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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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For me this album is Rumours part 2. Thats not to say it sounds anything like "Rumours" but more where "Rumours" left off. In its time it had a fair number of hit singles ("Hold me", "Gypsy", "Oh Diane") and made Fleetwood Mac popular again after the public rejection of "Tusk". To add to the wonderfully romantic hit singles are some of the Fleets greatest works...check out the wonderously slow build up in "Only over you", the guitar riff on "Eyes of the world" and the crazy beat of "Empire State"..
They were so near to making the perfect pop album...
Still, 4 stars is not bad.
They were so near to making the perfect pop album...
Still, 4 stars is not bad.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This album holds a slightly weird place in Fleetwood Mac's history. The classic line up is there so that at least guarantees it is better than any post Buckingham or post Nicks album which followed. But compared to 'Say You Will' being such a fine return to form, post Christine McVie (!!) it struggles to compete for the most part. Because it seems to me at least that the band were going through the motions somewhat....there are several fine moments here for sure but any great sense of daring or adventure as witnessed on Tusk (1979) is lacking. This is a safe record. Almost deliberately commercial after the wounding insults levelled at Tusk, this album is easy on the ear, if not exactly Easy Listening. But Rumours (1977) was also commercial, and considerably better than this.
Of course by most people's standards this is a fine album. We have after all the superb Gypsy from Stevie Nicks, the effortless single Oh Diane from Buckingham and at least one classic from Christine McVie in the closing number 'Wish You Were Here'. 'Hold Me' is catchy and inoffensive without achieving anything approaching classic status. 'Eyes Of the World' is compulsive Buckingham in the style he so ably demonstrated on Tusk. The rest is filler for the most part, enyoyable filler I admit at times ('Can't Go Back', 'That's Alright', 'Empire State') but the Stevie Nicks track 'Straight Back' is hardly worthy of a Nicks solo effort.
So this is The Mac treading water. They could still swim but were not making many waves with this. Compared to their best work at least. If halves were allowed then this would be 3,5 max. But as they are not, I will give it four, as my expectations are ridiculously high when I think of what they are capable of. I still play this album quite often after all so it is not an irrelevance by any means!
Of course by most people's standards this is a fine album. We have after all the superb Gypsy from Stevie Nicks, the effortless single Oh Diane from Buckingham and at least one classic from Christine McVie in the closing number 'Wish You Were Here'. 'Hold Me' is catchy and inoffensive without achieving anything approaching classic status. 'Eyes Of the World' is compulsive Buckingham in the style he so ably demonstrated on Tusk. The rest is filler for the most part, enyoyable filler I admit at times ('Can't Go Back', 'That's Alright', 'Empire State') but the Stevie Nicks track 'Straight Back' is hardly worthy of a Nicks solo effort.
So this is The Mac treading water. They could still swim but were not making many waves with this. Compared to their best work at least. If halves were allowed then this would be 3,5 max. But as they are not, I will give it four, as my expectations are ridiculously high when I think of what they are capable of. I still play this album quite often after all so it is not an irrelevance by any means!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a difficult album to assess and many Fleetwood Mac fans are slightly ambivalent about it. Mirage in some ways looks forward to the overproduced Tango in the Night, but also hearkens back to Rumours and Fleetwood Mac. It's not a transitional album in any way, but it's also not entirely the work of a band treading water creatively. The Nicks compositions are the best songs on the album overall - the countrified and irresistibly catchy That's Alright, the slinky Straight Back and the great Gypsy-but it's Christine McVie's Hold Me that seems to be the core of the album. The interplay of the vocalists and guitar work echo You Make Loving Fun and show how Buckingham could flesh out McVie's sometime banal pop and make great songs of it. Buckingham's contributions are uneven and Oh Diane is probably one of the worst Mac songs ever, but Book of Love shines. Mirage is by no means a great album, but it is their last album that evoked the brilliance of their work in the 70s. If only it could make me forget the mess that is Tango in the Night!
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Very poor effort
This isn't so much the sound of Fleetwood Mac treading water as the sound of unhappy, disunited individuals abusing the goodwill of their fanbase. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Jamie P. Kitson
under-rated classic
This is actually an under-rated classic, up there with the Mac's best albums. Yes, it does have the execrable 'Oh Diane', the worst song on the album and one of the worst songs... Read more
Published 18 months ago by dbreading
Excellent
If you like Fleetwood Mac I don't need to go on.
EXCELLENT!
If you are new to Fleetwood Mac
EXCELLENT!!
EXCELLENT!
If you are new to Fleetwood Mac
EXCELLENT!!
Published 20 months ago by Dean Allison
Mac thoughts.
For me, there isn't a bad track on this album. I love it, possibly more than all other mac albums and I love a lot of their output.
Published 21 months ago by K. Watton
Mirage
Being a huge Fleetwood Mac, this album slightly disappoints. By far, the best song is the fabby Gypsy by the fantastic Stevie Nicks. Read more
Published on 17 April 2010 by Lisa Jack
Mirage Fleetwood Mac
I think this is just Great, ok the Mac have done other stuff but for me this is The Album, Gypsy, wish you were here, Hold me and the fab book of Love. Read more
Published on 18 Dec 2008 by Keith D. Warburton
Mirage by Fleetwood Mac
Being a pretty big fan of Fleetwood Mac I was, to be honest, slightlydisappointed with this album. The highlight is Gypsy, an upbeat song withinteresting harmony (listen to a clip... Read more
Published on 28 April 2004 by E. Goodall
Rumours is great. So is this, but they're different!
I love this album. I have only given it 4 stars because a) it has the dreadful "Oh Diane" on it, which was the only Fleetwood Mac song on the jukebox when I was at school, and b)... Read more
Published on 23 April 2004 by Nicholas Tier
Not the best but more accessible than the flimsy 'Tusk'
Fleetwood Mac's 'Mirage' is really a mixture of two albums. The classic soft rock of 'Rumours' (1977) is intertwined with the brief and sometimes too rushed pop-rock of 'Tusk'... Read more
Published on 6 May 2002
The weakest of the Buckingham era.
Mirage is the forgotten album of Lindsey Buckingham's time in Fleetwood Mac. This album has a much more mellow sound to it when compared with the rest of the band's work. Read more
Published on 15 July 2000
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