[2018-11-16] Fleetwood Mac "50 Years: Don't Stop" 3CD compilation (Warner/Rhino)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:20 pm

Description
Fleetwood Mac have undergone numerous iterations over the decades, and 50 Years—Don’t Stop highlights the various musicians who passed through the band’s ranks between 1968 and 2013, including Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Jeremey Spencer, John McVie, Danny Kirwan, Christine McVie, Bob Welch, Bob Weston, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Billy Burnette, Rick Vito, Dave Mason, and Bekka Bramlett. The collection also features rare photos from the band's career along with new liner notes by veteran music writer David Wild.

The first disc revisits Fleetwood Mac's early years as a blues-rock combo, a six-year period that began in 1968 with the band's self-titled debut and ended in 1974 with its ninth studio album, Heroes Are Hard to Find. Many of the songs featured here were Top Ten hits in the U.K., including "Man of the World," "Oh Well—Pt. 1," "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) " and the #1 hit, "Albatross."

The second disc focuses on Fleetwood Mac's most commercially successful period, with music from a trio of multi-platinum releases—Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours (1977) and Tusk (1979)—plus the concert album Live (1980). Several of the band's most well-known tracks come from these albums, including "Rhiannon," "Say You Love Me," "Go Your Own Way," "Don't Stop," "You Make Loving Fun," and the #1 single "Dreams."

The final disc covers the years between 1982 and 2013, including major U.S. hits like, "Hold Me,” "Gypsy,” "Big Love," "Little Lies" and "Everywhere." Also featured are rarities ("Paper Doll" and "As Long As You Follow"); a live version of "Silver Springs" from the multi-platinum concert album, The Dance (1997); and "Sad Angel" from the band's most recent release, 2013’s Extended Play (2013).

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Shake Your Moneymaker
2. Black Magic Woman
3. Need Your Love So Bad
4. Albatross
5. Man Of The World
6. Oh Well - Pt. I
7. Rattlesnake Shake
8. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)
9. Tell Me All The Things You Do
10. Station Man - Single Version
11. Sands Of Time - Single Version
12. Spare Me A Little Of Your Love
13. Sentimental Lady - Single Version
14. Did You Ever Love Me
15. Emerald Eyes
16. Hypnotized
17. Heroes Are Hard To Find - Single Version

[CD2]
1. Monday Morning
2. Over My Head - Single Version
3. Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) - Single Version
4. Say You Love Me - Single Version
5. Landslide
6. Go Your Own Way
7. Dreams
8. Second Hand News
9. Don't Stop
10. The Chain
11. You Make Loving Fun
12. Tusk
13. Sara - Single Version
14. Think About Me - Single Version
15. Fireflies - Single Version
16. Never Going Back Again - Live

[CD3]
1. Hold Me
2. Gypsy
3. Love In Store
4. Oh Diane
5. Big Love
6. Seven Wonders
7. Little Lies
8. Everywhere
9. As Long As You Follow
10. Save Me - Single Version
11. Love Shines
12. Paper Doll
13. I Do - Edit
14. Silver Springs - Live-Edit
15. Peacekeeper
16. Say You Will
17. Sad Angel

3CD Set (shown above)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HQ7LJGB/?tag=imwan-20

1CD Distillation
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HQ7GD84/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:22 pm

In a new interview with Billboard, Mick Fleetwood mentions that there's a "50-year package" on the horizon:

Quote:

What are you most looking forward to about the upcoming Fleetwood Mac tour?

We’re very excited. Obviously this is a huge change with the advent of Lindsey Buckingham not being a part of Fleetwood Mac. We all wish him well and all the rest of it. In truthful language, we just weren’t happy. And I’ll leave it at that in terms of the dynamic. And he’s going out on the road more or less the same time I think -- not in the same places, I hope (laughs). So we’re with Mike Campbell from Tom Petty and Neil Finn from Crowded House -- both really credible gentleman and really talented. We are a week into rehearsals and it’s going really well and we’re looking forward, in true Fleetwood Mac style. If you know anything about the history of this band, it’s sort of peppered with this type of dramatic stuff. It’s a strange band really. It’s ironic that we have a 50-year package coming out with all the old blues stuff with Peter Green, all the incarnations of Fleetwood Mac, which was not of course planned. But that’s what we’re feeling, especially myself and John, having been in Fleetwood Mac for 55 years. So it’s exciting, totally challenging in the whole creative part of it, and we’re really loving it. We’re just looking at a whole 18 months on-and-off of trekking around the world like we normally do and having it be fun.

The full interview can found in our Fleetwood Mac general discussion thread: viewtopic.php?p=2922569#p2922569

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

The box set that came out in 1992 covers most of the stuff I'd want, as weirdly compiled as it was.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

The box set that came out in 1992 covers most of the stuff I'd want, as weirdly compiled as it was.

weirdly compiled......well said.

eelkiller · **Joined:** 10 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1681

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

The box set that came out in 1992 covers most of the stuff I'd want, as weirdly compiled as it was.

It does have decent sound and did give us single mixes on CD for the first time. So it has its merits.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

eelkiller wrote:

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

The box set that came out in 1992 covers most of the stuff I'd want, as weirdly compiled as it was.

It does have decent sound and did give us single mixes on CD for the first time. So it has its merits.

and all 5 'new' songs were pretty decent.

Rokin Robin of Locksley · 20 Oct 2007

I'll be rooting for a 6 CD box: 2 CDs of the blues band, 2 CDs of the middle era, 2 more of the rest...

Rick Peterson · **Joined:** 23 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 388

Hmm, I'd just want stuff from the beginning up to the last album before Buckingham and Nicks joined. Sure, there's SOME overlap as far as what percentage of fans love both eras (myself included), but I don't need ANY more material from 1975-on. That period is well-represented, the era from "Then Play On" through "Heroes" is woefully underserved.

djgarver · 18 Dec 2007

The 1999 Blue Horizon box is all I really need...

