The 1975 "white album" feels more leisurely, even contemplative, compared with 'Rumours', which feels slicker and more commercial. As iconic as 'Rumours' remains, I don't think it's uncommon for many Fleetwood Mac fans to prefer the 1975 album (it's my preference as well).
I would be interested to know if Abigail considers Bare Trees Kirwan-era or Welch-era as Kirwan, Welch and Christine all make fantastic contributions. "Sentimental Lady", "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" and the title track are all bangers.
Abigail, you are evil. 🙂I watched this video four days ago, and I still have "Blue Letter" stuck in my brain. I agree with you, it's a great song, and I was previously unaware that Fleetwood Mac didn't write it.
Always loved this album more than Rumours. Christine's songs are stellar. Stevie's 3 songs (Landslide, Rhiannon, and Crystal), in my opinion, are her 3 best songs. And I've always liked Stevie more when she doesn't over-sing. Her voice for me works better when she simply follows the melody. As for Christine, my favorite songs of hers are on this album, Mystery to Me and Penguin. I have never tired of this period of Christine's work.
This albums secret ingredient is the masterful production of legendary producer Keith Olsen he brought out the best of every member of the band in this awesome album and to me this album is a true band effort and in all of the songs you get a very joyous and harmonious album
Loved the review. I distinctly remember a guy at school playing this record practically on repeat, along with El Dorado and The Low Spark of High-Heel Boys. Good times.
I was 15 in 1976, this record had so many radio hits on it, I thought it was a greatest hits Lp. Just like Boz Scaggs "Silk Degrees" just one after another! the 70's never suffered from no hit wonders, just one classic after another, the canvas was massively so colorful and varietal....well, until Disco anyway.......Love this channel!
This is another example of how you make videos that are often more interesting and entertaining to me than the bands you're talking about. I can appreciate that Fleetwood Mac made top drawer pop hits, and I didn't turn most of them off if they came on the radio, but they were just never a band that clicked with me. It does make me feel old, though, when I hear people on RUclips talk about how expensive or rare certain LPs are. I remember when "Heroes Are Hard to Find" and the Buckingham Nicks albums were EVERYWHERE you looked. For albums that didn't sell that well, they must've printed a billion copies of them.
I still prefer the coked out younger sister. You've warmed my heart by even mentioning Dragonfly and Purple Dancer let alone calling them top tier Fleetwood Mac. The writing here is very crisp. Wonderful episode!
didnt know what they were going to do after bob welsh left but when this album came out i was surprised how good it was the harmonies the songs christine really shines here lindsey guitar playing is so unique and stevie well is stevie like u said gave the band a face and her songwriting is so good landslide one of my favorites from stevie after this came out i bought the buckingham nicks album i know they were more poppy then previous versions but i really loved this version of the band when this album came out
Back then,71, as a teen, listening to Cream,Zep,Who,10Year,Savoy,Beck,Traffic,GFR, etc. loved a sweetie who says she'll do ANYTHING just take me to the Fleetwood Mac concert! ... 😜😜 Get your head down in the car on the way!
stevie's bringing rhiannon and landslide is like the grace slick moment joining ja. of course her looks were/are astonishing and her interactions interesting but it's her exceptional creativity here that stands out. abby's thoughtful reflections on life goals reminds us of the ways society expects women to look into mirrors rather than allow different conversations. buckingham plays, i think, distinctively with the back of the fingernail. his fade out guitar on rhiannon like dreams unwinding. the brits had such synergy and that would have been enough given christine's sure shot songwriting. buckingham nicks though brought one hell of an edge. i think it was the green led band, with the addition of kirwan, that climbed the mountain but there would always be good music to hear.
Though I celebrate the entire catalog, from "Black Magic Woman" to "Little Lies," this album somehow remains my favorite. I think we all have our own personal RLL (Rumours Listening Limit) and one day I guess I hit mine (you never know when it's coming), but the 1975 self-titled always sounds fresh to me. When I made a list of "100 favorite Fleetwood Mac songs," I put all 11 tracks from it on there, including the last three. I dig how "I'm So Afraid" ends this relatively optimistic album on such an ominous, foreboding note. I think when Lindsey and Stevie joined, they didn't "hijack" the band but rather demonstrated an appreciation for the legacy they were inheriting. According to Mick Fleetwood's memoir, Stevie sat down and listened to all the prior FM albums to find a connecting thread, and here's what she decided it was: "mysticism." Oh yeah. She clearly grabbed that torch and ran with it.
It was Friday night when I got home from the 2nd shift, and I turned on the Midnight Special. When I saw the new line-up deliver Rhiannon I thought “Holy heck. These guys are going to be popular.” Which they were by Monday Morning. (Pop culture was a lot more unified back then.) Still will always have a warm spot for Future Games-Bare Trees. Took a while to discover Peter Green.
"These two groups needed each other" you say so perfectly. TED talk true - "need" I did get to see them live in the summer of 76 opening before The Eagles (Boz Skaggs opened the whole show). The two people that were the ones to watch were the newbies: Stevie and Lindsey. Lindsey's playing also stood out. A supergroup had come about by the weird quirk of fate.
I love Lindey's guitar playing and the spooky vibe on I'm So Afraid, but yeah, maybe it's not the best closer..my fave tune on the album is probably Rhiannon
Quite often I describe an album as "the one where they brought all the previous promise together", or the "the one where they are starting to work out what they want to be". This Fleetwood Mac is very much the 2nd type for me. Wait, what? You going back to the start for the next one, bring it on!
When this album came out I was doing a show on the local non-commercial radio station. There was a bin of promo copies available to anyone who worked there and this album was in it. It was too commercial for anyone else there and so I got to take it home. I'd play it for all of my friends and they went out and bought it. To this day it's my favorite album to play bass along with.
Abigail, I look forward to your reviews every week and you seldom disappoint. As a performer you make your words even more interesting, but it comes down to the quality of your words. You are an excellent writer. Thank you and keep it up.
