The best of cover - Page 2

wetcamelfood · #16 08-30-2002, 08:11 AM

Thanks for all of your thoughts on this everyone.

Knowing what we do about this compilation now though, it STILL does make me wonder, if this was a "completely Reprise records" affair, WHY they felt as though they had to wait for FIVE YEARS to pass before putting something like this out?! Surely if they wanted to make money off of it (which we know they do), they would have "built off of" the success of "The dance" etc. by putting it out closer to that time and as there are no new tracks, they could've easily done this collection back then but whatever, I just have been wondering about that lately. Any thoughts on that?

John

marc402 · #17 08-30-2002, 08:30 AM

First about the cover i agree with most of you that most of the material is from rumours and tusk that it is logical to put on a photo from that era.
and second i actualy DO like the 88 gh cover just fine (especialy the one on the lp (cause it has depth)
I don't know what the flower stands for either but who cares.
I don't think The group had no involvment whatsoever.
It is my idea that they must certanly have had some input.
Why else would they also include lesser known songs.
I love the fact that go insane live is on there it is my fav track from the dance and i was dissapointed that it wasn't on the cd back than (they realy should have put the dance out the way it was without it being edited and the five tracks being cut out) I mean there are things called double albums

Rumours · #18 08-30-2002, 08:35 AM

Well, I will agree that this cover is A LOT better than the '88 GH album cover..........this one is ok......not the best they could have come up with........but it could be worse.
The only slight problem I have with it is, granted, most of the songs are from the "Rumours" line-up.....but there's also the two '88 GH songs and Behind the Mask stuff.....I think it would have been more appropriate to have a new picture of them, and get Rick & Billy in there too. I don't know...just my opinion....I just know that I can't wait for it to come out so I can buy it, then start thinking more about the NEW album and tour!!!!!!!!

Stephanie

jwd · #19 08-30-2002, 09:48 AM

I think the connection between the Mac and the orange blossom is something along the lines of Mick, John, and Christine finding Lindsey and Stevie in California. Christine's mom, who was supposedly psychic, told her she would find it in an ORANGE grove.

Actually I like the cover of the 88 Greatest Hits album better. It's more comtemporary than the upcoming lp cover. I wouldn't have used a picture at all, but some kind of graphic design to update the image of the band. The crystal ball with the 70s pic is just too cheesey IMO. I do like the picture on the upcoming FM site...you know just the instruments arranged together with the tambourine hanging from the mic stand with the rainbow streamers. That says a lot more than the crystal ball shot on the best of cover.

Joe

Janet · #20 08-30-2002, 10:25 AM

Its a great cover.

I really like it! Im glad something is coming out...SOMETHING. This is very exciting.

kristin · #21 08-30-2002, 10:56 AM

I really like this one....I think it is beautiful, and it is something people will recognize as very Fleetwood Mac....as sad as it is, I think more people would be like, WHO ARE THEY? with an updated picture....and about the one used on the new website....I think that picture is SO cheesy and I am glad they are not using it....espcially wiht the rainbow streamers....really do not like it.

Kristin

BigAl84 · #22 08-30-2002, 11:02 AM

This new album isn't designed to be "for us"...we're beyond this and we should KNOW that, and not be so upset by it. I really would rather see THIS album with THIS cover than something like that God-awful cover from the 1988 GH package.

The NEW album next year will show them as they are now. And, I'm REALLY looking forward to THAT!

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Oh THANK YOU for saying that!!! agh finally somone else said that. I totally agree...this album isnt for us really..its for the regular music listeners etc. LOL people are so critical but its only a freaking greatest hits package...for the people who are not fans.

fleetfootmike · #23 08-30-2002, 11:51 AM

For what it's worth (he says, having spent a long time obsessing over very small details in Mac promo photos) it's from the same photo session as the 'deck/porch' shot from the cover of the Samuel Graham biography.

chiliD · #24 08-30-2002, 02:27 PM

Yeah, Mike, that's what I meant by "chicken coop sessions".

fleetfootmike · #25 08-30-2002, 02:37 PM

Might have known you'd know.

Out of curiosity, do you know if http://www.sararhiannon.com/macg.jpg (and others) are from the same session? And why 'the chicken coop session' anyway?

chiliD · #26 08-30-2002, 02:54 PM

From what I've read, that "shack" they're standing in front of (in this link) is an old converted chicken coop. There are a few different shots from that one session. The poster I had was the same shot as the Sam Graham cover. It was a 3'x4' poster...just huge!

http://www.sararhiannon.com/mac3333.jpg

I think the one you linked to is from an earlier photo session.

David · #27 08-30-2002, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fleetfootmike
Out of curiosity, do you know if http://www.sararhiannon.com/macg.jpg (and others) are from the same session?

Actually, several years separate the two photo shoots. The macg.jpg is from late 1977 in New Zealand, & the others are from early 1976.

Keep this in mind: When you see Rumours-era shots of Mick with a huge, bushy beard & an Old West moustache (the combination makes him look like an orthodox rabbi), they're from very late in 1977 or 1978. If Christine's hair is tightly crimped in rows, it's from approximately the same period. If Christine's hair is curling iron-flipped -- once on each side -- it's from early in 1977. Mick was beardless throughout most of 1975 & again in most of 1979, although he grew his beard for the tour.

Next lesson: Distinguishing early Tusk tour from mid-period Tusk tour from late Tusk tour.

David · #28 08-30-2002, 05:04 PM

The band really let the ball drop when it vetoed this photo for the cover of the new Greatest Repeats album:

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/P...ndseywgirl.jpg

blinker12 · #29 09-09-2002, 09:34 AM

I think the cover's pretty cheesy. The photo itself is fine, but the overall design looks like low-grade religious art, what with the floating hand and the white, "heavenly" backdrop.
I am excited about seeing the extra features on the CD, though.

Johnny Stew · #30 09-09-2002, 10:12 PM

In another thread discussing the cover of the 'Very Best Of," i mentioned that the hand and crystal ball reminded me of the cover for the paperback version of Mick's second book, 'My Twenty-Five Years In Fleetwood Mac.'

Unfortunately, I couldn't find that pic anywhere on the net to show what I meant... so tonight while I had the scanner fired-up, I went ahead and scanned a copy of the book cover.

Here's the front....

Johnny Stew