I'm only 26, but I grew-up on "Rumours" (as well as the Peter Green era "Greatest Hits"). This was the cassette constantly on in the car every summer holiday (well, that's how it seemed)! And as a Grand Prix fan, whenever I hear that bass-line, I can see those Formula One cars revving their ... Read review
Second Hand News Dreams Never Going Back Again Don't Stop Go Your Own Way Songbird Silver ... more
Springs The Chain You Make Loving Fun I Don't Want To Know Oh Daddy Gold Dust Woman Second Hand News (Roughs & Outtakes) Dreams (Roughs & Outtakes) Brushe...
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Fleetwood Mac's multi-million selling Rumours was recorded in 1977. It sold 15 million ... more
copies worldwide, spending a staggering total of 433 weeks in the U.K. charts, and 130 weeks in the U.S. Billboard album chart. It was Also voted Album of the year at the 20th annual Grammy Awards in 1978.This is the definitive story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, an album that has truly earned it's place in the pantheon of rock music history.Including a specially recorded version of Christine McVie's haunting 'songbird', and Lindsey Buckingham playing a wonderful new acoustic version of 'Never Going Back', you can see why Rumours is a truly Classic Album.
Fleetwood Mac's multi-million selling 'Rumours' album was recorded by the band in ... more
Sausalito and Los Angeles in 1977 at a time of intense inner turmoil. 'Rumours' eventually went on to sell 15 million copies worldwide spending a staggering total of 433 weeks on the UK Charts and 130 weeks on the US Billboard album chart. It was also voted Album Of The Year at the 20th annual Grammy Awards in 1978. Fleetwood Mac had already been in existence for over a decade by the time of 'Rumours'. After several changes of personnel Mick Fleetwood John McVie and Christine McVie were joined by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. It was 1974 and the stage was set for a new chapter in the band's career. The eponymously titled 'Fleetwood Mac' a new album with a new line-up went platinum in 1976 and gave birth to hits like 'Rhiannon' and 'Say You Love Me'. However its success was soon over shadowed by that of 'Rumours'. Released in 1977 the album reached number 1 in the US album chart in April of that year and followed suit in the UK in January 1978. Its hit singles included 'Go Your Own Way' 'Don't Stop' 'Dreams' (which reached number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100) and 'You Make Loving Fun'. Ironically 'Rumours' was recorded during a period when John and Christine McVie were seperating and Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's relationship was breaking up. It was the album that almost never made it. This is the definitive story of Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' an album that has truly earned its place in the pantheon of rock music history. Including a specially recorded version of Christine McVie's haunting 'Songbird' and Lindsey Buckingham playing a wonderful new acoustic version of 'Never Going Back' along with 'You Make Loving Fun' 'Rhiannon' 'Dreams' 'Don't Stop' and 'Gold Dust Woman'.
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Mac moved completely away from blues and created this homage to love, Southern California-style. Each songwriter makes his or her presence known: Nicks for her dreamy, mystical reveries ("Dreams", "Gold Dust Woman:); Christine McVie for her ultra-catchy slogans ("Don't Stop"); and Buckingham for his deceptively simple pop songs ("Second Hand News", "Go Your Own Way"). "The Chain", written collectively, is the Mac at their most dramatic. But it's the ensemble playing, the elastic rhythms and lush harmonies that transform the material into classic fare. --Rob O'Connor
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With the pop sense of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks now leading the band, Fleetwood ... more
Mac moved completely away from blues and created this homage to love, Southern California-style. Each songwriter makes his or her presence known: Nicks for her dreamy, mystical reveries ("Dreams", "Gold Dust Woman:); Christine McVie for her ultra-catchy slogans ("Don't Stop"); and Buckingham for his deceptively simple pop songs ("Second Hand News", "Go Your Own Way"). "The Chain", written collectively, is the Mac at their most dramatic. But it's the ensemble playing, the elastic rhythms and lush harmonies that transform the material into classic fare. --Rob O'Connor
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...Want to Know'), gives us Rumours almost as it should have been.
I will add however, that I actually prefer the version of 'Silver Springs' on disc 2, as the one placed here is the single edit, which I find too short!. Personally though, rather than placing it after 'Songbird', I would have put it following 'Go Your Own Way', as that was the single it was the b-side to.
Disc 2:
Some of these we could ... ...
'Brushes' is beautiful, though it's worth noting that Lindsey was playing around with this idea back in the 1973 days of Buckingham Nicks.
'You Make Loving Fun' is absolutely wonderful, with Stevie's harmony vocals very clear, and keyboards and guitar to the fore.
'Gold Dust Woman #1' doesn't have the famous "...pale shadow of a woman..." vocal, but some haunting 'oohs & aaahhs' instead. more
I'm only 26, but I grew-up on "Rumours" (as well as the Peter Green era "Greatest Hits"). This was the cassette constantly on in the car every summer holiday (well, that's how it seemed)! And as a Grand Prix fan, whenever I hear that bass-line, I can see those Formula One cars revving their engines!
Just when I thought I'd bought every FM album there was, they remastered & expanded my favourite. Well, there was no way I wasn't going to buy it!
From Lindsey's opening guitar of 'Second Hand News' to Stevie's howl closing 'Gold Dust Woman', this is so much *better* than I remember. The sound is incredible {as is the DVD audio version}. The inclusion of 'Silver Springs' (the full version of which was too long for the original vinyl, and had to be replaced with the shorter 'I Don't Want to Know'), gives us Rumours almost as it should have been.
I will add however, that I actually prefer the version of 'Silver Springs' on disc 2, as the one placed here is the single edit, which I find too short!. Personally though, rather than placing it after 'Songbird', I would have put it following 'Go Your Own Way', as that was the single it was the b-side to.
