I seem to have a terrible habit of buying live albums by bands I’m not particularly fond of in order to hear one or two of the song I actually like by such artists. I came to Fleetwood Mac Live through this habit, tired of not having my favorite Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks- (I’m not a big Lindsey Buckingham fan) penned songs in my library. I should have bought a greatest hits album instead. The Mac sounds bland here. The McVie and Nicks songs (“Say You Love Me,” “Dreams,” “Rhiannon,” etc.) are OK, but not as polished as they are in the studio. As for the Buckingham tracks, ugh. I’ll take the studio version of “Never Going Back Again” – where I can actually hear his intricate finger picking – over this muddled mess any day.
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