Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
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Topic: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Posted By: Spiritinthesky
Subject: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Date Posted: June 23 2014 at 06:47
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Any fans? Interesting piece here on the making of the album: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/rumours
------------- "I gave up drugs when the doctor told me I had 6 months to live" Keith Richards |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 23 2014 at 07:42
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http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/rumours" rel="nofollow - http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/rumours
It's not that hard to insert a hyperlink.
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Posted By: silverpot
Date Posted: June 23 2014 at 08:21
Sometimes it is actually. No matter what you do, it just doesn't work. |
chopper wrote:Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 23 2014 at 08:47
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I love Fleetwood Mac. Rumours is an insanely good album. Lots of work went into that thing, and it shows in the details in the sonics.
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 07:03
Sometimes you have to post the link and then edit your post and post the link again. It's an intermittant fault and may depend on which browser or OS you're using (?) Otherwise your original link will just take you to the page of the thread rather than the article or clip you're trying to link to. Don't know why. It's a known bug, or at least it should be known. I did report it about four years ago and was basically told it didn't matter and that I shouldn't complain about such things because so much else was good about the site (which it is of course). I think I must have misunderstood what the 'Report bugs here' forum was for..  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date 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...  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 07:36
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. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 07:45
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. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 10:08
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I'll take Peter Green-era Mac, and you can have the rest. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 10:27
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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. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 13:38
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 By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 14:06
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 14:17
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I'm a big fan. I ormally don't like this kind of thing but its all good! I also like not available anywhere other than Youtube (I like the cover too) ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 24 2014 at 23:15
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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.
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 25 2014 at 06:55
This is a very good album. I did actually find it on the internet somewhere a few years back along with some live outtakes. It's now on Amazon but expensive. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buckingham-Nicks-Bonus-UK/dp/B000972AKM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1403697271&sr=1-1&keywords=buckingham+nicks" rel="nofollow - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buckingham-Nicks-Bonus-UK/dp/B000972AKM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1403697271&sr=1-1&keywords=buckingham+nicks
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 25 2014 at 07:27
Nuff said  ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 25 2014 at 07:42
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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 25 2014 at 08:58
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. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 08:02
Yes, well said and nuff said.
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Posted By: thwok
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 08:56
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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. ------------- I am the funkiest man on the planet! |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 09:07
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 09:28
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Penguin was definitely the least successful of the Mac albums released with Welch. Still there were some good songs on it. And I love all four of the other Welch-era albums. And you're right. I always forget about Penguin. Mystery to Me was the second post-Kirwan album. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 11:52
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Rumours has one of the best side 1's in all rock music, but goes downhill afterwards. Love it, but wouldn't quite get 5 stars. The background behind it is one of the best show business stories as well. Deserves all of those sales
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 12:46
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Rumours is nice but Tusk is the classic in my opinion. Their finest achievement from that line-up and probably one of my top 25 rock albums of the decade. I'm also with aka that Buckingham Nicks is a fab album. Had that one on vinyl. The story goes that Mick heard them recording that album in the studio and offered them the gig without even an audition. Someday I hope to write a 5-star review of Tusk for our non-prog thread. ------------- |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 13:20
| Rumours has its moments, but my fave Mac song is Kirwin's Woman Of 1000 Years. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 22:28
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: August 06 2014 at 23:26
Agreed. I'd only add that the previous album, Fleetwood Mac, is just as good. (Monday Morning, Rhiannon, Over My Head, Say You Love Me, Landslide, World Turning - brilliant!) Those two albums are amazing. There's stuff out there that could fool Genesis fans into thinking it's a song by Genesis; there's tracks that sound like Floyd and Led Zeppelin et al, but aren't. But I've never heard anything by anyone that sounded like Fleetwood Mac during that period that could fool a hardcore fan. Weird...
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Posted By: overmatik
Date Posted: August 28 2014 at 02:13
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Rumours shows a band doing what they're best at and in the top of their game. The songs are great, vocals are all beautiful and the lyrics really match the mood of the music. I also always loved the bass in it. ------------- "Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control all and everything. Unable to forgive your scarlet letterman." |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 28 2014 at 02:18
Digging the band more and more. Not a fan of British blues (unless it's mixed with folk), so I stick with their classic albums. You can really get to know an act better if you read their lyrics or watch their documentaries.
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: August 29 2014 at 07:22
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The Green years were groovy, but they really overplayed the Elmore James schtick.....the Peter Green-era BBC box set is living proof - some transcendent moments and a lot of the same old tired blues changes. The Lindsay years were wildy successful, but a bit too "cocaine slick" for me. They lost that earthy connection that the band always had.
Which brings us to the Welch years from Future Games to Heroes - by far my favorite era of the band. Time for a thread on Bob Welch & the Mac. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 29 2014 at 07:25
| ^ Makes me think this should have been called just a "Fleetwood Mac" thread. |
Posted By: MChPro
Date Posted: September 03 2014 at 05:35
Agreed.
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