The Original Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac

The Original Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac

1971

The Original Fleetwood Mac is a Rock album by Fleetwood Mac, originally released in 1971. On Gatefold: 29 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.

Sound DNA

  • Rock
  • Blues Rock
  • gritty
  • brooding
  • bluesy

About

When Mick Fleetwood walked into Sound City studios in 1974, he wasn’t just looking for a place to record, he was looking for a place to start over. The band had lost four vocalists in as many years, and were on the wane both critically and commercially. So when producer Ken Olsen played Fleetwood an album by a middling folk-rock duo called Buckingham Nicks (just to test the sound), and Fleetwood liked the guitar playing, he figured, why not? Even when Buckingham said he and Nicks were a package deal, Fleetwood was unfazed: After all, they’d met, gotten along, and figured it might be interesting to have two female singer-songwriters in a band, not to mention two couples. Why does <i>Fleetwood Mac</i> work so well? Balance. Fleetwood and John McVie—the band’s rhythm section—came from blues, but never quite crossed the threshold into hard rock, and they took to their new pop material without friction. Buckingham the chippy perfectionist (“Monday Morning”) is a foil for Nicks the mystic (“Rhiannon”), and Nicks the West Coast Earth mama (“Landslide”) a foil for Christine McVie the sophisticate (“Warm Ways”). Together they resolve the oxymoron not just of ”soft rock,” but of “folk pop,” creating, as though through spontaneous combustion, a sound commercial enough to sell millions, and personal enough to make those millions feel like the music is whispering something secret about their own lives. On being reminded by John McVie that they were supposed to be a blues band, Olsen famously assured him that what they were doing now was a much faster way to the bank. But the beauty of the album’s creation is that nobody in the band seemed to expect it, and everyone shared in it equally. As Mick Fleetwood later put it, Buckingham Nicks didn’t join Fleetwood Mac—the two bands became one.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Monday Morning (Remastered)2:48
  2. 2Warm Ways (Remastered)3:53
  3. 3Blue Letter (Remastered)2:40
  4. 4Rhiannon (Remastered)4:10
  5. 5Over My Head (Remastered)3:38
  6. 6Crystal (Remastered)5:11
  7. 7Say You Love Me (Remastered)4:09
  8. 8Landslide (Remastered)3:19
  9. 9World Turning (Remastered)4:24
  10. 10Sugar Daddy (Remastered)4:09
  11. 11I'm So Afraid (Remastered)4:30
  12. 12Over My Head (Single Version) [Remastered]3:10
  13. 13Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) [Single Version] [Remastered]3:48
  14. 14Say You Love Me (Single Version) [Remastered]4:03
  15. 15Blue Letter (Single Version)2:42
  16. 2.1Monday Morning (Early Take)2:50
  17. 2.2Warm Ways (Early Take)3:53
  18. 2.3Blue Letter (Early Take)2:49
  19. 2.4Rhiannon (Early Take)4:36
  20. 2.5Over My Head (Early Take)2:57
  21. 2.6Crystal (Early Version)4:05
  22. 2.7Say You Love Me (Early Version)4:18
  23. 2.8Landslide (Early Version)3:18
  24. 2.9World Turning (Early Version)5:39
  25. 2.10Sugar Daddy (Early Take)4:06
  26. 2.11I'm So Afraid (Early Version)4:48
  27. 2.12Over My Head (Live from the Burbank Studios, Burbank, CA, 1/26/1976)3:03
  28. 2.13Rhiannon (Live from the Burbank Studios, Burbank, CA, 1/26/1976)6:36
  29. 2.14Why (Live from the Burbank Studios, Burbank, CA, 1/26/1976)4:00
  30. 2.15World Turning (Live from the Burbank Studios, Burbank, CA, 1/26/1976)5:18
  31. 2.16Jam #2 (Remastered)5:35
  32. 2.17I'm So Afraid (Early Take Instrumental)7:12
  33. 3.1Get Like You Used To Be (Live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 10/17/1975)4:24
  34. 3.2Station Man (Live at Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/25/1975)6:18
  35. 3.3Spare Me a Little (Live at Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/25/1975)4:30
  36. 3.4Rhiannon (Live at Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/25/1975)7:57
  37. 3.5Why (Live at Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/25/1975)4:22
  38. 3.6Landslide (Live at Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/25/1975)3:54
  39. 3.7Over My Head (Live at Campus Stadium, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 5/2/1976)3:23
  40. 3.8I'm So Afraid (Live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 10/17/1975)5:46
  41. 3.9Oh Well (Live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 10/17/1975)2:59
  42. 3.10The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown) [Live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 10/17/1975]5:30
  43. 3.11World Turning (Live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 10/17/1975)8:34
  44. 3.12Blue Letter (Live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 10/17/1975)3:39
  45. 3.13Don't Let Me Down Again (Live at Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/25/1975)4:05
  46. 3.14Hypnotized (Live at Jorgensen Auditorium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/25/1975)9:46

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Performers

4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 29 pressings tracked on Gatefold