All-era compilation playlists
 

I just wondered if any other fellow-ledgies had played around with making all-era compilation playlists. Rather than doing it chronologically, which has its own challenges and limitations, I try to put together songs that flow into each other well, or that have some common thematic, musical or lyrical link allowing for the occasional left-turn. Parts of this list work better than others, but what do you think? I set myself some basic rules.. include every studio album, have it less than four hours long, and try to avoid consecutive songs by the same writer. I play it with 8 seconds of cross-fade to make it flow. And yes, I realise that post-Tusk material is a little under-represented...

The Chain ~This is the Rock~Black Magic Woman~Rhiannon~Behind the Mask~Hypnotised~Sara ~Woman of 1000 years~Man of the World ~Landslide~Albatross~Although the sun is shining~Save me a place~The way I feel~Gold Dust Woman~Green Manalishi~Brown Eyes~I loved another woman~Smile at You~Tusk~Coming your way~The Ledge~Everywhere-Big Love~Sentimental Lady~Never going back again~Closing my eyes~Spare me a little of your love~Sad Angel~Oh Well (part 1)~Dust~Did you ever love me~Crystal~
Miss Fantasy~Gypsy~Bleed to lover her~Show me a smile~Second Hand News~Mission Bell~ Say you love me~Go your own way~Got to Move~Lazy Poker Blues~Don't Stop~Eyes of the World~Over my head~Beautiful Child~ Need your love so bad~Love that burns~ Dreams~ That's all for everyone~ Dragonfly~Without you (Nicks)~ Songbird~Say Goodbye~All over again~Storms~Hang on to a dream~ Without you (Kirwan)~Safe Harbour~Why~Caught in the rain

I love this idea and toyed with it myself but stopped because not all the albums are remastered. Great idea to add another section to include more Tango, SYW, etc.

Hi Sean,

Thanks for replying. The thing about trying an exercise like this is that it confirms that Christine truly was the heart and soul of this band. I know its a ten thousand-to-one shot that you're reading this Chris, but thanks...

What is the significance of the bolded songs?

Hi ChiliD... there's no significance...I just did it that way to make it easier to read and avoid doing a long vertical list taking up lots of space!

Kind Regards

Mr Scarrott

So true, Mr. Scarrott. Come on, Christine, do a final Mac album!!!

Alphabetically
 

About 10 years ago, I started to record all the (official) songs alphabetically on minidiscs, from A fool no more to You're the one.
But with a total number of about 368 officially released titles, that project turned out a bit too big; I stopped at the third disc...

GJK

Ok, here's mine (in the long, vertical, acreage-consuming format) ;) :shrug:

3hrs, 43mins, 13 secs
From Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (1967) to Extended Play (2013)

Coming Your Way
This Is The Rock
Black Magic Woman
Station Man
Shake Your Moneymaker
Love That Burns
Dragonfly
Underway
Hypnotized
Morning Rain
Revelation
Sands Of Time
Winds Of Change
Steal Your Heart Away
For Your Love
Sunny Side Of Heaven
Sisters Of The Moon
Green Manalishi
Brown Eyes
Thrown Down
Big Love
Smile At You
In The Back Of My Mind
Love Shines
Got No Home
Sad Angel
When The Sun Goes Down
I Know I'm Not Wrong
Miles Away
Woman Of 1000 Years
Rhiannon
Bermuda Triangle
Isn't It Midnight
Murrow Turning Over In His Grave
World's In A Tangle
The World Keeps On Turning
Tell Me All The Things You Do
Gypsy
Night Watch
Tusk
Bad Loser
These Strange Times
Future Games
Oh Well
Caught In The Rain
Show-biz Blues
Why
The Chain
All Over Again
Albatross

Limited it to 50 songs. Quite a few of my faves left out.:( But, was still able to keep it under 4 hrs. (so no 20+ min versions of "Rattlesnake Shake" & which means the severely shortened "Underway" WAS. :laugh: )

Thanks ChiliD, I'll enjoy listening to this- very counter-intuitive (although not for you, I'm sure...). I can just imagine the rolling eyes if this was put forward to some record execs as a playlist for "An introduction to Fleetwood Mac" compilation product. I would also quite enjoy playing this to friends who only remember them singing Little Lies in a barn.

I haven't got "Got no home" though, which I'll have to find. Are we allowed unofficial releases? Oh, why not...

And you remembered the Blues Jam in Chicago album, which I always seem to forget. You've made my playlist look really quite straight and conservative, which is great!

It's the best Rick Vito song from the BTM sessions (IMO). Why they left it in the can is beyond the scope of my understanding. :shrug: To my ears, it would've been a great single...I can definitely hear (in my mind's ear) tons of radio airplay. :nod: Even "Intuition" (which he eventually used on his first solo album) was better (again, IMO) than "Stand On The Rock". I think it was a government conspiracy! :laugh:

My list easily burns to 3 discs...the only problem is exactly where to do the cut-off of each disc. Disc 1, could stop at "Sunny Side Of Heaven" or lengthened to end with "Green Manalishi". Then it kind of throws off the other two discs' running order.

