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| Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $8.74
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1921
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.1 x 0.5
MPN: 73881
UPC: 081227388126
EAN: 0081227388126
ASIN: B00009RAJH
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
| • | Monday Morning | | • | Warm Ways | | • | Blue Letter | | • | Rhiannon | | • | Over My Head | | • | Crystal | | • | Say You Love Me | | • | Landslide | | • | World Turning | | • | Sugar Daddy | | • | I'm So Afraid | | • | Jam #2 | | • | Say You Love Me (Single Version) | | • | Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) (Single Version) | | • | Over My Head (Single Version) | | • | Blue Letter (Single Version) |
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Given their monumental legacy, it's hard to imagine that the so-called "classic edition" of Fleetwood Mac essentially came together casually over chips and margaritas at an L.A. eatery; the then-obscure duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (whose own mid-'70s debut album had initially gone almost straight to the cut-out bins) became the crucial axis of the legendary band without so much as a formal audition. As the eponymous title suggests, the 1975 Mac realignment seems like a fresh start, though tracks like Christine McVie's smooth-jazz inflected "Warm Ways" hearken back to the Bob Welch/Bare Trees/Heroes Are Hard to Find era. But it's Buckingham's compelling, updated take on '60s California folk-pop, informed by the mystique of Nicks's proto-New Age song-sorceress presumptions, that breathed new life into the veteran, chameleonic band on now-familiar songs like "Monday Morning" and "Rhiannon." His chemistry with McVie is no less powerful, yielding such Mac staples as their collaboration "World Turning" and suffusing her "Over My Head" with nervous, insistent guitar rhythms. This deluxe, remastered edition features the significantly different single mixes of "Say You Love Me," "Rhiannon," "Over My Head," and "Blue Letter" (the latter previously unissued), as well as the moody, also unreleased studio workout "Jam #2." Parke Puterbaugh's newly penned liner notes offer concise, thoughtful insights into the genesis of one of rock's greatest, if most unlikely, rebirths. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Buckingham-Nicks Join The Band May 14, 2004
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
When Fleetwood Mac was formed in the late 60's, they were a hardcore blues band. After Peter Green left and with the additions of Christine McVie & Bob Welch, they shifted away from blues music towards a more pop sound. In 1975, Bob Welch left the group and Mick Fleetwood enlisted an unknown duo of Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks in the band. The result is of course music history. This is the first effort by the new lineup and it is an excellent collection of songs. Lindsey Buckingham has one of the best ears in music and his hands are all over the album. From the album's opener "Monday Morning" and his own "Blue Letter" and the slow burning "World Turning" to Christine McVie's "Say You Love Me" and "Sugar Daddy", his presence is felt. "Crystal" is great song taken from the Buckingham-Nicks album and shows how well the band's voices meld together. Stevie Nicks carved out her witch persona with the ethereal and moody "Rhiannon". She also contributes one of most hauntingly beautiful songs ever recorded, "Landslide". Through constant touring and radio airplay, the album slowly climbed the charts and in its 53rd week on the charts, it finally reached number one. This album set the stage for one of the biggest albums in history, Rumours. While not as popular as that album, this album is it's equal in quality and sound. The extra tracks on this release do not really bring much to the table as they are just the edits of the singles from the album.
The Classic 1975 Mac Album Finally Gets Remastered! April 2, 2004
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
Released in 1975, Fleetwood Mac's self titled album was a complete change for the british blues rock group. With the addition of singer/songwriters Lindsey Buckingham and his girlfriend Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac had their most successful album in years. No longer a blues rock group, they were now pop rock and the album "Fleetwood Mac" spawned three major hits in "Rhiannon", "Over My Haed" and "Say You Love Me". The album as a whole featured some excellent well written songs such as "Monday Morning", "Landslide", "Blue Letter", "World Turning" and the above mentioned hits. Also, included on this newly remastered cd are five bonus tracks "Jam #2" (a five and a half minute instrumental which features Christine McVie's keyboards and Lindsey Buckingham's guitars), "Say You Love Me" (Single Version) (This version is harder rocking than it's album version), "Rhiannon" (Single Version), "Over My Head" (Single Version), and "Blue Letter" (Single Version). The sound quality is excellent due to remastering and far surpasses the older version. If you enjoy listening to seventy's rock then you'll love this cd.
Even greater than Rumours January 3, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
It might help to emphasize the greatness of this record by noting that I'm the last person on the world who should love it; my genres are classical, jazz, and to the extent that I enjoy pop/rock, my tastes go in the opposite direction from the folk-influenced pop that Fleetwood Mac did well. If you buy a Fleetwood Mac album on Amazon (as I've discovered), the buying recommendations that start coming to you include James Taylor, the Eagles, Carly Simon, etc. Completely not my thing.
