Mystery To Me Music Cd

Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me

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Mystery to Me      Artist : Fleetwood Mac      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $10.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-06-28      Studio : Warner Bros / Wea      Label : Warner Bros / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (40 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Mystery To Me      My Favorite Fleetwood Mac Album      Rating:      I stumbled across this little gem (my vinyl copy) cleaning out a cabinet last weekend. Even though I'm a big Buckingham/Nicks fan, "Mystery to Me" will always be my favorite Fleetwood Mac album, even though it pre-dates all the record-breaking records that followed. The raw creativity is unbelievable, particularly for the early seventies. Ironically, this may explain why it didn't sell more copies. The timing and rhythm of most of the tracks, in particular, make this collection stand out from other music being released at the same time. In most bands you would attribute the percussion and bass (writers McVie and Fleetwood) for defining and holding the rhythms, but clearly the Bobs (Weston and Welch, on guitar) and Christine Perfect McVie (keyboards) were way out there too. I'd love to know who to credit, but thats probably better left to Fleetwood Mac historians. Its amazing when you think about what happens to musicians when they are hired by Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. First was Peter Green, one of the finest "British Blues" performers of his time ("Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac"), before leaving the band and fading away. Next, (some might disagree) "Mystery to Me" seems to have been the high water mark for Welch and Weston as well, before they left the band. And everyone knows what happened when the unknown duo of Buckingham-Nicks were hired. In a way, the Bobs may take credit for paving the way for (by leaving) one of the greatest pop bands in music history. "Hypnotized" is a hugely undervalued drug song. I would put it up there with the Byrds "Eight Miles High," and the Beatles "Lucy in the Sky." "Emerald Eyes" and "Just Crazy Love" are two great songs about infatuation. The album ends with my favorite of Christine McVie's many wonderful soft ballads, "Why." And "The City" is a legitimate predecessor to the indy/alternative work that was so popular in the 90s. Anyway, with "Mystery to Me," its all good. If you want to take a very worthy sniff of where all that creativity was lurking before the McVies and Mick Fleetwood went on to sell 100 million copies, don't cherry pick "Mystery to Me." Buy the whole album. I highly recommend you do.     Customer Reviews for Mystery To Me Cd      Overlooked Pre Lindsey/Stevie Stuff      Rating:      I really wasn't familiar with early Fleetwood Mac but heard that track "Hypnotized" on a deep tracks radio hour.Had to have it & am still looking for time to hear the rest. I haven't had a chance yet for anything but a quick scan thru but it sounds like I'm really liking the sound of the album tracks overall.