Although I appreciate the B/N era somewhat - Tango especially, the prior stuff is the only thing that really shows the peak of their musical career.

The rest just doesn't hold up for me. I still think Christine McVie is the best of what remains. better vocals and better songwriting.

Of course I realize it's a minority opinion....

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

The BH box was great; though I wish they would have left the studio chatter off of it. I remember it had superb mastering.

RackleNut · **Joined:** 07 Nov 2006 **Posts:** 1356

Renny wrote:

eelkiller wrote:

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

The box set that came out in 1992 covers most of the stuff I'd want, as weirdly compiled as it was.

It does have decent sound and did give us single mixes on CD for the first time. So it has its merits.

and all 5 'new' songs were pretty decent.

i only count 4 new songs on the box:
"paper doll," "heart of stone," "love shines," and "make me a mask."

what was the fifth?

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

RackleNut wrote:

Renny wrote:

eelkiller wrote:

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

The box set that came out in 1992 covers most of the stuff I'd want, as weirdly compiled as it was.

It does have decent sound and did give us single mixes on CD for the first time. So it has its merits.

and all 5 'new' songs were pretty decent.

i only count 4 new songs on the box:
"paper doll," "heart of stone," "love shines," and "make me a mask."

what was the fifth?

semantics i guess:

actually there were 2:

"teen beat" and 'trinity"

'teen beat' unreleased song from 'mirage" - "trinity' unreleased song form 1971

pretty sure that everything else on it (except 'stand back" live) was released before.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

eelkiller wrote:

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

The box set that came out in 1992 covers most of the stuff I'd want, as weirdly compiled as it was.

It does have decent sound and did give us single mixes on CD for the first time. So it has its merits.

I still have that box also.

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

I wonder what the rationale was for the way The Chain box set was compiled. Non-chronological, with the Buckingham Nicks version of the band represented on the first three discs, with the last disc devoted to the pre-1975 incarnations of the band.

Invisible Pedestrian · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 26163

This sounds more like a 50th anniversary 3 CD collection, which have become the norm for these bands with their 40th and 50th anniversaries.

Deep Purple, The Hollies, Foreigner, Kiss, The Who, Genesis, the Stones and others have done them and some of them have been very well done and others pretty half-assed.

djgarver · 18 Dec 2007

Geff R. wrote:

eelkiller wrote:

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

The box set that came out in 1992 covers most of the stuff I'd want, as weirdly compiled as it was.

It does have decent sound and did give us single mixes on CD for the first time. So it has its merits.

I still have that box also.

A great set to be sure - my favorite FM CD is the Japanese SHM version of English Rose, still my favorite Mac CD,
followed close behind is the Boston Tea Party 3 disc collection on Snapper. Boy does that set cook......such intensity!

eelkiller · **Joined:** 10 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1681

Is the SHM English Rose a new mastering or strictly a "technological advance".

eelkiller · **Joined:** 10 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1681

The Blue Horizon box plus the Then Play On remaster is all I need for the Peter Green years, the only thing I could use is a decent sounding compilation of the Welch/Kirwan years. I can guarantee this new set will not be the solution unless it is a mega box with all albums remastered. The price would be astronomical however.

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

There are 24 bit dl's for most (all?) of the Welch/Kirwin cd's. Bare Trees is my fav musically. Sound is good, not awesome.

djgarver · 18 Dec 2007

eelkiller wrote:

Is the SHM English Rose a new mastering or strictly a "technological advance".

eelkiller, I need to clarify (my mistake :oops:

) - this is a Blu-spec CD 2, issued in 2013.

The only other English Rose version that I've seen is from Japan in 1991.

The newer version sounds much better to my ears....

Who knows? - in 1991 might even have been 16 bit vs. 20 bit...or even 24 bit in 2013.

I keep my Blu-spec and SHM cds together in my Can-Am storage so I mistakenly thought it was SHM...still the best sounding version though.

No notes in the Blu-spec 2 on any remastering however, nor in the 1991 version....

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

Blu-spec is 16 bit. "24 bit" cd's is a marketing SCAM. CD can only reproduce 16 bits. At best, it likely means someone did a 24 bit archival transfer & neglects to mention that they downsampled to 16 bit for cd (which will usually sound slightly worse than a recording originally in 16 bit). (2 exceptions: HDCD kind of does 20 bit with a hardware decoder; & it is rumored that MQA with the right hardware can do a "lossy 24 bit"; whatever that means). I'm a bit frightened by ""lossy" 24 bit..... Anyone remember DCC Tape or Sony Mini Discs? Funny that the audiophile community had a FIT over those 16 bit lossy formats, but I haven't heard a similar outcry re: MQA. I'm also not sure yet how accurate the MQA claim is.

The basic physical standards of cd do limit it to 16 bit.

eelkiller · **Joined:** 10 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1681

djgarver wrote:

eelkiller wrote:

Is the SHM English Rose a new mastering or strictly a "technological advance".

eelkiller, I need to clarify (my mistake :oops:

) - this is a Blu-spec CD 2, issued in 2013.

The only other English Rose version that I've seen is from Japan in 1991.

The newer version sounds much better to my ears....

Who knows? - in 1991 might even have been 16 bit vs. 20 bit...or even 24 bit in 2013.

I keep my Blu-spec and SHM cds together in my Can-Am storage so I mistakenly thought it was SHM...still the best sounding version though.

No notes in the Blu-spec 2 on any remastering however, nor in the 1991 version....

Okay, thanks for the clarification, sounds like they did "touch it up". I have never seen a copy of the version you own in the stores but found it on Discogs.

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