25 Years: The Chain (1992)
Disc One
1. Warm Ways
2. Say You Love Me
3. Don't Stop
4. Rhiannon
5. Walk a Thin Line
6. Storms
7. Go Your Own Way
8. Sisters of the Moon
9. Monday Morning
10.Landslide
11.Hypnotized
12.Lay it All Down
13.Angel
14.Beautful Child
15.Brown Eyes
16.Save Me a Place
17.Tusk
18.Never Going Back Again
19.Songbird
Disc Two
1. Save Me
2. Goodbye Angel
3. Silver Springs
4. What Makes You Think You're the One
5. Think About Me
6. Gypsy
7. You Make Loving Fun
8. Second Hand News
9. Love in Store
10.The Chain
11.Teen Beat
12.Dreams
13.Only Over You
14.I'm So Afraid
15.Love is Dangerous
16.Gold Dust Woman
17.Not That Funny
Disc Three
1. I Believe My Time Ain't Long
2. Need Your Love So Bad
3. Rattlesnake Shake
4. Oh Well, Part 1
5. Stop Messin' Round
6. The Green Mnalishi
7. Albatross
8. Man of the World
9. Love That Burns
10.Black Magic Woman
11.Watch Out
12.String-a-Long
13.Station Man
14.Did You Ever Love Me
15.Sentimental Lady
16.Come a Little Bit Closer
17.Heroes are Hard to Find
18.Trinity
19.Why
Disc Four
1. Paper Doll
2. Love Shines
3. Stand Back
4. Crystal
5. Isn't it Midnight
6. Big Love
7. Everywhere
8. Affairs of the Heart
9. Heart of Stone
10.Sara
11.That's All for Everyone
12.Over My Head
13.Little Lies
14.Eyes of the World
15.Oh Diane
16.In the Back of My Mind
17.Make Me a Mask
 
If you ever want to see an example of
a botched box set, look no further. Fleetwood Mac is one of those bands
that probably should have never put out a box set representing their
entire career, because during their career, they were essentially three
different bands. The only thing that was consistent throughout their
entire history was the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.
This might have worked had they approached this with a bit more
thought. Had they made the first disc the early Peter Green Blues
period, then made the second disc the Bob Welch period and then concluded with
everything from 1975 to the present on the last two discs, this could
have worked. Plus, if anything, it may have introduced the majority of
the fans (that had only been in tune since 1975) to some great, older
music.
They do devote one of the discs (which was disc 3 - don't ask me
why) to the "older" stuff, but it comes across as uneven since it has
most of the stuff pre-1975 packed on this one disc. Even though
it only represented about seven years of the band's early history, there
was still too much diversity within that time to make a clear, linear representation of the
variety of the music.
There's a lot of unreleased stuff and/or rarities, and to be fair, most
of it is welcome, especially the newer songs on disc four, but it just
adds to the already muddled picture of what this package is supposed to
represent. I'm not sure how or why many of the songs on
the package were even chosen to be included. It almost seems as though
they put every song they ever recorded in a hat and then randomly picked
what songs to include.
Their history deserved much better than this.
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