The Best of the Original Fleetwood Mac [Import]

Fleetwood Mac

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 18, 1995)
• Original Release Date: December 28, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Festival Records
• ASIN: B000006YPP
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #226,845 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Black Magic Woman

2. I've Lost My Baby

3. One Sunny Day

4. Without You

5. Coming Home

6. Albatross

7. Stop Messin' Round

8. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues

9. Doctor Brown

10. Love That Burns

11. My Heart Beat Like a Hammer

12. Merry-Go-Round

13. Hellhound on My Trail

14. World Keep on Turning

15. If I Loved Another Woman

16. Cold Black Night

17. Shake Your Moneymaker

18. No Place to Go

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Aussie compilation featuring 18 tracks, 'Black Magic Woman', 'I've Lost My Baby', 'One Sunny Day', 'Without You', 'Coming Home', 'Albatross', 'Stop Messin' 'Round', 'Jigsaw Puzzle Blues', 'Doctor Brown', 'Love That Burns', 'My Heart Beat Like A Hammer', 'Merry Go Round', 'Hellhound On My Trail', 'The World Keep On Turning', 'If I Loved Another Woman', 'Cold Black Night', 'Shake Your Moneymaker' & 'No Place To Go'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice primer for the original Fleetwood Mac, July 20, 2001

By	Prof Cicero "rhetoric boy" (South Bend, IN USA) - See all my reviews

While this isn't really the best of the original band, it gives a good overview of its early cuts. I say it's not really the best because it doesn't include "Man of the World" or "Green Manalishi," nor does it include "Oh Well" or anything else from the LP "Then Play On" (at least nothing from the American version--it has two cuts from the original UK version that were left off the US version because they were included on the US-only compilation "English Rose"). This CD, however, is a great collection of cuts from the original band's earliest albums (which were chopped and reformed in different ways for UK and USA audiences after their first LP, typical for the time). It includes Mac's first couple of bona fide hits ("Black Magic Woman" and "Albatross") and some b-sides that are really hard to find. Especially nice are the songs from their first album, which prove that the original Fleetwood Mac were just about the best English blues-rock band that year (Cream was in the process of dissolving) and the next. This CD does really pull the best songs from their first three (or two in the US) albums. You should get it now!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the original...maybe exaggerated...but great anyway, September 29, 2005

By	Steven W. Denison - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Basically, what this is is ALL of the "English Rose" album (tracks that made up side 2 presented first), plus the (arguably) best cuts from their first album (known in most FMac circles as "Dog & Dustbin").

If one is into the blues or just someone who wants a good starting point into the early days of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, this is it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The early legend deserves more recognition, July 6, 2000

By	Bruce Younger ((Way) Upstate NY) - See all my reviews

If you love Rumours and later Fleetwood Mac, this release may come as something of a shock. This is died-in-the-wool British Blues, and it is GREAT. Although I do not own this actual album, I do have an earlier (vinyl) anthology with most of the same songs on it from Mac's early blues days featuring guitar great Peter Green. Some of it is raw, a bit of garage-like echo, but the power is evident on both the blues covers and the original material. Lots of humorous stuff, too, like "Rattlesnake Shake" and "Got To Move". If you enjoy material like John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, early Cream, Paul Butterfield and other British and Chicago-styled blues artists, you will not be disappointed!