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| 1. Oh Well | |||
| 2. Oh Well | |||
| 3. Albatross | |||
| 4. Black Magic Woman | |||
| 5. Need Your Love So Bad | |||
| 6. My Heart Beat Like A Hammer | |||
| 7. Rollin' Man | |||
| 8. The Green Manalishi | |||
| 9. Man Of The World | |||
| 10. Something Inside Of Me | |||
| 11. Looking For Somebody | |||
| 12. Oh Well | |||
| 13. Rattlesnake Shake | |||
| 14. Merry Go Round | |||
| 15. I Loved Another Woman | |||
| 16. Need Your Love Tonight | |||
| 17. Worried Dream | |||
| 18. Dragonfly | |||
| 19. Stop Messin' Around | |||
| 20. Shake Your Moneymaker | |||
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Product Description
Fab remastered 20-track set of material from 1968 to 1971, plus Chris Coco and Peter Green's 2002 reworking of "Albatross".
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178 of 178 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There have been compilations before of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, the band he formed after leaving John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, but this latest one puts right most of the wrongs and omissions of those.
Everything you expect is here including Oh Well Parts 1 & 2 in its full 9 minute glory and without fading out in the middle, where you had to turn over the single, as previous collected versions had; and the previously unreleased US Version of Need Your Love So Bad, which is a superb extended six minute piece, with strings arranged by Mickey Baker (who played guitar on Little Willie John's original). Stop Messin' Round was on the flipside of Need Your Love So Bad, but it is here in the slighter shorter version used on the album Mr. Wonderful.
The towering magnificence of The Green Manalishi is also re-established by its inclusion. The compilation ends with a token track by Chicken Shack, because of Christine McVie's involvement with the band, and the then-recent hit remix of Albatross by Chris Coco, both of which I could have done without in this particular context, perhaps replaced by their first single, Rambling Pony/I Believe My Time Ain't Long.
Peter Green was up there with Hendrix and Clapton in the sixties and as well as his work with Fleetwood Mac it is well worth checking out the album A Hard Road by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
Everything you expect is here including Oh Well Parts 1 & 2 in its full 9 minute glory and without fading out in the middle, where you had to turn over the single, as previous collected versions had; and the previously unreleased US Version of Need Your Love So Bad, which is a superb extended six minute piece, with strings arranged by Mickey Baker (who played guitar on Little Willie John's original). Stop Messin' Round was on the flipside of Need Your Love So Bad, but it is here in the slighter shorter version used on the album Mr. Wonderful.
The towering magnificence of The Green Manalishi is also re-established by its inclusion. The compilation ends with a token track by Chicken Shack, because of Christine McVie's involvement with the band, and the then-recent hit remix of Albatross by Chris Coco, both of which I could have done without in this particular context, perhaps replaced by their first single, Rambling Pony/I Believe My Time Ain't Long.
Peter Green was up there with Hendrix and Clapton in the sixties and as well as his work with Fleetwood Mac it is well worth checking out the album A Hard Road by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
116 of 117 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Up until now it's been impossible to find a sensible and comprehensive overview of this "first iteration" of Fleetwood Mac's music... but here it is. Including virtually all of their best tracks, it pretty much perfectly captures what they were all about. A million miles away from their second (or was that fourth?) iteration that took the world by storm in the mid 70's & early 80's, this is a very different proposition. Featuring Peter Green's exceptional blues guitar playing & singing supported by the mercurial Jeremy Spencer's slide guitar and, latterly, Danny Kirwin's third lead guitar - none of who made it past their late 60's/early 70's implosion - and backed up by John McVie & Mick Fleetwood's ultra-tight rhythm section, they were, quite justifiably, one of the most successful groups to emerge from the UK's mid 60's R&B scene.
Like all "Best of..." compilations it arguably misses a couple of their lesser known "stand-out" tracks, in particular "Long Grey Mare" & "Without You", but just about everything else is here plus, as an added bonus, Christine McVie's wonderful rendition of "I'd Rather Go Blind" from her earlier Chicken Shack days and the excellent and previously difficult to find Danny Kirwin penned 1971 single "Dragonfly". And, on the way, you get all the hits, including the stunningly powerful "Oh Well Part 1" & "The Green Manalishi", the heart rending "Man of the World" and the beautiful, extended USA version of "Need Your Love So Bad", plus some real hidden gems, in particular Peter Green's outstanding vocals and guitar-work on his brilliant "I Loved Another Woman" and his fabulously "raw" harmonica playing on "Looking for Somebody".
So, if you're looking for "Rhiannon" & "Tusk" you've dropped into the wrong section of Fleetwood Mac's notoriously complex back catalogue, but if you're looking for some superb UK blues and R&B then you're most definitely in the right place.
96 of 97 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
For anyone out there (and I've come across one or two) who's only heard post-Green, Stevie Nicks and co. Fleetwood Mac, this album will be a big surprise as they might as well be two completely different bands. Some of the best music you'll ever hear is on this album, including Man of the World - in my opinion the greatest song of all time - and Albatross, surely THE instrumental that no other instrumental will ever match. It seems to me that when people think about THE guitarists of the 20th century it's always Hendrix/Clapton/Page way ahead of Peter Green, which is a great shame as the man is a genius and early Fleetwood Mac was groundbreaking stuff. This album is an essential addition to any 'proper' music collection!
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It's a pitty
Although the music on de cd is OK it's a pitty the disk cannot be played on a high end player. The cd seems not be in accordence with the Red Book standard. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dries
Get out of the MOR
Like early Rod Stewart, the early days of Fleetwood Mac produced some soulful blues rock. Like Rod, they then went to America and ballooned into an awfully bland product for... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jimothy
Sony could have done better
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Published 7 months ago by Colin Cramp
Excellent selection - what about a remaster?
This is one of the best blues compilations you'll ever come across.It compromises two basic varieties of material. Read more
Published 8 months ago by os
Great collection of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
I love the Blues, especially electric Blues, and Peter Green is, possibly, or was, possibly, Britain's finest exponent of electric guitar Blues! (What about Eric Clapton?). Read more
Published 10 months ago by T. S. Hughes
The Green God !
Peter Green is better than Clapton and that is a fact my friends. Clapton retreated into the realms of his own backside wereas Peter Green had balls. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Dixa
Great compilation
A fine collection - early Fleetwood Mac was way ahead of its time. What a shame it all went wrong.
Published 13 months ago by Peter
At the top of his game...
I had almost forgotten a night in the late sixties at Oakengates Town Hall; that was a time when you could see groups like Fleetwood Mac in such humble venues; sadly I had quite... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Paul Mason
Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac
Flicking through channels one friday night i found a great programme on Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac. Read more
Published 14 months ago by mark
Bluesy, guitar-driven magic.
You really can't go wrong here, as all the positive reviews before this underline. This is a mouth-wateringly good compilation of Peter Green's guitar driven Fleetwood Mac. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Sentinel
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