New Fleetwood Mac tribute album to be released September 14
 

Fleetwood Mac tribute album features MGMT, The Kills, Antony Hegarty, and more
By Alex Young on June 17th, 2012 in Guest Heavy News

Fleetwood Mac will be honored with a new covers album featuring MGMT, The Kills, Best Coast, Lykke Li, Antony Hegarty, The New Pornographers, Washed Out, and more, reports Direct Current. The untitled set was produced by Randall Poster, who previously handled the Buddy Holly tribute album Rave On... It will be released on September 14th via Hear Music/Concord.

Direct Current adds that “each of the contributing artists had complete independent control over the style and vision for their songs. The result is a collection of often radically reworked versions of well-known (and some more obscure) Fleetwood Mac songs.”

Previously, Best Coast did a pretty great cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Storms”, but that cover won’t be appearing on the new tribute album.

Fleetwood Mac Tribute Album Tracklist:
01. Entrance Band – Green Manalishi
02. Crystal Ark – Tusk
03. Best Coast – Rhiannon
04. The New Pornographes – Think About Me
05. MGMT – Future Games
06. Marianne Faithful – Angel
07. Antony Hegarty – Landslide
08. Ranaldo and Mascis – Albatross
09. Trixie Whitley – Before the Beginning
10. Washed Out – Straight Back
11. Super Wolf – Storms
12. The Kills – Dreams
13. Gardens and Villa – Gypsy
14. Billy Gibbons – Oh Well
15. Lykke Li – Silver Springs

http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/0...arty-and-more/

Fleetwood Mac Tribute Album To Feature MGMT, The Kills, Best Coast + More
Written by Mike Hohnen on 18th June, 2012

A tribute album set to pay homage to the amazing career of Fleetwood Mac is well into production, with a release date set for August 14. Being produced by Randall Poster, who worked behind the scenes on the Buddy Holly tribute album Roll on, has ensured that this particular tribute will set itself apart from the others.
Rather than following common convention and employing the use of similar bands from the same era as Fleetwood Mac, Poster has enlisted a series of young, relevant, buzzworthy artists such as MGMT covering Future Games, Best Coast covering Rhiannon, The New Pornographers on Think About Me and a whole lot more indie-infused renditions of Fleetwood classics.

What’s more, according to Direct Current Music website, the bands were given total creative sovereignty over their given song. The result of this is a series of “radically reworked versions of well-known (and some more obscure) Fleetwood Mac songs”.

Best Coast released an absolute gem of a Fleetwood Mac cover that didn’t make the cut for the album but made them an essential band to have on the official release.

Fleetwood Mac Tribute Album Tracklist:
01. Entrance Band – Green Manalishi
02. Crystal Ark – Tusk
03. Best Coast – Rhiannon
04. The New Pornographes – Think About Me
05. MGMT – Future Games
06. Marianne Faithful – Angel
07. Antony Hegarty – Landslide
08. Ranaldo and Mascis – Albatross
09. Trixie Whitley – Before the Beginning
10. Washed Out – Straight Back
11. Super Wolf – Storms
12. The Kills – Dreams
13. Gardens and Villa – Gypsy
14. Billy Gibbons – Oh Well
15. Lykke Li – Silver Springs

http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/fleetw...st-coast-more/

This article says the release date is August 14th and the other one says Sept. 14th, so I don't know which one is accurate. All I know is if it was a brand new FM album they were talking about it would be delayed and delayed forever.

It's practically a Stevie-in-FM tribute! Four Green tunes, two Bob W., one Lindsey, one Christine, 0 Danny...

Fleetwood Mac Tribute Feat. The Kills, J Mascis, More
June 18, 2012

Be it James Murphy’s oft-mentioned “Sara” obsession or Cat Power’s “Dreams”, indie artists have always had a soft spot for one of the best major-label acts of the ’70s. Now comes the inevitable indie-centric tribute record, but (aside from its impressive lineup) one name producing the project promises an excellent set as a whole: Randall Poster. He’s the music supervisor behind one of last year’s best tribute LPs, Rave On Buddy Holly, and Wes Anderson’s right-hand man on the Moonrise Kingdom OST,among other efforts of note.

This time, Poster recruited Antony Hegarty to sing “Landslide”, the Kills to take on “Dreams”, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis for “Albatross”, and others. Also among the tracklist (via Direct Current) is a Blake Mills-produced cut by Billy Gibbons and a band perhaps misspelled in the press release as Super Wolf. Something tells me, given a few typos spotted, they might mean Superwolf, the duo Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Matt Sweeney formed in 2005. Due out August 14th via Hear Music/Concord.

http://www.twentyfourbit.com/2012/06...j-mascis-more/

New FM Tribute Album
 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ibute-20120618


Entrance Band "The Green Manalishi"
Crystal Ark "Tusk"
Best Coast "Rhiannon"
The New Pornographers "Think About Me"
MGMT "Future Games"
Marianne Faithfull "Angel"
Antony Hegarty "Landslide"
Ranaldo and Mascis "Albatross"
Trixie Whitley "Before the Beginning"
Washed Out "Straight Back"
Super Wolf "Storms"
The Kills "Dreams"
Gardens and Villa "Gypsy"
Billy Gibbons "Oh Well"
Lykke Li "Silver Springs"

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz1y9Wt6wcT

That is an incredibly random tracklist! Brilliant.

:thumbsup: I think this has the potential to be amazing.

Pretty excited to hear these tracks! Especially Washed Out...I can finally get my partner to listen to Fleetwood Mac, haha.

