Their manager even put out a fake Fleetwood Mac line-up on the road, emphasizing the band’s anonymity at the time. After having lost original visionary Peter Green to the depths of drug abuse and mental illness, the band burned through guitarists and singers while remaining a rudderless ship. Lineup: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Bob Welch.īob Welch is the unsung hero of Fleetwood Mac. The band did a hard reset to their Rumours-era lineup after this, and the world promptly forgot that Time ever existed. It’s the only Fleetwood Mac album not worth listening to for any reason whatsoever. Mick Fleetwood has a lead vocal on the spoken word album closer. Not helping matters was the fact that the band dove headfirst into toothless adult contemporary and twangy country-rock. This album represents the absolute recorded and cultural nadir of the once-mighty Fleetwood Mac. In their place were three musicians who never should have had anything to do with the Mac: legendary Traffic guitarist Dave Mason, guitarist Billy Burnette, and singer Bekka Bramlet, whose parents were the ’70s duo, Delaney and Bonnie. Lindsey Buckingham had quit almost a decade prior, and Stevie Nicks decided to depart four years earlier after a dispute involving the use of her song ‘Silver Springs’ in a band box set. Lineup: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Bekka Bramlet, Dave Mason, Billy Burnette. Every Fleetwood Mac album ranked from worst to best: 17. This means live albums, EPs, compilations, and one-offs like Fleetwood Mac in Chicago, which officially credits other musicians, will not be included. Every new Fleetwood Mac move has a reason behind it.Ī quick note: we’ll be covering the seventeen studio albums that are credited solely to Fleetwood Mac. The reason the Mac are able to sustain their reputation as one of music’s most legendary groups is that through every new turn there lies a surprising amount of great material and purpose.
Listening to the band’s debut is a completely different experience from listening to Rumours, or Bare Trees, or Tango in the Night, or Kiln House, or Behind the Mask, or Say You Will. With every new member came a different stylistic muse, pushing and pulling the group’s recorded output through changeups, shakedowns, makeovers, and complete reinventions. Along the way, the music the group added and subtracted sonic elements as frequently as the band themselves added and subtracted musicians. They are a band who changed with the times, originally storming the British blues scene of the late 1960s with guitar virtuoso Peter Green as the bandleader and continuing to this day with a strange smattering of original members, classic-era vocalists, and impressively-resumed hired guns. It goes without saying that Fleetwood Mac are a constantly evolving entity. Granted, you would be pushed right up against the 24-hour mark, but still. Instead, if you were so inclined, you could put on the entirety of the Mac’s discography and be done before the sun rose the following morning. That might sound like a ludicrous opening statement since seventeen/eighteen studio albums is nothing to scoff at (we’ll address the numerical discrepancy later), but a band that’s burned through as many different members, explored as many different genres, and survived as many intra-band crises as Fleetwood Mac has should presumably have an insurmountable amount of music to sift through. You would think that a band like Fleetwood Mac would have more material.
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