The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac

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Editorial reviews

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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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-08-12 rating:
Amazing!
I was looking for somewhere to start to begin my Fleetwood Mac education having vague childhood memories of it from the influence of my parents, and I couldn't have picked a better place to start!

This is a wonderful compliation which covers different eras of Fleetwood Mac's musical development, and with that comes some very different sounds to their music.

I love it more everytime I listen to it!!

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review by: date: 2005-02-15 rating:
worth hearing
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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review by: Marty From SF date: 2004-06-21 rating:
The 'Nearly' Complete Set
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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review by: djenkins3 date: 2004-01-02 rating:
Great CD
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.


review by: cavillmarc date: 2003-05-02 rating:
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 songs. Stevie Nicks is an ace guitarist and songwriter. the album also contains 'The Chain' which was the BBC's formula 1 theme all those years ago. very good.

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