Susan

This is already posted in the Fleetwood Mac forum.

I never heard of any of these artists.I love to see a country tribute to FM Rumours like they were talking about a couple of years ago.

Mm. My thoughts exactly. Looking forward to Marianne's cover of Angel but I'll probably give the rest a miss.

Who.Who and Who.
 

Wow I never heard of most of these artists.I hope they sound good.

I know seriously only one Christine song!:(

I was assuming "Angel" was Stevie's song or is it Welch's? Anyhow, good for Welch and Peter to have some songs included on this project.

Same thing I said...never heard of these artists, but I don't keep up with current music.:shrug:

Angel is Stevie's from Tusk..

I'm really really excited about this and glad each artist had the artistic freedom to make each song their own. I like a lot of these groups own songs and know most of them have cited FM as very large influences on their work. Can't wait!!

Oh! And also GREAT call to include these groups so it can be introduced to younger (MY ;) ) generation!!

Not even Marianne Faithfull? She's 65.

This is the only one that piqued my interest.

Though it's interesting she didn't do GDW (FM's Sister Morphine).

I'm looking forward to this one ..It promises to be more interesting than the generic mostly major astist Rumours tribute that came out over a decade ago.

Cool...love The Kills and other of these indie artists.
The pre-order is up on Amazon. Looks like Aug 14, 2012 is the release date.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg
Seems as though Amazon is reporting 17 tracks, as opposed to the 15 tracks from the articles Viv posted.
1. Albatross [Lee Ranaldo Band featuring J Mascis]
2. Landslide [Antony]
3. Before The Beginning [Trixie Whitley]
4. Oh Well Billy [Gibbons & Co.]
5. Rhiannon [Best Coast]
6. Think About Me [The New Pornographers]
7. Angel [Marianne Faithfull]
8. Silver Springs [Lykke Li]
9. Gold Dust Woman [Karen Elson]
10. Storms [Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy]
11. Straight Back [Washed Out]
12. Thats All For Everyone [Tame Impala]
13. Sisters Of The Moon [Craig Wedren with St. Vincent]
14. Dreams [The Kills]
15. Gypsy [Gardens & Villa]
16. Tusk [The Crystal Ark]
17. Future Games [MGMT]

Anyone know what album Before The Beginning is from and who originally sang it?

I'm not gonna lie, I'm actually really excited about this. Who would've thought we'd see something like this that wasn't all Rumours album stuff? It does seem very Stevie-centric but I like a lot of the obscure song choices such as Angel and Straight Back.

Sometime before Stevie joined the band FM had a song called Angel.

Oh really?! Thanks for pointing that out Vivfox. I'm pretty familiar with pre-rumours era suff but I'll go check that out. And honestly, since this tribute album isn't "greatest hits" centered, that is totally a possibility. Which I love!!

britt0308, I'm not saying that the Angel from this upcoming album is the earlier FM Angel. I was just pointing out to you that FM has had 2 seperate songs with that title because you answered someone else's quote asking about the song. More than likely it will be Stevies' Angel on this recording.

Aren't albums always released on Tuesdays? That would mean August 14.

The track listing here includes 17 songs. It adds "Gold Dust Woman" by Karen Elson and "Sisters of the Moon" by Craig Wedren with St. Vincent.

http://www.nickslive.blogspot.com/

It must be my eyes.After posting my statment I just notice Marianne Faithfull's name on the album.I do like her tunes.The others I will give them a try.
Ok are these alt Rock artists or pop artists.

No i got that! I wasn't aware there was another song with the same title. And who knows, it may very well be a surprise and be the earlier song ;) Just saying it was up for grabs!

The majority of the included artists tend to be characterized as indie rock or alternative bands.

What happened to Michelle Branch's version of "Say You Love Me", as produced by Stevie Nicks? Was that due to be included on another FM tribute album?

Ok Thanks.I'll will check the cd out when it comes avail.

"Before the Beginning" is a Peter Green Mac song from Then Play On album from 1969.

Then Play On could be considered the blues era Mac's "big" album a la Mystery to Me for the Welch era and Rumours for the Rumours era.

Much like Angel and Straight Back for Stevie, "Before the Beginning" is not really one of Peter's top Mac songs, so it's inclusion is kinda obscure. :cool:

If only their tour setlist could be as varied as this. Although, it does seem ridiculously Stevie-heavy.

Most excited to hear The Kills cover Dreams, I think they'll nail it;

You can listen to Think About Me by The New Pornographers here:
http://www.spin.com/articles/best-co...c-tribute-comp
I like it!

that THINK ABOUT ME is AMAZING!!!! love it!!

That's an interesting track list.

I was wondering which Angel was on that list, too. It's easier to imagine Marianne Faithfull performing the Stevie Nicks song, though I'd love it if she's chosen the Bob Welch song.

Rolling Stone posted the Oh Well from the album today..I know Lindsey's version is incredible but this is a slowed down, grittier version that I'm LOVING. Thoughts?
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...?stop_mobi=yes

Lykke Li posted this herself on twitter/fb yesterday: http://www.facebook.com/lykkeli/posts/10150895713102199

And I found the radio session she was talking about, check it out!
http://www.rtl2.fr/video/7748322782/silver-spring

Ps sorry for so many links! :)

good point

:lol:

The acoustic guitar in this was so monotonous it mad the song boring to me. She's a good singer. I wouldn't call her a great one.

The Billy Gibbons link was gone from the link you posted.