Fleetwood Mac Albums Ranked From Worst To Best

1973 was a time of real transformation and affirmation for Fleetwood Mac. Transforming the band into a more radio wave friendly troupe rather than the underground bar scene that people of the generation had come to associate them with. Removing the stigma against them from the bigger, broader record companies and affirmation through confirmation as this would be the year they opposed the inertia that plagued the band from the outset, with Green taking a walk due to personal problems and Mrs. McVie stepping into his role.

Penguin is a significant album for the aforementioned reasons as well as its almost psychedelically hypnotic, but tastefully symphonic sound.

Here we have the first Fleetwood Mac album with a heavy emphasis on its lyrical content, a subtle difference which serenely accentuates the music to never before seen heights within the band, it ignited a spark that had been dwindling since their initial record and more than anything it made the band feel like a breath of fresh air once again, succumbing to the changing times and precedence, overcoming the trials and tribulations which laid the framework for what was yet to come.

It even gave the band their first real logo and potentially a little bit of an ego in the process.