These Fleetwood Mac fellows seem to be quite good. They even have a lovely couple to front them and they just released a very good album. I sure hope that some behind the scenes drama won't have them in full meltdown mode in a couple of years where each band member is making disstracks against each other
"Black Magic Woman" by the early Mac, with Danny Kirwan & Peter Green, a bluesy influenced tune. is perhaps my top Fleetwood Mac tune of all tie. Santana did a great up-tempo version too.
I spy that Nuggets box set back there, would be a cool one if you ever felt like doing a box set special. Quickly touch on obscure psychedelic bands and their various scenes.
The Smashing Pumpkins version is my favourite version of Landslide too, my mum always used to play it in the car when I was a kid and only when I was a teenager did I find out it was originally a Fleetwood Mac song. My mum said that it was the Pumpkins who started the Landslide hype train - their cover came out on the Pisces Iscariot compilation three years before "The Dance".
This might be Christine McVie's best album. This version of the band gives her the perfect backdrop to take flight as an artist in a way she never really had before. That along with Stevie's two stunners and Lindsay's Monday Morning give this album a singer/songwriter vibe that reminds me of albums like Buffalo Springfield Again. With Mick and John's rhythm section behind the three singer/songwriters, this is a supergroup, really. This album and Rumours have always struck me as sister albums, with Lindsay being more of a recessive gene on this one.
Very nice. I went to UT-El Paso from 1974-1978. I was a big fan of the Welch/Kirwan albums. Me and I friends went to see that concert at the El Paso Colosseum expecting to hear Future Games and all my other Bob Welch favorites. We had no idea there was a lineup change and were kinda disappointed to say the least . I was that jerk in the third row yelling “Get her off the stage”. But then I bought the album and a few months later we saw them again in nearby Las Cruces, NM. By then I was a big fan of Stevie. I saw them again in El Paso for the Rumours tour and later in Houston for the Tusk tour. When Stevie went solo with Bella Dona, her very first solo concert was at the Summit in Houston. It was great. Her dad introduced her to the audience and the audience went wild. The last Mac concert I saw was during The Dance tour, again at the Summit (or maybe by then it was renamed the Compaq Center).
In the summer of 1976 at age 12 Before I discovered Fleetwood Mac I heard the song "Say You Love Me" which was on the top 40 radio charts at the time, but it wasn't Fleetwood Mac It had saxophone solos the singer sounded like Eric Carmen form the Rasberry's. it actually dominated charts for months until I found another "Say You Love Me" version on the white album which I was familiar with another top 40 hit "Rhiannon" which also became a huge hit in 76. I would say, for a brief time the cover version got way more radio play the Fleetwood version did, however that cover song quickly faded once Fleetwood Mac white album's popularity became legendary in the wake the iconic Rumours release.
Your videos are amazing. I wish I was a famous musician so I could hear you talk about my band. Edit: So true what you said about the album being breezy and having negative space. I love the way the first half of "Say You Love Me" has no guitar and then when guitar comes in on the bridge it's like the whole universe opens up.
Thanks for an awesome show on my favourite band. Loved the Self-titled album. My favourites off of that album are Monday Morning, Warm Ways, Landslide and I'm So Afraid(especially live versions). Always enjoy your vinyl Monday shows.
Truth be told, I much prefer this album over "Rumors". An interesting bit of trivia for this LP, is that the Brits were exceptionally slow to warm to it. It had already gone platinum in the States, while only selling about 10,000 copies in England at the time. I assume that was due to some backlash about the line-up changes and the de-emphasizing of the blues in the group's overall style and sound. Your review was very well done (as usual!), but we differ in that I absolutely LOVE "World Turning", and especially the beginning of the song, rather than the extended fadeout. To conclude, you really do a great job on these videos and succeed very well in helping to keep both the LP, and the genre of Classic Rock alive, and I sincerely thank you for it!!! P. S.- It also doesn't hurt your show one bit, that you will typically dress up in attire and props that suit the album that you are reviewing very well!!! P.P.S. - It also doesn't hurt the show one bit that you are one truly lovely lady. Keep up the great work!!! 💿
Hi, I am Peter, I had a lot of records and this is a vinyl desaster ‘cause once a week you talk about classic albums I sold 😭 (I still can't forgive myself for that…) This was/is my favourite Fleetwood Mac album. And the band is on my top ten list. Cheers from Austria
I do think Rumours is legitimately great, but this one has "I'm So Afraid", which impressed me more than anything else on either album, barring "Silver Springs" which wasn't actually on an album. Of course, I like everything they did prior to 1975 more. I'm excited for next week! Peter Green is one of my favorites. I'm curious if you'll note how the version currently available digitally is not the same as the actual album, instead populated with alternate mixes and studio chatter.
The many eras of Fleetwood Mac offer something for everyone. Thank you for covering this LP. I enjoyed it the week it became available to my young ears. Then saw them within that year in NY. I was a serious Lindsay B. fan. Playing claw-hammer style half a decade prior to another favorite guitarist Mark Knopfler would make this style of picking famous on electric guitar. They were great to see live during this period! Thanks again. You brush the dust off so many great LPs for us, your listeners. I'm off to go (albeit a CD these days) cue up "The White Album".
@@kingscontrivance5144 Since I've seen both Buckingham and Knopfler in interviews refer to their style of picking as "like clawhammer" if you are a traditional banjo player and play clawhammer style please excuse any insult. But if given the chance to argue semantics with either Mark Knopfler or Lindsay Buckingham you can take up the debate with them. Watch both their right hand techniques if you can find footage of their '70s work. Maybe by now somone made up a new name for it. Clawhammer seemed like what they wanted to call it.
This era a FM came along when I was just entering middle school, but I wasn’t really paying attention to new music at the time. Later on, I came to FM as a Stevie solo fan first, so I view all the BN era FM through that lens. Yes, she gave a face to a mostly, up to that period, faceless band.
danny’s on my short list of underrated players, if someone makes the mistake of mentioning one of those records i literally will not shut up about that guy haha
This is a great review Abby. I do love their self titled album aka the other white album but it's something about Christine's songs that gets into me. Though I grew up with Stevie's music (my mom had The Wild Heart and Rock A Little albums on cassette when I was little...gotta love the 80s right) but Christine McVie songs on the FM albums...chef's kiss...amazing. Can't wait for the other self titled album with the late, great Peter Green next week.
