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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 30898
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $8.00 |
| Used Price: $7.10 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Future Games Track Listing:
1. Woman of 1,000 Years
2. Morning Rain
3. What a Shame
4. Future Games
5. Sands of Time
6. Sometimes
7. Lay It All Down
8. Show Me a Smile
Future Games Reviews:
Turned off All The Lights, and Oh the Future Came....... 
2009-10-29 - Between Fleetwood Macs' early Blues years, and their later top-40 "hits only" years......for a few albums, there was a Fleetwood Mac that many of us regard as THE Fleetwood Mac. This incarnation of the band with Fleetwood/McVie of course and Danny Kirwan, Bob Welch and Christine Perfect-McVie wrote haunting music brimming with deeper meaning and more complex structure than anything the later Mac ever came out with. Perhaps this is the reason these albums were not in the top 40 in the 1970s when they came out. On this album (along with Mac's Bare Trees), this combination of musicians created classics that persist even today if given a fair listening.
On this album, the title tune 'Future Games' searches for meaning in a world overshadowed by the possibility of global war at anytime....sound familiar? "Wondering if Children we bring to the light....Inherit the World, or Inherit the Night?" - from 'Future Games'
'Woman of 1000 Years' and 'Sands of Time' are extended mood pieces, 'What a Shame' and 'Lay it All Down' are solid rockers, 'Show Me a Smile' shows Christine McVie in her embryonic song writing stage, helped by these great musicians. The guitar work of Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch complement each other perfectly...even if they had friction between them in real life. While not as even a total work as 'Bare Trees'.....Future Games shines.
My biggest complaint (and reason only 4 stars) is that for some reason these works are not remastered for CD and the sound quality suffers accordingly......these 'lost' Fleetwood Mac works would be GREAT Re-Mastered.....and I would buy them again if they were. Remastering this incarnation of Fleetwood Mac would also be a tribute to the great guitar work of Danny Kirwan, considering his life after Fleetwood mac.
CD Review 
2009-06-07 -
An excellent CD. Fleetwood Mac in transition to the band that later attained commercial success.
Their greatest achievement
2009-05-02 - Fleetwood Mac means many things to many people. I like every phase - the Peter Green years (Green Manalishi is one of the all-time songs by anyone),
the Mystery to Me/Heroes are Hard to Find period with Bob Welch, and the most recent Buckingham/Nicks albums. I have all of them but "Future Games" is the one I always go back to for inspiration. "Woman of 1,000 Years" is one of the greatest opening songs for an album. No drums, just percussion,
great Danny Kirwan vocals, beautiful guitar work by both Kirwan and Welch.
Put this song on while watching the waves at a secluded beach. In fact, the entire album is the perfect soundtrack for the ocean. Almost like it was recorded on the sand. Next song is "Morning Rain" and John McVie is amazing on this cut. Christine sings it sweet and I really think the band sounds better with her as one of the lead musicians and singers. Then the little interlude before the title cut - "What a Shame". This song basically is there to clean the palate before the opening guitars of "Future Games". Bob Welch's finest song and certainly one of the 2 or 3 greatest by the band ever. The guitars of Welch and Kirwan swirling around, Bob's lead vocal totally buried in the mix, like he's singing from the sand dune above the beach. Beautiful recording.....at the end of the song is this epic moment when the entire sound of the song takes off and gets noticeably LOUDER. What a great effect! They could have ended the album with those 4 songs and it would still be a classic. But then we wouldn't have heard Danny Kirwan's finest song "Sands of Time". This one has awesome lyrics and vocals by Danny and some stout drumming by Mick Fleetwood. He also sings "Sometimes" and then Bob checks in again with the funky "Lay it all Down". Christine ends this beautiful album with "Show me a Smile", which features some amazing dual guitar work again by Kirwan and Welch. This is one of those desert island discs that you would HAVE to own. Each listen is better than the last. This recording is in my top 25 albums of all time, right there with "Forever Changes" and "Abbey Road". Buy it and wear it out.........
One of The Best Surf Albums Of All Time
2009-03-17 - This has to be probably the greatest surf album nobody's ever thought to catagorize that way. Every song sounds like it should be playing on a beach boombox while my buddies and I wax up our boards and catch some waves. It doesn't sound anything like any of the band's other releases. It seems like a strange buried enigma in their catalog. Between the blues of their early period and the pop of their later period, this is like some of kind of mellow psychedelic intermission.
Future Games
2009-02-04 - Future Games is the best Fleetwood Mac release ever. Other vintage favorites are Bare Trees and Kiln House.
If your a fan of the Buckingham/Nicks era, you probably won't appreciate these as they are not as top 40 and pop.
