Reissues 3/23/04
 

This from Fleetwoodmac.com....

We can confirm that the street date for the reissues of Rumours, Fleetwood Mac & Tusk is 3/23/04. Each historic album digitally remastered and expanded with rarities. Deluxe packages feature restored LP art, previously unseen archival photos, extensive new liner notes and complete lyrics.

1975’ FLEETWOOD MAC, the realigned band’s #1 debut album, is a quintuple-platinum smash! Original track listing now expanded with bonus single versions of the hits “”Say You Love Me,” “Rhiannon,” “Over My Head,” and “Blue Letter.”

19-time platinum in the U.S. alone, RUMOURS is the sixth-biggest-selling album of all time, with sales upward of 30 million worldwide. 1977’s Grammy® winner for Album Of The Year, it spent 31 weeks at #1 and delivered four Top 10 hits. Specially packaged reissue now an expanded 2-CD edition with 18 unreleased tracks!

1979’s experimental double-platinum TUSK, newly restored to its original 2-CD format, is now inside a specially redesigned package and includes 21 unreleased tracks! Bonus tracks include a wealth of rare demos and alternative takes plus the restored, unedited, full LP version of the Stevie Nicks classic “Sara.”

Cool!!
 

Should make for an interesting March dontcha say?

Brian j.

ps-Can't wait to get the expanded Tusk & Rumours to compare and see what unreleased material has been in circulation with FM collectors.

Thanks for posting :)

I, too, cannot wait to get these!!!!!!!

21 unreleased tracks for Tusk and 18 for Rumours!? Could it be Fleetwood Mac is finally doing this right? If this is accurate, I will gladly spend the money.

I think it is RHINO that is "doing this right"...you don't REALLY believe Mick & Company would have the cajones to follow through on this themselves, do you? :laugh:

Well, I think I know what I'm going to put down on my "what I want for my birthday" list...who cares if they're scheduled to be released the day after? :nod:

YES!!!!!! These sounds AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait!

Pip

WOWEE WOW WOW WOW!!!!


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I actually thought this was a joke when I first read it - is it really real?!?! Oh, tell me it's really real! WOW!

Paula

Great News!
 

ooooh I've got to save some money for this.:)

Maybe you're right about Mick & company not having the cojones to follow through but don't they (the band) have to give the OK for this reissues to happen? :shrug:

Isabel

Yeah, but I meant they wouldn't INITIATE the process. They probably just "signed off" on what Rhino presented them with.

Alrighty! I'll get them ,especially Tusk! Now, let's see if Mirage and TITN will follow...

Thanks for posting the news. It looks like we finally have a definite release date for these re-issues. With all of the George Harrison reissues, another Dylan bootleg CD set plus these Fleetwood Mac re-issues & hopefully soon thereafter the White Album & Tusk DVD audios-this is going to get very expensive for me. :)

For ALL OF US! :nod:

I'd better start searching for a second job...

18 and 21 seems pretty generous (price considerations aside), so I wonder if these numbers are accurate. But I am going to play the optimist for once and believe they are. A Tusk album with 41 tracks is as close to Elysium as one might ever get. Aaaah....


Speaking of Elysian Fields, has anyone gotten the Stones' Four Flicks DVD? I got it last weekend and only got through one disc so far. There is so much in there. I was practically salivating over the unfinished studio recording footage the CD included -- the Stones cutting loose with a tremendous groove. And I still have three more discs to go! All for 29.99! (a moment of silence in recognition of all those merchants who got screwed out of carrying this....)

OK, that's long enough. FM should do something like that (the content part, not the screwing the merchants part).

God I hope so! My 'cut and paste' versions of these albums w/ the b-sides and demos are really crappy... :(

If we do see them it'll probably be somewhere around 2050... I'll be dead but at least the next generation of Mac fans will have them! :)

I figure Mirage & Tango In The Night will follow relatively quickly (somewhere late-summer/early-fall this year)...along with the Buckingham Nicks album, too.

It's the pre-1975 albums that I'm really interested in seeing what Rhino does with 'em. THOSE are the ones I'm kind of skeptical about ever seeing on store shelves.

Who knows, in a decade or so, we might even get to hear the omitted tracks from the originally submitted Another Link In The Chain album on the remastered/re-released Time album.

Here's to hoping! :thumbsup:

Does anyone have any idea what the extra tracks are? Are they alternates of songs we have heard or it is possible that there were that many extra songs recorded for Rumours? I wouldn't be surprised if there were 21 extra Tusk tracks, though.

WOW! I wonder how much these things are going to cost, especially the Rumours and Tusk ones, with all those extra tracks. I will definitely be purchasing Tusk, since that's my current favorite, and I'll probably get Rumours, since I don't own it at all -- depending on the price!! "I can't wait, I can't wait!!" Oh, isn't the DVD of the SYW tour coming out this spring also?

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3/23/04!!!

Remember, Rhino did the remaster of the Elvis Costello albums and every one of 'em ended up a double album due to the number of bonus tracks.

Plus, Rhino did the first Brian Wilson album...even THAT had 11 bonus tracks (Including "Don't Let Your Body Down", or whatever that song was called that Brian & Lindsey did together.)

