Fleetwood Mac — The Alternate Fleetwood Mac
There’s not much I can say about this that I didn’t already say about the original album. This is a set of alternate versions and takes from the 1975 album that were released previously...
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Fleetwood Mac — Mirage
I thought I would have much less to say about this Fleetwood Mac album, which I rarely play. Coming out in 1982, nearly three years after “Tusk,” into a world that had changed quite...
Fleetwood Mac — Tusk
Back in 2003, I wrote on my blog: “Mr. Johnson has never actually listened to all of ‘Tusk,’ but he is thinking of doing so.” It took me another five years before I did,...
Fleetwood Mac — Rumours
What can I possibly say about one of the best, and best-selling, albums of all time? It was remarkable then, it’s remarkable now. Released in February, 1977, the winter of my junior year in...
Fleetwood Mac — Fleetwood Mac
This self-titled release from 1975 wasn’t their only self-titled release: their first album, from 1968, also carried only the band’s name. It’s a bit of a surprising decision — while they had been plodding...
Fleetwood Mac — Kiln House
I don’t know how it is that we have to keep reminding people that there was a Fleetwood Mac before Steve Nicks, before Lindsey Buckingham, even before Christine McVie. But apparently we do. So,...
The First Things — A Nation of Employees
This has to be one of the more obscure records in my collection — obscure enough that I had to create its entry in Discogs. I mentioned a cool kid named Pete Kates once...
Fetchin Bones — Monster
1989/1990 was a transition year for me. Done with grad school in Syracuse, leaving typesetting and the printing business behind, and moving to a fellowship with the New York State Senate in Albany. Weird...
Fanny — Charity Ball
Wow. Wow. Wow wow wow. I wrote just a little bit about Fanny back in August (F has been a bit of a slog, eh?). I was not one of those people who knew...
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