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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 1365013
Released: October 17, 1990 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Kiln House Track Listing:
1. This Is the Rock
2. Station Man
3. Blood on the Floor
4. Hi Ho Silver
5. Jewel Eyed Judy
6. Buddy's Song
7. Earl Gray
8. One Together
9. Tell Me All the Things You Do
10. Mission Bell
Kiln House Reviews:
Excellent service 
2009-11-22 - The CD I ordered arrived in perfect condition and earlier than promised. I highly recommend this seller.
The Green-less Mac "Get It Together In The Country" 
2009-08-05 - A reviewer in Music Hound's book "Rock: The Essential Album Guide" is quoted as labeling Fleetwood Mac's 1970 album "Kiln House" as a "rudderless album drifting aimlessly in search of a tunesmith." Rudderless? Quite. Stylistically this thing is all over the place! In search of a tunesmith? No! This Mac album is as tuneful as any of their albums, maybe even more so in some ways. After all the jovial Jeremy Spencer is leading the Mac here with his love of '50s rock and roll, and his songs are definitely fun. Daniel Kirwan turns in some killer rockers on "Kiln House," probably the heaviest he ever got on a Mac album. Even though the two sides don't mix together very well it makes for some great individual moments. It definitely makes "Kiln House" one of the most unique of any Fleetwood Mac albums that's for sure! It's probably a miracle that "Kiln House" was made in the first place, takes a whole lot of courage to soldier on after your star player leaves your band. But Fleetwood Mac remained brave, and for that they deserve a hand.
"Kiln House" is a good album, but poorly sequenced and that is where it tends to suffer. If you own the CD may I suggest programming the album with the following track sequence:
1. This Is The Rock
2. Hi Ho Silver
3. Buddy's Song
4. Blood On The Floor
5. Earl Gray
6. Station Man
7. Jewel Eyed Judy
8. One Together
9. Mission Bell
10. Tell Me All The Things You Do
"This Is The Rock" opens "Kiln House" perfectly and should remain the album's opening cut. However "Mission Bell" should not have been the album's closer, it leaves a sense of hanging. Danny Kirwan's freak out "Tell Me All The Things You Do" makes for a much better closing cut with it's air of finality due to it's heaviness and length. "Station Man" with it's fade up intro would have made a much better opening cut for side two and would have followed the fade out to the instrumental "Earl Gray" really good from side one. "One Together" and "Mission Bell" were sequenced one after the other on my 8-track tape copy I used to have back in the early '80s, so I've always associated them as being close together in nature.
"Kiln House" was a very brave album for Mac in the midst of some great turmoil. At three stars, I would rate it as a GOOD album, not great. For the fact that it is a very personal album for some, including me, I'd say three and a half stars, good to very good. Definitely worth checking out and recommended!
"Kiln House CD" 
2009-05-24 - Having owned the original Vinyl recording, I'm very happy to have received one of the cd's that was recorded in the early 80's. The transition from analog to digital was well done. Fleetwood Mac was also in transition when this album came out and the years following, this CD was quite hard to obtain, as there were some arguments over who "Fleetwood Mac" was. All an All very satisfied with the CD and gratified to have been once again reunited with the music there in.
Back In The Day... 
2009-04-03 - Back in the day, we used to say Kiln House was the best Fleetwood Mac album ever. It may still be!
Kiln House 
2009-02-04 - For those listeners who appreciate the vintage Fleetwood Mac, Kiln House is the one to get, along with Bare Trees.