Fleetwood Mac - The Dance finally on vinyl Oct 12,2018 & Say You Will

'The Dance'(CD) was my introduction to Fleetwood Mac
I bought 'Say You Will'(CD) about 3-4 years ago, and contains a lot of really Good Songs(although should have trimmed off a few of the Weakest Songs, but then we complain about wanting to hear the B-Sides). At least the Vinyl spreads out all of those Songs from 'Say You Will' over 2 Records though, which I figured needed to be done.

Looks like 2 more Titles I need to eventually add to my 'Start Up' Vinyl Collection. Might need to wait until I buy The Police Box Set and most of the New Kate Bush Vinyl Reissues/Remasters and most of the Siouxsie & the Banshees Vinyl Reissues on my 'To Buy' List(probably for the X-Mas Holidays).

 

Did anyone else notice they’ve done something... odd... to Stevie’s face on The Dance cover? It’s definitely different from the CD release:

 

Wow, now that is lame. Terrible idea. Hope it didn't come from Stevie.

 

Isn’t it just lighter, like a lot of reissue artwork and lacking the sharpness of the original?

 

It’s a lousy scan of the original cover. Guess they couldn’t find (or even bother looking for) the original art elements.

Lame.

 

In your images the shape of the face looks very different....

 

Which is the new cover? Because the shape of her face in the second picture (on the right) looks like my original copy from the 90s

 

The vinyl is on the left and CD on the right. Look at the neck, hair, face shape... they’ve obviously done some tweaking and it’s not for the better.

 

Isn’t that just a strand of hair on the left that’s now darker? I highly doubt they would have edited the image given the minimal effort in overall packaging

 

That’s a photoshop-job without a doubt. The shape of the face is made slimmer. Very obvious if you look at the left side that some fake shadow or filter has been applied to try to hide it. I guess Stevie Nicks wants to be forever young...

 

Wow, this in relation to her kicking out Lindsey is just depressing.

 

Sounds good, but packaging is so threadbare, no gatefold sleeve, no insert, seems a cash grab to me, same for the SYW vinyl release

 

Oh and my copy of Say You Will jumps on side 4, track 1, (Bleed To Love Her) so going back to Amazon for a replacement, anyone else have the same problem?

 

Started listening to The Dance earlier. Only listened to side A, it’s pressed at a low volume but I was very impressed with the sound quality overall

 

Listening to Say You Will and it’s a very nice improvement over the CD. Thank you Chris Bellman!

 

I'm just surprised they didn't digitally remove ol' Lyndsey out there altogether...

 

Yeah, but he about to remove some of the Band's Money if he wins his lawsuit.

 

But I paid only around £14 - £16 on Amazon UK for double vinyl! Just playing The Dance. More cheaper 140 gram releases please. (now up £20 and £16).

 

My cover just looks a bit lighter but not pixelated as in the right picture.

 

No problem with mine. What are you playing it on?

 

Replacement copy also jumped, 3rd copy was fine, maybe a bad batch out there

 

Received today and of course the jacket is bent on The Dance. Seems like double LPs in single jackets are hit or miss in terms of surviviving the postal journey. As everyone says, skimpy packaging. Nice to finally hold vinyl copies of these albums though. Will listen tomorrow and follow up with my thoughts.

 

Just listened to “The Dance” straight through with no cleaning. Sounds perfect. The recent vinyl releases/remasters have sounded great and should be how all vinyl sounds.

 

When I say recent I just mean the Fleetwood Mac releases only! There was an odd bit of static on the Dance but it hasn’t been cleaned in my Spin Cleanr yet. I recommend if you like Fleetwood Mac to buy it. It isn’t brickwalled and can be cranked.

 

Playing the new vinyl Say You Will: it is quite awful! The recording is much too bright and, especially on the second record, there is serious sibilance which is almost renders it unlistenable (try the last track on side 4!). The vinyl itself seems high quality: flat and silent. Curiously enough the last vinyl that I had sibilance problems with was the Tango in the Night reissue. Both recordings (is it Lindsey Buckingham's production?) seem too brittle - especially for vinyl.