Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night

Rumours might be Fleetwood Mac’s most dramatic album, but Tango in the Night is their most poignant. Stevie Nicks had just left rehab after touring a successful third solo album, Rock a Little. Christine McVie made a solo album, too (1984’s Christine McVie). Mick Fleetwood had gone through bankruptcy and John McVie struggled with a drinking habit that, by 1987, had culminated in a seizure. By the time the band started recording, they hadn’t played together for four years.

Lindsey Buckingham says that Mirage was an attempt to go back to something like Rumours: commercial, simple, up the middle. But in a way, Tango in the Night comes closer. Not so much in its sound, but in how it fits into its musical surroundings. As a great pop band, Fleetwood Mac has never been ahead of the times—if anything, they’re always just behind them enough to serve as a kind of summary or reflection. Where Rumours feels like mid-’70s pop-rock, Tango feels like the late 1980s: the synthesisers and drum machines (“Everywhere”), the gauzy surfaces (“Seven Wonders”), the sense of everything being suspended in pink perfumed mist (“Little Lies”).

Several of the songs started out as demos for a new Lindsey Buckingham solo album, and reflect his obsession with the studio even more than Tusk. Mick Fleetwood says it took him years to understand that Buckingham (who co-produced the album at his home studio) was making the album as a kind of goodwill gesture, to cinch up loose ends. In an interview from a month before the album came out, Buckingham says he worked hard to make Tango great, because it’d probably be their last album together. He was right.

Tracklisting

Big Love (3:37)
Seven Wonders (3:38)
Everywhere (3:41)
Caroline (3:50)
Tango In The Night (3:56)
Mystified (3:06)
Little Lies (3:38)
Family Man (4:01)
Welcome To The Room…Sara (3:37)
Isn’t It Midnight (4:06)
When I See You Again (3:47)
You And I, Part II (2:40)

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Wikipedia URL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_in_the_Night
Format	Vinyl LP Album Stereo
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Catalog Number	WX 65
Notes	Please note that this record was originally pressed by Allied Record Company (according to the runout groove). But this is certainly a Record Service Alsdorf pressing. Issued with a printed inner sleeve with lyrics and credits. Some copies issued with sticker advertising hit songs. ℗ & © 1987 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the US & WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the US. [Inner sleeve & back cover]: UK: WX 65 [On runouts]: - Mastering/processing method derived from the runouts: Direct Metal Mastering [DMM]. - Originally mastered at Precision Lacquer. - Masters were plated at Specialty Records Corporation (SRC), mastered and pressed at Record Service Alsdorf as identified by their specific pattern in the runouts: Country code: SP-GER or SPGER. - Record Service Alsdorf used already existing US mothers. The processing of lacquer disc & ‘metalwork’ / ‘plating’ was made at Sheffield Lab Matrix as subcontractor for the Allied Record Company – which can be identified by etched string “△ #####-X” along with a “-SH#” and without the [Allied ‘ɑ’ logo]-stamp but with the manufacturer matrix number B-#####. This album is dedicated to [a=Judy Wong]. [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/436642]This release[/url] is almost identical, but different text on the center label below song list on label reads here “All songs published (GB. only).” Runouts are stamped and etched
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