Happy Birthday Rumours!!

tilthefirefades · #1 02-02-2010, 02:09 AM

So according to the nicksfix, Rumours was released on this day, back in 1977. We all know what a magnificent album it is, and a true millstone for music. So lets show some love and appreciation for it!

Favorite song?
Memories of buying it?
Share it all!

Mine personally is The Chain, mostly because it has become the perfect anthem for FM.

(Today is also my birthday, and I'm going to get a Stevie Nicks tattoo

I know she doesn't approve, but I've always wanted it. I'm getting the dragon S from the cover of TISL

)

EnchantedKiwi · #2 02-02-2010, 04:04 AM

Favourite Song: The Chain

I bought it after hearing Stevie's Bella Donna when I was 15.
I get sick of Rumours sooo often, but its still gotta be the best piece of music
I ever purchased!

33 years!!!

Sanne2 · #3 02-02-2010, 05:16 AM

Happy birthday to you and Rumours!
Yes, I remember buying it at my local recordstore, it was a cold and windy day somewhere in 2004

Favourite song: Gold Dust Woman

wildheart048 · #4 02-02-2010, 06:20 AM

Well, yes...happy birthday to Rumours...

Can I pick Silver Springs as my favorite song? It was only after hearing that b-side that I finally bought my own copy of Rumours...I had borrowed my (then) brother in laws copy, but after hearing SS, I bought my own and became a die-hard Stevie/FM fan for life... if I can't pick SS, then def. The Chain...

StreetAngel95 · #5 02-02-2010, 06:36 AM

A very happy birthday to Rumours! My favorite song is either You Make Loving Fun or Secondhand News....hmmm i was five when i heard it and my dad had converted his vinyl record to mp3 and put it on cd for me to listen to. It was all i listened to up until Say You Will came out! LOL

luckydimecaper · #6 02-02-2010, 08:14 AM

I bought it from a charity/second hand shop on vinyl about a year ago. I'd never heard it before, but immediately already new most of the songs.
My favourite is probably You Make Lovin' Fun.. But I've always loved Dreams too.

HomerMcvie · #7 02-02-2010, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by tilthefirefades

Rumours was released on this day, back in 1977. We all know what a magnificent album it is, and a true millstone for music.

Millstone?

Lord knows it was a millstone for FM!

Too bad it's not their greatest album, even though they still beat that dead horse, like it was released yesterday. Millstone indeed!

samthrax · #8 02-02-2010, 02:26 PM

yay! happy birthday to both you and rumours.

Good luck with the tattoo.

My two favorites would have to be Secondhand News and Never Going Back Again. And Songbird, I guess, too. heh. I bought mine right after The Dance came out.

Maybe today I'll finally go buy it on vinyl. I always see it when I'm out shopping but don't buy it because I know there will be always be a copy around and there's something else I want instead. I put a limit on my vinyl purchases or I'll go crazy. So yeah, now I have a good reason to finally add it to my collection!

gypsy4life · #9 02-03-2010, 09:54 PM

The purchase of this album can change your life!
Thank you Fleetwood Mac for Rumours!

Nikolaj · #10 02-04-2010, 12:06 AM

I remember it well. I was a pre-teen (ok, dangit, I was very close to 13, but technically not a teenager 'til the summer!) Well, anyway, the handful or less of stores that sold albums in CT, could not keep 'Rumours' in stock. I'd get a ride every other day or so to record outlets, and back then the albums were stocked alphabetically by artist/group, and also with a wall of 'Top 50' albums- and 'Rumours' was in the #1 slot in the stores charts (not Billboard, but the stores had their own weekly charts), and the #1 slot would be empty...Under 'Fleetwood Mac' there would be no 'Rumours'...(I recall the dept. stores that sold albums were Caldor, Bradlees, and Sears nearby where my parents lived)-- and I'd ask the clerks, after school, to hear 'we got some in this morning but they were gone by noon'-- 'we might get another shipment on Thursday, and normally we only get shipments once a week'--- this was Connecticut, and it wasn't able to be kept in stock. I remember reading this was a problem throughout all of the United States, the albums couldn't be manufactured fast enough to meet sales demand!
I think I got the album in March, finally, older friends of my sister and cousins had the 8track in their cars, so I'd heard it, plus 'Silver Springs' and 'The Chain' were all over FM radio from the start, along with 'Dreams' and 'Go Your Own Way' and 'Gold Dust Woman' also got FM play right away).-- "Silver Springs' actually got heavy airplay in late '76 when it was on the flip of 'Go Your Own Way', released a few months before 'Rumours' came out--
It's a largely forgotten fact that Warner Brothers "literally" (an over-used word if ever one existed, but in this case, the right word) could not print the albums fast enough and before long the label decided to hire other manufacturing facilities, or record labels, to print up more copies because it was selling so fast. I'm sure someone will know the exact wording, because I'm not saying it exactly right, but it was like all of Warner Bros. plants were working round the clock to print the album sleeves, inserts and mass-produce the vinyl, and still couldn't keep up with the demand, so they went to another source for help, say RSO or RCA or some competitor that they paid to help fill the orders. This fact has been documented in books and articles should anyone want to try to look it up... But that tells all those too young to really know, how huge the album was, which they may know, but it might be unknown that from February into the spring of 1977, the album was really hard to come by!

seekerj · #11 02-04-2010, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Nikolaj

I remember it well. I was a pre-teen (ok, dangit, I was very close to 13, but technically not a teenager 'til the summer!) Well, anyway, the handful or less of stores that sold albums in CT, could not keep 'Rumours' in stock. I'd get a ride every other day or so to record outlets, and back then the albums were stocked alphabetically by artist/group, and also with a wall of 'Top 50' albums- and 'Rumours' was in the #1 slot in the stores charts (not Billboard, but the stores had their own weekly charts), and the #1 slot would be empty...Under 'Fleetwood Mac' there would be no 'Rumours'...(I recall the dept. stores that sold albums were Caldor, Bradlees, and Sears nearby where my parents lived)-- and I'd ask the clerks, after school, to hear 'we got some in this morning but they were gone by noon'-- 'we might get another shipment on Thursday, and normally we only get shipments once a week'--- this was Connecticut, and it wasn't able to be kept in stock. I remember reading this was a problem throughout all of the United States, the albums couldn't be manufactured fast enough to meet sales demand!
I think I got the album in March, finally, older friends of my sister and cousins had the 8track in their cars, so I'd heard it, plus 'Silver Springs' and 'The Chain' were all over FM radio from the start, along with 'Dreams' and 'Go Your Own Way' and 'Gold Dust Woman' also got FM play right away).-- "Silver Springs' actually got heavy airplay in late '76 when it was on the flip of 'Go Your Own Way', released a few months before 'Rumours' came out--
It's a largely forgotten fact that Warner Brothers "literally" (an over-used word if ever one existed, but in this case, the right word) could not print the albums fast enough and before long the label decided to hire other manufacturing facilities, or record labels, to print up more copies because it was selling so fast. I'm sure someone will know the exact wording, because I'm not saying it exactly right, but it was like all of Warner Bros. plants were working round the clock to print the album sleeves, inserts and mass-produce the vinyl, and still couldn't keep up with the demand, so they went to another source for help, say RSO or RCA or some competitor that they paid to help fill the orders. This fact has been documented in books and articles should anyone want to try to look it up... But that tells all those too young to really know, how huge the album was, which they may know, but it might be unknown that from February into the spring of 1977, the album was really hard to come by!

I'm so glad someone else remembers this!! (I am from Connecticut, too.) I just wrote the same thing in the "Silver Springs" thread.