UPDATE: Every Fleetwood Mac Album Ranked

MOJO ranks and rates all of the Brit blues heroes turned soft rock colossus’s studio albums.

Metamorphoses don’t come more dramatic than that of Fleetwood Mac. Initially led by troubled, Bethnal Green-born guitar magus Peter Green – “the blues was too deep…it ended up hurting my soul”, he told MOJO in 1996 – they were arguably the most arresting act of the late ‘60s British Blues boom. By 1977’s Rumours, though, they were a polished Anglo-American chart colossus, whose equally stirring songs took months rather than minutes to nail.

Line-up wise, the thread that bound was Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, happenstance – then later wily – trustees of the moniker that the self-effacing Green concocted from their surnames. What other rhythm-section has such titular power? Okay, Sly & Robbie, but there is no Mullen Clayton…

As well as music, theirs is a name synonymous with acid burnout, messy affairs and cocaine-addled excess. Everybody knows Green’s transcendent guitar instrumental Albatross, and the Stevie Nicks-penned US Number 1 Dreams, but countless other delights lie in store for the patient peruser of the group’s 18 or so studio albums and numerous solo ventures.

Taken en masse, Fleetwood Mac’s oeuvre can still enchant purists, pop fans and stars alike, with artists from Taylor Swift to Fleet Foxes still audibly in thrall to the group. Following Lindsey Buckingham’s departure from the band and the sad passing of Christine McVie in 2022, it felt unlikely that the band would make another album, something which Nicks confirmed in no uncertain terms recently to MOJO. If it really is over, then, MOJO has taken a look back at every album the band have made. Solo efforts such as Nicks’ Bella Donna, Buckingham’s Out Of The Cradle or Christine McVie’s 1970 solo debut Christine Perfect could have found commendable placing here, but we decided instead to focuses on the singular magic of group and intra-band efforts only. Enjoy…