(2021) Fleetwood Mac - Live [Deluxe Edition]


Review:
Fleetwood Mac’s Live arrived in December 1980, roughly fourteen months after the adventurous Tusk. While Tusk had peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and yielded two U.S. top ten hits, it fell off the albums chart after nine months. (Rumours, in contrast, spent 31 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1977-1978, a record for a group or duo.) With the public still hungry for new Fleetwood Mac material, the band issued the sprawling double album Live. It was the first live album from the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood, and their only such release until 1997’s The Dance. Live was certified Gold by the RIAA in November 1981 and has remained a perennial in their catalogue ever since. The original album, produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut, was culled primarily from the 1979-1980 Tusk tour but with a few additions from the 1977 tour supporting Rumours.  It was a truly international affair, with songs recorded in cities including Tokyo, Paris, London, Nashville, Kansas City, Tucson, Cleveland, Santa Monica, St. Louis, and Oklahoma City.  The band dug back to the Peter Green days for “Oh Well” but mostly celebrated their recent triumphs such as “Say You Love Me,” “Dreams,” “Monday Morning,” “Sara,” “Landslide,” “Over My Head,” “Rhiannon,” and “Don’t Stop.”  One rarity was “Don’t Let Me Down Again” from Buckingham Nicks, as captured in Passaic, New Jersey in 1975.  Three new songs premiered on Live, too: Christine McVie’s “One More Night,” Stevie Nicks’ “Fireflies,” and a “backstage” rendition of Brian Wilson and Mike Love’s Beach Boys oldie “Farmer’s Daughter” with rich Mac harmonies.  Both “Fireflies” and “Farmer’s Daughter” were issued as singles, with the former peaking at No. 60 on the Hot 100.  The album itself reached No. 14 on the Billboard 200 and No. 31 on the U.K. Albums Chart. Now, Live is being reborn just over 40 years after its initial release. The two CDs and two LPs both have the remastered original double album. The third CD will offer 14 previously unreleased performances plus the unique single remix of “Fireflies.”





Tracklist:

Disc 1
01.Monday Morning
02.Say You Love Me
03.Dreams
04.Oh Well
05.Over & Over
06.Sara
07.Not That Funny
08.Never Going Back Again
09.Landslide

Disc 2
01.Fireflies
02.Over My Head
03.Rhiannon
04.Don’t Let Me Down Again
05.One More Night
06.Go Your Own Way
07.Don’t Stop
08.I’m So Afraid
09.The Farmer’s Daughter

Disc 3
01.Second Hand News
02.The Chain
03.Think About Me
04.What Makes You Think You’re the One
05.Gold Dust Woman
06.Brown Eyes
07.The Green Manalishi (with the Two-Pronged Crown)
08.Angel
09.Hold Me
10.Tusk
11.You Make Loving Fun
12.Sisters of the Moon
13.Songbird
14.Blue Letter
15.Fireflies (Remix – Long Version)


Media Report:
Genre: rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits