If FM released a B sides album

[iamstevienicks]

It would be nice to have all the Fleetwood mac loose ends and rarities on one nice double or even triple CD

I imagine there are loads of extended version out there and different edits used in different formats in different countries

Its such a pain ;-)

[becca]

I would love to have World In Harmony, Green Manalishi, Purple Dancer, and Dragonfly together on any single CD. I wish Warner/Reprise could put it out and it would fit between Then Play On and Kiln House albums nicely I think.

I would buy a B&N era FM b-sides and rarities album eventually I think, maybe they could put two or three versions of Silver Springs on it and some of the rumours outtakes and alternate versions. Oh if only I were record company God...

If you collect the Hollies you will find they had many 45 and super 45/mini 33 releases not collected on any album and some are their best work too. Maybe it is more an English thing?

[Vianna]

If FM ever released an album of B sides I'd be there to buy it in a heartbeat!! These are some of my favorite songs and I've never understood why some of the songs didn't make it onto the album.

For example, You and I Part I, Down Endless Street...isn't Goodbye Angel a B side to something, too? I don't know my singles well at all =:-(

[iamstevienicks]

It would be something I would rush out and buy too Im not picky

[seteca]

Originally posted by chiliD
DAMN this makes me feel old. Let me take a swig of my Geritol and I'll tell you a story about how in the OLD DAYS (the 70's), record companies used to treat singles as separate entities from albums, so songs were released on singles that NEVER were intended to be on albums. As far as Fleetwood Mac is concerned, "Man Of The World"/"Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight", was one, "Green Manalishi"/"World In Harmony" was one, "Dragonfly"/"Purple Dancer" was another.

Very interesting indeed, I didn't know at all that non-album singles were released back then...! I know that there are some singles released nowadays which are not attached to any particular album but I can't think of any that didn't eventually end up on that artist's next album. Thanks for the info.