Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

Pros: Excellent vocals, music, musical variety, lyrics
Cons: SHORT!!!!

Before yesterday, the only album by Fleetwood Mac that I had heard (and owned!) was "The Dance" (reviewed at: ht tp://www.epinions.com/content_ 91529842308 ) the live album that reunited the group after an extended ...

Pros: The sound on this is just incredible, and the "Making Of" commentary is interesting.
Cons: More classic (and new)albums should be released on DVD-Audio or SACD

I went to high school at the time that Stevie Nicks was very popular. I had Fleetwood Mac Rumours on vinyl and even back as a teenager, I thought it was a wonderful album. Almost every song on it is an FM staple and the album has staying power. I recall ...

Pros: Every song is well-written, melodic and catchy with excellent vocals and instrumentation.
Cons: It's overplayed - but a good example of a multi-million seller that deserves its status.

When most people think of Fleetwood Mac, “Rumours” is the record that undoubtedly comes to mind; the 1977 musical blockbuster that ruled the charts for the best part of a year and is still a firm favourite of many a classic-rock radio station. ...

Pros: Ok, I’ll answer: more than just that
Cons: Not really

Now you must be surprised. Fleetwood Mac is no American band, are they? No, they aren’t. Yet mo ...

Pros: More retro hits per square record groove than almost any other album. Capital melodies, performances.
Cons: She still hasn't wrapped around my dreams the way she promised to.

Boy, if any album gets the award for “Big Smash of the 70’s, it’d have to be this one. Its success almost makes the turmoil the members went through worth it. If sleeping with one’s bandmates and snorting a bunch of snow off the mixing ...

Pros: A well-written and conceived collection of songs that hold up today
Cons: Many of the songs were overplayed

In 1975 Fleetwood Mac released their commercial breakthrough, an eponymous album that would reach #1 in 1976 and generate three top-20 singles. Even though 1976 was a year of exhilaration for the band on one front(they had achieved their long-elusive...

Pros: Good songwriting, nice mix of upbeat and slow, aged well,...c'mon, it's Rumours!
Cons: Not for the overly cynical...I could picture Seinfeld ripping it to shreds.

Whilst rummaging through my parents’ boxed-up-in-storage record collection a few weeks ago, I made an amazing discovery. Sandwiched between Elvis: Live from Hawaii and hordes of Elton John/Neil Diamond/Barbara Streisand drivel, was a true diamond...

Pros: Yes. Don't get me started.
Cons: "Dreams" and "Don't Stop"

I used to hate this album. Oh how I hated it. But not for long.
The truth is, "Rumours" is so overpraised that I'd love to bash it heartily. I'd love to tear it all up. But I can't, because it's one of the best things I've ever heard and I...

Pros: Good music and emotional lyrics on most of the songs.
Cons: A couple weak songs.

Fleetwood Mac is one band that continually gets a bad rap from rock hipsters. Many of them are quick to write them off as some "soft rock fluff band" or the band that our former chief executive likes. I admit it. I once fell into that category. At a time...

Pros: The whole thing. The fact that I remember the exact date I bought it.
Cons: Oh, come on. It's "Rumours".

Rumours can annoy your mother. I know they do mine: not so much malicious unsubstantiated gossip but ...

Pros: Inspired some folks to go out and record real rock records
Cons: Sanitary trash that has no soul

Well, I'm sure to step on some toes here. I don't mean to do so, but I never figured out this album. When I was a kid and this was "the" album to have, I never quite understood why that was the case. I still don't.

A lot of junk was recorded...

Pros: just good clean fun
Cons: just good clean fun

The late ‘70s were an interesting time for popular music. Disco was an abomination whose influence found its way into much popular music, and mindless head banger music was getting its start with bands like AC/DC. Good country-influenced bands like the...

Pros: Emotionally charged music
Cons: Some weak songs

I discovered Fleetwood Mac when I heard "Silver Springs" on a local radio station. It wasn't the first time I had heard them but the first time I knew who it was. Awhile later, I managed to catch the last half of The Dance Fleetwood Mac's...

Pros: Flawless production, great songs.
Cons: "Oh Daddy"

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (1977)

Never did such bad circumstances result in such good ones. With all 5 members [Christine and John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and Mick Fleetwood] in the midst of painful breakups, the result was...

Pros: Definite classic, wall to wall hits
Cons: Not for enemies of all things '70's

If not, then I'm surprised since this seems like one of the pavement stones of hippie-turned yuppie culture from the seventies. Maybe sort of a "transition" piece. This record (remember those?) practically owned my father's turntable for years,...