Artist – Album: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Released: 4th
February 1977
Sounds Like: Total relationship meltdown
The extraordinary thing about Rumours is that, despite the bitter
subject matter of collapsing relationships within the band, the majority of the
songs contain a disarming giddiness. Bouncy album opener ‘Second Hand News’ is clearly about break-up sex and contains the
jolly couplet “been down so long, I've been tossed around enough”, whilst
jangly acoustic guitars mask the fact that ‘Never
Going Back Again’ is about Lindsey Buckingham’s depression. ‘Go Your Own Way’ has to be the most
feeble and broken mega hit of all time. Just try the opening gambit on for size
– “Loving you, isn't the right thing to do. How can I ever change things, that
I feel?”
The tempo slows with the beautiful, Christine McVie-penned ‘Songbird’ and this ushers in the darker
sounding second half. Songs such as ‘The
Chain’, ‘Oh Daddy’ and ‘Gold Dust
Woman’ contain just as much scorn and heartbreak as earlier tracks but
surround them with a much meaner and atmospheric backing.
Much has been written about the soap-opera that is Fleetwood
Mac and their greatest album Rumours. Emotionally wrecked yet excitable,
painful yet enjoyable, over played yet refreshing, the record is awash with
contradictions. Another one could be that despite receiving heaps of praise and
being one of the best selling albums of all time, it still doesn’t get the
appreciation it deserves. Undeniably a ten out of ten.
Albumaday... rating:
10/10
1. Second
Hand News – 2:53
2. Dreams
– 4:14
3. Never
Going Back Again – 2:15
4. Don’t
Stop – 3:12
5. Go
Your Own Way – 3:38
6. Songbird
– 3:21
7. The
Chain – 4:31
8. You
Make Loving Fun – 3:31
9. I
Don’t Want to Know – 3:15
10. Oh
Daddy – 3:58
11. Gold
Dust Woman – 5:02
Listen to ‘Second Hand
News’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4itzHRpltQ
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Also released on the 4th February:
2008: Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim
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