Happy Birthday to Rumours

[jcalzaretta]

Released 35 years ago today. Timeless.

[vivfox]

Though I didn't actually buy this album until September of 1978 it changed my life forever. Ofcourse I had heard all the released singles on the radio throughout 1977-78 and it was You Make Loving Fun that hooked me into buying the album and that's when I heard Gold Dust Woman for the first time. To this day I could hear GDW a thousand times a day and never tire of it. The last few minutes of the song is priceless.

[BLY]

I would have to agree with you vi fox about your comments on Gold Dust Woman. I bought the album when it came out in 77. It was I Don't Want to Know that hooked me.I heard it on the radio and the was the beginning of this incredible 35 years of music. I found Silver Springs a month later and was just blown away. I ran out and bought everything released prior to Rumours and then waited for their next release. Of course that was Tusk, that became my number one album and song of all time. Happy Birthday!

[bluefox4000]

Is it that time again? Not much else to say.....classic album that will never die.

Mick

[poetinmyheart]

"I have changed, oh but you, you remain ageless....."

[CADreaming]

Celebrating the gift! Happy Birthday "Rumours"!

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Thanks Mick, John, Christine, Lindsey & Stevie ... and Ken & Richard.

[Ashley]

Happy birthday to Rumours. Such a timeless classic album.

[michelej1]

Though I didn't actually buy this album until September of 1978 it changed my life forever. Ofcourse I had heard all the released singles on the radio throughout 1977-78 and it was You Make Loving Fun that hooked me into buying the album and that's when I heard Gold Dust Woman for the first time.

Yes, I didn't buy any albums until after Tusk was released. Then, after hearing Sara, I bought Tusk and eventually went back and got the other two albums. I was surprised that those songs that I had heard on the radio so much were all by the same band. I had never paid attention.

Michele

[MacShadowsBall]

Well I know what I'm listening to this evening!

[MacFan92]

Super-Lame joke of the day: I thought by now this album would be "Second Hand News". :sorry:
*slinks away in shame*

[mylittledemon]

I thought by now this album would be "Second Hand News". :sorry:
*slinks away in shame*

*stares for a second at the comment*

then...

:laugh:

[ironman_01701]

When you write those beautiful songs and feel their feelings in an Album like Rumours, it took a toll on them........many thanks for your gift to us all FM!

John McVie, you named the album, good job.

35 years from now others will try to duplicate it, but will fail to reproduce an album like this.

I say a Rumours movie will be made of FM, one day it will produced I'm sure.

[beccamorrisfift]

I'll be playing this all night.

[LB Freakazoid]

I love the fact that I'm old enough to remember when Rumours was released....

I hate the fact that I'm old enough to remember when Rumours was released...

[elle]

Grammy's greatest Albums of the Year; Arcade Fire to Beatles
The Republic |azcentral.com

For all the backlash it inspired, Arcade Fire taking home an Album of the Year award from last year's Grammys was among the more deserving wins in Grammy history -- right up there with the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and Stevie Wonder's Triple Crown.
Here's a look at how "The Suburbs" stacks up against the other classic albums on our list of Grammy's most-deserving Album of the Year recipients.


1. The Beatles, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967)
Amazingly enough, this is the only time the Beatles took home Album of the Year (although it is worth noting that "Revolver" lost the year before to "A Man and His Music," a Frank Sinatra career retrospective with between-song narration by the Chairman of the Board himself. Narration!) In many ways the Beatles' most important album, "Sgt. Pepper" isn't nearly as conceptual as its reputation (or its artwork) would suggest. But it's a masterpiece regardless, from the time McCartney hits the mike to tell you, "It was 20 years ago today" through "Getting Better" to the album-closing majesty of "A Day in the Life."

2. Stevie Wonder, "Innervisions" (1974)
This was the first of three times Wonder took home Album of the Year in his '70s prime, a streak that caused Paul Simon to jokingly end an acceptance speech when he won Album of the Year with, "Most of all, I'd like to thank Stevie Wonder, who didn't make an album this year." It's a flawless effort that finds him weighing in -- with hooks intact -- on everything from drug abuse to racism and poverty. Hits include R&B chart-toppers "Higher Ground" and "Living for the City." On its 30th anniversary, it finished 23rd on a Rolling Stone list of greatest albums ever, Wonder's highest showing.

3. Bob Dylan, "Time out of Mind" (1998)
It's kind of funny that the only Album of the Year award he ever won was in the '90s -- not exactly the first decade people think of when it comes to Dylan. But unlike most consolation Grammys, this one earned it, having ushered in his late-career resurgence with what sounded like a late-night radio transmission from the afterlife. He sets the tone with "Love Sick," an almost reggae-flavored sleepwalk "through streets that are dead," and follows through with several of his best recordings since the '70s, making the most of producer Daniel Lanois' sense of atmosphere. It's a shame it was up against Radiohead's "OK Computer," though.

4. Arcade Fire, "The Suburbs" (2010)
It's easy enough to see how someone jonesing for an Arcade Fire backlash would mistake "The Suburbs" for an overreaching, self-important mess. It is a concept album weighing in at more than 60 minutes, after all. And the suburban theme is sure to strike some haters as an easy target that's been done to death by now. But here's the thing: They pull it off because they can, at times approaching the emotional intensity (and resonance) of "Funeral," their undisputed masterpiece, while expanding the scope of their sound yet again.

5. Fleetwood Mac, "Rumours" (1977)
This 19-times-platinum effort had put in no fewer than 31 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart before it took home Album of the Year. And that success was fueled by singles as inspired as Lindsey Buckingham's withering "Go Your Own Way" and the chart-topping "Dreams," by Buckingham's ex-lover Stevie Nicks. A classic breakup album, it documents not one but two romantic collapses in the band, effectively forcing the other halves in each relationship to play on songs about the pain they caused (except Christine McVie, whose husband, John, didn't write any).

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/2012/02/08/20120208grammys-greatest-albums-year-from-arcade-fire-beatles.html#ixzz1lwoCDdJn

[michelej1]

Excerpt from a Paste article on band romances, by Gregory Himes, February 20, 2012:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/02/band-romance-musical-couples-through-the-years.html

Almost as unflinching as Doe and Cervenka were the three songwriters in a very different Southern California band, Fleetwood Mac. When the relatively unknown American duo, Buckingham & Nicks, joined in 1975, the group was transformed from a middling British blues-rock band into a Beatlesque pop-rock juggernaut, with Lindsey Buckingham playing the iconoclastic John Lennon role, Stevie Nicks the mystic George Harrison role and Christine McVie the Tin Pan Alley Paul McCartney role. Giving this lineup’s debut album, Fleetwood Mac, an extra squirt of juice was the public knowledge that Buckingham and Nicks were longtime lovers, while McVie was married to founding bassist John McVie. Hearing them sing about each other on the album was mesmerizing; seeing them glance at one another across a stage while doing so was even more so.

The album was a huge hit, but success shattered all their relationships—even drummer Mick Fleetwood’s offstage marriage. With immense financial incentives before them, they decided to soldier on together. They took their problems as an artistic challenge as well as a personal challenge, however, and wrote a suite of break-up songs that became the 1977 album Rumours, a commercial and critical triumph. Emblematic of that album was its No. 1 single, “The Chain,” credited as co-written by all five members. Describing coupledom as a chain in two senses—as an indissoluble bond of loyalty and as a prisoner’s restraint—the song raced along so quickly that neither the singers nor the listeners could decide which was the more apt comparison. There was no time for pondering, because a decision had to be made immediately: “If you don’t love me now, you will never love me again.”

It turned out to be a false choice. When the passions had cooled, when Fleetwood and Nicks had ended their own affair, the five musicians realized that they would never again be in love as they had but wouldn’t have to hate each other either. They settled into a wary coexistence and created three more very good albums—1979’s Tusk, 1982’s Mirage and 1987’s Tango in the Night—before Buckingham left in 1987, Nicks in 1991 and Christine McVie in 1998 (Buckingham and Nicks returned in 1997). But they would never again be as passionate with love as they were on Fleetwood Mac nor as passionate with anger as they were on Rumours. And that’s proof enough of how real-life relationships can provide the fuel for the fiction that pop songs are.

[MikeInNV]

Emblematic of that album was its No. 1 single, “The Chain,” credited as co-written by all five members.

LOL.....that's going to cause chaos in the "what's the definition of a hit" thread. :lol:

[MacShadowsBall]

LOL.....that's going to cause chaos in the "what's the definition of a hit" thread. :lol:

Shhh! Maybe nobody will notice it. ;)

[HomerMcvie]

Happy Birthday, Rumours.
You changed my life.

[elle]

LOL.....that's going to cause chaos in the "what's the definition of a hit" thread. :lol:

:lol::lol: i know, i immediately saw it also. of course people would say it's wrong info but... come on, it's obviously a perception in the mind of so many people.:angel:

but i'm done with dragging that discussion on there... leaving it in your capable hands.:cool: (and up to MSB of course!)

[michelej1]

Excerpt From the Times Union

http://blog.timesunion.com/davenport/top-5-album-covers-i-spent-the-70s-and-80s-overanalyzing/1689/

Top 5 album covers I spent the 70s and 80s overanalyzingFebruary 22, 2012 at 8:28 am by Megan Willis


Rumours – Fleetwood Mac. The first album I actually owned. I adored the cover so much I spent over a year in highschool recreating the cover on a piece of painted cardboard. In the end, I had a near exact reproduction save for the pit of darkness that comprised Stevie Nicks’ left eye. Mick Fleetwood’s dingle balls? Best accessory EVER.

[CADreaming]

of course people would say it's wrong info but... come on, it's obviously a perception in the mind of so many people.

Royalties aren't based on perception, album cuts don't have charts and there's a reason why certain songs are called "Hit Singles".

I don't make the rules, I just follows 'em.

[elle]

Royalties aren't based on perception, album cuts don't have charts and there's a reason why certain songs are called "Hit Singles".

I don't make the rules, I just follows 'em.

:shocked: :shocked:

some interesting info from pre-rumours forum:

A hit single is generally defined as having cracked the top 40 of the singles chart.

In the UK that would be 'The Official Charts Company' as reported on BBC Radio - it's pretty simple for stuff prior to digital downloads. A Single is defined as a recording released to the public with no more than four tracks and the total running time being under 20 minutes (from memory...it might be very slightly different).

For example obviously Albatross was a hit. But a track that was released as a single and didn't crack the top 40 wasn't.

You might like to tighten the definition as to which country you are in...for the USA it would be the main Billboard chart, for example, but a hit is still usually defined as "top 40"

The Guinness Book of Hit Singles is a good starting point.

[CADreaming]

^Indeed. Makes sense: "...the main Billboard chart, for example, but a hit is still usually defined as "top 40"..." which is exactly what was posted in the other thread.

I am not familiar with UK standards nor would they apply for US only singles.