Future Games

DavidMn · #1 09-19-2005, 10:54 AM

I dont know what it is, but I LOVE this album. I never get tired of listening to it, By far my favorite Album Bob was on. Favorite songs are probably the title track and woman of 1000 years. I'd be curious to get to get others opinions on this. Thank you.

**jbrownsjr** · #2 09-19-2005, 01:14 PM

Love it!

Woman of 1000 Years
Morning Rain
Show me A Smile
What a Shame

This is a great album!

DavidMn · #3 09-19-2005, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Love it!

Woman of 1000 Years
Morning Rain
Show me A Smile
What a Shame

This is a great album!

Show me a smile. You're right, that's right up there on the album too. I mean the whole album has such a cool vibe to it.

macfan 57 · #4 09-19-2005, 03:19 PM

I like Future Games very much, although not as much as some of the later Bob Welch era albums. My favorite songs, in order:

Future Games
Show Me A Smile

It's just a consistently good album. There are no bad songs anywhere to be found.

DavidMn · #5 09-19-2005, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by macfan 57

I like Future Games very much, although not as much as some of the later Bob Welch era albums. My favorite songs, in order:

Future Games
Show Me A Smile

It's just a consistently good album. There are no bad songs anywhere to be found.

ANd it was a great sign that Fleetwood Mac could move on after what seemed at the time to be the disastrous departure of Peter Green. Although they did make Kiln House in the interim.

chiliD · #6 09-19-2005, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMn

And it was a great sign that Fleetwood Mac could move on after what seemed at the time to be the disastrous departure of Peter Green. Although they did make Kiln House in the interim.

Future Games came on the heels of the sudden disappearance of Jeremy Spencer...just they were already coming to grips with Peter's departure by then.

FG was also the biggest change sound-wise from album to album. Because Jeremy was all but absent on Then Play On, Kiln House was kind of a surprise to most people. Had Jeremy's tunes been included on TPO (the songs that were eventually released as Jeremy's first solo album; but really was just Jeremy fronting Fleetwood Mac for a whole album), I DON'T think KH would've been THAT much of a departure sonically. Danny's tunes still pretty much sounded the same and Jeremy's still sounded the same...it just didn't have Peter & songs like "Oh Well" or "Rattlesnake Shake" (although the end of "Tell Me All The Things You Do" is VERY reminiscent of the "Madges")

With FG, the new, fresh entity of Bob Welch and the addition of Christine Perfect added a whole new sound along with similar sounding fare of Danny Kirwan. "Woman Of A 1000 Years" is not that much of a departure from "Although The Sun Is Shining" on TPO; "Sands Of Time" is basically "Station Man, Part II", "Sometimes" is "Like Crying" only more hick. Welch, with his title cut & "Lay It All Down" just came out of nowhere. Christine's two tunes..."Morning Rain" would've fit on Kiln House had she joined the band one album sooner'; "Show Me A Smile" was the grandmother of "Songbird".

The great "link" song between the sound of Kiln House and Future Games was the Spencer/Kirwan tune "Purple Dancer"...it sounded just enough like KH to be familiar, yet dropped MORE than enough hints as to the upcoming change in direction sound, as well.

I've always considered FG as my "Sunday Morning" album.