Songs:
Monday Morning, Warm Ways, Blue Letter, Rhiannon, Over my Head,
Crystal, Say you love
me, Landslide, World
Turning, Sugar Daddy,
I´m so Afraid.
Type of Music: First Class Mid-Seventies Pop-Rock.
Comments:
Goodbye Bob Welch! Welcome Lindsay Buckingham and
Stevie Nicks, the Californian pair that already had cut an album together that
went For Sale in about a week! It´s a Collector´s Item now of course. So we have
three Brits and two Yankees and an Album simply called Fleetwood Mac as if to
say: Hey World we´re starting from scratch again!! And what a start as well!!
While Christine´s Warm Ways still sounds
like the Mac from the Bob Welch/Danny Kirwan period, the 10 other songs
introduce us to the sound of the new line-up. With the exception of Blue
Letter , all songs are written by the band. It´s a perfect match of Christine´s
fast improving mid-tempo love songs (Say you love me, Over my Head),
Lindsay´s sharp rock songs (Monday Morning, I´m so Afraid) and Stevie´s
Mystic Tales (Rhiannon, Landslide, Crystal). Only Mc Vie´s Sugar
Daddy is Filler.
Although most people consider Rumours Mac´s
best Album from the Seventies, this one here comes very close indeed.
Stevie´s Rhiannon is a very special song
because it convinced me that the Fleetwood/McVie Rhythm Section is probably the
best in the world. No one else sounds so smooth and comfortable.
And Lindsay Buckingham surely is one of the world´s
best acoustic - and electric guitar players. Get a copy of the DVD The Dance
reunion Concert and listen to his reading of I´m so afraid as well as an
acoustic version of Big Love from the Tango in the Night Album.
But that´s looking in the very bright future of the
band. For the moment, dig deep in your collection, select your copy of Fleetwood
Mac, put it in your player and just enjoy this excellent Pop-Rock Album.
Who should buy this Record: Everybody.
Rating:
******** (8 out of 10)
Black = Good
Songs
Green
= Great Songs
Red
= Could Be Better
