Fleetwood Mac (album)
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| Label (s) | Reprise Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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42:12 |
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Fleetwood Mac, Keith Olsen |
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Studio (s) |
Sound City, Van Nuys ( California ) |
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Fleetwood Mac is the title of an album by the rock group Fleetwood Mac .
history
Fleetwood Mac is the album that musically brought the group mainstream . With Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham two new band members entered the center of the band as songwriters . The album hit the top of the Billboard charts for a week and three singles hit the top twenty. The album sold 4.5 million times. In 1986 the album went platinum for the fifth time. In total, it was 148 weeks in the US album charts after entering the chart. This success was only overtaken by the follow-up album Rumors . Fleetwood Mac established with this album as one of the most outstanding mainstream rock bands of the 1970s. The trade magazine Rolling Stone chose the album at the 183rd place of the 500 best albums of all time .
Track list
- Monday Morning (Buckingham) - 2:48
- Warm Ways (C. McVie) - 3:54
- Blue Letter (R. Curtis, M. Curtis) - 2:41
- Rhiannon (Nicks) - 4:11
- Over My Head (C. McVie) - 3:38
- Crystal (Nicks) - 5:14
- Say You Love Me (C. McVie) - 4:11
- Landslide (Nicks) - 3:19
- World Turning (Buckingham, C. McVie) - 4:25
- Sugar Daddy (C. McVie) - 4:10
- I'm So Afraid (Buckingham) - 4:22
Bonus tracks
The 2004 expanded Fleetwood Mac CD contains the following bonus tracks :
- Jam # 2 (Buckingham, C. McVie, J. McVie, Fleetwood) - 5:41
- Say You Love Me [single version] (C. McVie) - 4:03
- Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) [single version] (Nicks) - 3:48
- Over My Head [single version] (C. McVie) - 3:09
- Blue Letter [single version] (R. Curtis, M. Curtis) - 2:42
Deluxe Edition
A deluxe edition of the album was released in January 2018. This contains the remastered original album on 3 CDs, alternative versions, single remixes and a concert recording from 1975, as well as a 5.1 surround mix of the album on DVD and a remastered 180 g vinyl LP.
Rhiannon
Rhiannon was the first song Stevie Nicks brought to the band. She had written it with Fleetwood Mac ahead of time. The song was released as a single in the US in 1976 and reached 11th place in the charts. The single version is a remix and not identical to the version on the album. This version was only added as a bonus with the CD release. The name of the Welsh deity Rhiannon comes from the novel Triad by the American author Mary Leader . Stevie Nicks was reading the novel on an extended flight and thought the name was lovely, so she decided to write a song about a girl named Rhiannon. Nicks wrote several lyrics about Rhiannon, but it wasn't until a few years later that another song in this series appeared on the Tusk album with the song Angel .
The country singer Waylon Jennings coverte the song in 1985 for his album Turn the Page . In 2000 the punk band Zeke covered him for their album Dirty Sanchez . Rolling Stone voted the song 488th on the list of the 500 best songs of all time .
Over my head
Christine McVie wrote the song Over My Head , which became Fleetwood Mac's first hit in the United States. The single reached the 20th place in the singles charts and laid the foundation for a successful sale of the album.
Landslide
Stevie Nicks wrote this song back in 1974 while staying in Aspen , Colorado .
Landslide has been covered many times. The Smashing Pumpkins recorded the song in the 1990s. Tori Amos played the song live at concerts, and so a live recording was made on January 1, 1996. In 2002 the Dixie Chicks covered the song for their album Home . Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante played the song during his solo concerts.
Web links
- Fleetwood Mac official band website