Fleetwood Mac: Director's Cut

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While I love the concept of bands re-approaching old material, I have often found these efforts to be inferior to the original recordings. Director's Cut is my least favorite Kate Bush album for that very reason. She picked songs that were already terrific (plus "Rubberband Girl") and either hardly changed them or outright removed the best aspects of the recording. Other artists have done similar concepts, but these albums were similarly disappointing. Paul Simon's In the Blue Light falls flat despite some inspired song selections, while Sting and Peter Gabriel re-recorded some of their songs with an orchestra; the results were varied.

With both Buckingham and Nicks well past their prime, I think the ship has sailed for them to do anything like this, but I will still compile a list nonetheless. Rather than pick solo songs, I am instead only discussing Fleetwood Mac songs. These picks are assuming that the album was recorded in the mid-2000s, when all three principal songwriters could still sing relatively well.

My selections will mirror a "second chance" concept, meaning songs that could receive improvements with a better instrumental arrangement and vocal delivery. There will be a lot of selections from Tango in the Night as I believe that they could benefit from more organic production. I will also select some songs from Behind the Mask and Time just to humor the idea of Buckingham creatively approaching these compositions. Some Say You Will tracks will also be included to provide McVie the opportunity to provide vocal harmonies

I considered including some tracks from the White album, but decided against it due to the fact that I can only envision a few of those songs benefiting from modern production. I selected "Prove Your Love" as McVie had previously expressed interest in re-recording it.

1) Thrown Down
2) Prove Your Love
3) Save Me a Place
4) Destiny Rules
5) Mystified
6) Peacekeeper
7) I Don't Want to Know
8) Family Man
9) Skies the Limit
10) Can't Go Back
11) Storms
12) All Over Again