Mystery To Me


1973 October


PERSONNEL:


Bob Welch (guitars, vocals)
Bob Weston (lead guitar, slide)
Christine McVie (keyboards, vocals)
John McVie (bass)
Mick Fleetwood (percussion)
with Martin Birch (acoustic guitar on "Keep On Going")

Produced By Martin Birch and Fleetwood Mac

SINGLES:

  • For Your Love/
    Hypnotized (December 1973)

SONGS:


1. Emerald Eyes - 3:37 (Welch)
2. Believe Me - 4:06 (C. McVie)
3. Just Crazy Love - 3:22 (C. McVie)
4. Hypnotized - 4:48 (Welch)
5. Forever - 4:04 (Weston/J.McVie/Welch)
6. Keep On Going - 4:04 (Welch)
7. The City - 3:35 (Welch)
8. Miles Away - 3:47 (Welch)
9. Somebody - 5:00 (Welch)
10. The Way I Feel - 2:46 (C. McVie)
11. For Your Love - 3:44 (Gouldman)
12. Why - 4:56 (C. McVie)

REVIEWS:


B+ "I downgraded this at first because I doubted the continuing usefulness (much less creativity) of such smooth-rocking expertise. And I still do - when they achieve the contained, "Layla"-like freneticism of "The City," their professed distaste for urban "darkness" insures that the breakout will be a one-shot. But this album epitomizes what they've come to be, setting a gentle but ever more technological spaceyness over a bottom that, while never explosive, does drive the music with flair and economy, the least you can expect of a band named after its rhythm section. Even Bob Welch does himself proud." Robert Christgau, Village Voice

** "...But Welch wasn't as consistent as either Kirwan or Green, leaving Fleetwood Mac with a trio of rather lackluster albums, with Christine McVie providing the best moments." -John Swenson and John Milward, Rolling Stone