History YMMV / FairportConvention

* FaceOfTheBand: Sandy Denny, to the point where it's seldom remembered the band had more albums without her than they did with her.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Their classic album is usually said to be ''Music/LiegeAndLief''. On the one hand, it is their fourth album by their fourth lineup. On the other hand, it was released in December 1969, and the band are still touring and recording in 2018, more than forty-eight years later. (Similarly, the second most common choice for best album, ''Music/{{Unhalfbricking}}'', was their third album, released in July of the same year.)

* FirstInstallmentWins: Their classic album is usually said to be ''Liege and Lief''. On the one hand, it is their fourth album by their fourth lineup. On the other hand, it was released in December 1969, and the band are still touring and recording in 2018, more than forty-eight years later. (Similarly, the second most common choice for best album, ''Music/{{Unhalfbricking}}'', was their third album, released in July of the same year.)

* FirstInstallmentWins: Their classic album is usually said to be ''Liege and Lief''. On the one hand, it is their fourth album by their fourth lineup. On the other hand, it was released in 1969, and the band are still touring and recording in 2016. (Similarly, the second most common choice for best album, ''Music/{{Unhalfbricking}}'', was their third album, released earlier in the same year.)

* FirstInstallmentWins: Their classic album is usually said to be ''Liege and Lief''. On the one hand, it is their fourth album by their fourth lineup. On the other hand, it was released in 1969, and the band are still touring and recording in 2016.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: When a band covers hundreds-of-years-old songs, this is pretty much inevitable. Songs like "Matty Groves" and "Tam Lin" are very likely interpreted highly differently by modern audiences (and the band themselves) than they were by contemporary audiences at the time they were written. For example, "Matty Groves" was very likely intended by its author as a cautionary tale about adultery, but to modern audiences it looks like a condemnation of the class system and arranged marriages. ValuesDissonance and TheCoverChangesTheMeaning may be in play with some of these songs as well.
* CoveredUp: Judy Collins' version of "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" is much better known than the band's own version.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: When a band covers hundreds-of-years-old songs, this is pretty much inevitable. Songs like "Matty Groves" and "Tam Lin" are very likely interpreted highly differently by modern audiences (and the band themselves) than they were by contemporary audiences at the time they were written. ValuesDissonance and TheCoverChangesTheMeaning may be in play with some of these songs as well.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: When a band covers hundreds-of-years-old songs, this is pretty much inevitable. Songs like "Matty Groves" and "Tam Lin" are very likely interpreted highly differently by modern audiences (and the band themselves) than they were by contemporary audiences at the time they were written. ValuesDissonance may be in play with some of these songs as well.

* CoveredUp: Judy Collins' version of "Who Knows where the Time Goes" is much better known than the band's own version.

* MagnumOpus: Any of the band's three albums with Denny can be cited as this, though ''Liege and Lief'' seems to be the most popular choice.

* FanonDisconintuity: Toward the albums without Sandy Denny or Music/RichardThompson.

* FaceOfTheBand: Sandy Denny.