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. Aside from introducing song titles and band members and thanking the audience for applause, Willie Nelsondidn’t talk much during his February 1984 concert at Japan’s Nippon Budokan arena. 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. Some of the recordings (especially many of the concert tracks) are as good as—or arguably even better than—the familiar ones. 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.

Often, when a band releases demo or rehearsal tracks or alternate mixes, their weakness serves only to point up the wisdom behind the choices for the official album. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It would have been nice if the new edition of Catch Bull at Four had at least incorporated some bonus tracks and liner notes. Now, following the recent death of Christine McVie, who joined the band way back in 1970, those chances have dropped to zero.I dare say some people have had quality issues with copies of this album but I have yet to find an artist or label that doesn’t. Le coffret contient les versions alternatives des albums de 1975 à 1982, la période avec Buckingham et Nicks qui a vu le groupe renaître en se tournant vers un pop rock au son californien qui allait les propulser parmi les plus célèbres des années 70 : Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (chef d’œuvre absolu), Tusk, Live, Mirage et Tango in the night. In other cases, it’s the opposite: you can hear how the group took a flat-sounding, relatively prosaic recording, added musical touches and production magic, and transformed it into an extraordinary final rendition. Throughout the book, both Caillat and Rojas detail not only the trials and sacrifices they made to finish the album, but also triumphs of musical inspiration and technical innovation that have made Tusk the darling of music critics and indie rockers today. Mirage is without doubt a superb album, capturing and showing off everything that is great about Fleetwood Mac in their earlier years.

Before we discuss the music, a caveat: for some listeners, The Alternate Collection will represent more of a repackaging than a revelation. If, on the other hand, you have just the original albums, this package may represent a smarter purchase than the earlier anthologies. It includes not only a long list of studio and live albums, but a ton of alternate takes, versions, and mixes, as well as demos and rehearsal recordings. On numbers like “Sitting” (a Top 20 hit single) and “The Boy with a Moon and Star on His Head,” however, Stevens showed he could still deliver the catchy melodies and earnest, distinctive vocals that characterized his previous LPs. I was not that interested in much of the later Fleetwood Mac output but have recently revisited their albums and I have to say this album has much more to it than I previously thought, hence the vinyl purchase.

Clam shell outer box containing 6 CD's inside individual cardboard sleeves with inner cellophane protective sleeves. For those who have listened to the original albums many times, it is a refreshing listening experience to hear these alternative versions. Such an edition of the group’s eponymous 1975 LP came out in 2012 and was followed in later years by box sets devoted to 1977’s Rumours, 1979’s Tusk, 1980’s Live, 1982’s Mirage, and 1987’s Tango in the Night.