I never followed their career back then but I am familiar with it now. I always thought that "Landslide" was a more recent song from an older Nicks. In some ways I wish it was. Cheers.
landslide means more coming from an older stevie, just like both sides now takes on a whole new meaning when sung by an older joni. it's beautiful how those songs have aged with them
I agree with you that Dragonfly 'n Purple Dancer are absolutely top notch (although obscure) Fleetwood Mac tracks. I have a live performance o' the group from an FM radio broadcast Oct. 17, 1975 called Life Becomes A Landslide. They featured songs from the Fleetwood Mac album and a few from the earlier line up days. Highly recommended!
FM S/T has the feel of a perfect, blissful first date. You can especially hear this on the outtakes. Can you imagine what it was like for the older English players to hear Lindsey's solo run-through of "Crystal"? Such skill, control, and passion from the best male singer they had ever found. Can you imagine what it was like for Stevie Nicks, cooing "Rhiannon" into the players' headphones, while they laid down a strong, rumbling rhythm for her song? "Good band," she murmurs sexily at the end. Then there's the basic track of "Warm Ways," so soft and open, so gentle, but confident, like holding a bird in the hand. They must have been incredibly grateful to find each other. I certainly understand liking this album more than Rumours. Usually, I do, too. One note about Christine McVie - I always call her the Queen of Low Expectations. The majority of her songs are about enjoying love and sex, but not daring to expect more. "I'm not asking for love," she sings on "Sugar Daddy" (don't rank the songs - that one is sweet, only failing in comparison to the others on this album). I loved Fleetwood Mac from the moment I heard "Over My Head" as a 14 year old, and Christine's sly wisdom about love was forever a highlight - "Heroes Are Hard to Find," "Little Lies," "Only Over You," "You'll Never Make Me Cry," "Come a Little Bit Closer," "Remember Me,"... All sweet gems with a heart of melancholy.
Stevie is 75 ? Time flies, she's an ordained minister, wouldn't that be a conversation starter , I was married by Stevie nicks, an underrated musician is Christine mcvie, RIP , I wasn't the biggest fan of the Mac back in the day , heavy metal, but I revisited them throughout my life and I appreciate them more now , I only recently discovered the green manalishi is a cover by the priest originally done by the Mac ? crazy , now I'll have to play this album thanks to you abbey , I've never heard it, only some of the songs, I was so so busy with my usaf career for 20yrs , some music passed me by , im playing catch up with some of these bands
Another great video, even though I’m not a fan of the Mac’s later, more commercial era. I thought it was interesting that we got a rundown of the catalog and Bare Trees got skipped over. Personally, I like the Buckingham Nicks album more than anything Lindsay or Stevie did in the years to come (especially Rumors!)
They saturated the airwaves with Fleetwood Mac to the point it drove me away. There was a time I hated Fleetwood Mac, it was a money machine the industry milked for everything it was worth. But after decades on Fleetwood Mac vacation, with fresh ears my opinion changed. It was lightning in a bottle and obvious how much work they put into their songwriting, production, and arrangements. I enjoy just sitting back and listening to the Rumors album now and hearing a new little detail in the mix every time.
Yezzir that's the only way I can do mark IX is circumventing the popularoty. I like both gals so we can cobble together a polite reaction if it's studio wizardry and hard core Stwvie tracks
I think with the commercial success of Rumors, the self-titled album tends to be overlooked a little, even though it has several singles on it. I agree that Frozen Love is the best song on Buckingham Nicks, and I was surprised by how good it was overall when I finally got it a few years ago. Of course, if the Buckingham Nicks had done well, they might never have joined Fleetwood Mac. I really like the period 1970-75. They're not all great songs, but there are plenty of hidden gems. Plus you get to watch Christine develop as a songwriter over this period.
Count me as another that considers this the ace to “Rumours”king. Another point with this album was the fact that the band was collectively nervous. So everyone played the very best hands they had to the album. And we all know the resulting picture.
Early! Also this to me has to be one of FM's best albums Chills everytime i hear "Rhiannon" Also would be amazing to see your take on Kate Bush whether it's Hounds Of Love or something like her debut
Abigail, i love your show and your taste, it's wide. Mine too. I can listen to BIRTHDAY PARTY and ABBA without a shame. I love albums before that one from '75, basically, i like all of their phases,they had some weak moments in the 80s, but hey, it's FLEETWOOD MAC
those 90s albums without stevie were the weird and bad time for FM imo. tango in the night is pretty good! there's something to love about (almost) every era
We saw FM in the fall of 1975 at a small college outside Greenville, NC. (Wilson, ACC). They played in a small gym/auditorium that had wooden, slide out seating. Their stage set looked like cardboard decorations. It was crazy - The top FM station in the country (WQDR FM Rock) was playing the album and they were playing in a high school auditorium. Wow! I’ll never forget it.
arguably THE up and coming band of 75 and they were playing a high school auditorium, wow! do you remember what they played? did they switch over to all their new stuff or were they still playing peter/danny/bob's stuff?
I remember Oh Well, Sentimental Lady, Bare Trees and the White Album songs. They were blowing up on WQDR, but known only for their earlier stuff. BTW, you should check out the history of WQDR.
Your review was entertaining as usual, this is the era of Fleetwood Mac I think of for sure. I didn’t know a lot of the details about this album so now I know more, Lindsey changed his guitar strings how often? That reminds me I really need to change my guitar strings 😅
it's true! for "never going back again" lindsey and the producer decided it sounded best with fresh strings - which meant every few takes (every 20 minutes or so) some poor engineer would have to restring the guitar. this took a whole day - then lindsey realized he was playing in the wrong key all day and they had to do the whole thing over!
