Fleetwood Mac - Live (Album, Reissue, Remastered)

Description

Live is a double live album released by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac on 8 December 1980. It was the first live album from the then-current line-up of the band, and the next would be The Dance from 1997. The album was certified gold (500,000 copies sold) by the RIAA in November 1981.Live consists of recordings taken primarily from the 1979-1980 Tusk Tour, together with a few from the earlier Rumours Tour of 1977 and a Buckingham Nicks Track "Don't Let Me Down Again" from the 1975 Fleetwood Mac Tour. According to the liner notes, two songs were recorded at a Paris soundcheck and three at a performance at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium "for an audience of friends and road crew." Of particular note are three new songs - Christine McVie's "One More Night", Stevie Nicks' "Fireflies", and a well-harmonized backstage rendition of The Beach Boys' "The Farmer's Daughter". The latter two were released as singles; "Fireflies" reached the top 60 in the US, while "The Farmer's Daughter" reached the top 10 in Austria. "Fireflies" was Nicks' rumination on the tumultuous recording of the "Tusk" album and her observance that the band stayed intact nevertheless. Her lyrics referred to band members as the "five fireflies." "The Farmer's Daughter" appears to have actually been recorded at The Village Recorders studio where Tusk was recorded despite the liner notes - it appears in the Tusk re-release of 2004 nearly identical sans crowd noise. It would appear that "Fireflies" is also actually a studio demo from the same time. Various very similar takes from a recording session have emerged on bootlegs, and at least two separate vocal tracks featuring Nicks can be heard on the version released on Live. "Don't Let Me Down Again" is a song from the Buckingham Nicks album and was actually recorded earlier than the rest of the tracks - the recording was made in 1975 in Passaic. The band covered "Farmer's Daughter" at the request of Buckingham, who deemed the Brian Wilson tune obscure enough to include on the album.Also notable are two Lindsey Buckingham guitar showcases. The first, "I'm So Afraid", was popular as a concert finale during this period. The second was Buckingham's take on former Mac guitarist Peter Green's signature number, "Oh Well" (originally a 1969 single release). A deluxe edition of the album was released on April 9, 2021.

Release Info

Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Label: Warner Records
Format: Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country:
Label: Warner Records
Released: 2021-04-09
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock

Tracklist

Original Album - 2021 Remaster
CD1-1 Monday Morning
CD1-2 Say You Love Me
CD1-3 Dreams
CD1-4 Oh Well
CD1-5 Over & Over
CD1-6 Sara
CD1-7 Not That Funny
CD1-8 Never Going Back Again
CD1-9 Landslide
CD2-1 Fireflies
CD2-2 Over My Head
CD2-3 Rhiannon
CD2-4 Don't Let Me Down Again
CD2-5 One More Night
CD2-6 Go Your Own Way
CD2-7 Don't Stop
CD2-8 I'm So Afraid
CD2-9 The Farmer's Daughter
Previously Unissued
CD3-1 Second Hand News
CD3-2 The Chain
CD3-3 Think About Me
CD3-4 What Makes You Think You're The One
CD3-5 Gold Dust Woman
CD3-6 Brown Eyes
CD3-7 The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)
CD3-8 Angel
CD3-9 Hold Me
CD3-10 Tusk
CD3-11 You Make Loving Fun
CD3-12 Sisters Of The Moon
CD3-13 Songbird
CD3-14 Blue Letter
CD3-15 Fireflies (Remix - Long Version)
Original Album - 2021 Remaster
A1 Monday Morning
A2 Say You Love Me
A3 Dreams
A4 Oh Well
A5 Over & Over
B1 Sara
B2 Not That Funny
B3 Never Going Back Again
B4 Landslide
C1 Firelies
C2 Over My Head
C3 Rhiannon
C4 Don't Let Me Down Again
C5 One More Night
D1 Go Your Own Way
D2 Don't Stop
D3 I'm So Afraid
D4 The Farmer's Daughter
7 " Single
E1 Fireflies (Demo)
F1 One More Night (Demo)