Greatest Hits
 

Great choices listed!

I'll go with a more simple approach for my attempt...

1. Trouble
2. Holiday Road
3. Go Insane
4. I Must Go
5. Instrumental Intro/Don't Look Down
6. Countdown
7. All My Sorrows
8. Under The Skin
9. Shut Us Down
10. Flying Down Juniper
11. Love Runs Deeper
12. The Right Pace To Fade
13. Underground
14. I'm So Afraid (Live at the Bass Performance Hall)
15. Go Your Own Way (Live at the Bass Performance Hall)

I think it'd make more sense to have the box set the shape of his TURNER guitar... He is known for that after all... ;)

Also, I think "Stephanie" deserves a place there as his first instrumental piece. It kinda sets the style for everything he did after that. And any set of Lindsey's has to have at least one version of Never Going Back Again on it! ;)

HA! That's okay.

Buckingham could even finish off the title of "Out of the Cradle" and call the set "Endlessly Rocking..." I dunno if Mr. RockCock would fly :lol:

That said, I dunno if we'll ever get a Buckingham boxed set. Maybe when he really does "retire" he'll sit in his studio and remaster all of his old records..?

Following Silver Springs's Lead:

Title: Soul Drifter: The Best of Lindsey Buckingham

Fleetwood Mac : Never Break The Chain

1. Monday Morning
2. Blue Letter
3. World Turning
4. Second Hand News
5. Never Going Back Again
6. Don't Stop
7. Go Your Own Way
8. The Chain
9. I Know I'm Not Wrong
10. That's Enough for Me
11. Tusk
12. Oh Well (Live album)
13. I'm So Afraid (Live album version)
14. Hold Me
15. Caroline
16. Tango in the Night
17. Big Love
18. Bleed to Love Her (Live)
19. Steal Your Heart Away
20. Red Rover
21. Say Goodbye


Solo Work: Doing What I Can

1. Trouble
2. Mary Lee Jones
3. Go Insane
4. Slow Dancing
5. Loving Cup
6. Don't Look Down
7. Countdown
8. Soul Drifter
9. You Do or You Don't
10. Surrender the Rain
11. Doing What I Can
12. Under the Skin
13. To Try for the Sun
14. Cast Away Dreams
15. Down on Rodeo
16. Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind
17. Did You Miss Me
18. Wait for You
19. Love Runs Deeper
20. Underground
21. Treason


The Rarities: Holiday Road

1. Stephanie (Buckingham Nicks)
2. Without a Leg to Stand On (Buckingham Nicks)
3. Crystal (Buckingham Nicks version)
4. Don't Let Me Down Again (Buckingham Nicks version)
5. Frozen Love (Buckingham Nicks)
6. Without You (Buckingham Nicks demo)
7. Holiday Road
8. Dancin' 'Cross the USA
9. Time Bomb Town
10. On the Wrong Side
11. Cool Water (Fleetwood Mac)
12. You And I, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
13. Down Endless Street (Fleetwood Mac)
14. Deep Dense
15. Heartbreaker (Buckingham Nicks Live 1974)
16. Hypnotized (Fleetwood Mac Live 1975)
17. Not That Funny (Fleetwood Mac Live 1982)
18. Go Insane (Fleetwood Mac Live 1997)
19. Big Love (Fleetwood Mac Live 1997)
20. Trouble (Live 2006)

My picks (no idea how to sequence):

With Mac (Second Hand News)
Monday Morning
I'm So Afraid (Live)
Blue Letter (White album version)
Go Your Own Way (both Rumours and Crossroads w/ LBT version)
Never Going Back Again
Second Hand News
The Chain (Live Album)
Tusk
The Ledge
I Know I'm Not Wrong
What Makes You Think You're The One (there is a great live version somewhere)
Not That Funny (Live)
Walk A Thin Line (new acoustic version)
Eyes Of The World (LiB version)
Big Love (both Tango and acoustic versions)
Oh Well (Live)
Murrow
Red Rover
Come (live version, from LiB maybe?)
Peacekeeper
Steal Your Heart Away (mastered GOS sessions version)
Bleed To Love Her (mastered GOS sessions version)

Collaborations (Twisted)
World Turning
Don't Stop
Hold Me
Twisted
Destiny Rules (some version with long guitar outro)

Solo (Go Insane)
Bwana
Trouble
That's How We Do It In L.A
Holiday Road (both soundtrack and Bass Hall version)
Go Insane (both Go Insane and Soundstage version)
I Must Go
Bang The Drum
D.W.Suite
Don't Look Down (w/ Instrumental Intro)
Wrong
Countdown
This Is The Time
You Do Or You Don't
Doing What I Can
Turn It On
Down On Rodeo
Castaway Dreams
Shut Us Down (Live from Conan)
Time Precious Time (new version, instrumental)
Gift Of Screws
The Right Place To Fade
Wait For You
Underground

Unreleased (Deep Dense)
Wear You Down
Deep Dense

Covers (The Singer Not The Song)
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
To Try For The Sun
She Smiled Sweetly
Gotta Get Away
The Singer Not The Song

I'm not a fan of box sets. I'd prefer just a historically-accurate chronological Singles collection (which currently would be 22 tracks on one CD). i tried doing a double cd of personal faves for a friend of mine once to give him a sampling of Lindsey, but it didn't really work as well.

don't know, some of his singles are soooo not worth including, while some of the songs which were never singles are great, don't you think?

the list i put together for the most part includes songs that i personally would enjoy having, without others in between. if i was putting together list to give someone a taste of LB's music, i might consider two different lists, depending on the person and whether they are more into pop or edgier music.

