If you'd asked me an hour ago to name a single Fleetwood Mac song, I'd have struggled. I'd heard of them, but that was it. The first track didn't really inspire much confidence and I thought the album was going to be a real slog. But, to my surprise a) I know a bunch of the songs and b) it's a completely killer album. I'm listening to it a second time through right now. It makes me happy.
I knew them by name and now I know I would have been happy if it stayed that way. It's actually pretty boring to listen too. It's well arranged, they can sing, but I'm bored to death and it's far too mellow for me. I was about to rate it with 2 stars, but it was saved by the Chain that is rather entertaining, and by the end of the last track that builds nicely some tension.
This album has been in my collection for many years. It's excellent.
This is another classic album that I haven’t listened to all the way through before, although I knew most of the tracks especially *that* bit from The Chain which is the theme tune for F1 racing in the UK for some reason. The back story to this album is interesting too, with most of the band going through drug problems and divorces, and somehow still managing to produce a whole load of optimistic love songs. My highlight was Songbird, one that was new to me
This is a perfect album, simple as that.