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Lindsey Buckingham spearheaded the band’s new experimental streak, later describing his ethos during the album’s creation as: “Let’s subvert the norm. Instead, they made this audaciously strange, extravagantly sprawling double album, which cost over $1 million to record, making it the most expensive rock record ever when it was released in 1979. Though ‘Tango In The Night’ is sometimes marred by some clunky-sounding ’80s production, the mostly stellar songcraft more than compensates.įollowing the phenomenal success of ‘Rumours’, Fleetwood Mac could have tried to churn out a radio-friendly replica LP. Stevie Nicks was battling drug addiction while the album was being recorded, so it’s understandable that her star doesn’t shine its brightest, but ‘Seven Wonders’ is surely one of her most underrated songs. Two of Christine McVie’s tunes, ‘Little Lies’ and ‘Everywhere’, became huge hits, but Buckingham’s offerings ‘Family Man’, ‘Caroline’ and ‘Big Love’ are just as infectious. Buckingham shows off his rock chops on ‘I’m So Afraid’ and pop smarts on ‘Monday Morning’, while Nicks’ ‘Landslide’, on which she movingly confronts her own mortality, only gets more devastating with time.Īrriving five years after 1982’s underwhelming ‘Mirage’, ‘Tango In The Night’ was designed to give Fleetwood Mac a proper comeback and it delivered, selling over 15m copies worldwide – the band’s best sales figures since 1977’s ‘Rumours’. By this point, three of its singles had become big hits – Nicks’ witchy ‘Rhiannon’ and McVie’s typically catchy ‘Say You Love Me’ and ‘Over My Head’ – but ‘Fleetwood Mac’ is packed with terrific album tracks too. Interestingly, the band’s self-titled 1975 album wasn’t an instant success, instead taking over a year to climb to the top of the US charts. The band’s classic “ Rumours-era” lineup was now complete. Buckingham said yes – as long as Nicks, then his romantic and musical partner, could join too. That’s gotta be about Lindsey, right?Īfter Bob Welch departed in 1974, Fleetwood Mac needed a new guitarist and songwriter, and impressed by Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar solo on a track called ‘Frozen Love’ from 1973’s ‘Buckingham Nicks’ album, Mick Fleetwood asked him to join the band. “Maybe now he could prove to her / That he could be good for her / And they should be together,” Nicks sings intriguingly on ‘Thrown Down’. It’s also fun, as always, trying to work out which of their songs are written about the other.
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Nicks’ ‘Thrown Down’ and ‘Say You Will’ feel more focused than most of her recent solo material, while Buckingham’s anti-media tirade ‘Murrow Turning Over In His Grave’ is bracingly intense. But that’s not to say there aren’t gems here. That’s at least six too many, and McVie, the band’s sweetest and most reliably melodic songwriter, is definitely missed – ‘Say You Will’ can sometimes feel like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the jelly. Consequently, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks split songwriting duties between them, supplying nine songs each to make an epic 18-track album. Released in 2003, ‘Say You Will’ is Fleetwood Mac’s last studio album to date – and the first since 1970 not to feature any songs written by Christine McVie, who appears on a couple of tracks, ‘Steal Your Heart Away’ and ‘Bleed To Love Her’, but otherwise sits this one out. ‘The Dance’ was originally recorded at a studio in California for an MTV special before being released as an album and brilliantly intimate VHS/DVD – yes, that really is Courtney Love fan-girling in the audience and yes, Stevie Nicks does look like she’s placing a curse on Lindsey Buckingham when she sings ‘Silver Springs’. Though each of the band’s songwriting triad contributes a perfectly respectable new tune, Fleetwood Mac essentially deliver an awesome Greatest Hits set here, culminating in a rousing rendition of ‘Don’t Stop’, which by this point had been reinvented as Bill Clinton’s political campaign trail anthem. OK, so it’s a live album, but 1997’s ‘The Dance’ feels worthy of inclusion because it reunited the classic Rumours era lineup – Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks – for the first time in a decade. Here’s a look back at the albums recorded by the band’s current touring line-up, ranked in order of greatness. Just look at 40 million selling R&B behemoth ‘Rumours’ for god sake. Fleetwood Mac, purveyors of pure and unfiltered pop gold, aren’t just a ridiculously successful hit factory, they also made a ton of ace albums.