I can give them some credit I suppose as this is an old album and perhaps they didn't have the luxury of a brilliant recording to start. Some of his listeners probably wouldn’t have understood him if he had because they didn’t speak English.

This is a must-have for any Fleetwood Mac fan that wants a new and refreshing take on the albums they grew up listening to. Même chose pour le Live de 1980 dont les titres bonus sont rigoureusement les mêmes que sur le coffret anniversaire sorti en 2021…Voilà donc un coffret qui n’apporte pas grand-chose au fan collectionneur quand même puisqu’il/elle possède déjà ces coffrets anniversaires. Overall, the record isn’t as engaging as the earlier releases, and a few tracks, including “Angelsea” and “Freezing Steel,” feel like filler.Finally, the group's admirers will have a unique portrait of what made Mick and the rest of the group tick in the midst of their massive success and personal trials. The contents have been previously issued on vinyl for annual Record Day events and have also appeared on deluxe editions of the original albums. Originally released in 1975, Fleetwood Mac's self-titled release marked the addition of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks into the band's line-up. The set will include: The Alternate Fleetwood Mac, The Alternate Rumours, The Alternate Tusk (2LP), The Alternate Live, The Alternate Mirage, The Alternate Tango In The Night. All too often it seems that remastering is the process of brightening up one or two instruments, leaving everything else a bit muddled in the middle.

In general, the tracks are more stripped down without the final additional embellishments, such as the searing guitar on Go Your Own Way. If, on the other hand, you have just the original albums, this package may represent a smarter purchase than the earlier anthologies.

Still, as Nelson says in liner notes for Live at Budokan, a new two-CD and DVD release of the show, “Music is a great communicator…[people] will hear it in whatever language they are listening. Backed by a band that features his talented piano-playing sister Bobbie (who died last March at age 91), he hits all the bases in his repertoire and delivers some of his most famous numbers, including “Always on My Mind,” the self-penned “On the Road Again,” and Fred Rose’s “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” from 1975’s game-changing Red-Headed Stranger concept LP. For those who have listened to the original albums many times, it is a refreshing listening experience to hear these alternative versions. Unlike some other band albums I’ve heard as alternatives there aren’t any short ‘filler’ clips from the studio. Who else could deliver traditional and outlaw country tunes like “If You’ve Got the Money Honey I’ve Got the Time,” “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” and “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line” and in the same show tap the Great American Songbook for beautifully rendered performances of songs like Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish’s “Stardust” and Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies”?

At least there’s a large catalog of recorded material to remind us of just how potent a force this band could be.

Three of the albums that Cat Stevens released prior to Catch Bull at Four—1970’s Mona Bone Jakon and Tea for the Tillerman and 1971’s Teaser and the Firecat—have been the subject of gargantuan golden-anniversary box sets that included up to five CDs each with new mixes, alternate versions, demos, concert material, and rehearsal tapes, plus Blu-rays, vinyl LPs, hardcover books, frameable artwork, and assorted other memorabilia.