How can it be that we have never polled RUMOURS by Fleetwood Mac?!

cocaine obv

"marching powder"

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was i the only one to vote for "songbird" in this poll? come on! (it is possible that i did not vote in this poll, though).

I would have voted The Chain, followed by Go Your Own Way, and Never Goin' Back Again.

the Lindsey Buckingham chorus is just such a tonal shift from the verse, and the rideout harmonized vocals are fantastic.

btw tylerw I considered Songbird...good song.

I'm 35, have listened to this album hundreds of times, and am only now understanding the relationships it limns.

First listen: great pop songs with a tough rhythm section!
Second listen: three distinct excellent singer-songwriters!
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Four hundred-third listen: They're talking about my life.

listened to it again the other night and was struck by how sophisticated it is - in songwriting, production, subject matter, even attitude considering what was going on behind the scenes. it's such an Adult album in a trad juvenile genre.

i sure as hell wouldn't sing backing vocals on a song accusing me of "shacking up" with other people.

still listen to this on the regular btw--twice last week, at least.

― ian, Monday, September 21, 2009 12:13 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Me too. It's so good.

Would have voted Go Your Own Way or maybe Second Hand News. This is tough!

I got the remastered two-disc set recently. It's got an alternate 'You Make Loving Fun' with different backing vocals in all the wrong places, which is pretty awesome.

does anybody else unfailingly skip over "don't stop"? can't stand that shit.

Me. I think what I hate about it is the relentless jauntiness of the tune. If it had a couple of minor notes, or a few triplets, I might totally change my view.

I love "Don't Stop". Yeah, it's way jaunty (it's nearly an ABBA song), but I like to think that's tempered a bit by the dark subject matter.

It makes sense in context. Squeezed between despairing tracks, it sounds like an unanswered prayer.

was "The Chain" the lol lurker/spoiler vote cuz that's kinda challoppy imho

you don't like the chain?

can someone tell me for sure what syllable lindsey buckingham is saying repeatedly during "second hand news," this question has been on my mind for quite some time now -- is it "down" or some other miscellaneous syllable?

Sounds like "bow" (as in "bow wow") to me.

Yeah, I always sing it as "bow" if I'm singing along.

saw a used vinyl copy of this in a thrift store over the weekend -- for $20! totally ridiculous, seller must be hoping for a serious sucker.

(not because the record is bad obv, but because it sold a bajillion copies -- must be one of the more common used records in the world)

When I sang Second Hand News at Karaoke I was fed the word "Dow."
Dow Dow Dow duh dow
doodely doodely doo
I was drunk and breathless. Much respect for LB.

I like The Chain but it's rated really high on this poll and placed higher than quite a few more superior songs imo.

tyler you should be able to find a nice, clean copy for under $5. probably closer to $2.

unless it was the white vinyl? but even that i think doesn'ts ell for $20.

no, i'm pretty sure this was just a regular copy in decent shape. think it had a sticker on the slip that said "first pressing" or some BS. the rest of this guy's stuff was way overpriced too, but Rumours just really stood out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLD1ZKOGJgI

i really love this version of 'never going back again'

thanks for posting -- I thought he was going to go into "mother nature's son" at the bridge!

think it had a sticker on the slip that said "first pressing" or some BS

Hot stamper!!!

I love singing along in harmony with "Secondhand News".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QBwKKGSdO8

^^^thinking about when songs like this and silver springs get left off a record it ~blows me away~.

Currently the #11 album in the U.S.A.

damn you, you beat me.

and on the same week that Stevie Nicks' new album debuts too.

this is hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQeBWNRi1nY

shit gets real at :50

guitar faces come fast and hard at 1:35 in this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2kPuSH9Pvc

Is this Glee's doing? ('Oh Daddy' was robbed here btw)

from billboard:

Right outside the top 10 is Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album "Rumours," which re-enters at No. 11 with just under 30,000 (up 1,951%) thanks to exposure gleaned from the May 3 episode of Fox TV's "Glee," which dedicated its entire hour to the album. Of its almost 30,000 haul last week, a full 91% were downloads. The week previous, the set sold just over 1,000 total copies.

from wikipedia: Will tells April about the current glee club tensions, which she likens to Fleetwood Mac when they were making their Rumours album. Will and April sing Dreams to the club, and he assigns the album to get them focused back on music.

It still sells a thousand a week, thirty-four years later?! Lindsay must eat & drink money.

He has a recording studio made out of gold bars, with bathroom tiles glued over them for that echo.

he also keeps the entire USC marching band circa 1980 in an italian villa, just in case he needs them.

I'm watching this right now (and hopefully further lining Lindsay's pockets indirectly)

Lindsey, jeez - I always do that

i don't want to know = the secret best song on this record.

I keep forgetting about that one. If I'd have voted in this poll when it first came up I would have went for 'You Make Loving Fun' immediately. It's all about John McVie's bass playing and the background harmonies in the chorus for me. He must have been thrilled to play bass on it, though.

Has the original mix of Silver Springs ever been on CD?

Should've been a landslide for Dreams

xp i can't remember which Fmac book/autobio i read this in, but Silver Springs was recorded early on and bumped before time was an issue- Lindsey insisted on re-recording I Don't Want to Know in its place.

Was just checking the expanded CD, and Rumours w/"Silver Springs" weighs in at 44:50, which I guess would have messed up the dynamic range on vinyl some.

I wrote it for Rumours, and fourteen years ago I walked into the studio and the record was basically done. It was at the Record Plant, and Mick said, 'Stevie, I need vou to come outside to the parking lot cause I need to talk to vou for a minute.' And I knew it was reallv serious 'cause Mick never asks you to go out to the parking lot for anything.

So we walked to the huge Record Plant parking lot and he said, 'I'm taking Silver Springs off the record.' And, of course, my first reaction was, 'Why?' And he said, 'There's a lot of reasons, but because basicallv it's just too long. And we think that there's another of vour songs that's better, so that's what we want to do.' Before I started to get upset about Silver Springs, I said, 'What other song?' And he said, 'A song called I Don't Want To Know.' And I said, 'But I don't want that song on this record.' And he said, 'Well, then don't sing it.'

And then I started to scream bloody murder and probablv said every horriblv mean thing that you could possibly say to another human being, and walked back in the studio completely flipped out. I said, 'Well, I'm not gonna sing I Don't Want To Know. I am one-fifth of this band.' And they said. 'Well, if vou don't like it, you can either (a) take a hike or (b) you better go out there and sing I Don't Want To Know or you're only gonna have two songs on the record.' And so, basically, with a gun to my head, I went out and sang I Don't Want To Know. And they put Silver Springs on the back of Go Your Own Way.

~Stevie Nicks, BBC radio interview, 1991

Stevie also speaks about in that great Classic Albums documentary MaresNest posted on the Fleetwood Mac: C or D thread.

there should be a Fleetwood Mac bootleg series

the bass played on The Chain supposedly for sale

https://reverb.com/item/6414168-alembic-series-graphite-john-mcvie-actual-bass?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrLT5weHs2QIVT6ppCh2usw_IEAEYASAEEgLz-vD_BwE&pla=1

yow

that is one ugly-as-sin bass

how in the world did "go your own way" win this with twice as many votes as "dreams"

Karl read my mind.

yeah Dreams is far ahead of anything else on this flawless classic