So, I think the 18 & 21 numbers are accurate. :nod:

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I'm thinking that the discs probably won't be all that much...around $16 or $17...maybe even cheaper, depending on where you get them.

They'll probably be really cheap the first week of release at places like Best Buy and Circuit City. Here's hoping! :D

The most these suckers are going to be is a list price of $24.98, which means a cost of about $16, which means a normal price of probably $19.99 each. That's worst case scenario- Tusk and the White album aside, this is the first reissue of Rumours, which deserved a reissue and expanded edition LONG ago- these aren't going to be pointless catalog dumps (like my company's recent Essential Shawn Mullins/Fishbone/Adam Ant/etc.), these are going to do well- I'd expect to be able to pick these up for around $15 to $20 each, more likely lower than higher.

YAY!!

;) *sings* - I-know-what-I'm-gettin-for-my-birthday :nod:

happy chick here!! :D

:thumbsup: I'm glad we FINALLY know when these are coming out! I'll be using my Fye (music store) gift certificate I got was Christmas to purchase those. :D

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YEE-HAW!!! :blob1: :blob2:

Sounds terrific to me!

When you think of it the way CarneVaca said... 'Tusk' with 41 tracks, it is mind-blowing! Wow!

I think the key is the "alternative takes and demos" comment... which means some of those 41 tracks will probably be three versions of the same song. But I'm certainly not going to be complaining! I'm a total nerd when it comes to alternate takes/mixes, so I'm going to be in Mac Fan heaven!

The "rare demos" really has me wondering if we're actually going to get digitally mastered, pristine copies of songs like "The Dealer."
With the way Stevie holds on to her stuff "until it's ready for the world," it kind of surprises me to think that we may actually be getting demos of songs that are otherwise unavailable commercially.

I can't wait to see a full track-listing for these... which I imagine should be forthcoming! :D

Yes, yes, yes!!! I am so excited to hear all this "new" music!

Like the Chain box set, it wouldnt surprise me at all that any demos that appear on these re-issues belong to a Mr. Buckingham or a Ms. McVie!

But heres to hoping...

I think once we get to the Rhino remasters of Mirage & Tango In The Night, the bonus tracks will start looking familiar...such as:

Mirage:
Cool Water
Teen Beat
Goodbye Angel
etc

Tango In The Night:
Down Endless Street
Ricky
Book Of Miracles
You & I, Part 1
etc

Be still my heart!! This is GREAT news! I'll take anything they want to put out on these CDs. And if Mirage and Tango are not far behind....ahhh....I can die happy.

Actually, this single-handedly made my crappy day a good one! (not to mention I got my FM calendar in the mail today with the band letter reminding me that the Boston show will be made into a DVD) :blob2:

Yes, today was good! :cool:

I've often thought that the frosty band-relations around 1991/92, are probably what harmed 'The Chain,' in regards to the paltry amount of rare tracks that were included.

So perhaps the major turnaround that has occured since, would make it more possible that both Stevie and Lindsey would be willing to let Fleetwood Mac release demo material that they otherwise might have tried to save for their own solo projects.

But I have to say, if songs like "The Dealer" aren't there, I'd still understand... if I've written songs that I'm proud of, and think I might still want to record a "definitive" version of some day, I probably wouldnt want to waste them on some reissue either.

Hopefully Stevie & Lindsey wouldn't look at it that way though.

I guess we'll see!:)

Wow, the number of bonus tracks on Rumours and Tusk is MIND-BLOWING.......God I hope those numbers are accurate. They sound AWESOME! Wow....unbelievable....:D :D :D

One thing though....we all know FM has had some incredible live performances, but it doesn't mention any live cuts as the bonus tracks.....does anyone think we could expect a new FM Live Compilation or a new and expanded "FM Live" (1980) album?

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If this is true which I still hold out totally believing it until I see it with my eyes. But say it is so, then here's my thought....... YYYYYEEEEAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Well...
 

I bought it and have watched most of the Paris & Twickenham discs...But am disappointed that the NYC show was not the complete broadcast that was aired on HBO (The other 2 shows are also incomplete song wise...But they STILL rock!)

The U2 "go Home" DVD is also HIGHLY recommended! (It's great to finally have the "Unforgettable Fire" doctumentary which is included as an extra.)

Now if the Mac could only release a DVD that is comparable...

Brian j.

Not to burst your bubble (I'm just as excited!), but we already have digitally mastered, pristine copies of "The Dealer." And quite a lot of them. ;)

Awesome news.

Lindsey's Soundstage will most likely be on DVD too won't it?

So let's see... (keeping in mind these are Australian dollars):

2004

Concerts $200 x 3
Remasters $35 x 3
DVDs $30 x 2

= $730 (+ SYW Doco? @ $30 = $760)

With any luck, the taped show will be in the same DVD package as the SYW doco, unless that means the doco is reduced in size.


We need to get a cheaper hobby!!

Having more than a year of constant Fleetwood Mac releases & reissues?


PRICELESS!!!!!!

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lol :laugh:

Um, I wish it were price-less :laugh: