Rumours: Your favorite songs, grouped by singer

[Villavic]

Finally the 1977 album: If you had to choose one group of songs that you like the most, which will you choose? Lindsey’s songs? Stevie’s songs? Christine's songs?

The poll is based on original releases, so Silver Springs is not included.

[jbrownsjr]

I'm going to get flamed for loving Oh Daddy.

YMLF
Songbird
Don't Stop
Oh Daddy.

Looking back at those contributions from someone that had already written
Why, Remember Me, Dissatisfied, Come A Little Bit Closer etc...

She was just an amazing singer/songwriter.

[BLY]

I'm going to get flamed for loving Oh Daddy.

YMLF
Songbird
Don't Stop
Oh Daddy.

Looking back at those contributions from someone that had already written
Why, Remember Me, Dissatisfied, Come A Little Bit Closer etc...

She was just an amazing singer/songwriter.


Oh Daddy was the my least favorite song when I purchased Rumours back in 1977. Over the years it became one favorites especially after I got the alternative version with Stevie’s voice more prominent.

[mitzo]

A three way tie here for me with an edge to Christine and Stevie.

Top picks not ranked:

Songbird
The Chain
GDW
Oh Daddy
Dreams

My least faves but still excellent:

I Don't Want to Know
Second Hand News

[jbrownsjr]

Oh Daddy was the my least favorite song when I purchased Rumours back in 1977. Over the years it became one favorites especially after I got the alternative version with Stevie’s voice more prominent.

Stevie really did do a beautiful vocal on that alt version. I like it better.

[Macfan4life]

Oh Daddy was the my least favorite song when I purchased Rumours back in 1977. Over the years it became one favorites especially after I got the alternative version with Stevie’s voice more prominent.
same. It definitely grew on me over the years and now its probably my favorite track on the album. Same thing about Only Over You. It was always my least favorite on Mirage. Now its one of my favorites.

[jbrownsjr]

It's a sign!!
:angel:

[bwboy]

Lindsey for me all the way. Go Your Own Way, more than any other song by this version of FM, represents the Fireflies to me. Even over the Chain, which would be second. Lindsey’s guitar, Mick’s drums, John’s bass, Stevie’s vocals, and Lindsey’s vocals are perfection to me. As if that song wasn’t enough, there’s Second Hand News. Lindsey’s songwriting changed after Rumours, and I had no idea sometimes what he was singing about, but here, he’s letting it all out. Throw in his vocals on the Chain, Don’t Stop, and especially I Don’t Want to Know, and he owns this album, in my eyes. Even Never Going Back Again, as performed here, is excellent. Stevie’s contributions are incredible, too, as are Christine’s, but my dislike of Oh Daddy pushed her down a notch below Stevie, in my eyes.

I’m surprised I’m the first one to vote for Lindsey.

[Macfan4life]

It's a sign!!
:angel:
Chris is sending us a message.
Her keyboard playing is what lures me into the song. Lindsey's acoustic playing and Mick's lonely castanet is just so magical and mystical. I wish there was an alternate take with an extended play out. The ending is my favorite music the Mac has ever done. THAT sound is so Fleetwood Mac and so 1970s. I love it.

[jbrownsjr]

Chris is sending us a message.
Her keyboard playing is what lures me into the song. Lindsey's acoustic playing and Mick's lonely castanet is just so magical and mystical. I wish there was an alternate take with an extended play out. The ending is my favorite music the Mac has ever done. THAT sound is so Fleetwood Mac and so 1970s. I love it.

I have the same exact feeling about Crystal. Especially, the music. And the harmonies, too.

[DownOnRodeo]

All three have some great tracks to their names here, but with You Make Loving Fun, Don't Stop, and Songbird all on one album, let alone the bulk of the music on The Chain? my vote has to go to Christine.

To me You Make Loving Fun is the defining FM song.

[DownOnRodeo]

And with Butter Cookie and Songbird, Christine wrote the music that opened and closed Fleetwood Mac concerts for decades after.

[aleuzzi]

To me You Make Loving Fun is the defining FM song.

Amen! It’s a driving, sexy, mysterious blues reconfigured as pop. All the incarnations of the band to that point were distilled in that song.

[GypsySorcerer]

It's a toss-up between Lindsey and Christine for me. And I think Oh Daddy is fantastic. It's haunting.

[aleuzzi]

It's a toss-up between Lindsey and Christine for me. And I think Oh Daddy is fantastic. It's haunting.

While I believe SYLM is, in its own way, as iconic as Rhiannon, I also believe Oh Daddy, in its way, is as archetypal as Gold Dust Woman.

[jbrownsjr]

While I believe SYLM is, in its own way, as iconic as Rhiannon, I also believe Oh Daddy, in its way, is as archetypal as Gold Dust Woman.

I've always felt this way. it's like a 1-2 punch to end the album. And the fact that some albums have one song fade into the next. I can hear OD bleeding into the cowbell of GDW.

Brilliant.

[Wdm6789]

You Make Loving Fun is the best song on Rumours. Dreams and Gold Dust Woman are the next best.

[anusha]

I think what makes Rumours great is the fact that all three of them were in peak songwriting/performing form and there is really no bad song on the album (though, sorry folks, Oh Daddy is by far my least favorite). And, they were also all collaborating strongly -- so you see how Lindsey's contributions made The Chain and YMLF and Dreams much better songs, while the harmonies from SN and CB made SHN and GYOW much better songs (something that was lost for much of the post-Rumours period).

I can't pick. I can barely pick my favorite songs, but I think they would be The Chain and YMLF if forced to choose.

[aleuzzi]

I've always felt this way. it's like a 1-2 punch to end the album. And the fact that some albums have one song fade into the next. I can hear OD bleeding into the cowbell of GDW.

Brilliant.

Absolutely. These last two songs are so dark and expressive and, as you note, eerily connected to one another.

[sue]

This is hard…I voted for Lindsey, but it could have been any of them.
I tried to think back to 1977 and I think my favourite song then was ..Dreams.

Now my favourite is The Chain..(I think)
The whole album is just so good and in 1977 was …..WOW…

[SteveMacD]

Almost impossible, since all three were mind blowing, but “Songbird” was the tiebreaker for me.

[On Ice]

Geez this one is hard, so close to a 3-way tie, not a bad song to be found on Rumours. I went with Christine in the end for You Make Loving Fun (her very best pop song) and her work on the Chain, most of the bones of that song came from her haunting Keep Me There. The two ballads are among the best of her career (although my personal fav Over and Over would come along later). What's not to like about Don't Stop. Lindsey gives us his magnum opus Go Your Own Way and the ever so slightly inferior Second Hand News and the beautiful Never Going Back Again. His high points go to the production and vocal work on the Chain, who knew he was singing Stevie's words in if you don't love me now- gives me chills just thinking about it. Then, long last, there's the Welsh Witch- Dreams, quite deservedly, tops the Billboard Charts. A vocal style that she would never repeat shows how much her voice developed in 1976. Gold Dust Woman, their best ever album closer, performed to perfection. The Everly like I Don't Want to Know- giving us the one underrated gem on Rumours. I won't talk about my favourite Silver Springs as it wasn't on the album- there I said it....