An absolute gut punch.Īs is, it's worth listening to, but not one of their better albums. If you took the first five tracks and the final track, you would have a killer EP.
It, the 3 Elmore tracks that don't need to be there, and the only two Green songs that are less than stellar mean that half of the album is dead weight. His jam instrumental isn't particularly special. The first of his songs (before "Dust My Broom" and its clones) is pretty damn good. All 4 are great, but only one should be here. Jeremy Spencer's Elmore impression is fantastic, but it was a major mistake to include 4 identical songs on the album. "Stop Messin Round", "Rolling Man", "Love That Burns", and "Trying So Hard to Forget" are all phenomenal. It's definitely a rough listen, but there's enough great stuff to warrant listening. Wonderful, they made sure it was recorded to sound like the older recordings. When they asked the engineer if he could make it sound like it was recorded at Chess records in the 50s, he told them that it has to be recorded in a certain way to get that sound. When the band heard the mix of their first album, they were disappointed with how clean and modern it sounded. A live version of "Landslide" was eventually released as a single in the US in 1998 after it became one of the most popular tracks from the live reunion album The Dance.
23 on the UK Albums Chart but was a prelude to a run of hugely successful albums for the band in Britain, including four number ones: Rumours, Tusk, Tango in the Night and Behind the Mask. 40 Following the massive success of Rumours two years later, interest in the band re-ignited and Fleetwood Mac was re-released in 1978, along with the single "Rhiannon" which peaked just outside the Top 40 at No. "Say You Love Me" charted on the UK Singles Chart and it reached No. Initially, the album generated limited interest in the UK, as the first three singles released by the new lineup failed to chart. It was not released as a single in the United States, where "Over My Head" was released instead. In 2018, it was certified 7x platinum by the RIAA representing shipments of seven million units in the United States."Warm Ways" was the first single lifted from the album in 1975 in the UK. It launched three top twenty singles: "Over My Head", "Rhiannon" and "Say You Love Me", the last two falling just short of the top ten, both at No.
It was the second biggest album of 1976 (behind Frampton Comes Alive! by Peter Frampton) and the tenth biggest album of 1977. The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 over a year after entering the chart, spent 37 weeks within the top 10, and more than fifteen months within the top 40. The album was also the band's last to be released on the Reprise label until 1997's The Dance (the band's subsequent albums until then were released through Warner Bros. This is the first Fleetwood Mac album to feature Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and Stevie Nicks as vocalist, after Bob Welch departed the band in late 1974. Among Fleetwood Mac fans, the album is often referred to as The White Album. It was the band's second eponymous album, the first being their 1968 debut album.
charts for a staggering 433 weeks and on the U.S. Fleetwood Mac is the tenth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in July 1975 by Reprise Records. Fleetwood Mac’s hugely successful Rumours was released in 1977, selling 15 million copies worldwide and was christened Album of the Year at the 1978 Grammy Awards.