Mirage and Tango Remastered

[michelej1]

Stevie has also complained about Lindsey's songs on Tusk, both their nature and number. She indicated that Christine was not happy either, but I highly doubt that Christine would agree entirely with Stevie's gripes.

Michele

[LiquidDiamonds]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

With Warner dropping all Stevie's back catalogue of albums, I'm guessing that'll be a pretty good watermark that they WON'T be remastering any of Fleetwood Mac's lesser selling albums anytime soon.

Sorry to bump a year old thread, but can someone elaborate on this?

[mylittledemon]

It's fairly simple... they're not going to be remastered if they don't feel they can make any money off of them. If it does happen for Mirage and Tango, I would imagine it'd be around the time that (if) Fleetwood Mac releases a new studio album.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

It's fairly simple... they're not going to be remastered if they don't feel they can make any money off of them. If it does happen for Mirage and Tango, I would imagine it'd be around the time that (if) Fleetwood Mac releases a new studio album.

Obviously, the first three remasters, didn't live up to their sales expectations.

[Andy Man]

I think the only way we'll see remasters of those records is if Warner decides to do a huge remastering project including all of the Rumours line-up albums, sold as a package. On their own I don't think that either album would sell much, but if they were to re-master all 5 studio albums, plus live albums, I think that Warner could market that quite easily. It wouldn't be the cheapest product, but there would be more incentive for people to buy all the albums remastered at once, each with bonus material of course.

Otherwise, I doubt we'll see those albums remastered. Most people, unfortunately, don't give much thought to audio quality (or even care about it, or know what remastering is for that matter!) and are quite happy to listen to the (horrible!) mastering of the original CD releases.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by David

I remember her complaining a bit about why it took Fleetwood Mac so long to record That's Alright in her 1982 interview with Jim Ladd. In the interview, Mick said it was a great song, & Stevie said that "We always wanted to record it, but I don't know why we never did."

Yeah, but it's a 100 times better in the demo from the mid 70s. There, her high, twangy soprano suits the song perfectly. By the time she gets to it on Mirage, she sounds tired, and the band kind of strums along listlessly.

Why the band never sought to record Planets (beyond the early Rumours outtake) is beyond me. It would have made the perfect addition to Tango. Still, the Shangri-la version is amazing.

Gosh: I just realized I've replied to something posted in 2009. I need a life.

[LiquidDiamonds]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

It's fairly simple... they're not going to be remastered if they don't feel they can make any money off of them. If it does happen for Mirage and Tango, I would imagine it'd be around the time that (if) Fleetwood Mac releases a new studio album.

Yes, I was just curious about WB dropping Stevie's back catalogue. Thank you all for your answers.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by marc402

I doubt if it is ever gonna happen anymore love both albums. I grew up with Tango even before i had heard any of the others and Tusk and Mirage grew on me (love both now) anyway the thing is (atleast over here, the cd business is failing (only last month another one here in town was closed and replaced by a game media store), and the cd's you do find are mostly greatest hits. I really noticed this when i became a big (Mama) Cass Elliot fan early this year (after being a casual one before). Some of her stuff has never even been released to cd to begin with (thank god for vinylrips) and all you can get in stores are best of's, heck we are all even still waiting for an oficial Buckingham/Nicks.
Don't get me wrong i'd love to get remastered tango and mirage, i just 'don't see it happening (atleast not on a large scale)
lets hope though! These are masterpieces !! They can even put some of those nice b-sides and 12" versions "h,h,h ,h,h, house on that hill, house up on that hill yeah" ;-)

Nice to hear of a fellow Cass Elliot fan! I'm obsessed with all things Mamas & Papas, including all of their solo work prior to the band and after. Fortunately, in the last several years much of their work, including a lot of rare/unreleased material has been released on CD. Most notable is the recent release of Cass's last two studio albums. Her daughter Owen made it happen! Yet you're not going to find those in record stores but they are easily obtained online.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by LiquidDiamonds

Yes, I was just curious about WB dropping Stevie's back catalogue. Thank you all for your answers.

Oh, I missed that bit. I think when a record label drops a back catalog, that means they will no longer distribute/press any more copies..?

[michelej1]

A review by JPK from the Can't Explain blog, November 6, 2010:

http://pkcantexplain.blogspot.com/20...rage-1982.html

A sentimental favorite, perhaps, if only because my first assignment as a music journalist (a career more or less abandoned 15 years ago) was a review of the Twin Cities concert in 1982 in support of this album. It's clearly all a bit pro forma, harking back to the vein of the big mega-success albums of the '70s and reined in considerably from their experiments with Tusk, often characterized, fairly and otherwise, as bloated. There's a formula and they appear to be comfortable with it by this point: three songwriters, three styles, solid rhythm section. And say what you will that formula worked again, producing a double platinum album that spawned three hits, one of them (Christine McVie's "Hold Me") a #4. In spite of my misgivings about Stevie Nicks her song "Gypsy" is my favorite here (yes, title notwithstanding), even as it inscrutably name-checks the Velvet Underground (albeit lowercase, so I don't know what's going on actually, but I'll just chalk that up here and now to the typically gauzy Nicks). Lindsey Buckingham, arguably the person most responsible for Tusk, appears to be dominating still, with five of the 12 songs and his uniquely squirrelly, affecting guitar all over the place. Christine McVie comes next with four songs, and finally Nicks with three—two of the worst and the one best, which should not surprise anyone paying attention to the band and her antics. What can I say? I don't know that it was their last good album, because I had stopped paying attention by the time the next one came out five years later, but I know it's a good one. Worthy. That is, setting aside any bias I may have in favor of it. I do remember groaning when I got the assignment, followed by the pleasant surprise when I started playing this, followed by a certain defensiveness about it that I have clung to ever since. I also learned a valuable lesson about getting into a show, as my clearance was bollixed up (not unusual in these circles, believe me) and basically had to stand on a table and shout to get in, in the process missing the opener, Men at Work. The show was by the numbers, as I recall, but this album? Fine. Just fine.

[iamnotafraid]

Originally Posted by LiquidDiamonds

Yes, I was just curious about WB dropping Stevie's back catalogue. Thank you all for your answers.

I remember writing something about WB deleting some of her titles
from the active status in some thread. Just can't remember which
thread!

Most titles are dropped because of lack of sales.
Or if your lucky they're bringing out a rerelease,
perhaps remastered etc...