Continuing my look at 1975, first by counting down my own top albums of that year.

#3 – Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled album was the band’s tenth release but the first with the legendary lineup that would propel them to superstardom.

Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined current band members Mick Fleetwood and John and Christine McVie, bringing along some great compositions (‘Rhiannon,’ ‘I’m So Afraid,’ ‘Monday Morning’) and their prodigious guitar/vocal skills.

Despite some early tensions, the quintet clicked and ended up recording the band’s first #1 and multi-platinum album.

Fleetwood Mac lives a bit in the shadow of Rumours, which followed two years later, but it’s an excellent collection in its own right. In addition to the songs mentioned above, the album features Christine McVie’s classics ‘Over My Head’ and ‘Say You Love Me’ as well as her rich, lovely ‘Warm Ways.’ Buckingham takes lead vocals on ‘World Turning,’ ‘Blue Letter,’ and the elegant ‘Crystal.’

And in today’s SOTD, ‘Landslide,’ Nicks delivers one of the greatest songs of all time, a hauntingly beautiful tribute to life’s fragility.