Harry Styles covered "Landslide" ?? I need to take a shower. I was thrilled when Buckingham Nicks finally got rereleased. I own one of those pirate copies. Of course I bought the legitimate version. I wonder why Stevie picked the songs she did off that album for her box set?
harry is a big stevie fan, as is matty healy of the similarly boy band-ish 1975. i may not be a HUGE fan of the 1975 but matty and stevie's joint interview is one of the most interesting interviews i've ever listened to
Fleetwood Mac's "Then Play On" era is, by far, my favorite era of the band. I love, particularly, the two non-album singles from the time ("The Green Manalishi" and "Oh, Well"). I was lucky to find the 2-LP hard-cover re-issue, including those singles as bonuses on side D, for a reasonable price, brand-new. Awesome sound quality, all tracks there, amazing artwork! I consider everything else they released "just OK" myself, even if loads of people hate me for thinking and saying that.
You did mention Future Games. "Woman of A Thousand Years", "Sands of Time", and "Morning Rain"...beat anything on "Self Titled". That Rolling Stone guy was right. This album marked FM's beginning as an American pop band.
Not even remotely possible that a time will come when you are no longer beautiful. 🙂 Re: the band -- one thing you can say about Buckingham as a guitar player is that his technique is entirely unique and -- a mystery to me. 😀
Interesting as always. I heard an interview with Lindsay a few years ago where he was asked if the Buckingham-Nicks album would ever be released on CD? He replied that he and Stevie would have to get together to agree upon a digital mix. That would be CHALLENGING was his response. In Mick Fleetwood's autobiography, they opened for the Eagles in 1975 on a stadium tour.
Tusk would make a great episode, to be a fly on the wall when that coked out mess was being recorded. Like Metal Machine Music, I think it was a case of okay, you got that out of your system, now please give us something with some songs and some hits
Self titled was a decent album I like Rhiannon and landslide my favourite cover version is the smashing pumpkins version but for fleet wood Mac the Peter green era is the best version of the band in my opinion great video Abby ❤❤❤ keep it up
Agreed that the 1975 "self titled" is better than "Rumours" ... but prefer "Penguin" and "Mystery To Me" from the Bob Welch era more than anything the Buckingham Nicks era produced. I was crushed when Peter Green left [such an awesome guitarist] departed and when Bob Welch left. Would love to get your Vinyl Monday thoughts on the original 1968 Peter Green era "Fleetwood Mac" and the Bob Welch era "Mystery To Me".
I had the Buckingham Nick's LP back in the day, unfortunately it went into record collection limbo. What I remember about it beyond the music, is that Polydors big act was Donnie and Marie Osmond and there were Donny and Marie albums promoted on the inner liner.
what’s your favorite fleetwood mac song? comment below!
kirwan's when you say is a little shiny gem.
My Favourite Mac album is the album next week! The Green Manalishi is my favourite Mac tune! Great stuff Abi!
Black Magic Woman
From this album, "World Turning". In general, "Albatross".
'Songbird' it's a soul-bearing solo moment from Christine, a well-wishing for her ex-husband as they part ways after the love has died.
As a 68 year old, old geezer, I've always thought, and still do, that self titled is a better album than Rumors.
You thought wrong. Rumours has better songs and, because it's the first time Buckingham had control, much better production and instrumentation.
@@docsavage8640 opinions exist, dude
The 1975 "white album" feels more leisurely, even contemplative, compared with 'Rumours', which feels slicker and more commercial. As iconic as 'Rumours' remains, I don't think it's uncommon for many Fleetwood Mac fans to prefer the 1975 album (it's my preference as well).
@@EmpireAnts42 and they can be right and or wrong
Completely agree!
So glad you gave a shoutout to the Danny Kirwan era; definitely my favorite lineup of Fleetwood Mac by far!
If there's one thing this band proved during their career, it's this.
Good music is made when the people making it can't stand each other lol
and/or they super love each other
I often find your reviews more entertaining than the recording in question. Yep, done it again.
I think Bare Trees goes toe to toe with this one
Yeah that's my favorite Fleetwood Mac lp
I would be interested to know if Abigail considers Bare Trees Kirwan-era or Welch-era as Kirwan, Welch and Christine all make fantastic contributions. "Sentimental Lady", "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" and the title track are all bangers.
Abigail, you are evil. 🙂I watched this video four days ago, and I still have "Blue Letter" stuck in my brain. I agree with you, it's a great song, and I was previously unaware that Fleetwood Mac didn't write it.
Always loved this album more than Rumours. Christine's songs are stellar. Stevie's 3 songs (Landslide, Rhiannon, and Crystal), in my opinion, are her 3 best songs. And I've always liked Stevie more when she doesn't over-sing. Her voice for me works better when she simply follows the melody. As for Christine, my favorite songs of hers are on this album, Mystery to Me and Penguin. I have never tired of this period of Christine's work.
This albums secret ingredient is the masterful production of legendary producer Keith Olsen he brought out the best of every member of the band in this awesome album and to me this album is a true band effort and in all of the songs you get a very joyous and harmonious album
this is great timing because I'm just now finally realizing that Say You Love Me is one of their best songs ever
Loved the review. I distinctly remember a guy at school playing this record practically on repeat, along with El Dorado and The Low Spark of High-Heel Boys. Good times.
I was 15 in 1976, this record had so many radio hits on it, I thought it was a greatest hits Lp. Just like Boz Scaggs "Silk Degrees" just one after another! the 70's never suffered from no hit wonders, just one classic after another, the canvas was massively so colorful and varietal....well, until Disco anyway.......Love this channel!
This is another example of how you make videos that are often more interesting and entertaining to me than the bands you're talking about. I can appreciate that Fleetwood Mac made top drawer pop hits, and I didn't turn most of them off if they came on the radio, but they were just never a band that clicked with me. It does make me feel old, though, when I hear people on RUclips talk about how expensive or rare certain LPs are. I remember when "Heroes Are Hard to Find" and the Buckingham Nicks albums were EVERYWHERE you looked. For albums that didn't sell that well, they must've printed a billion copies of them.
Correct on numerous counts I remember passing up the Nakinghams, can't actively aquire it heh heh
I still prefer the coked out younger sister. You've warmed my heart by even mentioning Dragonfly and Purple Dancer let alone calling them top tier Fleetwood Mac. The writing here is very crisp. Wonderful episode!
My fav Mac album. That cover is still a mystery, and I bought it bk. in '76. Thanks Ms. Devoe...🤠!
