Trollheart

Surprised no-one mentioned "Say you will". Okay, so it's a newer album, but I was completely blown away by the quality on it. Great album.

In order then, for me (I've never heard the older stuff, though I've obviously heard the song "Tusk", but not the album)

1. Rumours
2. Tango in the night
3. Mirage
4. Say you will
5. Behind the mask

The last two quite underappreciated in my opinion. Anyone want to rate Stevie's solo work?

BTW if no-one has heard Christine's version of "I'd rather go blind" on "The legendary Christine Perfect album", I can't find it on YT but you really should seek it out. Not much of an album other than that, but worth getting for that track alone.

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Big Ears

There is also a Chicken Shack version, with Christine on lead vocals. They also included I'd Rather Go Blind in their BBC session. There may be a Fleetwood Mac version too.

cledussnow

They are SO different at every incarnation. It is almost unfair to lump it all as "Fleetwood Mac" .

Peter Green's version was great. Solid Blues rock and I like almost all of it. After he left and Bob Welch joined they released "Future Games". What a great album, yet so completely different than anything they had done before. Like a whole different band. "Sentimental Lady" off Bare Trees was great, and a better version than Welch's solo version a few years later, which is the one most people know from the 70s.

Then Kirwan left and Welch was pretty much the leader at that point. I really like the song "Hypnotized" with that lineup. They released only 2 with Welch at the helm, and then he left and enter Buckingham/Nicks.

Again a radically different sounding band emerged with 1975's self-titled album. Another great album followed by probably the best FM album of all, Rumours. I agree with whoever said Top 10 of all time. So diverse and very good all the way through.

Plankton

Been listening to FM for decades, and I have to say Rumors, with The Dance in close second, although I haven't heard ALL their stuff, I'll have to base that on what I have heard which is most of it. From a guitar players standpoint, I always have to give props to Lindsey, who is an incredible picker:



...and one of my favorite obscure tracks:

KateEliza

Rumors... it's the first album my mum gave me. Nostalgic.

Merkaba

My parents wouldn't exactly give me Rumours but I needn't have asked, they played it faithfully, I didn't complain, it's pretty intoxicating.

And you know an album's good when your parents hammered it throughout your childhood and you still come out the otherside with a place in your music library for it.

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Howard the Duck

Rumors, obviously

i quite like Tusk also

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sopsych

I only know one or two songs from Say You Will, so I can hardly rate it. Behind the Mask is very underrated, probably because it's without Lindsey and had no big hits (maybe too dark). But the guitar work by his replacements is excellent and the songwriting is right up there with all but probably Rumours. Someday I'm going to start a thread about underappreciated major releases, and that's the one I will list first.

crowhue

Tango In The Night was a bit more my era than Rumours and definitely a wicked album. Great guitar playing, sons, vocals. Fantastic.

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saabrinnnaa

Rumours is my favorite FM album by default. My favorite album Art is on 'Heroes are hard to find'... Oh, and, uh... F*ck Christie McVie!!