on 6xLP Clear Vinyl

In 1975, a new lineup of the already reconfigured-many-times-over band Fleetwood Mac emerged, overhauling their sound with the addition of dual songwriters/vocalists Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Everything after that is rock & roll history, with the band's supernatural chemistry and their newfound blend of pop magic and mysterious, moody songwriting instantly topping the charts and quickly making Fleetwood Mac one of the most popular and successful bands in the world. Fleetwood Mac 1975 to 1987 presents the studio output of the band's unparalleled run at their commercial and creative heights. The five albums included here in chronological order begin with the self-titled 1975 record, an impressive collection of hit singles and decent non-single tracks. The album topped the chart and positioned Fleetwood Mac as contenders in the mid-'70s radio rock landscape. However, nothing could have prepared the world for the ubiquitous success of 1977's Rumours, one of the best-selling and most acclaimed albums of all time. The album's importance in the canon of popular music is singular, and its perfect construction and timeless songs still sound fresh and exciting decades later. By the time of 1979's Tusk, success and excess had gotten to the band, and some detractors found the album to be bloated and confused. While the sprawling double-album isn't as focused and perfectly executed as Rumours, it still creates a world unlike anything else, even if it's a world where pop smarts are overwhelmed by chaos more often than not. 1982's Mirage found its way back to a more accessible kind of soft rock, with singles like "Gypsy" and "Hold Me" easing the band into the '80s. Finally, the set is rounded out by 1987's Tango in the Night, a commercial return-to-form for the band that includes huge mid-'80s hits "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" in an album that became the group's biggest seller since Rumours. All five of these LPs are platinum-selling smashes, all of them landing within the Top Ten of the Billboard chart, with only Tango in the Night and Tusk failing to hit the number one spot. Having the band's entire output from this incredible stretch in one place is a fantastic way to zero in on what made these songs -- even those that were so popular they were inescapable -- so special and so welcome despite their omnipresence.

Fleetwood Mac    
A1        Monday Morning
A2        Warm Ways
A3        Blue Letter
A4        Rhiannon
A5        Over My Head
A6        Crystal
B1        Say You Love Me
B2        Landslide
B3        World Turning
B4        Sugar Daddy
B5        I'm So Afraid
Rumours    
C1        Second Hand News
C2        Dreams
C3        Never Going Back Again
C4        Don't Stop
C5        Go Your Own Way
C6        Songbird
D1        The Chain
D2        You Make Loving Fun
D3        I Don't Want To Know
D4        Oh Daddy
D5        Gold Dust Woman
Tusk    
E1        Over & Over
E2        The Ledge
E3        Think About Me
E4        Save Me A Place
E5        Sara
F1        What Makes You Think You're The One
F2        Storms
F3        That's All For Everyone
F4        Not That Funny
F5        Sisters Of The Moon
G1        Angel
G2        That's Enough For Me
G3        Brown Eyes
G4        Never Make Me Cry
G5        I Know I'm Not Wrong
H1        Honey Hi
H2        Beautiful Child
H3        Walk A Thin Line
H4        Tusk
H5        Never Forget
Mirage    
I1        Love In Store
I2        Can't Go Back
I3        That's Alright
I4        Book Of Love
I5        Gypsy
I6        Only Over You
J1        Empire State
J2        Straight Back
J3        Hold Me
J4        Oh Diane
J5        Eyes Of The World
J6        Wish You Were Here
Tango In The Night    
K1        Big Love
K2        Seven Wonders
K3        Everywhere
K4        Caroline
K5        Tango In The Night
K6        Mystified
L1        Little Lies
L2        Family Man
L3        Welcome To The Room...Sara
L4        Isn't It Midnight
L5        When I See You Again
L6        You And I, Part II