds bright
Everything that will excite
Make you dream of me at night

For your love, for your love
I would give you stars above

I'd give the stars if they were mine to give
I'd give the moon every day that I live
To thrill you with delight
I'd bring you diamonds bright
Everything that will excite
Make you dream of me at night

For your love, for your love
I would give you stars above


Why

There's no use in crying, it's all over
But I know there'll always be another day
Well my heart will rise up with the morning sun
And the hurt I feel will simply melt away

You make me feel, I just can't carry on
But I know I won't always be that way
'Cos my heart will rise up with the morning sun
And the hurt I feel will simply melt away

You don't have to give up
Why is it all wrong
Why don't you love me
Why won't you just be strong

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