Daily Telegraph Mac albums ranked worst to best

[welcomechris]

17. Kiln House
16. Mr. Wonderful
15. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
14. Penguin
13. Time
12. Future Games
11. Heroes Are Hard To Find
10. Then Play On
9. Behind the Mask
8. Mystery to Me
7. Say You Will
6. Bare Trees
5. Mirage
4. Tango In The Night
3. Tusk
2. Fleetwood Mac
1. Rumours

[Montclare]

I was bored,so I averaged out members' posted lists-

17. Time- 15.375
16. Mr. Wonderful- 14.375
15. Penguin-13.125
14. Behind the Mask- 13
13. Fleetwood Mac '68- 12.375
12. Kiln House- 11.125
11. Future Games- 10.625
10. HAHTF- 9.375
9. Say You Will- 8.5
8. Tango in the Night- 8.5
7. Bare Trees- 8.125
6. Then Play On- 7.75
5. Mystery to Me- 7
4. Mirage- 6.375
3. Fleetwood Mac '75- 3.25
2. Rumours- 2.25
1. Tusk-2.25

I put Tusk over Rumours since it had more #1 votes, and TITN over SWY since TITN highest vote was #4 whereas SYW was #6.

I'm most surprised how low the '68 album is and how high Mirage is.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Montclare

I'm most surprised how low the '68 album is and how high Mirage is.

I'd rank Mirage high myself, but I don't know if my opinion is more sentiment than merit.

Michele

[SisterNightroad]

Originally Posted by Montclare

I'm most surprised how low the '68 album is and how high Mirage is.

Originally Posted by michelej1

I'd rank Mirage high myself, but I don't know if my opinion is more sentiment than merit.

Michele

Actually I've noticed that in these last two years Mirage is having the same kind of revaluation that has already been benefited from Tusk. The same for Kiln House.
I think the driving thread between these two rediscoveries is that they are being reconsidered as a return to a basic rock.

[FuzzyPlum]

17 Mr Wonderful
16 Behind the Mask
15 Time
14 Penguin
13 Kiln House
12 Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac
11 Say You Will
10 Bare Trees
9 Future Games
8 Heroes are Hard to Find
7 Mirage
6 Then Play On
5 Mystery To Me
4 Fleetwood Mac
3 Tango In The Night
2 Tusk
1 Rumours

[tabruns]

For the BuckinghamNicks era, the first three FM albums were the ones where all three writers were basically firing on all cylinders. I do think McVie didn't produce as sharply hook-y pop songs on Tusk as she did on other albums, but that album is so brilliant otherwise that it's easy to overlook that.

Mirage suffered from Buckingham being subdued due to the backlash from the commercial "failure" of Tusk, TITN suffered from Nicks songs not up to the usual very high quality of previous FM albums, SYW was over-long but an otherwise very good album.

BTM definitely suffered from the lack of Buckingham, and I didn't even bother with Time.

I definitely think FM has more to give album wise - both Buckingham and Nicks have released a series of brilliant late career solo albums.