Then Play On: Favorite Non-Hits

[MacShadowsBall]

Vote for 3 songs as your favorite non-hits from Then Play On. Oh Well is a hit and not in the contest. Since there is a limit of 10 choices, I left the 'Madge' songs out. You may reply your vote for those.

Poll closes in 4 days.

[Wouter Vuijk]

Why did you leave out 4 beautiful tracks:
Fighting For Madge
One Sunny Day
Without You
Searching For Madge
????????

See the track listing (the ORIGINAL) here at the Penguin (http://discog.fleetwoodmac.net/discog.php?pid=85 and in my record collection:

Original UK Vinyl Pressing Tracklisting:
Coming Your Way
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:47
Closing My Eyes
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 4:50
Fighting For Madge
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:45
Show-Biz Blues
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:50
When You Say
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 4:22
Underway
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:51
Comments: (Edit)
One Sunny Day
Date Performance: 1968-10-06, Running Time: 3:11
Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond St, London. Harmonica can be heard on this track (presumably played by Peter Green. However, Mike Vernon does not list this instrument as being played on this track in his notes for The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions.
Although The Sun Is Shining
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:31
Rattlesnake Shake
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:32
Without You
Date Performance: 1968-10-06, Running Time: 4:30
Comments: Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London.
Searching For Madge
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 6:56
My Dream
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:30
Like Crying
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 2:21
Before The Beginning
Date Performance: 1969-06-00, Running Time: 3:28

[Wouter Vuijk]

Here are the LP labels

[MacShadowsBall]

As I said in the original post, there is a limit of 10 choices in a poll. Secondly, "Without You" and "One Sunny Day" were on the English Rose / Pious Bird of Good Omen album poll last week.

[doodyhead]

How do you account for the other tracks that are on the US pressing of Then Play On?

in particular, were there any "Hits" from the Uk version of "Then Play On"
and conversly what was not included in your poll of either album

[Wouter Vuijk]

Originally Posted by MacShadowsBall

As I said in the original post, there is a limit of 10 choices in a poll. Secondly, "Without You" and "One Sunny Day" were on the English Rose / Pious Bird of Good Omen album poll last week.

Yes I know. But I did not vote on English Rose / Pious Bird og Good Omen because I don't regard them as officially new Fleetwood Mac albums of the time. In my opinion they were just compilation albums (of songs on "real" albums and singles).
The reason for limiting to 10 songs seems unlogic. Keep it to original first releases of the albums (which did not include Oh Well anyway) and just exclude the hits (for which countries, by the way?).

[doodyhead]

The poll taker was not around during this time and was not in either of our countries

Mr Wonderful the second album, was only issued in the US as an import
English Rose was the official US secoond release, and was modified to include potential hit songs not on Mr Wonderful and remove others for reasons unknown. ( I did not get to hear Rollong Man for years after I became a PG/FM fan)

Then Play On had a UK release and US release with different tracks
The US version Had Oh Well . The UK version had those other tracks that the pollster elected to put in PBOGO
(interestingly, to me, I bought the Then Play ON in the US, as an import before the US release, and was looking for OH Well which was not on it. I loved the Album anyway)

The Pius Bird of Good Omen was also not a US release but also an after the fact import
why these are included, I guess is the dicretion of the pollster, however flawed it is.

OH Well!

[Mario]

Originally Posted by Wouter Vuijk

Here are the LP labels

I've got this 1970 re-release...oddly enough they released tha album only one year after its original issue...

[jeremy spencer]

Originally Posted by doodyhead

The poll taker was not around during this time and was not in either of our countries

Mr Wonderful the second album, was only issued in the US as an import
English Rose was the official US secoond release, and was modified to include potential hit songs not on Mr Wonderful and remove others for reasons unknown. ( I did not get to hear Rollong Man for years after I became a PG/FM fan)

Then Play On had a UK release and US release with different tracks
The US version Had Oh Well . The UK version had those other tracks that the pollster elected to put in PBOGO
(interestingly, to me, I bought the Then Play ON in the US, as an import before the US release, and was looking for OH Well which was not on it. I loved the Album anyway)

The Pius Bird of Good Omen was also not a US release but also an after the fact import
why these are included, I guess is the dicretion of the pollster, however flawed it is.

OH Well!

And what are all these polls in aid of? I suppose I'll have to brace myself for the 'favourite' or 'non-favourite' Pre-Rumours/Post Rumours/Ex Rumours members...

[Street_Dreamer]

Before The Beginning is a work of art. There are very few songs I've listed to in my life that I would consider to be absolutely perfect. The lyrics are powerful and the music is fantastic. It's also one of those songs where the live version blows the album version away and I LOVE the album version. I also firmly believe that there is nobody else who would be able to do this song the justice it deserves. This is Peter Green's song.

A couple live versions of Before The Beginning:

January 30, 1970: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7IT69AN3k
April 24, 1970: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDJ24RAcb48

Matt

[Wouter Vuijk]

Originally Posted by jeremy spencer

And what are all these polls in aid of? I suppose I'll have to brace myself for the 'favourite' or 'non-favourite' Pre-Rumours/Post Rumours/Ex Rumours members...

Well said, Jeremy.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by jeremy spencer

And what are all these polls in aid of? I suppose I'll have to brace myself for the 'favourite' or 'non-favourite' Pre-Rumours/Post Rumours/Ex Rumours members...

I always see them as a wee bit of fun. Chalk them up to curiosity, or sheer boredom in the least

[David]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I always see them as a wee bit of fun. Chalk them up to curiosity, or sheer boredom in the least

Brandon, what is your favorite song from the "Dragonfly" single?

My 14-year-old guitar-crazy nephew is watching your guitar lesson videos on YouTube. He's learning how to play "The Chain" -- you teach him what drop D tuning is.

[MacShadowsBall]

Rattlesnake Shake wins favorite non-hit from Then Play On.