Well, cheers to ChiliD. I've just spent a very enjoyable 3 3/4 hours listening to his playlist (barring the yet-to-be found Got no home). When you get over the audacity of only including five songs from those three albums and democratising the amount of tracks given to individual members then the entire body of work does make some more kind of mysterious sense- even Sands of Time segueing into Winds of Change (and I was a little sceptical about that, truth be told).

Chiffonheads of the world could do no worse than the lady herself.. get all the pre-Year Zero albums and listen to them back-to-front or whatever and then see what you come up with. I may die before I hear her a mash-up of Sisters of the two-pronged crown but I live in hope.

I am yours, just a dream
And go on dreaming
May this joy of ours
Never ever cease
My love, my love
Pregnant sweet
Love is tender

Mr Scarrott

Thank you for taking the time to listen through that playlist. :thumbsup:

Upon listening back to it myself, I think it would've been better to flip-flop this pair: "Smile At You" & "In The Back Of My Mind"

And, move "These Strange Times" to AFTER "Oh Well"

And, while we're at it, squeeze in "You Make Loving Fun" in between "Steal Your Heart Away" & "For Your Love". It was just an inadvertant oversight not including YMLF initially (despite it being from THAT album :laugh: )

Also, I WANTED to include "Go Your Own Way", but just couldn't find a place for it that made sense. :shrug:

That would've pushed it to almost the 4 hr mark. :o

You could just lull everyone into a false sense of familiarity by starting with GYOW before exploring those seven mid-period tunes before the Rumours crowd return...you would then also have the joke of not knowing whether you were coming or going your (own) way...

A bit cheesy? Perhaps... but it's the sort of thing I would end up doing! Coming your way is such a strong opener in its own right that it might be a shame to relegate it, but GYOW doesn't really work following it, somehow and it doesn't really elide into This is the Rock either...

Ok, I've got it...

As previously stated...move "These Strange Times" to after "Oh Well". Put "Go Your Own Way" where it was between "Bad Loser" & "Future Games".

Ta-DAAAA!!

REVISED LIST (couldn't resist a few additions plus the aforemention switcheroos):



Coming Your Way
Honey Hi
This Is The Rock
Black Magic Woman
Station Man
Love That Burns
Shake Your Moneymaker
Rattlesnake Shake
Dragonfly
Underway
Hypnotized
Morning Rain
Revelation
Sands Of Time
Landslide
Winds Of Change
Steal Your Heart Away
You Make Loving Fun
For Your Love
Sunny Side Of Heaven
Green Manalishi
Sisters Of The Moon
I Loved Another Woman
Brown Eyes
Thrown Down
Big Love
In The Back Of My Mind
Smile At You
Love Shines
Got No Home
Sad Angel
When The Sun Goes Down
I Know I'm Not Wrong
Miles Away
Woman Of 1000 Years
Rhiannon
Bermuda Triangle
Gypsy
Isn't It Midnight
Murrow Turning Over In His Grave
Illume
World's In A Tangle
The World Keeps On Turning
Tell Me All The Things You Do
Night Watch
Tusk
Bad Loser
Go Your Own Way
Future Games
Oh Well
These Strange Times
Caught In The Rain
Show-biz Blues
Why
The Chain
All Over Again
Albatross

Having listened through again, those additions really work and add to the resonances between the eras, ChiliD, thanks. It takes me aback to imagine a definitive playlist without Man of the World and Gold Dust Woman, but I think you've nailed it, somehow. It reminds a bit of the Pink Floyd Echoes compilation,if that makes any sense.

All we need now is to force everyone to listen to it!

What would our choices be if things worked out otherwise???

A ten hour Macathon
 

Just thought I'd share an expanded version of ChiliD's compilation that I've been working on. It now stands at 155 tracks and ten hours (without crossfades), so you can take a day to get lost in it. I think I've managed, just about, to keep to my rule of no consecutive tracks by the same lead, and whilst there might be the occasional uncomfortable transition from one track to another, some are real surprises Closing My Eyes into Sara, The Derelict into The Farmer's Daughter! Or maybe I'm just hearing things that aren't there, like some merit in the Second Time, perhaps?

There's still more I would like to add, but I think I'll await the new album before I mingle them in and finally die of a Mac overdose. The tracks in italics are my additions to ChiliD's original legwork.

