pressing of Then Play On has almost the same track listing, except it is missing “On A Sunny Day” and “Without You.” The later 1970s pressing not only loses those tracks (Danny Kirwan’s “My Dream” and “When You Say”) but also instead replaces them with “Oh Well,” a single which had become a hit around that time. reissue pressing restores the original UK edition’s 14-track running order for (as far as I can tell) the first time. but … the other day I came across a reissue pressing which I decided to try. I decided I needed to keep both editions, at least until I could find a - hopefully - complete original UK edition. A little research on the Wiki revealed a multitude of sins committed by the music industry to this record here in America including deleting some tracks and sloppily editing others. And then shortly there after at a garage sale I serendipitously found an original pressing (with the orange top Reprise label) with a different track listing. So I enjoyed the copy of Then Play On which had been given to me from my friend’s friend’s collection. Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, if you will. For the first time I could hear that at its core, the core band of Fleetwood Mac that made all those slick, super smash mid-70s pop albums really had the rock chops from their days doing raw bluesy stuff, first with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and later with the early, rawer, bluesier Mac. When I put on Then Play On, my jaw kind of dropped as I finally realized what all the buzz about this band’s past was about. I started to explore them, playing the early stuff first.
#GARAGESALE MAC REVIEW UPGRADE#
And there was a bunch of stuff I had, some of which were upgrade copies.īut also, there were a bunch of albums there by artists I hadn’t really dug down into including all of the key Fleetwood Mac albums. I tried to offer him some money, but he wouldn’t have it.Īdmittedly, there was a lot of beat up and common pop stuff there which I immediately donated to a favorite local thrift shop (where all proceeds from sales go to charities you can designate). Yes, he gave it to me, about 1000 albums. A friend of a friend gave me his entire record collection as he was purging things from his past lives. Over the years friends tried to turn me on to Tusk and then the uber-hip out-of-print Buckingham-Nicks album.
It was ok and the hooks were undeniably catchy, but I never connected with the music emotionally. High you couldn’t escape hearing tracks from their eponymously titled mid 70s album and its follow up, Rumors, everywhere you went. I never liked them when I was growing up - in Jr. My journey to appreciating Fleetwood Mac has been bumpy. is it confusing to figure out which versions to get and whether to bother with keeping old copies around (especially as a newbie fan). That “One” album I completely missed along the way.įleetwood Mac’s Then Play On is that album and it is that good.īut… oh, man…. I sure picked a fine album to designate as “The One” that would change my mind about a band I used to not like at all… That “One” album that is so good it stands up proudly along all the finest releases of its day such as the first couple Led Zeppelin albums… The Pretty Things’ Parachute… Blind Faith… Tommy… The Kinks’ Arthur… and, yes, even The Beatles’ Abbey Road. Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsApp
0 kommentar(er)
