Songs from Rumours Ranked in Greatness

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by David

Oh, you so-and-so. “Dreams” is the best thing they ever did—and makes everything else seem like heaving, heavy-handed melodrama.

Now there you go again
You say you want your freedom
Who am I to keep you down?
It’s only right that you should
Play the way you feel it —
But listen carefully to the sound
of your loneliness

There’s more poetry in that than in her entire solo catalogue. Check out that wicked progression of verbs — go > say > want > keep > play > feel > listen (after a breakup, you wander around your apartment doing, doing, doing mindlessly) — or that internal rhyming of “say . . . play the way,” or the sound-sense of the beat of the drums and its emphasis on “heartbeat,” and how “loneliness” deftly spans the hesitant, spare creep of the music, as if it were a crushed, enervated lover. Wicked, man!

Nice "read" of Dreams.

Nothing Christine has ever sung sounds like heavy-handed melodrama. She is the queen of understatement.