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The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
 
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The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
~ Fleetwood Mac (Artist)
4.4 out of 5 stars 7 customer reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
1. Go Your Own Way
2. Don’t Stop
3. Dreams
4. Little Lies
5. Everywhere
6. Albatross
7. You Make Loving Fun
8. Rhiannon
9. Black Magic Woman
10. Tusk
11. Say You Love Me
12. Man Of The World
13. Seven Wonders
14. Family Man
15. Sara
16. Monday Morning
17. Gypsy
18. Over My Head
19. Landslide
20. The Chain
See all 21 tracks on this disc

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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac? Frankly, it depends where you live, in a sort of "I say tom-ar-toe, you say toe-may-doe" kind of way. Broadly speaking, the most notably interesting (and commercially successful) periods of Fleetwood Mac's episodic history remain the grubby blues of the original Peter Green-led incarnation of the late 1960s (big in Britain but a non-entity in America) and the refined, mid-1970s divorce-dissecting AOR of the Buckingham / Nicks Rumours era (big everywhere). It is fairly safe to assume that neither British nor American passport-holders are particularly interested in what happened in between. So then, the UK retail version of The Very Best of rightly condescends to throw in such Peter Green classics as the instrumental "Albatross" (a Number One single) and "Black Magic Woman" but--and here's the gripe--omits both "On Well" and "Green Manalishi" in favour of such peripherals as the less-than-spectacular 1988 Number 54 hit "Family Man".

It could be worse. The American Very Best of (unlike its British counterpart, a two-CD set available on import) incredulously neglects to include anything from the Peter Green line-up at all, not even the sulky brooding of the sensuous "Man of the World" (possibly the finest song ever written), a little matter that American audiences ought to find time to raise with the United Nations. Still, there can be no quarrel with most of what is on here, after all, there's a sizeable chunk from the Lazarus-style comeback of Tango in the Night and the multi-platinum Rumours(the gossamer-like timelessness of "Dreams" even managing to withstand a recent faux-folky mauling from the Corrs) it's just that there isn't enough of it. Can someone please hurry up and make CDs that play for two hours? --Kevin Maidment

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This single-disc 21-track Fleetwood Mac collection spans three decades of material and reflects their many personnel changes. From their late 1960's blues-rock, to their late 1980's radio friendly pop, to 1997's 'The Dance' project - all eras of the band's history are covered. Twelve top 40 hits are featured, including their 1968 no.1 single 'Albatross'.


 
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars worth hearing, 16 Feb 2005
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but the two disc American version is better, i think, simply because this UK version has only a few of the peter green era tracks. the american one is just the mega-platinum stadium era stuff, while the original Mac can be sampled exclusively and far more extensively on the latest Sony compilation. do it that way, and have the best of both worlds, or just get the cd from the era you like better.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great CD, 2 Jan 2004
Having seen Fleetwood Mac in a great live concert in Belfast 2003 I bought this greatest hits CD and it lived up to my expectations. Like almost everyone else on the planet I already had somme Fleetwood Mac in my collection (In my case Rumours and Tusk)but this CD brings the best of those plus some essential tracks which were missing from my collection such as Gypsy and Rhiannon.
If you do not own any Fleetwood Mac this is a great CD to start with.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The 'Nearly' Complete Set, 22 Jun 2004
By Martin A Hogan "Marty From SF" (San Francisco, CA.) - See all my reviews
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I've always been happy with my Fleetwood Mac Box Set and the 1990 Greatest Hits. But this double CD collection has sixteen more songs than the one from twelve years prior. These include such unforgettable classics like, "Monday Morning", "Silver Springs", "Landslide", "Think About Me' and "Gold Dust Woman". "Family Man" and "Big Love (live)" are some clever Buckingham numbers, but not great. The videos on this Double CD are nice to watch, but one viewing will be all you'll probably need. Still, with the complete and exhaustive Box Set hard to find (and expensive), this surpasses the 1990 Greatest Hits collection by far. This is much more for the average interested fan, but also required for the collector - so it works for everyone.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Formula 1
A good old style band and this collection of songs is one of the best cd's ive got in a long time. excellent to chill out to as they don't have any real highs or lows in the... Read more
Published on 2 May 2003 by cavillmarc

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