50 Years - Don't Stop - varations
 

The album has just dropped on streaming services in the UK and whether here or worldwide I don't know but there are ten tracks missing from the original list and ten in their place.

For starters everything from pre-Warners has gone so that's the first five of the originally billed disc one.

Also gone are Station Man, Emerald Eyes, Monday Morning, Second Hand News and Fireflies (was looking forward to that single version).

In their place we have (in chronological order)

Jewel Eyed Judy
Remember Me
For Your Love
Warm Ways
Not That Funny
Family Man
Isn't it Midnight
No Questions Asked
Love is Dangerous
Skies the Limit

Looks like they've really gone to town on making it a singles collection though Dragonfly's omission is inexcusable by that standard and same with Fireflies and ITBOMM.

Also the promised live versions of Never Going Back Again and Silver Springs have been replaced by the studio originals.

Ah well, time to hit play on the single versions.

Are these new tracks at least remastered like the others?

They dropped Emerald Eyes for For Your Love? Lameness.

Yes they are. They sound incredible and I've posted links to them on YouTube in the Present Band froum.

Maybe they changed the track list for the streaming version, but the cd and LP versions have the tracklist as originally announced. Which is a relief because I mostly wanted "Fireflies" and I also never ever want to hear "Not That Funny" again! ;-)

Totally inexcusable. That decision has MORON written all over it.

Has Dragonfly ever been remastered on anything?

The streaming version has odd choices and inexplicable sequencing.

Love Is Dangerous?
Love Shines?

Weird.

How is the remastering?

The remastering is quite amazing... esp on the old pre-BN Christine songs... and even on tunes like Save Me, Skies the Limit and No Questions Asked. hearing lots of new things!

Is there anything interesting in the sleeve notes? Like an apology for there not being a new track and not calling the album "45 years- have stopped"


Silly old me.

I like the Tusk version but not the live version that sounds like he is being electrocuted at various moments in the song.

Apparently Stevie was not consulted. ;)

So i made a hybrid 60 track album of all the tracks from the physical and streaming versions of Don't Stop and put them all in the chronological order of the physical release

CD1
01. Shake Your Moneymaker
02. Black Magic Woman
03. Need Your Love So Bad
04. Albatross
05. Man Of The World
06. Oh Well – Pt. I
07. Rattlesnake Shake
08. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)
09. Tell Me All The Things You Do
10. Jewel Eyed Judy
11. Station Man – Single Version
12. Sands Of Time – Single Version
13. Spare Me A Little Of Your Love
14. Sentimental Lady – Single Version
15. Did You Ever Love Me
16. Remember Me
17. Emerald Eyes
18. For Your Love
19. Hypnotized
20. Heroes Are Hard To Find – Single Version.

CD2
01. Warm Ways
02. Monday Morning
03. Over My Head – Single Version
04. Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) – Single Version
05. Say You Love Me – Single Version
06. Landslide
07. Go Your Own Way
08. Dreams
09. Second Hand News
10. Don’t Stop
11. The Chain
12. You Make Loving Fun
13. Tusk
14. Sara – Single Version
15. Not That Funny
16. Think About Me – Single Version
17. Fireflies – Single Version
18. Never Going Back Again (Live from 1980 Tusk Tour)
19. Hold Me
20. Gypsy

CD3
01. Love In Store
02. Oh Diane
03. Big Love
04. Seven Wonders
05. Little Lies
06. Family Man
07. Everywhere
08. Isn't It Midnight
09. As Long As You Follow
10. No Questions Asked
11. Save Me – Single Version
12. Skies The Limit
13. Love Is Dangerous
14. Love Shines
15. Paper Doll
16. I Do – Edit
17. Silver Springs (Live from Warner Brothers Studio, Burbank, CA, 5/23/1997 [Edit])
18. Peacekeeper
19. Say You Will
20. Sad Angel

It all still fits on 3 CDs so i don't know why they just didn't put it out as a 60 track album instead.

Great, awesome! And the volume is not too quiet? For some reason my copy of The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac has quite a high volume, which is good, because for example the Tango in the Night remaster is lower volume. And when I randomly play Tango songs with current pop songs, it's suddenly too quiet to hear it properly without changing volume.

Because 50 songs for 50 years concept is quite cool :)

What's the logic behind the order of the real CDs? Is it completely chronological? Doesn't seem that way...?