Hypnotized...so chill
didnt know what they were going to do after bob welsh left but when this album came out i was surprised how good it was the harmonies the songs christine really shines here lindsey guitar playing is so unique and stevie well is stevie like u said gave the band a face and her songwriting is so good landslide one of my favorites from stevie after this came out i bought the buckingham nicks album i know they were more poppy then previous versions but i really loved this version of the band when this album came out
Back then,71, as a teen, listening to Cream,Zep,Who,10Year,Savoy,Beck,Traffic,GFR, etc. loved a sweetie who says she'll do ANYTHING just take me to the Fleetwood Mac concert! ... 😜😜 Get your head down in the car on the way!
stevie's bringing rhiannon and landslide is like the grace slick moment joining ja. of course her looks were/are astonishing and her interactions interesting but it's her exceptional creativity here that stands out. abby's thoughtful reflections on life goals reminds us of the ways society expects women to look into mirrors rather than allow different conversations.
buckingham plays, i think, distinctively with the back of the fingernail. his fade out guitar on rhiannon like dreams unwinding.
the brits had such synergy and that would have been enough given christine's sure shot songwriting. buckingham nicks though brought one hell of an edge.
i think it was the green led band, with the addition of kirwan, that climbed the mountain but there would always be good music to hear.
Though I celebrate the entire catalog, from "Black Magic Woman" to "Little Lies," this album somehow remains my favorite. I think we all have our own personal RLL (Rumours Listening Limit) and one day I guess I hit mine (you never know when it's coming), but the 1975 self-titled always sounds fresh to me. When I made a list of "100 favorite Fleetwood Mac songs," I put all 11 tracks from it on there, including the last three. I dig how "I'm So Afraid" ends this relatively optimistic album on such an ominous, foreboding note. I think when Lindsey and Stevie joined, they didn't "hijack" the band but rather demonstrated an appreciation for the legacy they were inheriting. According to Mick Fleetwood's memoir, Stevie sat down and listened to all the prior FM albums to find a connecting thread, and here's what she decided it was: "mysticism." Oh yeah. She clearly grabbed that torch and ran with it.
It was Friday night when I got home from the 2nd shift, and I turned on the Midnight Special. When I saw the new line-up deliver Rhiannon I thought “Holy heck. These guys are going to be popular.” Which they were by Monday Morning. (Pop culture was a lot more unified back then.) Still will always have a warm spot for Future Games-Bare Trees. Took a while to discover Peter Green.
Stevie joins & writes ✍️ the best tracks Landslide & Rhiannon !
"These two groups needed each other" you say so perfectly. TED talk true - "need"
I did get to see them live in the summer of 76 opening before The Eagles (Boz Skaggs opened the whole show). The two people that were the ones to watch were the newbies: Stevie and Lindsey. Lindsey's playing also stood out. A supergroup had come about by the weird quirk of fate.
I like this album more than Rumors too, it's good to know I'm not crazy.
Love all periods of FM, no duds. Stevie is an icon, named my daughter Rhiannon after her masterpiece. Awesome video, thank you.
I love Lindey's guitar playing and the spooky vibe on I'm So Afraid, but yeah, maybe it's not the best closer..my fave tune on the album is probably Rhiannon
A Christine Perfect groupie, I loved this album. Rumours put the bleating goat witch front and center, which nullified its clever bits.
Quite often I describe an album as "the one where they brought all the previous promise together", or the "the one where they are starting to work out what they want to be". This Fleetwood Mac is very much the 2nd type for me.
Wait, what? You going back to the start for the next one, bring it on!
When this album came out I was doing a show on the local non-commercial radio station. There was a bin of promo copies available to anyone who worked there and this album was in it. It was too commercial for anyone else there and so I got to take it home. I'd play it for all of my friends and they went out and bought it. To this day it's my favorite album to play bass along with.
Peter Green rules. My favourites are Black Magic Woman and my second favourite instrumental of all time Albatross.
Abigail, I look forward to your reviews every week and you seldom disappoint. As a performer you make your words even more interesting, but it comes down to the quality of your words. You are an excellent writer. Thank you and keep it up.
These Fleetwood Mac fellows seem to be quite good. They even have a lovely couple to front them and they just released a very good album. I sure hope that some behind the scenes drama won't have them in full meltdown mode in a couple of years where each band member is making disstracks against each other
what could possibly go wrong??
"Black Magic Woman" by the early Mac, with Danny Kirwan & Peter Green, a bluesy influenced tune. is perhaps my top Fleetwood Mac tune of all tie. Santana did a great up-tempo version too.
thank you for mentioning Gram Parsons on this video. The only song better than kick out the jams is $1000 wedding
I spy that Nuggets box set back there, would be a cool one if you ever felt like doing a box set special. Quickly touch on obscure psychedelic bands and their various scenes.
One of the best recorded Fleetwood Mac albums
The Smashing Pumpkins version is my favourite version of Landslide too, my mum always used to play it in the car when I was a kid and only when I was a teenager did I find out it was originally a Fleetwood Mac song. My mum said that it was the Pumpkins who started the Landslide hype train - their cover came out on the Pisces Iscariot compilation three years before "The Dance".
educational, fun, entertaining, great writing, well supported arguments, More, More, More 👏👏👏👏
This might be Christine McVie's best album. This version of the band gives her the perfect backdrop to take flight as an artist in a way she never really had before. That along with Stevie's two stunners and Lindsay's Monday Morning give this album a singer/songwriter vibe that reminds me of albums like Buffalo Springfield Again. With Mick and John's rhythm section behind the three singer/songwriters, this is a supergroup, really.
This album and Rumours have always struck me as sister albums, with Lindsay being more of a recessive gene on this one.
This version of FM Landslide. I love Peter Greene "Oh Well" the best!
This was "our album" with my first love.
the red herring over the white album cover is abby at her mischievous best. guys isn't this the most fun channel you've ever come across! discuss.
This is another excellent episode ❤ And mark my words: You will ALWAYS be beautiful. But keep collecting records anyway!