Lindsey would be best served by a compilation that represents his best solo work and not the impossible task of cobbling together a "Greatest Hits" package when he's only had three singles make Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart (Trouble, #9; Holiday Road, #82; Go Insane, #23). Even a "Singles" collection wouldn't represent his body of work considering that his Warner Bros. solo material has only given birth to eight official singles.

What would work is something conceptually closer to The Dance. A recording of a live show that would allow him to present a mix of his best solo work, his three chart hits with FM, etc.

Here's my personal greatest hits CD I made for my car. I tried to represent every album with at least 2 songs (old gos and movie soundtracks are even represented twice each) and I tried to lean toward the songs that I thought would actually show up on an album like this although I obviously broke that rule a time or two.

Don't Look Down (w/ intro pretty much goes without saying but just in case..)
Bwana
You Do Or You Don't
Great Day
Peacekeeper (Original Version)
To Try For The Sun (Under The Skin Version. Sorry i like it better :shrug:)
Countdown
Love Runs Deeper
Trouble
Under The Skin
The Right Place To Fade
Show You How
Go Insane
Deep Dense
Shut Us Down (Elizabethtown Version)
Wait For You
I Want You (Ready for the hate on this one :D)
My Little Demon
Down On Rodeo
Turn It On
Holiday Road

It may also be worth noting that I think Wrong deserves a spot on this album but it didn't fit with all the other songs and I just didn't want to give up any other songs though if I had to it would probably be You Do Or You Don't.

Greatest Hits (if we take the title literally) would be a very short CD:

Go Your Own Way
Tusk
Trouble
Holiday Road
Oh Diane (big hit in the UK)
Go Insane
Big Love
Wrong (the video was in heavy rotation on MTV & VH1)
Peacekeeper

Fleetwood Mac Disc:

1. Stephanie
2. Without a Leg to Stand On
3. Monday Morning
4. So Afraid (Live CD)
5. Blue Letter
6. Go Your Own Way (Live CD)
7. Never Going Back Again (Brushes lead in, then album track)
8. I Don't Wanna Know (Buckingham Nicks Tour, Alabama)
9. Second Hand News
10. Tusk
11. I Know I'm Not Wrong
12. What Makes You Think You're the One (Tusk Tour)
13. Eyes of the World (Live in Boston)
14. Book of Love
15. Big Love (Dance)
16. Steal Your Heart Away
17. Red Rover
18. Miranda
19. Bleed to Love Her (Dance)

Solo

1. Trouble (Acoustic - Bass Hall)
2. Bwana
3. I Want You
4. Go Insane
5. Slow Dancing
6. Bang the Drum
7. Countdown (Letterman)
8. Doing What I Can
9. Soul Drifter
10. Wrong
11. Surrender the Rain
12. Turn it On (Live - UTS Tour)
13. Try for the Sun
14. Down on Rodeo (Soundstage)
15. Shut us Down (Bass Hall)
16. Love Runs Deeper
17. The Right Place to Fade
18. Gift of Screws (Live)
19. Underground

Loved the Words And Music sampler from 1992. He's doubled his solo output since then (seemingly in the past year, lol).

He's due a retrospective.

i keep looking at this list of what can be considered hits, and something seems to be missing. finally it occured to me:

Second Hand News! seems to be in heavy rotation on various classic rock stations, tv show backgrounds, etc. hey, there is even a FM SHN t-shirt! it was never a single, but neither was the Chain.

what about Never Going Back Again? wasn't it recently a hit on various country stations? i guess that was a cover though... which reminds me, although rarely, i hear NGBA on classic rock stations too sometimes. most of these stations (very annoyingly) play just hits.

The reason I didn't include FM songs (other than the 2 live versions from LB solo show) was because it's a Lindsey Greatest Hits. In reality, it could only be stuff from his solo albums. Which makes the list short indeed.

I love the idea of a 'box set' for Lindsey to me he's long over due for one. I don't want to do any sort of list like others but I would like outtakes/extended versions included as well. I love 'Slow Dancing' and I think there's an extended version to that song too. Plus a nice booklet with outtake photos (which will maybe have better photos than some of the LP cover photos actually.) I really hope he does a nice box set sometime. Maybe 3 cds and 1 dvd included with all his solo video's and some live stuff included. Some thoughts.:shrug:

If it was in a box set with his Fleetwood Mac work, people would buy it.
I don't think a Greatest Hits CD with only his solo work would do him any good to the general public.

I'd buy it though.