Coming Your Way
Honey Hi
This Is The Rock
Black Magic Woman
Station Man
Love That Burns
Shake Your Moneymaker
Rattlesnake Shake
Come
Dragonfly
Warm Ways
Angel (Nicks)
Coming Home (Welch)
World in Harmony
Underway
Hypnotized
Morning Rain
Revelation
Sands Of Time
Landslide
Winds Of Change
Steal Your Heart Away
You Make Loving Fun
For Your Love
Sunny Side Of Heaven
The Green Manalishi (with the two-pronged Crown)
Sisters Of The Moon
I Loved Another Woman
Brown Eyes
Thrown Down
Big Love
In The Back Of My Mind
Smile At You
Love Shines
Got No Home
Sad Angel
When The Sun Goes Down
[I]Spare me a Little of Your Love
Nothing Without You
I Know I'm Not Wrong
Remember Me
Monday Morning
Miles Away
Behind the Mask
Gold Dust Woman
Man of the World
Although the Sun is Shining
Save Me a Place
Mission Bell
Say You Love Me
Sentimental Lady
Never Going Back Again
Closing My Eyes
Sara
Woman of 1000 years
Rhiannon
Bermuda Triangle
Everybody Finds Out
Keep on Going
World Turning
Trinity
Second Hand News
Everywhere
The Ledge
Somebody's Going to Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight
Rollin' Man
My Heart Beat Like a Hammer
Long Grey Mare
Purple Dancer
The Way I Feel
Beautiful Child
Make Me a Mask
Forever
Buddy's Song
Homework
Child of Mine
Believe Me
I Don't Want to Know
What's the World Coming to
Sugar Daddy
Born Enchanter
Sooner or Later
Tango in the Night
I Wonder Why
Jewel Eyed Judy
Got to Move
Stop Messin' Around
Heroes are Hard to Find
Blue Letter (single)
Destiny Rules
The Ghost
Fleetwood Mac
My Dream
Never Forget
Hell Hound on my Trail
Jigsaw Puzzle Blues
Red Rover
Think About Me
Seven Wonders
Hold Me
That's Enough for Me
Do You Know
The Second Time
As Long as you Follow
Goodbye Angel
Goodbye Baby
Like Crying
The Derelict
The Farmer's Daughter
Songbird
Miss Fantasy
Gypsy
Isn't It Midnight
Murrow Turning Over In His Grave
Illume
World's In A Tangle
The World Keeps On Turning
Tell Me All The Things You Do
Night Watch
Tusk
Bad Loser
Go Your Own Way
Did You Ever Love Me
Silver Springs (the Dance)
Say Goodbye
Safe Harbour
Without You (Kirwan)
Before the Beginning
Hang on to a Dream
Dreams
Dreamin' the Dream
Bleed to Love Her
That's Alright
Little Lies
She's Changing Me
Eyes of the World
Lazy Poker Blues
Don't Stop
Need Your Love so Bad
One Together
Show me a Smile
Dust
Planets of the Universe (Rumours demo)
Future Games
Oh Well
Oh Daddy
These Strange Times
Caught In The Rain
Show-biz Blues
Why
The Chain
All Over Again
Storms
Crystal
Albatross

Here's mine. Sorry, but I must put them in order. Maybe it's not too long, but it's because I didn't include the Lindsey's & Stevie's songs!!
Just 114 songs!!!

- Albatross
- Man of the World
- Oh Well
- Need your love so bad
- Green Manalishi
- Child of Mine
- The Ghost
- Homeward Bound
- Sunny Side of Heaven
- Bare Trees
- Sentimental Lady
- Danny's Chant
- Spare me a Little
- Dust
- Remember Me
- Bright Fire
- Did you ever love me
- Caught in the Rain
- Emerald Eyes
- Hypnotized
- Forever
- Heroes are hard to find
- Coming Home
- Angel
- Come A Little Bit Closer
- Monday Morning
- Warm Ways
- Over my Head
- Say you love me
- Landslide
- Second Hand News
- Dreams
- Never Going Back Again
- Don't Stop
- Go Your Own Way
- You Make Loving Fun
- Gold Dust Woman
- Silver Springs
- Over & Over
- The Ledge
- Think About Me
- Save Me A Place
- Sara
- What Makes You Think You're The One
- That's All for Everyone
- Sisters of the Moon
- Angel
- Brown Eyes
- Tusk
- Monday Morning (Live)
- Say You Love Me (Live)
- Dreams (Live)
- Oh Well (Live)
- Over & Over (Live)
- Sara (Live)
- Not That Funny (Live)
- Over my Head (Live)
- I'm So Afraid (Live)
- Love in Store
- Can't Go Back
- That's Alright
- Book of Love
- Gypsy
- Only Over You
- Empire State
- Straight Back
- Hold Me
- Oh Diane
- Eyes of the World
- Wish You Were Here
- Oh Diane (instrumental)
- Book of Love (demo)
- Gypsy (extended)
- Straight Back (demo)
- Wish You Were Here (demo & extended)
- Goodbye Angel (instrumental)
- Big Love
- You & I (Part I)
- Joan of Arc
- Book of Miracles
- Down Endless Street
- Seven Wonders
- Everywhere
- Tango in the Night
- Mystified
- Little Lies
- Family Man
- Welcome to the Room...Sara
- Isn't it Midnight (25 Years: The Chain)
- Goodbye Angel (25 Years: The Chain)
- As long as you follow
- In the back of my mind
- Paper Doll
- The Chain (The Dance)
- Dreams (The Dance)
- Everywhere (The Dance)
- I'm So Afraid (The Dance)
- Temporary One
- Bleed to love Her
- Gypsy (The Dance)
- Landslide (The Dance)
- Silver Springs (The Dance)
- Over My Head (The Dance)
- Sweet Girl
- What's The World Coming to
- Murrow
- Illume
- Red Rover
- Peacekeeper
- Come
- Smile At You
- Steal Your Heart Away
- Say Goodbye
- Come (Live in Boston)