Very nice. I went to UT-El Paso from 1974-1978. I was a big fan of the Welch/Kirwan albums. Me and I friends went to see that concert at the El Paso Colosseum expecting to hear Future Games and all my other Bob Welch favorites. We had no idea there was a lineup change and were kinda disappointed to say the least . I was that jerk in the third row yelling “Get her off the stage”.
But then I bought the album and a few months later we saw them again in nearby Las Cruces, NM. By then I was a big fan of Stevie. I saw them again in El Paso for the Rumours tour and later in Houston for the Tusk tour. When Stevie went solo with Bella Dona, her very first solo concert was at the Summit in Houston. It was great. Her dad introduced her to the audience and the audience went wild. The last Mac concert I saw was during The Dance tour, again at the Summit (or maybe by then it was renamed the Compaq Center).
"In a woman's life, change is loss." (25:50) Nicely-albeit sadly-said, Abigail. I hope you revisit this observation in twenty years.
In the summer of 1976 at age 12 Before I discovered Fleetwood Mac I heard the song "Say You Love Me" which was on the top 40 radio charts at the time, but it wasn't Fleetwood Mac It had saxophone solos the singer sounded like Eric Carmen form the Rasberry's. it actually dominated charts for months until I found another "Say You Love Me" version on the white album which I was familiar with another top 40 hit "Rhiannon" which also became a huge hit in 76. I would say, for a brief time the cover version got way more radio play the Fleetwood version did, however that cover song quickly faded once Fleetwood Mac white album's popularity became legendary in the wake the iconic Rumours release.
Your videos are amazing. I wish I was a famous musician so I could hear you talk about my band. Edit: So true what you said about the album being breezy and having negative space. I love the way the first half of "Say You Love Me" has no guitar and then when guitar comes in on the bridge it's like the whole universe opens up.
Fun fact is that Lindsey Buckingham actually entered the room at the moment Mick Fleetwood was groovin' to Frozen Love and said hello.
Thanks for an awesome show on my favourite band. Loved the Self-titled album. My favourites off of that album are Monday Morning, Warm Ways, Landslide and I'm So Afraid(especially live versions). Always enjoy your vinyl Monday shows.
Oh wow Stabilgail you've killed it with this one... also could you plz do one on the Pumpkin's Melancholy and/or a sweet Pearl Jam
mellon collie would quite literally be a $1000 episode, i’m not doing it until there’s a chance i could break even 😭
Apparently, this girls name is Abby and she has a lot of records. But don’t quote me on that.
Truth be told, I much prefer this album over "Rumors". An interesting bit of trivia for this LP, is that the Brits were exceptionally slow to warm to it. It had already gone platinum in the States, while only selling about 10,000 copies in England at the time. I assume that was due to some backlash about the line-up changes and the de-emphasizing of the blues in the group's overall style and sound.
Your review was very well done (as usual!), but we differ in that I absolutely LOVE "World Turning", and especially the beginning of the song, rather than the extended fadeout.
To conclude, you really do a great job on these videos and succeed very well in helping to keep both the LP, and the genre of Classic Rock alive, and I sincerely thank you for it!!!
P. S.- It also doesn't hurt your show one bit, that you will typically dress up in attire and props that suit the album that you are reviewing very well!!!
P.P.S. - It also doesn't hurt the show one bit that you are one truly lovely lady.
Keep up the great work!!! 💿
FMac put out a series of albums, starting with Then Play On, that helped define modern rock. The band released ten (10) LPs in the '70s (two of them double albums), all studio efforts, the bulk of which are still eminently listenable! The Eagles released five, the Who only 4 (one double album, plus one live), Led Zeppelin six (one double LP, plus one double live album), ZZ Top six, and Springsteen, four. Only the Kinks, FMac's closest competitor, released 12 albums (one a soundtrack throwaway) in the decade. In all, FMac would deliver 18 albums, from 1968 to 2003, a thirty-five-year span, an average of one every two years.
Best of Fleetwood Mac
01 F L E E T W O O D M A C ( X I ) (1975)
02 M Y S T E R Y T O M E ( I X ) (1973)
03 R U M O U R S ( X I I ) (1977)
04 H E R O E S A R E H A R D T O F I N D ( X ) (1974)
05 B A R E T R E E S ( V I I ) (1972)
06 T H E N P L A Y O N ( I V ) (1969)
07 T A N G O I N T H E N I G H T ( X V ) (1987)
08 K I L N H O U S E ( V ) (1970)
09 B E H I N D T H E M A S K ( X V I ) (1990)
10 M I R A G E ( X I V ) (1982)
11 T U S K ( X I I I ) (1979)
12 S A Y Y O U W I L L ( X V I I I ) (2003)
13 T I M E ( X V I I ) (1971)
14 F U T U R E G A M E S ( V I ) (1971)
15 P I O U S B I R D O F G O O D O M E N ( I I ) (1969)
16 M R W O N D E R F U L ( I ) (1968)
17 P E N G U I N ( V I I I ) (1973)
18 B L U E S J A M I N C H I C A G OS ( I I I ) (1970)
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Hi, I am Peter, I had a lot of records and this is a vinyl desaster ‘cause once a week you talk about classic albums I sold 😭 (I still can't forgive myself for that…)
This was/is my favourite Fleetwood Mac album. And the band is on my top ten list.
Cheers from Austria
I do think Rumours is legitimately great, but this one has "I'm So Afraid", which impressed me more than anything else on either album, barring "Silver Springs" which wasn't actually on an album. Of course, I like everything they did prior to 1975 more.
I'm excited for next week! Peter Green is one of my favorites. I'm curious if you'll note how the version currently available digitally is not the same as the actual album, instead populated with alternate mixes and studio chatter.
oh you best believe i mention the alternate PGFM is on streaming services instead, i learned that the hard way a few years back!
The many eras of Fleetwood Mac offer something for everyone. Thank you for covering this LP. I enjoyed it the week it became available to my young ears. Then saw them within that year in NY. I was a serious Lindsay B. fan. Playing claw-hammer style half a decade prior to another favorite guitarist Mark Knopfler would make this style of picking famous on electric guitar. They were great to see live during this period! Thanks again. You brush the dust off so many great LPs for us, your listeners. I'm off to go (albeit a CD these days) cue up "The White Album".
