Monday Morning (Early take - CD1: The alternate Fleetwood Mac)
Over My Head (Early take)
Say You Love Me (Early version)
Landslide (Early version)
World Turning (Early version)
I’m So Afraid (Early version)
Second Hand (alternate - CD2: The alternate Rumours)
Never Going Back Again (acoustic duet)
Go Your Own Way (alternate)
You Make Loving Fun (alternate)
I Don't Want To Know (Early take)
Gold Dust Woman (alternate)
Over & Over (4/2/79 - CD3: The alternate Tusk)
Save Me A Place (10/18/78)
What Makes You Think You're The One (2/24/79)
That's All For Everyone (10/20/78)
Sisters Of The Moon (11/12/78)
That's Enough For Me (9/28/78)
Brown Eyes (with Lindsey & Peter Green - 9/20/78)
Never Make Me Cry (2/8/79)
I Know I'm Not Wrong (11/2/78)
Beautiful Child (10/9/78)
Walk A Thin Line (4/6/79)
Second Hand News (CD4: The alternate live)
What Makes You Think You're The One
The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)
Love In Store (Early version - CD5: The alternate Mirage)
Suma's Walk Aka Can't Go Back (outtake)
That's Alright (alternate take)
Book Of Love (Early version)
Only Over You (alternate version)
Empire State (Early version)
Eyes Of The World (alternate Early version)
Wish You Were Here (alternate version)
Down Endless Street (CD6: The alternate Tango In The Night)
Special Kind Of Love (demo)
Seven Wonders (Early version)
Tango In The Night (demo)
Mystified (alternate version)
Isn't It Midnight (alternate mix)
You & I (part 1 & 2 - Full version)
Review: Since 2019, Fleetwood Mac has used Record Store Day to deliver "alternate" versions of the band's most famous albums. These are comprised of demos, early recordings and alternative mixes from the period that have laid dormant in the archives for decades.
This box set - which weirdly drops just as the band's Christine McVie is widely mourned - brings together these 'alternative' albums - the bluesy 'Fleetwood Mac', gazillion-seller 'Rumours', the rambling and epic 'Tusk', 'Mirage' and 80s power-pop-goes-AOR masterpiece 'Tango In The Night' - alongside a disc of rare live recordings of various fan favourites. As you'd expect, many of the versions are either stripped-back, laidback or more acoustic, though there are some genuinely revelatory alternative arrangements -not least an even deeper, warmer and dream-like early take on 'Mystified' whose effects-laden drums are mesmerising.
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