Greatest Hits

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By far the least revered album of the classic Buckingham/Nicks-era Mac, Mirage has something of the holding pattern about it – Tusk’s experimentation is gone, expensive-sounding soft-rock abounds – but it contains some real hidden gems, including McVie’s luscious, lovestruck, small-hours paean to her soon-to-be-ex, soon-to-be-late fiance Dennis Wilson. Rescued from obscurity by the soundtrack of Almost Famous, the title track of 1971’s Future Games demonstrates how Welch’s arrival shook Fleetwood Mac up. The crux of this collection was culled from Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled album and 1977’s Rumours. Lindsay Buckingham’s most memorable songs surface, such as the catchy strut of “Don’t Stop,” the anthemic “Go Your Own Way” and the weirdly brilliant title-track from 1979’s Tusk.

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It includes the 1975 track " Over My Head" but omits the 1987 track " Seven Wonders" (despite it being a top 20 hit in the US) as well as the 1982 track " Oh Diane" (which failed to chart there in 1983, but was a top-ten hit in the UK). Part of the second British blues boom of the late 1960s, during that time Fleetwood Mac enjoyed six British hit singles, collated here along with one non-charting single, two B-sides, and three album tracks. The Chain was famously spliced together from parts of old songs, including a track that had already appeared on Buckingham Nicks’ eponymous 1973 album. The album gatefold shows a full-size photo of the post-Green line up of the band with Christine McVie (née Perfect), even though she just plays piano on a couple of tracks and was not a full member until after Kiln House was released.The band's UK single " Black Magic Woman" received greater exposure in the US when it was covered by the American group Santana, who placed their version in the Billboard Top 40. The 1988 album draws only on recordings from after Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the group in 1975, omitting earlier hits such as " Albatross" and " Oh Well". Everywhere is just an incredible song, its enduring power bolstered by the fact that, on an album with a very late-80s production, its sound still cleaved close to that of Rumours. It includes the 1975 track "Over My Head" but omits the 1987 track "Seven Wonders" (despite it being a top 20 hit in the US) as well as the 1982 track "Oh Diane" (which failed to chart there in 1983, but was a top-ten hit in the UK). A vastly successful single, there’s a twinge of darkness and unease about Big Love that undercuts its breathy sampled voices and ostensibly lubricious nocturnal mood.

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You Make Loving Fun", "Big Love", "Oh Diane" and "Seven Wonders" are not included on the UK vinyl version, but are included on the cassette and CD formats. The album contains two new tracks, " As Long as You Follow" (which was released as a single to promote the album), and " No Questions Asked". Fleetwood Mac’s solitary UK No 1, Albatross has its roots in dreamy 1950s instrumentals – particularly Chuck Berry’s Deep Feeling – but its flawlessly becalmed atmosphere seems very 1969, fitting a post-psychedelic, 60s comedown mood.The album contains two new tracks, "As Long as You Follow" (which was released as a single to promote the album), and "No Questions Asked". Tellingly still in their live set long after Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, McVie’s beautiful Spare Me a Little of Your Love has a relaxed mood at odds with that album’s rockier inclinations.

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Long out of print, it was replaced on compact disc by the 2002 compilation The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac on the Sony International label, which now owns the Columbia/CBS catalogue. But if you want evidence that the contemporary Mac aren’t a spent creative force, try Sad Angel – from 2013’s overlooked four-track Extended Play – a taut, catchy Buckingham rock song about his perennial subject: Nicks.A true surprise and a big smile to all who blindly believe in marketing chitchatting over-expensive reissues being the ultimate :-). The standard line is that Nicks and Buckingham’s arrival transformed Fleetwood Mac, but on McVie’s majestic Come a Little Bit Closer – a hidden gem from 1974’s Heroes Are Hard to Find – the band sounded as if they were already preparing for a musical shift: it could have slotted on to Rumours with ease. For a swinging single on the prowl, Buckingham’s vocal sounds weirdly distressed; the acoustic guitar interjections and pattering electronics are fidgety; the guitar solo broiling. A distinct blues undertow remains in the guitars and vocal, but the overall sound is smooth, cosseting and sunlit, at odds with the paranormally obsessed lyrics.