I'm not sure you know what clawhammer means.
@@kingscontrivance5144 Since I've seen both Buckingham and Knopfler in interviews refer to their style of picking as "like clawhammer" if you are a traditional banjo player and play clawhammer style please excuse any insult. But if given the chance to argue semantics with either Mark Knopfler or Lindsay Buckingham you can take up the debate with them. Watch both their right hand techniques if you can find footage of their '70s work. Maybe by now somone made up a new name for it. Clawhammer seemed like what they wanted to call it.
This era a FM came along when I was just entering middle school, but I wasn’t really paying attention to new music at the time. Later on, I came to FM as a Stevie solo fan first, so I view all the BN era FM through that lens. Yes, she gave a face to a mostly, up to that period, faceless band.
Love him or hate him, Lindsay might be the most underrated guitarist ever and Danny Kirwan is up there too
danny’s on my short list of underrated players, if someone makes the mistake of mentioning one of those records i literally will not shut up about that guy haha
@@abigaildevoe His sound is so ethereal and I'm not even sure who I could compare him to
Buckingham is one of the all-time great guitarists, and has developed a unique signature sound.
Rolling Stone ranks him at #100 all time which is criminal when you consider how similar so many of the guitarists ranked ahead of him are
This is a great review Abby. I do love their self titled album aka the other white album but it's something about Christine's songs that gets into me. Though I grew up with Stevie's music (my mom had The Wild Heart and Rock A Little albums on cassette when I was little...gotta love the 80s right) but Christine McVie songs on the FM albums...chef's kiss...amazing. Can't wait for the other self titled album with the late, great Peter Green next week.
Roll on next week 👍
Fleetwood Mac is one of my all time favorite bands ❤
I never followed their career back then but I am familiar with it now. I always thought that "Landslide" was a more recent song from an older Nicks. In some ways I wish it was. Cheers.
landslide means more coming from an older stevie, just like both sides now takes on a whole new meaning when sung by an older joni. it's beautiful how those songs have aged with them
I agree with you that Dragonfly 'n Purple Dancer are absolutely top notch (although obscure) Fleetwood Mac tracks. I have a live performance o' the group from an FM radio broadcast Oct. 17, 1975 called Life Becomes A Landslide. They featured songs from the Fleetwood Mac album and a few from the earlier line up days. Highly recommended!
FM S/T has the feel of a perfect, blissful first date. You can especially hear this on the outtakes. Can you imagine what it was like for the older English players to hear Lindsey's solo run-through of "Crystal"? Such skill, control, and passion from the best male singer they had ever found. Can you imagine what it was like for Stevie Nicks, cooing "Rhiannon" into the players' headphones, while they laid down a strong, rumbling rhythm for her song? "Good band," she murmurs sexily at the end. Then there's the basic track of "Warm Ways," so soft and open, so gentle, but confident, like holding a bird in the hand. They must have been incredibly grateful to find each other. I certainly understand liking this album more than Rumours. Usually, I do, too.
One note about Christine McVie - I always call her the Queen of Low Expectations. The majority of her songs are about enjoying love and sex, but not daring to expect more. "I'm not asking for love," she sings on "Sugar Daddy" (don't rank the songs - that one is sweet, only failing in comparison to the others on this album). I loved Fleetwood Mac from the moment I heard "Over My Head" as a 14 year old, and Christine's sly wisdom about love was forever a highlight - "Heroes Are Hard to Find," "Little Lies," "Only Over You," "You'll Never Make Me Cry," "Come a Little Bit Closer," "Remember Me,"... All sweet gems with a heart of melancholy.
I was 21 when this came out. I liked it. Havent heard it in decades now....
Stevie is 75 ? Time flies, she's an ordained minister, wouldn't that be a conversation starter , I was married by Stevie nicks, an underrated musician is Christine mcvie, RIP , I wasn't the biggest fan of the Mac back in the day , heavy metal, but I revisited them throughout my life and I appreciate them more now , I only recently discovered the green manalishi is a cover by the priest originally done by the Mac ? crazy , now I'll have to play this album thanks to you abbey , I've never heard it, only some of the songs, I was so so busy with my usaf career for 20yrs , some music passed me by , im playing catch up with some of these bands
Never been so early to a new Vinyl Monday!
Another great video, even though I’m not a fan of the Mac’s later, more commercial era. I thought it was interesting that we got a rundown of the catalog and Bare Trees got skipped over. Personally, I like the Buckingham Nicks album more than anything Lindsay or Stevie did in the years to come (especially Rumors!)
My dad’s band did a lot of this stuff when I was a kid in the late seventies. I was definitely exposed to some good music early on.
They saturated the airwaves with Fleetwood Mac to the point it drove me away. There was a time I hated Fleetwood Mac, it was a money machine the industry milked for everything it was worth. But after decades on Fleetwood Mac vacation, with fresh ears my opinion changed. It was lightning in a bottle and obvious how much work they put into their songwriting, production, and arrangements. I enjoy just sitting back and listening to the Rumors album now and hearing a new little detail in the mix every time.
Yezzir that's the only way I can do mark IX is circumventing the popularoty. I like both gals so we can cobble together a polite reaction if it's studio wizardry and hard core Stwvie tracks
I think with the commercial success of Rumors, the self-titled album tends to be overlooked a little, even though it has several singles on it. I agree that Frozen Love is the best song on Buckingham Nicks, and I was surprised by how good it was overall when I finally got it a few years ago. Of course, if the Buckingham Nicks had done well, they might never have joined Fleetwood Mac.
I really like the period 1970-75. They're not all great songs, but there are plenty of hidden gems. Plus you get to watch Christine develop as a songwriter over this period.
Ah, a fellow Rumors non-enthusiast! We're a rare species, aren't we?
Ringmaster and Midget gives the cover a carnival feel😢😂🎉😢😮😊❤
Count me as another that considers this the ace to “Rumours”king. Another point with this album was the fact that the band was collectively nervous. So everyone played the very best hands they had to the album. And we all know the resulting picture.
