Future Games ()

This album was a unacclaimed masterpeice for Fleetwood Mac. Its subtle and mellow tracks set a new standard for popular music that absolutely defined the 70's and made a deep impression on the surfing generation becoming to many a cult classic. 30 years on, these tracks remain as relaxed and mysterious as ever to surfers all over the world.

We begin with the Woman of 1000 Years who may be seen "up in the sky and from the land or floating by, a fisherman's day".

Before you can figure out exactly what that means, we are woken from our summer slumber by the beautiful Morning Rain.

Then "What a shame" comes in like a sea breeze preparing us for a cool change with the hypnotic Future Games.

We are now deeply in trance when Sands of Time take us back to the beach with the most compelling words ever written about the mesmurising lure of the surf:
And the falling sands of time
Blow my wind and drifted by
To and frow the trees still bend
Wondering what the host will send
We will go right down to the sea
Bathing in light we will be free to wander

And how very free we are made by these great lyrics. Being free to wander is the very fulfillment of our Endless Summer. We know that it just cant get any better than this.

As if its all over now, we come down gently from our ultimate high reminising with "Sometimes", before we land gently back on the shores of 'terra firma' with the hard chords of "Lay it all down", for "paradise here on earth".

The mysterious Woman of 1000 years finally comes to release us from our daydream by asking us the child in us to "Show me a smile". We will never dissapoint her.