Rate the Very Best of Fleetwood Mac!

[Montclare]

10/10 Go Your Own Way

7.5/10 Don't Stop

8/10 Dreams

8/10 Little Lies

5/10 Everywhere

6/10 Albatross

8/10 You Make Loving Fun

10/10 Rhiannon

6/10 Black Magic Woman

9/10 Tusk

7/10 Say You Love Me

6/10 Man of the World

7/10 Seven Wonders

4/10 Family Man

9/10 Sara

8.5/10 Monday Morning

8/10 Gypsy

7.5/10 Over My Head

10/10 Landslide

10/10 The Chain

7.5/10 Big Love (9/10 for the live version)

Additional thoughts-for the pre-BN songs, I find it odd that Oh Well isn't on here. I'd also expect Green Manalishi. Why on earth they'd go with Family Man over NGBA or SHN is beyond me. And yes, I would totally expect Hold Me to be on here.

[SisterNightroad]

Originally Posted by Montclare

Additional thoughts-for the pre-BN songs, I find it odd that Oh Well isn't on here. I'd also expect Green Manalishi. Why on earth they'd go with Family Man over NGBA or SHN is beyond me. And yes, I would totally expect Hold Me to be on here.

I agree, but you have to think that the Greatest Hits came out right after Tango In The Night so probably they were trying to ride the wave of the moment.
After all this years I have to say that Seven Wonders earned its place on a Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album.

[Montclare]

Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

I agree, but you have to think that the Greatest Hits came out right after Tango In The Night so probably they were trying to ride the wave of the moment.
After all this years I have to say that Seven Wonders earned its place on a Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album.

But this isn't the Greatest Hits album, it's the Very Best of, which was 2002. Even if it was the Greatest Hits, there's already four other Tango songs on it,no need for a weak fifth song when there's others far more worthy.

[SisterNightroad]

Originally Posted by Montclare

But this isn't the Greatest Hits album, it's the Very Best of, which was 2002. Even if it was the Greatest Hits, there's already four other Tango songs on it,no need for a weak fifth song when there's others far more worthy.

Oh, you're right, I hadn't even looked at the cover image on the original post.
I don't buy Greatest Hits for a personal peeve but a artists usually include deep cuts, probably Lindsey likes this song for a personal reason and decided to put it on the very best of.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

Oh, you're right, I hadn't even looked at the cover image on the original post.
I don't buy Greatest Hits for a personal peeve but a artists usually include deep cuts, probably Lindsey likes this song for a personal reason and decided to put it on the very best of.

I'd guess the UK version was relatively heavy on the TITN songs due to the albums success over here. Nevertheless I'm still a bit baffled by Family Man's inclusion. I suppose they wanted (or were required for legal/financial reasons) to even out the numbers of Christine/Stevie/Lindsey songs. aside from the obvious ones its quite difficult to pick out Lindsey songs. Perhaps I'm So Afraid should have been on there as a LB song.

[SisterNightroad]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

I'd guess the UK version was relatively heavy on the TITN songs due to the albums success over here.

Yeah You're right! I haven't thought about that but here in Europe during the late 80s and early 90s Fleetwood Mac had way more success than during the 60s and the 70s.

Nevertheless I'm still a bit baffled by Family Man's inclusion. I suppose they wanted (or were required for legal/financial reasons) to even out the numbers of Christine/Stevie/Lindsey songs. aside from the obvious ones its quite difficult to pick out Lindsey songs. Perhaps I'm So Afraid should have been on there as a LB song.

Surely the songs had to be equally distributed among the three major songwriters, and being this album put out when Lindsey was with the band certainly he chose the tracks himself; I can't come out with any explanation for including this song other than Lindsey's personal tastes.