Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours"

[NORTHCOAST]

I picked up this album in the library and really love it. Blender just did a "Greatest songs Ever" piece on the song "Dreams" so I thought I'd take a trip down memory lane. It's almost a greatest hits album since so many of the songs are known to me. Rolling Stone picked it as the #25 album of all time. Such an interesting dynamic in this band with the old and the new members. The British and the Yanks. The couples and soon to be broken up couples. Having the three different vocals - two female and one male - is interesting too. What do you think of this album? Favorite song? It even reminds me of Bill Clinton with the "Don't Stop" campaign theme song. What's your opinion?

1. Second Hand News
2. Dreams
3. Never Going Back Again
4. Don't Stop
5. Go Your Own Way
6. Songbird
7. Chain
8. You Make Loving Fun
9. I Don't Want to Know
10. Oh Daddy
11. Gold Dust Woman

[mst3k]

I grew up hearing this album almost constantly (my parents used to play this one and Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water a lot). I like pretty much every song on it, with "Second Hand News", "The Chain" and "You Make Loving Fun" being my favorites.

The cover always made me laugh, with those two balls hanging from the guy's crotch.

Spent 31 weeks at #1 on Billboard's LP chart, btw.

[Deleted]

Rumours is definitely one of my favorite albums of all time. I love every single song on it. "Oh Daddy" is probably my least favorite though. I love "Dreams," but "Gold Dust Woman" might push ahead of it lyrically for me.

[jimmy74747]

I like pretty much every song on the album, and its probably overall their best piece of work, but none of my top Fleetwood Mac songs appear here ("Sara", "Everywhere" "Hold Me"). Kinda wierd

[Nick]

This album is a greatest hits album in itself!

Classic!

[Moonshadow]

The Chain is my favorite off this album. I like the album version much more than the live version.

[irock]

I love this album too. Artistically, it has always seemed to me to be the final installment in a musical trilogy. The first installment in that trilogy would be the eponymous 1973 album by the short-lived (for obvious reasons) group Buckingham-Nicks. The first album released after Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac - in essence the pair's second album and second installment in this trilogy - was also eponymous: 'Fleetwood Mac'. 'Rumours' is the final installment.

Of course, one song is missing from 'Rumors', a song that by all accounts would have been included had the facts of vinyl technology not limited the song selection: the studio version of Silver Spring which was offered only as a B-side to the single Go Your Own Way.

If you listen to each of these albums in sequence, and then listen to FM's very next LP, 'Tusk', you'll see what I mean about the trilogy thing. 'Tusk' took FM in a decidedly new direction.

[Hervard]

My mom used to listen to this album all the time back in the summer of 1978, when she bought it. Strangely enough, I don't remember the biggest single from this album, "Dreams" when it was popular, but I do remember the other four. I guess since "Dreams" was sort of boring (only two chord progressions, making it sound rather monotonous), it didn't really stand out in my mind.

Stevie Nicks' song from a few years back, "Sorcerer" sounds very much like "Gold Dust Woman", IMO. My favorite song from the album is "You Make Loving Fun". My least favorite was "Never Going Back Again". The "Rumours" album was remade about twenty years after the heyday of the original, by various alternative-type artists. Matchbox Twenty did "Never Going Back Again" and it was actually pretty decent. It was slowed down a tad and moved down to a minor scale.

[NORTHCOAST]

Does anyone know the sequence of the singles released from this album?

[mst3k]

northcoast said:

Does anyone know the sequence of the singles released from this album? 

Four singles were released:

1) Go Your Own Way (b/w Silver Springs)
2) Dreams (b/w Songbird)
3) Don't Stop (b/w Never Going Back Again)
4) You Make Loving Fun (b/w Gold Dust Woman)

[kellydicted]

By far my favorite FM album. All the songs on it are incredible!

[NORTHCOAST]

mst3k1 said:

northcoast said:

Does anyone know the sequence of the singles released from this album? 

Four singles were released:

1) Go Your Own Way (b/w Silver Springs)
2) Dreams (b/w Songbird)
3) Don't Stop (b/w Never Going Back Again)
4) You Make Loving Fun (b/w Gold Dust Woman)

What about The Chain and Second Hand News? I know them and don't recall any family or friends listening to this CD where I would had heard it from. I knew the words and everything. Were they in some movie or something?

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northcoast said:

mst3k1 said:

Four singles were released:

1) Go Your Own Way (b/w Silver Springs)
2) Dreams (b/w Songbird)
3) Don't Stop (b/w Never Going Back Again)
4) You Make Loving Fun (b/w Gold Dust Woman)

What about The Chain and Second Hand News?  I know them and don't recall any family or friends listening to this CD where I would had heard it from.  I knew the words and everything.  Were they in some movie or something?

There are quite a few tracks from the album that get significant classic rock airplay despite never being singles. I've heard "The Chain," "Silver Springs," and "Gold Dust Woman" on the radio despite the fact that none of them were singles (in their original version). In 1997, "The Chain," "Landslide," and "Silver Springs" were released from The Dance. I never hear the live version of "The Chain" though. It's always the album version.

[NORTHCOAST]

rebirthxperience said:

northcoast said:

What about The Chain and Second Hand News?  I know them and don't recall any family or friends listening to this CD where I would had heard it from.  I knew the words and everything.  Were they in some movie or something?

There are quite a few tracks from the album that get significant classic rock airplay despite never being singles.  I've heard "The Chain," "Silver Springs," and "Gold Dust Woman" on the radio despite the fact that none of them were singles (in their original version).  In 1997, "The Chain," "Landslide," and "Silver Springs" were released from The Dance.  I never hear the live version of "The Chain" though.  It's always the album version.

Thanks. Coincidentally, I just heard "The Chain" in a Merrill Lynch commercial. That reminds me of a book I saw reviewed in Rolling Stone about the death of the commercial jingle. The premise is that pop/rock songs like "Dream On", "Revolution", etc. and now "The Chain" have replaced jingles in commercials. I have noticed some great songs used to pitch stuff, which sort of goes against my grain. But an artist has to make a living, I guess.

[Glove Slap]

1. Second Hand News
2. Dreams
3. Never Going Back Again
4. Don't Stop
5. Go Your Own Way
6. Songbird
7. Silver Springs (2004 reissue)
8. The Chain
9. You Make Loving Fun
10. I Don't Want To Know
11. Oh Daddy
12. Gold Dust Woman

If I had to select one album as my all time favorite, this would be the one. I could spend ages just thinking and talking about the many ways each of its songs relate to me and my life.

[lumel]

This is the most well-written and executed album I've ever listened to, and even more now that "Silver Springs" is in it. It also made history when it became the first album ever to have four top ten singles on the Hot 100. My favorite song is "Second Hand News."

[newpower]

More consistent album ever. Every song is a gem. I don't think there's any other album I can say that. The addition of Silver Springs makes it perfect.

[NO WIRE HANGERS!]

Rumours is definitely one of the all-time great albums, and as tragic as losing "Silver Springs" was (especially since the replacement Stevie Nicks song, "I Don't Want To Know," really isn't anywhere near as good as SS) it didn't hurt the album's success and legendary status. The entire album is a masterpiece and shows of Stevie, Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham's songwriting talents beautifully.

[Deleted]

One of my favorite albums of all time. Great from beginning to end, and the inclusion of "Silver Springs" on the re-issue makes it even better.

[Deleted]

I agree, probably my favorite album of all time, and certainly in the top 2 or 3 in any case.

I personally prefer I Don't Want to Know over Silver Springs, but the reissue is best with the inclusion of both.

[Dammn Baby]

Absolutely brilliant. But I prefer Tusk.

[Hervard]

My mom got this album sometime in 1978, around the time it was done with single releases, and listened to it all the time back then. I know each song well. Here is my "Rumours Report Card"

1. Second Hand News - C+ I liked this song because I was really into clocks and I thought it was literally talking about the second hand on the clock (remember, I was only six years old back then).
2. Dreams - B- As monotonous as this song is, with two different chord progressions, used intermittently, as well as overplay, this song has actually held up quite well.
3. Never Going Back Again - D+ This song was kind of annoying to me. Thankfully, it was only two minutes long.
4. Don't Stop - C This song was quite overplayed and I'm still burned out on it.
5. Go Your Own Way - B Great, upbeat feel-good song.
6. Songbird - C+ This song was a little too mushy, but still not bad.
7. Silver Springs (2004 reissue) - B+ I agree this song should have been included on the original release, as it's superior to "I Don't Wanna Know"
8. The Chain - B- One of the album cuts that got much AOR airplay. Nothing special, but not bad either.
9. You Make Loving Fun - A Easily my favorite song on the album. Christine really sings her heart out on this one.
10. I Don't Want To Know - C+ As stated above, I prefer "Silver Springs", but this one was pretty good. I always assumed it was Lindsey singing lead, but I guess not (though I think he does sing backup).
11. Oh Daddy - C- This song could make my stomach turn, but it was OK when I was in the right mood.
12. Gold Dust Woman - C+ Another Stevie Nicks song. Sometimes, in concert, she'd change the lyric to "Take your silver springs..." as a not so subtle way of razzing Mick Fleetwood for nixing "Silver Springs" from the album.

[NLP Is an Aphrodite]

Without any hesitation, this is one of the top 10 best albums of all time

[halo19]

Frankly, I find the album to be real hit-or-miss. Stevie Nicks' songs are brilliant, as is "The Chain." Unfortunately, most of Buckingham's contributions don't come near his genius talent, which I feel was fixed on Tusk.

[ListenToItTwice]

Nov 6, 2009 23:36:18 GMT -5 Dammn Baby said:

Absolutely brilliant. But I prefer Tusk.

+1

"Don't Stop" is kind of a cheesefest but the album is brilliant overall. Really timeless.

[#LisaRinna]

Great album. My favorites are 'Dreams', 'Don't Stop' and 'Go Your Own Way'.

[Gravity.]

I love this album so much. I listen to the whole thing with no skips, except for "Don't Stop." I liked that one a lot at first, but it burnt quickly. My favorites are "Go Your Own Way," "Dreams," and "The Chain."

[newpower]

After 36 years this album still sounds great..
I wonder which one of today's popular albums people will be saying the same in 2049.

[Deleted]

This was re-released again recently, this time as a 3-disc set including not only b-sides and alternate versions but live performances from the tour for that album as well.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Now this is what I call an album; I love virtually every single song on here, bar "Songbird". I've been jamming to this for the past several months now. Might also get the recent re-release, too.