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Thread: Album Club, June 2015: Fleetwood Mac - 'Pious Bird of Good Omen'

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    Default Album Club, June 2015: Fleetwood Mac - 'Pious Bird of Good Omen'

    The Album Club choice for June, comes courtesy of Martin (high spirits) with ‘The Pious Bird of Good Omen’ by Fleetwood Mac. Please listen to the album in its entirety before you vote.


    The Pious Bird of Good Omen



    I have chosen this album as it brings back so many memories of my teenage days. As a compilation album it includes so many excellent tracks.

    Peter Green at his best supported so well by Danny Kirwen and Jeremy Spencer and John McVie.
    I like the short 1 minute 34 ‘Jigsaw Puzzle Blues’ on side 2, so different from the norm.
    I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

    The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a compilation album by Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969. It consisted of the first four UK singles and their B-sides, two other tracks from their previous two albums, and two tracks by blues artist Eddie Boyd with backing by members of Fleetwood Mac. These two tracks came from Boyd's album 7936 South Rhodes.

    The title of the album is a phrase found in an 1817 gloss (marginal note) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The phrase refers to the albatross killed in the poem. ("The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen."). It's use as an album title as well as the album art is a sly wink to the featuring of the band's number 1 UK hit "Albatross." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pio...d_of_Good_Omen)


    https://play.spotify.com/album/0G4x2AqGbajCGoSR08wOhc


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYV8...aQ-H26&index=3
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    I can't listen 2 this as I don't do Facebook
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    Use the Spotify link, daftee!

    You don't automatically need Facebook, to have Spotify.

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    As soon as I click on the Spotify link it as me 2 sign into Facebook
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    OK - try: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...p3yW5UAIaQ-H26 and click on 'Play all'.
    Barry

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    You the MAN Barry

    Thank you

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    8 from me (but not for the 2004 release)

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    For me, a superb album - and one I don't have from FM, so I intend to get it. Need to find a nice copy on vinyl.

    9 out of 10, for me!

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    I just listened and to be honest am slightly disappointed

    Repetative , lots of F--cking , only 2 tracks were familiar , sort of lost the plot from the original path of FM

    its a 6 from me
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    Never heard of this album probably because its a compilation , I've been looking for a greatest hits from this band (Peter Green era) so I probably try and get this.

    Albatross was the very first record I ever bought , still got it , I think

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