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

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?

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

― tylerw, Friday, October 28, 2011

Got the superduper reissue today - the 'new' outtakes are really great, kinda baffled that the 2004 reissue didn't use them instead of the barely different mixes. Things like Lindsey and Stevie duetting on Never Going Back again, which has bongos, brushes, piano and different guitar licks, a Stevie demo of 'The Chain' that is a completely different tune apart from the chorus (and 'Keep Me There', a completely different song where the end of The Chain comes from, but can't remember whether that was on the 2004 one), Dreams with just the Rhodes/minimal guitar riffs, a really intimate demo of Songbird...

Live disc is kinda perfunctory, but a nice set of performances and sounds super clean, haven't watched the DVD yet, and the vinyl is lovely.

Also, infuriatingly, absolutely no mention of where these things come from, dates, etc, in the book, but maybe that's asking a bit too much. Got Ken Caillat's book for that, but it's a bit light at points.

Someone pointed out the other day Mick's trucknuts on the cover and now I can't unsee them as trucknuts.

Ken Caillat's head was undoubtedly a bit 'light at points' during the making of the record, mind!

Haha, no kidding...

haha I just noticed someone (Lindsey, presumably) whispers "fuck" at the beginning of "The Chain"

Ha wow, good spot!

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.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, September 8, 2010 4:03 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

alfred otm

sweet. "dreams" is my favorite from this album.

Never heard this demo of "Dreams" before, the backing track is a pretty different direction then what was committed to the LP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIt7SpT_06M