Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac"

The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac is an enhanced compilation album released by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac in 2002 to promote their then-upcoming album Say You Will (2003). It was released as a double album in the US, and as a single disc in the UK. It debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at number 12 on 2 November 2002 and spent 42 weeks on the chart. It was certified gold on 12 November 2002, platinum on 10 January 2003, and later 4x platinum on 11 September 2018, by the RIAA.

The US version contained the highly successful Californian era of Fleetwood Mac's work (1975 onwards). It also featured the B-side "Silver Springs", the previously unreleased The Dance performance of "Go Insane", and several rare single remixes of key tracks, such as "Rhiannon" and "Sisters of the Moon". The enhanced section contained rare live performances, interviews, music videos and footage of the band making their next album.

The UK version of 2002 was not enhanced, and contained three songs from the Peter Green-led blues era of Fleetwood Mac.

In October 2009, the two-disc US version was released in the UK and many other territories in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, to coincide with the European and Australasian legs of the group's 'Unleashed' world tour. The re-released version features a different picture on the outer slipcase to previous releases, but does not contain the enhanced material of the 2002 US release.

The re-release has proven to be as successful in the UK as the previous 2002 release, and it re-entered the UK album chart at No. 6 (the 2002 edition had peaked at No. 7). Sales of both the 2002 edition and the 2009 edition combined have achieved 6× Platinum status (shipping of 1,800,000) by December 2018. The album has spent more than two years within the top 40, and 360 weeks in the UK Top 100 by December 2018. The album sold over 89,000 copies in the UK in 2013 having reached as high as #34 on the album chart earlier in the year.

The Very Best reached No. 1 on the Australian ARIA Catalogue Chart in December 2009, and achieved platinum status in New Zealand within only five weeks of release.

Track listing

UK track listing 2002 release

1. "Go Your Own Way" Lindsey Buckingham Rumours, 1977 3:39
2. "Don't Stop" Christine McVie Rumours 3:11
3. "Dreams" Stevie Nicks Rumours 4:16
4. "Little Lies" C. McVie, Eddy Quintela Mendonca Tango in the Night, 1987 3:38
5. "Everywhere" C. McVie Tango in the Night 3:42
6. "Albatross" Peter Green Non-album single, 1968; later appeared on The Pious Bird of Good Omen (UK) and English Rose (US), 1969 3:08
7. "You Make Loving Fun" C. McVie Rumours 3:33
8. "Rhiannon" (Single mix, 1976) Nicks Fleetwood Mac, 1975 3:47
9. "Black Magic Woman" Green Non-album single; later appeared on The Pious Bird of Good Omen and English Rose 2:51
10. "Tusk" Buckingham Tusk, 1979 3:34
11. "Say You Love Me" (Single mix, 1976) C. McVie Fleetwood Mac 4:01
12. "Man of the World" Green Non-album single, 1969; later appeared on Greatest Hits, 1971 2:50
13. "Seven Wonders" Sandy Stewart, Nicks Tango in the Night 3:36
14. "Family Man" Buckingham, Richard Dashut Tango in the Night 4:02
15. "Sara" Nicks Tusk 6:27
16. "Monday Morning" Buckingham Fleetwood Mac 2:45
17. "Gypsy" Nicks Mirage, 1982 4:22
18. "Over My Head" (Single mix, 1975) C. McVie Fleetwood Mac 3:07
19. "Landslide" Nicks Fleetwood Mac 3:15
20. "The Chain" Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, C. McVie, John McVie, Nicks Rumours 4:29
21. "Big Love (Live, 1997)" Buckingham The Dance, 1997; originally from Tango in the Night 2:47

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "Back to the Future: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack"

Back to the Future: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. It was released on July 8, 1985 by MCA Records. The album included two tracks culled from Alan Silvestri's compositions for the film, two tracks from Huey Lewis and the News, two songs played by the fictional band Marvin Berry and The Starlighters, one played by Marty McFly and The Starlighters, and two pop songs that are only very briefly heard in the background of the film.

"The Power of Love" was the first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 for Huey Lewis and the News, certified Gold and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The album spent 19 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 12 in October 1985.

