Monday, August 18, 2025

Fleetwood Mac "Self Titled"

 Like a lot of people of my era the radio featured a lot in our lives being the preeminent way of hearing new music in a world with very limited music on tv and no internet.

Sometimes you might write down a list of likes, in the past you may of taped the odd song off the radio or a friends record or borrowed the tape from the library.

I was never a Fleetwood Mac fan in my earliest days although I knew people who were so it wasn't until we were well into the cd era that I bought this, the first "California" era Fleetwood Mac album issued in 1975 when I was screaming my head off for the Rollers! 

It was responsible for the four singles Warm Ways, Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win), Over My Head and Say You Love Me (Edited) that were popular on album based radio, hardly Radio One playlist material.

I had a decent cd of this but no record so this recent Rhino High Fidelity release was welcome not least for being cut for the very first time in over forty years from the actual master tape rather than a copy. No cd has been transferred from it either.

It has deep, clean, tight bass that shows Mike Fleetwood's bass drum kit well and clear mids bringing out the vocals clearly without sounding screechy.

This can join my copies of Rumours and Tango In The Night on vinyl while the bulk of my collection of Fleetwood remains on cd or sacd. 

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