Fleetwood Mac has released so many great and distinctively different albums throughout their career, it proved difficult figuring out where to place their debut album. There needed to be a spot on this top 10 Fleetwood Mac albums list for the band’s debut album in 1968. The albums third single entitled “Little Lies,” written by Christine McVie and Eddy Quintela was an even bigger hit peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts. The albums lead off single “Big Love,” was a top 10 hit in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100. Six singles were released from the Tango In The Night album.
The classic 1975 to 1978 lineup was built on releasing hit singles off their albums. The group did release The Dance album in 1997 but as previously written that was a live album based on a reunion. The album is historic in the sense that it was the last Fleetwood Mac studio album that utilized the multi million dollar lineup of Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. The Tango In The Night album was released in April of 1987. Tango In The Night is the first Stevie Nicks / Lindsey Buckingham era Fleetwood Mac album to be presented on this Fleetwood Mac albums list. Christine McVie”s songs “Homeward Bound” and “Spare Me a Little of Your Love” were also album highlights. Other standout tracks included Kirwans’ “Child of Mine” “Dust,” and Sunny Side Of Heaven.
Bob Welch’s song “Sentimental Lady,” was one of the standout tracks on the album. The Fleetwood Mac album Bare Trees contained one of the most loved Fleetwood Mac songs from the pre Stevie Nicks / Lindsey Buckingham era. It would later benefit from the success of the Stevie Nicks / Lindsey Buckingham era as fans of that band brought back catalog sending Bare Trees to achieve platinum selling status. The album did extremely well having gone Gold when it was released. The Bare Treess album would be Danny Kirwan’s final album with the band. At the time of release the band that performed on the album consisted of Mick Fleetwood on drums, John McVie on bass, Christine McVie on keyboards and Bob Welch and Danny Kirwan on guitars. The Fleetwood Mac album Bare Trees was released in March of 1972. The album featured the classic Fleetwood Mac song “Hypnotized.” The line up in the band at this point in time consisted of Mick Fleetwood on drums, John McVie on bass, Christine McVie on keyboards and Bob Welch and Bob Weston on guitars. The album was released in October of 1973. How could we leave The Dance one off this list? # 9 – Mystery To MeĬontinuing with our top 10 Fleetwood Mac albums we turn to the album Mystery To Me. Everything that made Fleetwood Mac as great as they were in the 1970s was on display in this concert and displayed in that video. You could see the tension, sense the love and feel the hate. It was equally fascinating the way Buckingham responded. The accompanying video was chilling in the way Stevie Nicks stared down Lindsey Buckingham throughout the night. Three big singles were released from the album including the unreleased track “Silver Springs.” It was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards. It became the fifth biggest selling live album of all time. The album shot straight to number one on the Billboard album charts. It had been ten years since the mid-seventies classic lineup had played together.
However, Fleetwood Mac’s album The Dance was very significant in many ways. We usually never put live albums on our top 10 list we usually reserve them for the live album lists. We open up our top 10 Fleetwood Mac albums with the Fleetwood Mac album The Dance. Let us know which ones you would have picked. These are our 10 favorite Fleetwood Mac albums. This wont be easy, but it sure will be fun. This list is geared towards those who love all of the bands lineups and also those who are unfamiliar with many of the groups albums from all the periods. And of course there are those that enjoy everything. There are the fans that like everything from the point when Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham joined. There are the fans from the early days who love the band’s albums before Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham joined the band. There are three separate Fleetwood Mac fan bases.
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