Track listing

1. "The Power of Love" – Huey Lewis and the News (3:58)
2. "Time Bomb Town" – Lindsey Buckingham (2:48)
3. "Back to the Future" – The Outatime Orchestra (3:20)
4. "Heaven Is One Step Away" – Eric Clapton (4:13)
5. "Back in Time" – Huey Lewis and the News (4:22)
6. "Back to the Future Overture" - The Outatime Orchestra (8:19)
7. "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)" – Etta James (2:45)
8. "Night Train" – Marvin Berry & the Starlighters (2:17)
9. "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" – Marvin Berry & the Starlighters (3:02)
10. "Johnny B. Goode" – Marty McFly With The Starlighters (3:06)

The Outatime Orchestra is named after the license plate of the DeLorean.

Songs not included on the soundtrack album:

"The Washington Post" - Composed by John Philip Sousa

"Mr. Sandman" - Performed by The Four Aces

"The Ballad of Davy Crockett" - Performed by Fess Parker

"Pledging My Love" - Performed by Johnny Ace

"Out the Window" - Performed by Edward Van Halen

To put the tracks in the chronological order they first appear in the film, the listing would be as such: 1, 2, 7, the first 90 seconds of 6, 8, 9, 10, the remainder of 6, 4, 5, and 3. The "Back to the Future Overture" on the original album is made up of the following cues as released on the subsequent score album:

Marty's Letter

Clocktower (:50 - 5:35)

'85 Lone Pine Mall (1:41 - end)

A 1999 CD release entitled The Back to the Future Trilogy featured additional compositions by Silvestri from the first film. However, these were re-recordings by the Scottish National Orchestra and not Silvestri's original recordings.

The musical material ostensibly performed by the characters Marty McFly, Marvin Berry and the Starlighters in the film, was recorded by Harry Waters, Jr. as Marvin Berry and Mark Campbell as Marty McFly, and the guitar solo by Tim May. (Campbell and May received a "Special Thanks" acknowledgment in the film's end credits, with the recording credit going to the fictional characters.) Berry's group also plays the song "Night Train", first recorded by Jimmy Forrest in 1951.

In the film, Marvin Berry, a fictitious cousin of Chuck Berry, phones Chuck and lets him listen to the music. The real Johnny B. Goode was released only three years after the time it is played in the film.

The film's musical score was composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri, who later wrote music for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and numerous other films, many of them directed by Robert Zemeckis. The memorable themes in his "Back to the Future Overture" have since been heard in the film's sequels (also scored by Silvestri), in Back to the Future: The Ride, and as ambient music at the Universal Studios theme parks. A remix of the main theme was heard in the opening sequence for MCA-Universal Home Video from 1990 to 1997. The upbeat soundtrack, featuring two new songs by Huey Lewis and the News, also contributed to the film's popularity. "The Power of Love" became the band's first song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for an Academy Award. Huey Lewis portrayed the high-school band audition judge who rejects Marty McFly's band, the Pinheads, as they perform the short instrumental hard-rock version of "The Power of Love".

There is also another album version of the soundtrack, with only the original score by Silvestri. The only legitimate release was by independent label Intrada, but another so-called "DeLorean" version released in the 1990s was an unauthorized bootleg.

In November 2009, Intrada released an official two-disc album containing Silvestri's complete score. The first disc contained the complete orchestral score as recorded for the finished film, along with two source cues that Silvestri wrote. The second disc consisted of alternate approaches that Silvestri took with a large portion of the score, with a darker, more serious tone.

None of the songs from the first album are included in this score-only album, and for moments in the film where Silvestri's score was shortened (i.e. the final moments of "Einstein Disintegrated" and "Peabody Barn; Marty Ditches DeLorean"), replaced with source music ("Town Square") or unused ("Logo"), the full score cue is presented as originally recorded.

The set was a limited edition of 10,000 units and sold nearly 6,000 by the end of January 2010. It sold out in August 2014; however, on October 12, 2015 it was made available as an unlimited release in a single-disc edition, featuring the music on disc one of the two-disc set.

The Dream Academy "Remembrance Days"

Remembrance Days is the second album by the British band The Dream Academy. Not as successful as the band's 1985 self-titled debut, the album peaked at number 181 in the United States.

The lyrics and music for "The Lesson of Love" was written in just two four-hour sessions at Patrick Leonard's home.

Nick was inspired to write "In Exile" after reading an article in The Village Voice on Rodrigo Rojas.

"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" was not to be included in the album at first, until Lindsey Buckingham got involved with it at the last minute. Because of this, the vocals were done in his bedroom as he played the snare drum in his bathroom.

The instrumental version of "Power To Believe" appeared in the 1987 film Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, however the film's official soundtrack album contained the full vocal version. The instrumental version was finally included on the band's 2014 Greatest Hits compilation The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective.