Break down of Mystery to Me

[GateandGarden]

I couldn't find a thread for this, and it appears that someone else always starts these things (obviously, seeing how I'm new) but I LOVE this CD, so I really wanted to start this thread.

Beyond Amazing: "Why," "Hypnotized"

Amazing: "Keep On Going," "Miles Away," "Believe Me," "Forever,"

Quite Good: "Emerald Eyes," "Just Crazy Love," "Somebody"

Good: "The Way I Feel," "The City"

Still a Mystery to Me: "For Your Love" (Just don't like this cover).

Hillary

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I couldn't find a thread for this, and it appears that someone else always starts these things (obviously, seeing how I'm new) but I LOVE this CD, so I really wanted to start this thread.

Beyond Amazing: "Why," "Hypnotized"

Amazing: "Keep On Going," "Miles Away," "Believe Me," "Forever,"

Quite Good: "Emerald Eyes," "Just Crazy Love," "Somebody"

Good: "The Way I Feel," "The City"

Still a Mystery to Me: "For Your Love" (Just don't like this cover).

Hillary

Ditto - only I'd move Emeral Eyes and Miles Away up a notch each!!!

[wondergirl9847]

Flawless: Why, Hypnotized

Great stuff: Just Crazy Love, Keep On Going, Miles Away, Believe Me, Emerald Eyes

Good: Somebody, Forever, Miles Away, For Your Love

Just no: The City

[chiliD]

BEYOND AMAZING: everything except...
SIMPLY AMAZING: The Way That I Feel, Somebody

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by chiliD

BEYOND AMAZING: everything except...
SIMPLY AMAZING: The Way That I Feel, Somebody

what he said.... i love the jamming and subtlety of this album...

[michelej1]

[We continue with David Bowling's increasingly infamous review of FM albums, for Blogcritics.org, November 3, 2010]

http://blogcritics.org/music/article...ac-mystery-to/


Music Review: Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me

Fleetwood Mac may have been a troubled band in 1973, but they managed to produce Penguin and a second album in that year, entitled Mystery To Me. Bob Weston contributed to the album but was not a full-time member, so some of his contributions may have been recorded before his departure. His career in the band came to an abrupt end when he had an affair with Mick Fleetwood’s wife.

Bob Welch and Christine McVie dominate the album. Welch wrote six of the tracks himself and co-wrote a seventh. McVie stepped forward and wrote four tracks. The album would not be a consistent classic but contained two songs as good as anything Fleetwood Mac would ever produce.

Mystery To Me is really a Bob Welch affair, and it was his determination that kept the group alive during this period of its career. His “Hypnotized” is one of the two terrific tracks and was an album-only radio staple for decades. The guitars combined with McVie’s keyboards to create a mystical, druggy type song. It may not have been representative of the Fleetwood Mac sound but was a perfect early seventies song.

There were several other Bob Welch songs of note. “Emerald Eyes” was a track that built as it progressed and proved he could really write sophisticated music. The lyrics dealt with the issue of infatuation and the song remained in the group’s concert act after his departure.

“The City,” “Miles Away,” and “Somebody” introduce the rocking Bob Welch and were presented back-to-back on the original vinyl release. He even manages a competent vocal on the old Yardbirds hit, “For Your Love.”

Christine McVie was responsible for the other memorable track. “Why” is an emotional ballad which closed the album. She created just the right vehicle for her soulful and bluesy voice, and the song would also remain a part of the group’s concert act for decades. Her vocal on “Just Crazy Love” is almost as good, as it is McVie at her wistful best.

Mystery To Me finds Fleetwood Mac in a holding pattern between their blues era and their classic pop era. Most of Welch’s contributions fit into neither style, but McVie’s would look ahead to the Fleetwood Mac of the mid-to-late seventies. It remains a unique and in some ways interesting release in the group's catalogue.

Read more: http://blogcritics.org/music/article...#ixzz14HCJP66h

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by michelej1

[We continue with David Bowling's increasingly infamous review of FM albums, for Blogcritics.org, November 3, 2010]

http://blogcritics.org/music/article...ac-mystery-to/


Music Review: Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me

Fleetwood Mac may have been a troubled band in 1973, but they managed to produce Penguin and a second album in that year, entitled Mystery To Me. Bob Weston contributed to the album but was not a full-time member, so some of his contributions may have been recorded before his departure. His career in the band came to an abrupt end when he had an affair with Mick Fleetwood’s wife.

WTF?!? "not a full-time member"?? That's it...this guy obviously knows ABSOLUTELY ZERO about Fleetwood Mac. His articles are total bull****.

Originally Posted by michelej1

His “Hypnotized” is one of the two terrific tracks and was an album-only radio staple for decades. The guitars combined with McVie’s keyboards to create a mystical, druggy type song. It may not have been representative of the Fleetwood Mac sound but was a perfect early seventies song.

