"Expanded & Remastered" Album Editions

[Andrew Smith]

I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. I really joined because I wanted to know what other FM fans thought about remastering & expanding their albums.

The first four Fleetwood Mac albums (which were originally released on the Blue Horizon label) have all been fully remastered & expanded by Sony Music, so there's no problem there.

Their current record label (Warner Bros.), who have been their record label since 1968/69 have only bothered releasing three of their albums as Expanded & Remastered editions. These albums are Fleetwood Mac, Rumours and Tusk. These were done in 2004, but there have been no more since.

The FM albums from 1969's Then Play On to 1974's Heroes Are Hard To Find and the albums from 1980's Live to 1990's Behind The Mask have yet to see any kind of decent reissue. There are alot of tracks to add to these albums, especially with Tango In The Night. There are various B-sides, outtakes and occasionally 12" remixes that could be added to these albums.

Why have Warner/Rhino given up on the FM catalogue? The catalogue has been long neglected and should get the treatment it deserves. Does anyone else agree with me, and does anyone else know why all these albums have been forgotten about by Warner/Rhino? I've messaged them quite a few times about this subject, but each time I just a message saying, "Thanks for your input. We'll forward your message to our suggestion box".

If anyone else wants to message them suggesting what I've suggested, then the e-mail address is [email protected]
Hopefully, the more people who suggest this to them the more likely they are to get up off their arses and do something about it!