Album Review: Fleetwood Mac – Mirage (1982)

 Nicks/Buckingham Era Fleetwood Mac’s weakest album – at least in my opinion anyway.  Stevie Nicks and the late Christine McVie perform well on this album – and the end result is a competent, yet uninspiring record, with a hit or two here and there, and another couple of gems, and another couple of numbers that eventually grow on you a bit more.  But this ain’t no Rumours, nor even another Tusk, for that matter, but the end result is more or less unique unto itself.  Stylistic influences include a dash of country and in the case of track 11 – “Eyes of the World” – A melody borrowed from an obscure canon, written by an equally obscure classical music composer of the 17^th century.  Oh and by the way, “Gypsy” is on this record too.  So there’s that.  And anybody who owned their 1988 Greatest Hits compilation will no doubt be familiar with “Oh, Diane” as well.  Not a bad album, but not their best offering, or even their best eighties offering – Tango in the Night is more my thing from that era.  B+