"collectively nervous." i LOVE that descriptor! great point there, this was a make or break year for sure
Early! Also this to me has to be one of FM's best albums Chills everytime i hear "Rhiannon"
Also would be amazing to see your take on Kate Bush whether it's Hounds Of Love or something like her debut
Abigail, i love your show and your taste, it's wide. Mine too. I can listen to BIRTHDAY PARTY and ABBA without a shame. I love albums before that one from '75, basically, i like all of their phases,they had some weak moments in the 80s, but hey, it's FLEETWOOD MAC
those 90s albums without stevie were the weird and bad time for FM imo. tango in the night is pretty good! there's something to love about (almost) every era
When you are no longer beautiful, you will still be you. So this just will never happen 😁🤗.
Rubbish. You'll always be beautiful.
We saw FM in the fall of 1975 at a small college outside Greenville, NC. (Wilson, ACC). They played in a small gym/auditorium that had wooden, slide out seating. Their stage set looked like cardboard decorations. It was crazy - The top FM station in the country (WQDR FM Rock) was playing the album and they were playing in a high school auditorium. Wow! I’ll never forget it.
arguably THE up and coming band of 75 and they were playing a high school auditorium, wow! do you remember what they played? did they switch over to all their new stuff or were they still playing peter/danny/bob's stuff?
I remember Oh Well, Sentimental Lady, Bare Trees and the White Album songs. They were blowing up on WQDR, but known only for their earlier stuff. BTW, you should check out the history of WQDR.
Your review was entertaining as usual, this is the era of Fleetwood Mac I think of for sure. I didn’t know a lot of the details about this album so now I know more, Lindsey changed his guitar strings how often? That reminds me I really need to change my guitar strings 😅
it's true! for "never going back again" lindsey and the producer decided it sounded best with fresh strings - which meant every few takes (every 20 minutes or so) some poor engineer would have to restring the guitar. this took a whole day - then lindsey realized he was playing in the wrong key all day and they had to do the whole thing over!
@@abigaildevoe you could probably do a two hour special on these guys, but I know they’re not the MC5😄
Reprise was owned by WB back then, so it wasn't really a move so much as a slide from the subsidiary to the main. Pumpkins did Landslide before 97.
If you have not listen to the album Buckingham Nicks did before joining Fleetwood Mac, it is a must to listen too.
Harry Styles covered "Landslide" ?? I need to take a shower. I was thrilled when Buckingham Nicks finally got rereleased. I own one of those pirate copies. Of course I bought the legitimate version. I wonder why Stevie picked the songs she did off that album for her box set?
harry is a big stevie fan, as is matty healy of the similarly boy band-ish 1975. i may not be a HUGE fan of the 1975 but matty and stevie's joint interview is one of the most interesting interviews i've ever listened to
14:35 by February 1978 them boys were cooking the record of the summer 😎
Fleetwood Mac's "Then Play On" era is, by far, my favorite era of the band. I love, particularly, the two non-album singles from the time ("The Green Manalishi" and "Oh, Well"). I was lucky to find the 2-LP hard-cover re-issue, including those singles as bonuses on side D, for a reasonable price, brand-new. Awesome sound quality, all tracks there, amazing artwork! I consider everything else they released "just OK" myself, even if loads of people hate me for thinking and saying that.
Ok, so I have a crush on Stevie Nicks. That of course means this episode is 10/10 automaticly.
I love vinyl Monday 🙌🏽
You did mention Future Games. "Woman of A Thousand Years", "Sands of Time", and "Morning Rain"...beat anything on "Self Titled". That Rolling Stone guy was right. This album marked FM's beginning as an American pop band.
Not even remotely possible that a time will come when you are no longer beautiful. 🙂
Re: the band -- one thing you can say about Buckingham as a guitar player is that his technique is entirely unique and -- a mystery to me. 😀
Fantastic review, Abby!
Interesting as always. I heard an interview with Lindsay a few years ago where he was asked if the Buckingham-Nicks album would ever be released on CD?
He replied that he and Stevie would have to get together to agree upon a digital mix. That would be CHALLENGING was his response.
In Mick Fleetwood's autobiography, they opened for the Eagles in 1975 on a stadium tour.
Fleetwood Mac (1975) is a great album one of their classic,but I like more the Peter Green era, because maybe it was more blues that I love.
Tusk would make a great episode, to be a fly on the wall when that coked out mess was being recorded. Like Metal Machine Music, I think it was a case of okay, you got that out of your system, now please give us something with some songs and some hits
Self titled was a decent album I like Rhiannon and landslide my favourite cover version is the smashing pumpkins version but for fleet wood Mac the Peter green era is the best version of the band in my opinion great video Abby ❤❤❤ keep it up
Agreed that the 1975 "self titled" is better than "Rumours" ... but prefer "Penguin" and "Mystery To Me" from the Bob Welch era more than anything the Buckingham Nicks era produced. I was crushed when Peter Green left [such an awesome guitarist] departed and when Bob Welch left. Would love to get your Vinyl Monday thoughts on the original 1968 Peter Green era "Fleetwood Mac" and the Bob Welch era "Mystery To Me".
We always called this era of them Fleetwood Milquetoast. Totally pedestrian.
Mystery to me was an answer when dark side of the moon was always being played😂😢😂😮🎉😅😢😊😮
Their blues fans were alienated when they went radio rock.
They essentially became a different band by that time.
Stevie gave Tom a death stare😊😢😅😮😂😢❤
I had the Buckingham Nick's LP back in the day, unfortunately it went into record collection limbo. What I remember about it beyond the music, is that Polydors big act was Donnie and Marie Osmond and there were Donny and Marie albums promoted on the inner liner.
I'm so glad that you recognize this as the superior Fleetwood Mac album! I have always held that to be true. Peace and love!
Love this album, love Rumours as well, but Tusk takes the cake for me.
@@josemaria8177 Mmmmm Cake.
This isn’t the Superior version of Fleetwood Mac..I think you should spin the original Fleet and the live albums & concerts. But to each their own.
The first time I seen that album....I did that get on yer knees in my shoes....cracked my friends up.