Nit picks I have about Fleetwood Mac (the album)

[David]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

As a huge Chris fan, I've never been crazy about Warm Ways, but Sugar Daddy makes EVERY greatest hits CD I've EVER made.

It's one of the coolest, jiviest songs Fleetwood Mac Marque 10 ever recorded. (And try singing it sometime: it's very difficult to place the words where they should be. That's one of Christine's strengths: she creates unnatural speech emphases but makes them sound erotic and hip, as if she were inventing a slangy new way of talk.)

My listener's problem with the white album is the bloodless way the drums are recorded. Denison told me this was the fashionable practice at the time, but it's completely the wrong way to record Mick Fleetwood. If you don't feel his kick in your belly, either the mics are messed up or he's dead.

I should note that, the same year of 1975, Max Weinberg had more punch on vinyl on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," "Backstreets," etc. But even he is partially eclipsed by the strange practice of eliminating the kick drum bottom end. The multiple drummers (including Elton John's Nigel Olsson) on Rod Stewart's Atlantic Crossing actually have more presence in the sound field, but they do some sloppy technical work on those tracks.

My guess is that all those albums at the time were engineered for AM transistor radios and flip-box phonographs.