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1969 compilation album by Fleetwood Mac
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The Pious Bird of Good Omen
Compilation album by
Fleetwood Mac
Released
15 August 1969
Recorded
September 1967, January–April & October 1968
Genre
Blues rock
Length
36:00
Label
Blue Horizon
Producer
Mike Vernon
Fleetwood Mac albums chronology
Mr. Wonderful (1968)
The Pious Bird of Good Omen (1969)
Then Play On (1969)
Fleetwood Mac chronology
English Rose (1968)
The Pious Bird of Good Omen (1969)
Black Magic Woman (1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
[1]
Blender
[2]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
[3]
The Pious Bird of Good Omen is a compilation album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969. It consists of their first four non-album UK singles and their B-sides, one track from their first album Fleetwood Mac, two tracks from their second album Mr. Wonderful, and two tracks by the blues artist Eddie Boyd with backing by members of Fleetwood Mac. These came from Boyd's album 7936 South Rhodes.
The title of the album is a phrase found in an 1817 gloss (marginal note) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The phrase refers to the albatross killed in the poem ("The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen"). Its use as an album title as well as the album art is a sly wink to the featuring of the band's number 1 UK hit "Albatross".
The Pious Bird of Good Omen was not released in the US. The closest US equivalent is the English Rose compilation album, released in December 1968 and sharing four songs with Pious Bird.
In 2002, the album was repackaged by Sony BMG as Greatest Hits with cover art very closely resembling the 1971 Greatest Hits album, and with "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "Love That Burns" added to the track listing. In 2004, when Fleetwood Mac's Blue Horizon era albums were remastered, Pious Bird was reconfigured to remove tracks from the previous two Mac albums and the Boyd tracks, which were replaced by archival recordings from the 1967 and 1968 period.
^Gifford, Barry (10 August 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^"Blender :: Guide". blender.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2005. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
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