But hoo boy, is this a great record. It deserves to be considered one of the all-time rock/pop classics, and in my opinion is greater than its heralded follow-up, Rumours.
I base that on a view that the songs on this record are 1) just as catchy and infectious, but also 2) possessed of much greater emotional depth.
Consider first Stevie Nicks's timeless "Landslide," a poetic, haunting, acoustic jewel. I don't know why this song doesn't routinely come up atop those "all time 100 greatest songs" lists, but it really deserves to. It's hard to imagine a song that more beautifully captures the emotions it sings about: big life changes, relationship dissolution, feeling uncertain and scared, and trying to find the courage to move forward.
Immediately before "Landslide" on the record is another classic, Christine McVie's "Say You Love Me." It's basically a toe-tapping number good for singing along, but there's a subtext of poignancy to it that I've never been able to put my finger on. The lyrics don't really try to be profound. But there's something about the way McVie, Buckingham and Nicks sing the choruses together, especially in combination with the roving bass, and especially in the fadeout. When they get to the end and are repeating, "Fallin', fallin', fallin'" in three-part harmony, it just feels perfection.
And the album has other smash hits also: "Rhiannon" and "Over My Head" among them. "Over My Head" is prettier and more gentle in the album version than on the single version. "Rhiannon" isn't one of my favorite songs (I never really liked the whole Stevie Nicks persona where she seems to be narcissistically starring in her own fantasy novel) but it's an undeniably strong single.
So there you have four timeless hit songs that are at least as strong as the four best songs on Rumours. (Does anything on Rumours pack the emotional punch of "Landslide?"). But it's not just the headline numbers on this record but the supporting tunes that are fantastic.
"Blue Letter" is a wonderful song, could easily have been a hit of its own (it sounds as though it influenced the composition of "Say You Love Me," even on down to the affecting fadeout.) "Monday Morning," an energetic up-tempo number by Lindsey Buckingham, gets the album off to a terrific start. "Crystal" is really a beautiful, emotional, poetic piece, composed by Stevie Nicks, sung mostly by Buckingham. It's good for a lump in the throat; Nicks had a great gift for conveying powerful emotions in simple, understated composition.
The six-song sequence that runs: Blue Letter, Rhiannon, Over My Head, Crystal, Say You Love Me, and Landslide is about as strong a six-song run that any band has ever recorded (and the two that precede that run aren't bad either.)
In sum, Fleetwood Mac is at their hit-making best on this record, but there is a poetry and emotional power to this music that you don't hear on their later recordings. It paved the way for the phenomenal chart success of Rumours, but is in my opinion the greater of the two albums.
 Amazingly Shoddy Remastering July 10, 2004
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
Looks like I spoke too soon when I wrote my last review; after listening to this CD more thoroughly, I actually found that most tracks sounded better on the original CD, rather than this remaster. Yes, "Blue Letter", "Crystal", "Say You Love Me", "Landslide" and "World Turning" sound better on this remaster, but everything else sounds worse - often clearly worse ("Warm Ways" in particular sounds disappointingly dull and flat).I was shocked to find that the stereo image on "Sugar Daddy" and "I'm So Afraid" wondered all over the place. This wasn't the case on the original, and is something you wouldn't expect to hear on even the crappiest CD. It shows that no care was taken with this remaster - the better sounding tracks are probably just a fluke. I am simply amazed that anyone involved could have let such a shoddy remastering of such a well-known album be released.
Great album, average sound quality April 9, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
As any Fleetwood Mac fan already knows, this is an excellent, classic album filled with great songs. The album itself easily deserves five stars in my book. This is where the original version of "Landslide" first appeared, not to mention some of Christine McVie's best songs ever-- her love songs appear upbeat on the surface, but there are darker undertones to her writing on "Over My Head" and "Say You Love Me," which makes sense, considering that her marriage to bassist John McVie was about to end.
Unfortunately, the sound quality on this remastered edition simply isn't that good. The sound is fuller and there is more low end (bass) than on the original CD, but there isn't enough definition or volume, so the whole thing tends to sound murky. On the original CD release, at least everything was clear and consistent-- I almost think it sounded better that way. I felt the same way listening to the remaster of "Tusk"-- it just seems like they didn't go "all the way" with the remastering, which is a shame, because these could've been beautiful-sounding discs. If you want to hear good quality remastered Fleetwood Mac, get "The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac" 2-CD set. I wish they had put the same amount of care into the albums as they did with the Best-of CDs.
Don't get me wrong, this is still a great album, and most music fans won't have a problem with the sound-- BUT if you are a picky audiophile (as I am), you will probably be disappointed with the quality of this remaster.
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