What would you include in a playlist for a new fan?

[Silver Springs]

Hopefully there isn't a thread lurking in the mist along the same lines as this one. Knowing my luck there is, but it's hot today and I'm feeling lazy so here's another one .

Anyway, an acquaintance of mine from University has recently discovered the delights of Fleetwood Mac. Having earned quite a reputation on my course as the crazy cat lady who's obsessed with R.E.M., Fleetwood Mac and Silver Foxes (Delicious older men, eg; Lindsey, Robert Downey Jr, Rupert Everett etc), she's asked me to send her a playlist of songs that would help ease her into the Fleetwood Mac world. Does anybody have a list of songs they would share with a newling that doesn't contain the usual standards (eg Rumours fair, Rhiannon, Gyypsy, etc), but would gives a good all round overview of the FM flavour? Maybe it should be two lists, one for pre-californication and one for californications?

Okay. I'm rambling. I'll bullet point what I would like. Can you tell I've had plenty of Coffee today, lol?

• One playlist containing non-"standard" songs from the pre Lindsey/Stevie days
• One playlist containing non-"standard" songs from the Lindsey/Stevie era
• Rupert Everett in a pretty box with a bow and airholes on my doorstep in the morning...

Thank you!!!!!!

[MacShadowsBall]

Okay, I've thought of this and actually did this a few times for people. I would just do 1 playlist/CD's worth as a introduction, making sure you include at least one song for each primary member and the major albums from Fleetwood Mac '68 till Say You Will.

• Primary members: Peter, Jeremy, Danny, Welch, Christine, Lindsey, Stevie, and Billy
  
  
• Major albums: self-titled '68, Then Play On, Kiln House, Bare Trees, Mystery to Me, FM '75, Rumours, Tusk, Tango, BTM, and Say You Will.
  
  
• Find out what exactly about music he or she likes, i.e. male or female singers, guitar or keyboard heavy, drums/bass, harmonies?
  
  
• Sub in a few album versions with awesome live versions from the Dance, etc. Make sure to get some collaborations songs in there, World Turning, The Chain, Love is Dangerous, etc. Choose uptempo "rock out" type songs along with the slower more "soft rock" type FM songs.
  
  
• Stick away from demo/alternate versions...too hard to explain to a FM "newbie". No solo songs!
  
  
• Do the list/CD in chronological order so that they can see the bands progression over the years.
  
  

Hope this helps...

[KenshiMaster16]

I recently made two playlists of Mac material. One to use to bring the girlfriend into the light of the Mac and one for play in my store (I manage an FYE).

Here's the tracks I used;

Disc For Girlfriend
1. Rhiannon
2. Say You Love Me
3. Landslide
4. Go Your Own Way
5. Dreams
6. Don't Stop
7. You Make Loving Fun
8. The Chain
9. Tusk
10. Sara
11. Hold Me
12. Gypsy
13. Love In Store
14. Big Love
15. Seven Wonders
16. Little Lies
17. Everywhere
18. Isn't It Midnight
19. Silver Springs (The Dance)
20. Say You Will
21. Peacekeeper
22. Thrown Down

Disc For Work
1. The Chain
2. Rhiannon
3. Don't Stop
4. Go Your Own Way
5. Hold Me
6. Everywhere
7. Gypsy
8. You Make Loving Fun
9. Peacekeeper
10. Dreams
11. Little Lies
12. Landslide
13. Say You Love Me
14. Sara
15. Big Love
16. Say You Will
17. Tusk
18. Songbird

[moon]

Hi! It's a good choice what KenshiMaster16 did, so I'm going to make two discs, with the basic and other songs. But, I'm not so "acquainted" with the pre Stevie/Lindsey era! So I'm going to try...

Disc One - Basically the Basic
01. Albatross
02. Man of the World
03. Black Magic Woman (maybe the Santana's version too!)
04. Sunny side of Heaven
05. Rhiannon
06. Over my head
07. Landslide
08. Dreams
09. Don't stop
10. Go your own way
11. The Chain
12. You make loving fun
13. Sisters of the Moon
14. Tusk
15. Gypsy
16. Big Love
17. Everywhere
18. Little Lies
19. As long as you follow
20. Say you will
21. Peacekeeper


Disc Two - What you really must play!
01. Monday Morning
02. Warm ways
03. Second hand news
04. Silver Springs
05. What makes you think you're the one
06. Think about me
07. Brown Eyes
08. Love In Store
09. Can't Go Back
09. Straight Back
10. Oh Diane
11. Eyes of the World
12. Seven Wonders
13. Tango in the Night
14. You & I (part I)
15. I'm So Afraid (The Dance)
16. Bleed to Love Her (The Dance)
17. Red Rover
18. Steal your heart away
19. Say Goodbye

Regards!

[TrueFaith77]

I would give them my Singles playlist.

[jcalzaretta]

If you are looking at pre Stevie/Lindsay, I think you need Why and Spare Me a Little. Maybe you use the live Why with Stevie and Lindsay.

I think you do include some Buckingham Nicks like Frozen Love, Without a Leg to Stand On and Crying in the Night.

You know the popular singles. If you wanted a sample of non hit songs then

White Album - World Turning

Rumours - I Don't Wanna Know

Tusk - Sisters of the Moon, Beautiful Child, Stroms, Angel, I Know I'm Not Wrong

Tango - Caroline, Isn't it Midnight

Say You Will - Thrown Down, Bleed to Love Her, Steal Your Heart Away, Everybody Find Out

[Etisl]

I ofcourse have several different compilations that I have for myself, but here is one I made for one of my friends. He wanted both Stevie and FM hits...

01. Rhiannon (Single Mix)
02. Say You Love Me
03. Everywhere
04. Dreams
05. Don't Stop
06. Stand Back
07. Over My Head (Single Mix)
08. Silver Springs (Original Rumours Version)
09. Sara
10. Hold Me
11. Gypsy
12. Little Lies
13. Talk To Me
14. Tusk
15. You Make Loving Fun
16. Save Me
17. Gold Dust Woman
18. Edge Of Seventeen
19. Go Your Own Way
20. Landslide (Live w/Melbourne Symphony)

[Scarlett DuBois]

Honestly? If I wanted to really win somebody over to the Mac, I would just hand 'em a copy of the "Tusk" album. It has enough of the Mac's pop brilliance combined with some of their best album tracks. You'll never hear "Angel" or "I Know I'm Not Wrong" or "brown eyes" anywhere else, that's for sure - and these are great songs! Tusk is really the album to prove to people that Fleetwood Mac were not just a glossy "soft-rock" stereotype. Plus it has some of Lindsey and Stevie's best songs - "Storms" in my opinion is really under-rated, and superior to Landslide, which is so overplayed and over-covered I could shoot myself, "The Ledge" is one of Lindsey's coolest rockers ever... great record!

And maybe pair it with a live show (bootleg!) from the same era, to mix in live versions of the Rumours and White album fare, which always sound very different, and very fresh in live versions from that era.

If you haven't explored fleetwood mac live bootlegs, DEFINITELY DO. I knew a guy who hated Fleetwood Mac and literally did a total 180 after hearing the Sydney, Australia Show from the tusk tour (A+ sound!). Frankly, there is not one single live track from "The Dance" or something like that that you can't find something WAAAAAAY better and more impressive from the live 1975-1982 era.