Fleetwood mac

Anyone else totally into Fleetwood Mac? I have been totally awe-struck as of late with the fabulous Rumours, and after a few spins it seems that Tusk is no less fantastic.

It's so hard to pick a favourite song off "Rumours"; "Second Hand News", "Dreams", "Go your own way", "Silver springs", "Gold Dust Woman", "You Make loving fun" are all contenders, though. I've just never thought that any album could be so consistently fantastic, every second, as Rumours, and it has in very short time reached my definite top 10 of all times, together with albums like American Beauty, Tago Mago, F#A#oo, Still Life and First Utterance... simply stunning.

So, anyone else? :)

I've heard some of the older stuff as well, it sounds very interesting.
How are the Lindsey Buckingham/Stevie Nicks/Christine Mcvie-lineup albums prior to Rumours and after Tusk? I have only heard the hits from them, like "Seven Wonders", Rhiannon and "Little Lies" and loved them, so i hope the rest of the albums are of the same standards..

And they were even good in the 80's.. i think i might have found myself a new favourite band!

My favorite Fleetwood Mac album is Future Games (the Bob Welch, Danny Kirwan, Christine McVie lineup).  As for the Buckingham/Nicks albums, there is only one prior to Rumors, simply titled Fleetwood Mac and that is a very excellent album as well.  The  post-Tusk album Mirage is a good album, but not quite up to the par of the first three with that lineup.  I also own their latest Say You Will (without McVie) and I thought that was pretty experimental.  That was a really good album. 

Edited by The Doctor - July 10 2007 at 19:22

I've always been a fan of the Peter green era and Green Manalishi is a fitting end to his tenure with the band. I lost interest after that, other than hearing them on the radio, and thought they sounded too West-coast American for my tastes. I only really noticed them again when the BBC started using the interlude section from The Chain as their F1 Grand Prix theme tune and I bought Rumours on the strength of that, but each time I play it I have to put on the 1971 Greatest Hits album straight after.

BroSpence wrote: I love the Peter Green era because the band created incredible music.  Then they made some good stuff after his departure, but not nearly as classic.  Then the evil duo Nicks and Buckingham joined and destroyed a perfectly good band.  I did enjoy most of Tusk, but Rumors is awwwwful.  I don't see whats so great about an over produced bunch of annoying pop songs that aren't even that interesting.  Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Wow. To me, Tusk sounds just like Rumours, only less concentrated. :)
And seriously, if Rumours is a bunch of over-produced pop songs, then what is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? :)

By the way, anyone else than me think that Fleetwood Mac is one of the coolest band names ever? :)

Evans wrote: BroSpence wrote: I love the Peter Green era because the band created incredible music.  Then they made some good stuff after his departure, but not nearly as classic.  Then the evil duo Nicks and Buckingham joined and destroyed a perfectly good band.  I did enjoy most of Tusk, but Rumors is awwwwful.  I don't see whats so great about an over produced bunch of annoying pop songs that aren't even that interesting.  Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.   Wow. To me, Tusk sounds just like Rumours, only less concentrated. :) And seriously, if Rumours is a bunch of over-produced pop songs, then what is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? :)

An experimental sonic masterpiece.

Try to catch Classic Albums featuring Rumours sometime. They really dissect the songs and give you tremendous insight to what the band was going through while recording. To hear the breakdown of "Gold Dust Woman" is pretty cool.

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BroSpence wrote: Evans wrote: BroSpence wrote: I love the Peter Green era because the band created incredible music.  Then they made some good stuff after his departure, but not nearly as classic.  Then the evil duo Nicks and Buckingham joined and destroyed a perfectly good band.  I did enjoy most of Tusk, but Rumors is awwwwful.  I don't see whats so great about an over produced bunch of annoying pop songs that aren't even that interesting.  Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.   Wow. To me, Tusk sounds just like Rumours, only less concentrated. :) And seriously, if Rumours is a bunch of over-produced pop songs, then what is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? :) An experimental sonic masterpiece.

I agree, Sgt. Pepper is great, but it still sounds very "produced", wouldn't you agree?
No, i think that you're just going through what i went through when i thought the Beatles were "crap" (a long time ago, and i AM ashamed), really. I might be wrong, of course, but in that case you're also missing out on a great album. :)