Fleetwood Mac

Best band ever? You can not be serious. loomisjohnson above id'd their best stuff. You might like the Buckingham/Nicks album those two made before joining.

I've always been partial to "Pious Bird of Good Omen" alhough quite different from the titles mentioned in the OP.

you can't go wrong with any of their records up through rumours, but understand they are all different...once the band found commercial success, 'the formula' set in....you gotta get a stevie nicks 'package'....my favorites are 'then play on' 'kiln house' 'future games' and 'bare trees'....honorable mention to 'heroes are hard to find'.....not the best band ever, but the output is an incredible feat for a band that always had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

then play on, with peter green, is one of the great lost albums of the 60s--it features the original "o well" and a bunch a really cool, strange stuff. i dig the kiln house/bare trees/future games stuff, too--danny kirwan was a hugely underrecognized guitarist and writer.

I've always thought "Mirage" was underrated...and a pretty nice recording, too. It's not up to par with the eponymous album, much less "Rumors," but I like it at least as much as "Tusk." YMMV....

Before the girls and the pop hits came along,Fleetwood Mac was a great blues band founded by Peter Green.From 1967 to 1969 they were the top blues band in England.

Absolutely right.

They actually have two albums that are titled only "Fleetwood Mac" - one from 1968 and one from 1975. They bear virtually no resemblance to each other. The first is great blues stuff in the vein of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and the other much more pop oriented.

You'll miss some good stuff if you ignore the earlier period.

There's a good chance that if the OP is into the Stevie Nicks Lindsey Buckingham Fleetwood Mac era, they may not like the older Blues oriented FM records of the Peter Green era.

The only other stellar Stevie, Lindsey era Mac album I can think of would be Tango In The Night.

Before the girls and the pop hits came along,Fleetwood Mac was a great blues band founded by Peter Green.From 1967 to 1969 they were the top blues band in England.If you want to know where their roots are try to find any albums they released on the Blue Horizon label.

Get the live album, "The Dance". It's very good. And if you like Jack Johnson his live album titled "En Concert" from the 2008 Sleep through the static tour is one of the best quality pop recordings I've ever heard.

Bare Trees is a pre superstar status album that is a wonderful relaxing mellow masterpiece.

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Kiln House, Future Games and Bare Trees are all must listen Fleetwood Mac, though have a different sound than the ones you mention...