Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me CD


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Released in 1973 and now regarded as an important transitional album in Fleetwood Mac's long march towards superstardom, MYSTERY TO ME featured the lineup of Mick Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, singer/guitarist Bob Welch and guitarist Bob Weston. The hiring of Welch had angered original guitarist Danny Kirwan and after a 1972 gig, the volatile Kirwan went berserk backstage and was fired. On MYSTERY TO ME, the follow-up to PENGUIN (1973) and the band's strongest album in years, the luminous elements of the future Fleetwood Mac were falling in place; Bob Welch's rambling, mystical reverie "Hypnotized" became (and remains to this day) a rock radio standard.

The Welch-Weston-John McVie-penned "Forever" grooves with an atypical African gloss, and the bluesy growl of Welch's "The City" lashes out at New York, contradicting Lindsey Buckingham's giddy city ode "Empire State" on 1982's MIRAGE. Yet it is Christine McVie's thoughtful, majestic "Why," which unfolds from a backcountry fingerpick to a soaring poem of regret and passage, that marks the transition from early Mac (which officially ended with 1974's HEROES ARE HARD TO FIND) to one of the most influential Anglo-American bands of all time.

Fleetwood Mac: Bob Welch (guitar, vocals); Bob Weston (guitar, slide guitar); Christine McVie (keyboards, vocals); John McVie (bass); Mick Fleetwood (drums).

Additional personnel: Martin Birch (acoustic guitar).

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Q (7/93, p.106) - 3 Stars - Good - "...it's a tasteful affair and retains an emotional edge. Welch also added a looser, jazzier tinge to the mood, contrasting nicely with some sturdy rhythms...With its refreshing lack of calculation, this still sounds contemporary..."

Mystery To Me Music

Category	Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs
Label	Reprise
Orig Year	1973
All Time Product Rank	1,560
CD Universe Part number	1100324
Catalog number	25982
Discs	1
Release Date	Jun 28, 1990
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Martin Birch; Fleetwood Mac
Engineer	Martin Birch
Recording Time	43 minutes
Personnel	Mick Fleetwood - drums John McVie - bass Christine Mcvie - keyboards, vocals Bob Welch - guitar, vocals Bob Weston - guitar, slide guitar Also: Martin Birch

Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me Songs

	Trk	Song
	1	Emerald Eyes
	2	Believe Me
	3	Just Crazy Love
	4	Hypnotized See All 2
	5	Forever
	6	Keep On Going
	7	City
	8	Miles Away
	9	Somebody
	10	Way I Feel
	11	For Your Love
	12	Why See All 4

Mystery To Me Music Review

Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars) 4.5 stars

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4 stars Interesting!
Very interesting music. Bob Welch is an underated musician and Mr Weston smokes on guitar. If you like the evolving process of bands this is well worth the purchase.
Submitted by jsonoqui (Sunny and Warm California)
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3 stars Bob Weston
Weston was a great player who did not get his props. The best track on this CD is WHY. Listen to Weston's beautiful opening.
Submitted by Paul (San Francisco)
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5 stars A Masterpiece.
An extraordinary collection and certainly the best Fleetwood Mac album of the post Peter Greene era. Nary a wasted track as each song flows beautifully into the next. While nowhere nearly as commercially successful or well known as later Mac albums made with Nicks and Buckingham, Mystery To Me outshines them all.
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5 stars mystic waves of sound!
Bob Welch was genius here! the track called HYPNOTIZED--very sublime indeed.moody.I never tire of it.also-i love Emerald Eyes-Miles aAay-the remake of For your Love,by the yardbirds was well done.Christine Mcvie SHINED w/ superb emotion on--The way That I Feel. all in all...this cd gets funky-jazzy-bluesy-heartfelt-A WINNER. 5 stars!
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5 stars Underrated
By 1973 Fleetwood Mac had all but abandoned its British blues past, but songwriter Bob Welch established the new direction (made successful after his departure a year later), contributing no less than half the songs to one of Fleetwood Mac's finest, yet grossly underrated albums. Miles Away alone is worth the price of the cd.
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