Fleetwood Mac - The Pious Bird of Good Omen (1968 alternate)

 Fleetwood Mac slapped in the 60s. They also had some jammin' singles. What happened, though, is that there's been weird choises as to how some of these rare tracks have been released. Beyond "The Vaudeville Years", there's only really one well put together raritites and outtakes comp that came out, that being "The Original Fleetwood Mac", which covers their 1967 sessions, which is to say, outtakes from their debut album.
There's been some odd choices though, like when their original record company, Blue Horizon, issued a com of Fleetwood Mac tracks, with eight of them being the A sides and B sides of all the singles put out on the label to that point, which, for these purpouses, is good. The oddness comes when there's the other four tracks on the album. Two of them are from the band's previous album, "Mr. Wonderful", which, okay, whatever. But then there's two songs by the Blues musician Eddie Boyd, where the only involvement Fleetwood Mac had was as session musicians. Not what I'm after, anyway, So I swapped those four tracks with outtakes from the same year, with one being about six minutes long, the length of two sstandard tracks of the time.

 The cover is the normal one.

 

Side One

1. Need Your Love So Bad
2. I'm Coming Home To Stay
3. Ramblin' Pony
4. Something Inside Of Me
5. I Belive My Time Ain't Long

Side Two

1. The Sun Is Shining
2. Albatross
3. Black Magic Woman
4. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues
5. Mighty Cold
6. You're So Evil