Disc 2: Some of these we could probably have done without, but most make it worth it!
'Brushes' is beautiful, though it's worth noting that Lindsey was playing around with this idea back in the 1973 days of Buckingham Nicks.
'You Make Loving Fun' is absolutely wonderful, with Stevie's harmony vocals very clear, and keyboards and guitar to the fore.
'Gold Dust Woman #1' doesn't have the famous "...pale shadow of a woman..." vocal, but some haunting 'oohs & aaahhs' instead.
'Gold Dust Woman #2' is an earlier demo, which turns into 'If You Ever Did Believe' (a song released by Stevie on the 'Practical Magic' soundtrack in 1998).
'Think About It' (co-credited here to Roy Bittan) is much more up-beat than Stevie's later Bella Donna version.
'Planets of the Universe' is stark {and clearly aimed at Lindsey}, but it helps see how the Trouble in Shangri La version came about.
'Butter Cookie (Keep Me There)' was a song of Christine's that was to become 'The Chain'. The beginning wasn't what they wanted, but they loved Mick and John's ending. So they counted back from the bass line, used the kick-drum as a metronome, Stevie gave them the lyrics for the verses, Lindsey and Christine wrote the music and the chorus, Lindsey added the guitar over the ending, and 'The Chain' as we know it was born!
'For Duster (The Blues)' is Fleetwood Mac bringing their roots forward into 1976. Christine, Mick and John all started out as blues musicians, but if this track is 'blue' then give me more. It is so up-beat and catchy, and Lindsey's guitar really does him credit. It is a wonderful balance of all four musicians just relaxing and doing what they do best - making music.
The insert booklet gives us info about the band, and allows those of us too young to have the original vinyl to see the famous picture of John McVie simulating 'alcohol-by-intravenous-drip'!
All in all, you will not regret buying this album, if only for the chance to hear these songs with the sound quality we were originally meant to.
Wolfette 22.07.2008 (22.07.2008)
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Product details
Title
Rumours (Expanded & Remastered)
Performer
Fleetwood Mac
Genre
Rock & Pop
Release Date
09/11/2009
Recomended Retail Price
16.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1977
Label / Distributor
Warner Bros. / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Ken Calliat; Richard Dashut; Chris
Producer
Fleetwood Mac; Richard Dashut; Ken
Pieces in Set
2
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
81227388225
Catalogue Number
8122738822
Additional notes
Album Notes
This deluxe edition of RUMOURS includes a bonus disc featuring outtakes, demos, and jam sessions. Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham (vocals, guitar); Christine McVie (vocals, keyboards); Stevie Nicks (vocals); John McVie (bass); Mick Fleetwood (drums). Producers: Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut, Ken Caillat. Principally recorded at The Record Plant & Wally Heider Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California; Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida; Davlen Recording Studio, North Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by Dave DiMartino. The reviewers tell us what to buy, but the public actually part with the cash. Surely 26 million people cannot be wrong, as original Mac guitarist Peter Green's creation became the prime example of AOR long after his departure. The inner strife and turmoil of the band is credited as having helped to make this many-headed beast into such a success. Keyboardist Christine McVie sparred with husband/bassist John, and singer Stevie Nicks scrapped with boyfriend/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Drummer Mick Fleetwood held the emotional mess together with confident steadiness as demonstrated in his confident, inventive playing throughout the record. Nicks' fiery vocals on "Go Your Own Way" complemented McVie's beautifully understated style on tunes like "You Make Loving Fun," exemplifying their successful fire-ice dichotomy.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.135) - Ranked #4 in Rolling Stone's "Women In Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.104) - Ranked #25 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...The Mac's catchy exposes, produced with California-sunshine polish, touched a nerve..." Entertainment Weekly (4/2/04, p.66) - "[On the 2004 deluxe edition, the] milestone gets the director's cut treatment..." - Rating: B Q (1/03, p.69) - Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever" Q (3/00, p.126) - Included in Q Magazine's "Best Relationship Albums Of All Time" - "...tells the soap opera of 2 splits: John and Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks...all of whom played lyrical relationship tennis..." Uncut (4/04, p.112) - 5 stars out of 5 - "RUMOURS streamlined everything into elemental despair. The record is the pop equivalent of Kurosawa's RASHOMON - the same tragedy witnessed from three different perspectives." Vibe (12/99, p.162) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century - "Anger, jealousy, heartbreak, and spite....One of the best pop records of the '70s."
Titles on disc 1
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 (non album single B-side)
8.
Chain
9.
You Make Loving Fun
10.
I Don't Want To Know
11.
Oh Daddy
12.
Gold Dust Woman
Titles on disc 2
1.
Second Hand News (rough version/bonus track)
2.
Dreams (rough version/bonus track)
3.
Brushes (Never Going Back Again) (outtake/bonus track)
4.
Don't Stop (rough version/bonus track)
5.
Go Your Own Way (rough version/bonus track)
6.
Songbird (rough version/bonus track)
7.
Silver Springs (rough version/bonus track)
8.
You Make Loving Fun (rough version/bonus track)
9.
Gold Dust Woman (rough version/bonus track)
10.
Oh Daddy (rough version/bonus track)
11.
Think About It (outtake/bonus track)
12.
Never Going Back Again (early demo/bonus track)
13.
Planets Of The Universe (early demo/bonus track)
14.
Butter Cookie (Keep Me There) (early demo/bonus track)
15.
Gold Dust Woman (early demo/bonus track)
16.
Doesn't Anything Last (early demo/bonus track)
17.
Mic The Screecher (bonus track)
18.
For Duster (The Blues) (bonus track)
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