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Fleetwood Mac - Future Games (1971)

Track listing:
  1. Woman Of 1000 Years 5:28
  2. Morning Rain 5:38
  3. What A Shame 2:20
  4. Future Games 8:18
  5. Sands Of Time 7:24
  6. Sometimes 5:26
  7. Lay It All Down 4:30
  8. Show Me A Smile 3:20

Notes

Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
Original Release Date: November 1971
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
ASIN: B000002KP2

AMG Review by William Ruhlmann:

By the time of this album's release, Jeremy Spencer had been replaced by Bob Welch and Christine McVie had begun to assert herself more as a singer and songwriter. The result is a distinct move toward folk-rock and pop; Future Games sounds almost nothing like Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. Welch's eight-minute title track has one of his characteristic haunting melodies, and with pruning and better editing, it could have been a hit. Christine McVie's "Show Me a Smile" is one of her loveliest ballads. Initial popular reaction was mixed: the album didn't sell as well as Kiln House, but it sold better than any of the band's first three albums in the U.S. In the U.K., where the original lineup had been more successful, Future Games didn't chart at all; the same fate that would befall the rest of its albums until the Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks era.