LB Greatest Hits Album/Box Set
 

I'm sure many of you have done this before, but as I made my list I couldn't help but wonder what other people would pick.

2 Scenarios for you.

1. A LB Greatest Hits Album....designed to have the most popular of his songs as a solo artists. For maximum record sales.

(Rules... only from solo albums, only 10 songs, every album must have at least 1 song)

2. A LB Box Set....designed for the die hards, or for someone just getting into LB who wants to listen to changes over time, and different types of vibes.

(Rules any song in which LB was a part of, no requirements of album mention, outtakes are OK, 36 total songs)


Greatest Hits CD

1. Trouble---Law & Order
2. Holiday Road---Single
3. Go Insane---Go Insane
4. Sould Drifter--Out of the Cradle
5. Turn it On---Out of the Cradle
6. Shut Us Down--Under the Skin
7. Down on Rodeo---Under the Skin
8. Great Day---Gift of Screws
9. In Our Own Time---Seeds We Sow
10. Rock Away Blind---Seeds We Sow

For me that one is tougher than #2 a lot of good tunes cut out)

2. Box Set Edition

First Disc 60's & 70's (including some Tusk)

1. Stephanie (B & N)
2. Frozen Love (B & N)
3. Monday Morning ( FM)
4. Crystal (FM)--Nicks
5. I'm So Afraid (FM)
6. Second Hand News (FM)
7. Never Going Back (FM)
8. Go Your Own Way (FM)
9. The Ledge (FM)
10. Not That Funny (FM)
11. WMYTYTO (FM)
12. I know I'm not Wrong (FM)

Second Disc 80's & 90's

1. Save Me a Place (FM)
2. Walk a Thin Line (FM)
3. Trouble ( Law and Order)
4. I'll Tell You Now (Law and Order)
5. Oh Diane (Mirage)
6. Big Love (Tango)
7. Tango (Tango)
8. Go Insane (Go Insane)
9. DW Suite (Go Insane)
10. You Do or You Don't (Out of the Cradle)
11. Turn it On (Out of the Cradle)
12. Surrender the Rain (Out of the Cradle)

Third Disc 2000's

1. Red Rover (Say you Will)
2. Come (Say you Will)
3. Steal Your Heart Away (Say You Will)
4. Cast Away Dreams (under the skin)
5. Shut us Down (under the skin)
6. Time Precious Time (Gift of Screws)
7. Bel Air Rain (Gift of Screws)
8. Big Love Accoustic
9. Treason (Gift of Screws)
10. Thats the Way Love Goes (Seeds)
11. Stars are Crazy (Seeds)
12. Seeds (Seeds)

This thread is FANTASTIC!! I love everyone's collections. I'm torn though...I almost just want LB solo stuff made into four discs of "periods" or "style" and "unreleased" stuff. I guess there could be an FM disc because it would be extraordinary, but let me tell you: I have the John Lennon Anthology and it has nothing from his Beatles period and it remains the most enthralling/amazing/perfect box set of music I own. I honestly think it's flawless. So maybe if there was no FM stuff there would be room for more solo LB stuff we haven't heard! :blob2:

My Best Of Lindsey Buckingham (aka, my Lindsey Buckingham playlist on my iPod...haven't worked in Seeds We Sow tunes yet)

Don't Look Down
Trouble
Under The Skin
She Smiled Sweetly
Bwana
Holiday Road
Peacekeeper (solo version)
Gift Of Screws
Loving Cup
Great Day
Wrong
Go Insane
Bel Air Rain
Play In The Rain
You Do Or You Don't
Big Yellow Taxi
Cast Away Dreams
Love Runs Deeper
To Try For The Sun
All My Sorrows
Down On Rodeo
Shadow Of The West
Wait For You
Countdown
The Right Place To Fade
Soul Drifter
Gotta Get Away
Dancing Across The USA
This Nearly Was Mine/Say We'll Meet Again

I like this one! Well done. I'll buy it (with a few exceptions).

If I must make two...
 

Hi! So, we can include songs from his FM work and solo? Well, here's my 2 CDs...


THE VERY BEST OF LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM (well...)

Disc 1 - You can go your own way - Fleetwood Mac

01. Monday Morning
02. Never going back again
03. Go your own way
04. Tusk
05. Not that funny (Live 1980)
06. Can't go back
07. Book of Love
08. Oh Diane
09. Eyes of the World
10. Big Love
11. Tango In The Night
12. Family man
13. You & I (part I)
14. I'm so afraid (Live The Dance)
15. Bleed to love Her (Live The Dance)
16. What's the world coming to
17. Say goodbye


Disc 2 - Like I always do - Solo work

01. Bwana
02. Trouble
03. It was I
04. September song
05. Holiday Road
06. I want you
07. Go Insane
08. Slow dancing
09. Bang the drum
10. D.W Suite
11. Wrong
12. Countdown
13. Soul drifter
14. Surrender the rain
15. Gift of Screws
16. Down on Rodeo (live SoundStage)


Well, that's all (for everyone). Regards! :wavey: