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Posted: June 24 2014 at 07:09
I find Fleetwood Mac to be hit and miss. Rumours is good but it's hardly earth shattering. Go your Own Way and The Chain are classics. The rest of the album has its moments but nothing grabs you by the nuts and swings you round the room. Don't Stop is drivel and makes me think of Bill Clinton. No need for that...
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Posted: June 24 2014 at 07:36
Blacksword wrote:
I find Fleetwood Mac to be hit and miss. Rumours is good but it's hardly earth shattering. Go your Own Way and The Chain are classics. The rest of the album has its moments but nothing grabs you by the nuts and swings you round the room. Don't Stop is drivel and makes me think of Bill Clinton. No need for that...
I generally don't approve of music which becomes physically violent with me.
Rumours is a great album, although at this point I've probably heard most of those songs a billion or so times. So it doesn't get played often any more. I'm more likely to play some of their other albums, their self-titled 10th album, Tusk, Mirage, and the albums from my favorite, but usually overlooked, era of the Mac,the Bob Welch years.
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Posted: June 24 2014 at 07:45
The Doctor wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
I find Fleetwood Mac to be hit and miss. Rumours is good but it's hardly earth shattering. Go your Own Way and The Chain are classics. The rest of the album has its moments but nothing grabs you by the nuts and swings you round the room. Don't Stop is drivel and makes me think of Bill Clinton. No need for that...
I generally don't approve of music which becomes physically violent with me. Rumours is a great album, although at this point I've probably heard most of those songs a billion or so times. So it doesn't get played often any more. I'm more likely to play some of their other albums, their self-titled 10th album, Tusk, Mirage, and the albums from my favorite, but usually overlooked, era of the Mac,the Bob Welch years.
Yeah, they turn out a classic song every now and then. Mirage is quite a good album. Gypsy is among my fave FM tunes. Love the way Stevie sings that song. I enjoyed Tango.. too.
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Posted: June 24 2014 at 10:27
It is a bona fide classic from one of the finest bands ever to stride this earth. I will never tire of listening to an album which has become the soundtrack to many people of a generation struggling with relationships and life.
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Posted: June 24 2014 at 13:38
The Doctor wrote:
I generally don't approve of music which becomes physically violent with me.
Rumours is a great album, although at this point I've probably heard most of those songs a billion or so times. So it doesn't get played often any more. I'm more likely to play some of their other albums, their self-titled 10th album, Tusk, Mirage, and the albums from my favorite, but usually overlooked, era of the Mac,the Bob Welch years.
For the past few years my fav Mac album has been Bare Trees. Sorta rock, sorta pastoral, strange at times, but pretty cool.
I need to check out the post Green/pre Welch 'Kiln House' album someday...heard it's good.
Always liked Rumours, especially the first two tracks on side two.
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Posted: June 24 2014 at 14:06
Prog Sothoth wrote:
The Doctor wrote:
I generally don't approve of music which becomes physically violent with me.
Rumours is a great album, although at this point I've probably heard most of those songs a billion or so times. So it doesn't get played often any more. I'm more likely to play some of their other albums, their self-titled 10th album, Tusk, Mirage, and the albums from my favorite, but usually overlooked, era of the Mac,the Bob Welch years.
For the past few years my fav Mac album has been Bare Trees. Sorta rock, sorta pastoral, strange at times, but pretty cool.
I need to check out the post Green/pre Welch 'Kiln House' album someday...heard it's good.
Always liked Rumours, especially the first two tracks on side two.
Kiln House is quite different from anything else they did. It's kind of a mixed bag, honestly. It's dominated by Jeremy Spencer's 50's rock and roll pastiches. And then there's great classic blues rock like "Station Man" and "Tell Me All the Things You Do" weaved in between. Strange and cool, but inconsistent. About as different from "Then Play On" as it could have been.
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Posted: June 24 2014 at 23:15
I have always preferred the Green years but then I bought the original lp's back then and my friend Bill and I were into most of the early British blues bands. I usually play a compilation of early Mac things (with Green Manalishi on it..) and Then Play On, Kiln House, and sometimes Future Games and Bare Trees.
Haven't played the first 2 with Buckingham and Nicks for some time.....got tired of hearing them at various peoples houses and all over the radio back in the day. Nicks and Buckingham wrote some good songs but by then I was not into the new/altered sound of the band and moved on.
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It is a bona fide classic from one of the finest bands ever to stride this earth. I will never tire of listening to an album which has become the soundtrack to many people of a generation struggling with relationships and life.
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Posted: June 25 2014 at 07:42
The Dark Elf wrote:
I'll take Peter Green-era Mac, and you can have the rest.
dr wu23 wrote:
I have always preferred the Green years but then I bought the original lp's back then and my friend Bill and I were into most of the early British blues bands.
Agreed.
I only every liked The Chain from Rumours and then only because "the good bit" was used as the theme for BBC's coverage of F1.
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Posted: June 25 2014 at 08:58
HolyMoly wrote:
Prog Sothoth wrote:
The Doctor wrote:
I generally don't approve of music which becomes physically violent with me. Rumours is a great album, although at this point I've probably heard most of those songs a billion or so times. So it doesn't get played often any more. I'm more likely to play some of their other albums, their self-titled 10th album, Tusk, Mirage, and the albums from my favorite, but usually overlooked, era of the Mac,the Bob Welch years.
For the past few years my fav Mac album has been Bare Trees. Sorta rock, sorta pastoral, strange at times, but pretty cool.
I need to check out the post Green/pre Welch 'Kiln House' album someday...heard it's good.
Always liked Rumours, especially the first two tracks on side two.
Kiln House is quite different from anything else they did. It's kind of a mixed bag, honestly. It's dominated by Jeremy Spencer's 50's rock and roll pastiches. And then there's great classic blues rock like "Station Man" and "Tell Me All the Things You Do" weaved in between. Strange and cool, but inconsistent. About as different from "Then Play On" as it could have been.
All the Danny Kirwan songs on Kiln House are quite good. The Jeremy Spencer stuff is more hit or miss. Still worth hearing for the Kirwan stuff and a few of the Spencer songs. I like Bare Trees quite a bit, although Future Games has been my favorite Mac album for quite some time now. Mystery to Me, the first post-Kirwan album is also brilliant. While I'm not quite as much into the Green years, Then Play On was brilliant as they moved from a straight blues sound to more of a blues rock sound.
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Posted: June 26 2014 at 08:02
ExittheLemming wrote:
lazland wrote:
It is a bona fide classic from one of the finest bands ever to stride this earth. I will never tire of listening to an album which has become the soundtrack to many people of a generation struggling with relationships and life.
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Posted: June 26 2014 at 08:56
Rumours is one of my favorite albums, and it is definitely not prog! However, it so well written, and so creatively arranged and produced, that it's brilliant! Albums like Rumours are the reason why we should be as open-minded in our music consumption as we possibly can.
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