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Originally Posted by aleuzzi
It's the album that pulled me into Fleetwood Mac. I was six when Rumours was released and remember my older sisters playing it endlessly on the stereo. I remember the premier of the Tusk video on solid gold. Those were fond memories. But it was Hold Me and Gypsy that pulled me in as a die-hard fan. Once I got the album, I was so intrigued. I knew Mirage wasn't as even or as viscerally thrilling as Rumours, which I listened to alongside it, but what it had to offer made me intrigued. I promptly began collecting all of the group's records and had completed the set long before TITN was released. It's been a long time since I first heard Mirage, but many of the songs still take me back to that place. The kids in my junior high classes mocked me for loving a "soft rock" band like Mac. AC/DC was the rage. Def Leopard was everywhere. Journey was permissible. Mac was considered too subtle, too adult. I didn't care. I openly loved them. It was the first of many stands I took in the name of taste and discernment.
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My story is VERY similar. I was so young when my older cousin moved in with us, and introduced me to Rumours. I loved it so much,.... but was only starting to grow up when Mirage came along. Hold Me was the one. There hadn't been anything since Tusk, and I'll NEVER forget the first time I heard Hold Me, and that piano riff opening the song. For the next few months, I'd SCREAM at my friends(in the car), "SHUT THE HELL UP, AND CRANK IT!!!!!!!!!!". I can't wait for this reissue! And there had better be a GD Mirage DVD ~FULL F*CKING LENGTH DVD~ to go along with the music.