If you could update The Chain box set, your tracklisting would be?

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by windbecame

Personally? I'd like a whole new box set... but more importantly.... I'd like the songs labelled right - alternate mix, outtake, whatever... I still can't believe the botched job on "The Chain" ?????

I found those liner note mistakes so egregious! Who took responsibility for not getting the most simplest facts right? Or do they even care? I will always hold true that die-hard fans have more accurate, acute and detailed knowledge of the band than any of the band members, managers etc... If you are looking for insight about any particular subject matter related to the band, don't expect a concise and accurate answer from any member of the band; your best bet is to ask a diehard fan.

The graphic execution for box set was just average, and very little written commentary. I hate the covers of each of the 4 CDs. Absent of any graphic design, they feature only lazy/banal quotes from each member of the band.

I don't want an undated version of The Chain, nor a box set where Rumours is the main reference point -- i.e "Pre-Rumours songs."

I'd love to have a lavishly creative box set that highlights the murky transition period between Kiln House and Heroes Are Hard To Find. There's a lot of good. overlooked music there. Aside from a well-written pieces documenting the various incarnations of the band, along with rare photos, the box set would feature selected album tracks, rare outtakes and live cuts.

[MacShadowsBall]

Originally Posted by chiliD

This is about the closest to what I would come up with (hmmmm...with the inclusion of "Silver Springs", you have the ENTIRE original pre-release track line-up of the Rumours album. Really? Do we NEED that album AGAIN? I'd pare down a couple of songs from that one); except, in place of the 8 live tracks, I'd have:

"Purple Dancer" (original 45 mix; which hasn't been released on CD)
"World In Harmony" (the original 45 mix, which hasn't seen itself on CD either)
"Trinity" (the Danny Kirwan Bare Trees outtake)
"Bermuda Triangle" (a live version from '74)
"Cool Water" (the "Gypsy" single B-side)
the Tango... singles' B-sides ("Book of Miracles", "You & I, Part 1", "Down Endless Street")


"Oh Diane"?? No, I wouldn't inflict that on Fleetwood Mac fans again, either; would insert the Mirage outtake "Goodbye Angel" instead.

Would put a 1975-76 era live "Rhiannon" in place of the studio track

Would include "Paper Doll" & "Love Shines".

Well, I guess this one really ISN'T as close to what I'd compile as I originally thought.

Thanks for your reply, chiliD. I think mine represented all members and eras of the band. I wanted to add more Danny/Jeremy/Welch songs, but Peter's were so good and more successful. I tried to be somewhat realistic with the box set including all the hits. So yeah alot from Rumours and Oh Diane(it was a top ten hit in the UK).

Live Rhiannon from '75-76 sounds great! Adding Paper Doll and Love Shines, the last one a favorite of mine, would require eliminating a Stevie and Christine song from Behind the Mask/Time.

I have another box set I done too, Disc #1 for Peter/Danny/Welch and the Post-Rumours crew, and a disc each for Christine/Lindsey/Stevie.

[MacShadowsBall]

My alternate box set option...revised with some of chiliD's idea's...

Disc 1 - Peter/Jeremy/Danny/Welch and Post-Rumours Era

1. Need Your Love So Bad
2. Albatross
3. Man of the World
4. Oh Well
5. The Green Manalishi
6. Black Magic Woman
7. Shake Your Moneymaker
8. This is the Rock
9. Station Man
10. Dragonfly
11. Trinity
12. Sentimental Lady
13. Hypnotized
14. Bermuda Triangle [Live]
15. In the Back of My Mind
16. When the Sun Goes Down
17. I Wonder Why
18. Winds of Change

Disc 2 - Christine

1. Spare Me a Little
2. Did You Ever Love Me
3. Why
4. Come a Little Bit Closer
5. Say You Love Me [Live, RRHOF ceremony]
6. Over My Head
7. You Make Loving Fun
8. Don’t Stop [Live, the Dance]
9. Songbird
10. Think About Me
11. Brown Eyes
12. Hold Me
13. Love in Store
14. Everywhere
15. Little Lies
16. As Long As You Follow
17. Save Me
18. Love Shines

Disc 3 - Lindsey

1. Monday Morning
2. I’m So Afraid [Live, Rosebud]
3. World Turning
4. Go Your Own Way
5. Second Hand News
6. Never Going Back Again
7. The Ledge
8. I Know I’m Not Wrong
9. Walk a Thin Line
10. Tusk
11. Eyes of the World [Live, Mirage]
12. Goodbye Angel
13. Big Love
14. Tango in the Night
15. You and I Part 1
16. Peacekeeper
17. Say Goodbye
18. Sad Angel [Live, 2013 tour]

Disc 4 - Stevie

1. Rhiannon [Live Rosebud/Midnight Special]
2. Landslide
3. Gold Dust Woman
4. Dreams
5. Silver Springs [Live, the Dance]
6. The Chain
7. Sara
8. Beautiful Child
9. Sisters of the Moon [Live, Mirage]
10. Gypsy
11. Straight Back
12. Seven Wonders
13. Book of Miracles
14. Freedom
15. Paper Doll
16. Thrown Down
17. Say You Will
18. Everybody Finds Out