Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 2002)
• Original Release Date: October 12, 2002
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Best of
• Label: WEA/Reprise

Editorial Reviews Three dozen hits and key album tracks from 1975 to 1997, the first-everFleetwood Mac collection to be affordable yet comprehensive! This is mostlyall with the classic Mick Fleetwood-John McVie-Christine McVie-Stevie Nicks-Lindsey Buckingham lineup, whom you get to see in action on the enhanced CDrecording their new album along with rare archival footage. Includes Go YourOwn Way; Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win); Dreams; Don’t Stop; You Make LovingFun; The Chain; Tusk; Sara; Hold Me; Big Love (live); the rare B-side SilverSprings; Everywhere; Over My Head, and more. Spanning 22 years, this double-disc, 36-track compilation chronicles theinitially unlikely and ultimately triumphant conflation of a failing, veteranEnglish neo-blues band (Mick Fleetwood and the McVies) with a pair ofmercurial American also-rans (the baroque folk-rock genius Lindsey Buckinghamand crypto-songbird Stevie Nicks). The creative alchemy was immediate, as 15epochal tracks (“Dreams,” “Say You Love Me,” “The Chain,” “Don’t Stop”) from_Fleetwood Mac_ and _Rumours_ here attest. They could have arguably repeatedthat mega-successful formula for a decade, but chose a more musicallyexpansive tack, represented “Sara,” Think About Me” and the other core tracksdrawn from the ambitious _Tusk_. While the band’s megahit luster faded as thesolo careers of Buckingham and Nicks took flight in the ’80s, their power wasstill apparent in the dusky-bright pop of Christine McVie’s “Hold Me” and”Little Lies.” Sequenced with compelling listening rather than chronology inmind, this set also includes the strongest of the Mac’s latter-day recordings(Nicks’s “Paper Doll,” “Silver Springs,” and “No Questions Asked”; McVie’s “AsLong As You Follow”), as well the Lindsey Buckingham showcases “Go Insane” and”Big Love” from ’97’s _The Dance_. _–Jerry McCulley_