F***!!!! "Hypnotized" was a PRIME EXAMPLE of the "Fleetwood Mac sound". This author is a prime example of the need for legal euthanasia.

Originally Posted by michelej1

Christine McVie was responsible for the other memorable track. “Why” is an emotional ballad which closed the album. She created just the right vehicle for her soulful and bluesy voice, and the song would also remain a part of the group’s concert act for decades. Her vocal on “Just Crazy Love” is almost as good, as it is McVie at her wistful best.

"Decades"?? REALLY? So, from 1973-1977 constitutes "decades"?? Was this author in-bred or what?

Somebody associated with the legal department of Fleetwood Mac should issue a "cease & desist" order to this guy making him stop this nonsense. The guy is a public nusance.

[michelej1]

Something Else Reviews OCTOBER 17, 2015 BY NICK DERISO

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2015...me-hypnotized/

Fleetwood Mac made a bold move toward future success with Mystery to Me

Released on October 15, 1973 as part of Mystery to Me, “Hypnotized” became an album-rock radio staple even as it helped make the final argument for Fleetwood Mac’s move into pop music.

Bob Welch’s dreamscape journey across an majestic, unknowable landscape — delivered vocally with a whispery detachment — unfurls amid an insistent conversation on the hi-hat from Fleetwood and this thrilling series of jazz-inflected guitar fourths. Sound familiar?

Much has been made, and justifiably so, of the arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks — but “Hypnotized” illustrates how far Fleetwood Mac had come toward their polyester-era California singer-songwriter style in the era before that duo joined.

True, “Hypnotized,” with its dreamy AM-era sexuality and garrulous, riffy guitar soloing, is only just getting the hang of the success that would follow — but it’s the most complete portion of the bridge between Fleetwood Mac’s first and second hit-making periods.

Fleetwood Mac continued to evolve. Mystery to Me would be the final album to feature Bob Weston as guitarist and songwriter; Welch’s departure in 1974 then opened the door for Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Weston later worked with Murray Head and Steve Marriott’s All-Stars Band, while Welch had his own subsequent solo hit with “Sentimental Lady” – which was originally featured on Fleetwood Mac’s Bare Trees in 1972.

Still, as Bob Weston’s Wes Montgomery-isms are surrounded by a swirling, sometimes wordless breeze of voices from Bob Welch and Christine McVie on “Hypnotized,” it’s easy to see — just over the next horizon, after a few more personnel switches — Fleetwood Mac’s charttopping promised land.

[ThePenguin]

Amazing: Why, Believe Me
Great: Keep On Going, Hypnotized, Just Crazy Love, Miles Away
Very Good: The Way I Feel, For Your Love, Emerald Eyes, Forever
So-So: The City, Somebody

I was just watching my video of the 1973 band doing 'Miles Away' and 'Believe Me' the other night. Gosh did they kick *ss. Bob Weston was quite a hottie LOL. And John was pretty darn hot himself w/ his sexy cap on. To be honest they all looked great in that performance, except for Mick, who was sort of repulsing me the way he kept sticking his tongue out all over the place....sort of gross.

-Lis

[ShamHy89]

Awesomely Euphonious: Everything except perhaps,
Amazing: The City, The Way I Feel

Shamus

[ontheEdgeof17]

Love: Why, Believe Me, Emerald Eyes, Hypnotized, Just Crazy Love, The Way That I Feel

Like: Keep on Going, Miles Away


Not So Much: The City, Somebody, Forever


-Curt

[HomerMcvie]

I love them ALL. It is absolutely my favorite album(I JUST finished listening to it before seeing this thread!). Oddly, I find it summer music(if that makes any sense). I love listening to it at the pool. It just seems to go with beautiful weather.
This album should've been their BIG breakout album. I love it alot more than Rumours.
Why, Hypnotized, and Emerald Eyes would have to be my top three songs. The rest are amazing, too.

[Hippocampus]

Simply The Best: Keep On Going, Hypnotized, Why

Great: Just Crazy Love, Forever, Miles Away, For Your Love

Good: Emerald Eyes, Believe Me, Somebody

Ok: The City, The Way I Feel

[Hawkeye]

Beyond Amazing: Hypnotized, Keep On Going, Why, For Your Love

Amazing: Miles Away, Believe Me, Somebody, The Way I Feel

Very Good: Just Crazy Love

Good: Emarald Eyes, The City

Bad: Forever

[xdreamsunwindx]

Amazing - Believe Me
Awesome - Why, Hypnotized, Keep on Going, Emerald Eyes
Good - The Way I Feel, Forever, The City
Okay - Miles Away, For Your Love, Somebody
Ew - Just Crazy Love

-Kate