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Rating: 
- Beware not what it seems.
I have been a fan for many years and own this album already on vinyl and cd.It is one of the classic albums of all time and I play it regularly,but this is no different in sound to any other format I have.If your going to sell it as something different you would at least expect SACD or DVD audio.
Rating:
- 'Decisive'
A friend of mine called 'Mike the Bike' put me on to 'Rumours' an age ago. As his name suggests, Mike was a wretched 'macho' biker, (a contradiction to start with - a man who wears leather and goes out to meet...other men!) who used to shoot razorbacks when he lived in Australia. That sounds impressive, til' you consider your average razorback is about the size of a cairn terrier, but Mike apparently loved every blood-spilling minute of it.
Anyway, in normal life I'd rather sleep with a razorback than take a musical recommendation from Mike. He's firmly in the 'metal' enclave, he and his road-tearing associates live in a jelly outside time and listen to Queens of the Stone Age and Kings of Leon when they're not burning rubber on the (real) Queens highways and byways.
While 'Rumours' was Mike's guilty pleasure, it didn't take your raving correspondent long to recognize it for what it really is - a true great.
To bear the burden of greatness for 30 odd years is a task in itself, but the Fleetwoods easily carry it off. In truth, 'Rumours' is that good it probably doesn't deserve to be reviewed on these pages. It's certainly too good for me in a false modesty sense, so why bother, why waste all the words and sleep-hours in pursuit of descriptions of it's profundity and glory?
Prattish vanity, rockist bravado and pride are my motives for creativity (and it's not going un-noticed, I've already been offered a column in 'Cow Breeders International' magazine. I was tempted, but it's not really my field.(!) ) and it does give one a perverse thrill of challenge, to 'review' one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, albums of all time.
'Rumours' has everything. It rawks; ('Go Your Own Way') it's sexy; (Dreams', 'You Make Lovin' Fun') it has GORGEOUS ballads;('Songbird' in particular. I've racked my brain and I can't come up with a better one.) It is a complete, criticism defying, reviewer-proof package.
And speaking of sexy, as I usually am, what about that sensuous siren Stevie Nicks, I hear you all cry out as one voice in the darkness. Well, I'm not going overboard like I did with Theresa Bazaar, ("Never praise a woman, it will only spoil her" - Vladimir Putin) but I will say, my affectionate regard for her high beauty is in stark contrast to my lurid opinion of her ghastly solo out-pourings, but she's central to 'Rumours'. Her voice is folky, funky and fun, and it soars above the songs, like a junior Sandy Denny, (and that's HUGE praise!). She's smiling sweetly on the cover, but where it matters, in the grooves, she's down and dirty, with all guns blazing, and in a real sense, she's the Annie Oakley spirit of 'Rumours'...
It's a romantic album. It can stir you, soothe you. You can play it when your up, down or anywhere in-between. You can work out to it, do your accounts to it, write reviews to it, (!) and crucially, it's the album you choose when nothing else fit's the bill.
Not much else to say. Reviewing 'Rumours' is a thankless task, is there anybody out there not familiar with it to some degree? Anyone who is just finding it now, I envy you.
When the final gongs are handed out, it'll be up there with 'Blood on the Tracks, 'Astral Weeks' and 'Closer', maybe even eclipsing all three..
On the down-side it is rumoured that Stevie Nicks has incredibly ugly toes, information which if true, would have me scuttling back to square one, excising Mike the Bike, and beginning the `Rumours' review with fresh new perspective and insight.
Thank God I don't believe what I read...
Note: Information on shooting razorbacks and all other bush inhabitants can be found on Discovering Australia. Com.
Rating:
- Not a fan ...
I actually do not like the songs on this album. Musically speacking they do sound great, however this album sounds flat and souless to me. So before you buy any fleetwood Mac album, listern to the songs first before buying.
Rating: - A Chain Of Good Music
Many people say I am to young to be listening to Fleetwood Mac. What's to young anyway? I don't see 30+ on any Fleetwood Mac CD. Or The Who, or The Kinks, or The Byrds, or Cliff Richard...
But anyway, age is just a number and just because you are older (And considerably wiser) doesn't mean THEN you are supposed to listen to good music. Or any music that was in the 60's+. Fleetwood Mac are one of the best bands and even the young now that... Well me anyway.
This album is a good example of how music is suppose to be. Good.
Rating: - A pop masterpiece
This was my first encounter with Fleetood Mac, so I don't know what they used to sound like but I know I like this. In fact, I absolutely adore this album. Since I got it a few months ago I must have listened to it twenty, thirty times. Everything about it just works so well together. It's the combination of everything at once that really makes this album work as a whole. That sounds stupid I know, but there are so few albums where everyone is contibuting so perfectly to the the whole mix.
I think my favourite track has got to be 'The Chain'. The way it is split into two parts, with the first having a super catchy chorus and then the second with a brilliant bass solo and powerful outro is genius. Whenver I listen to that track, or any track off this album, I just cant resist the urge to sing along to it. Every track is just so catchy and easy to sing along to you will be after just a couple of listens.
While every song is great, I think my other favourite has got to be 'Go Your Own Way', a definite contender for best pop song ever. The simple intro that is slowly built up by Fleetwood adding more and more instruments, eventually explodes into this beautiful chorus that just has so much force and emotional turbulence behind it is magical.
I am only seventeen years, have only had this album a few months, but I know I won't ever stop listening to it. It is that good and I love it that much. This is real pop, as it should be.
- Beware not what it seems.I have been a fan for many years and own this album already on vinyl and cd.It is one of the classic albums of all time and I play it regularly,but this is no different in sound to any other format I have.If your going to sell it as something different you would at least expect SACD or DVD audio.
Rating:
- 'Decisive'A friend of mine called 'Mike the Bike' put me on to 'Rumours' an age ago. As his name suggests, Mike was a wretched 'macho' biker, (a contradiction to start with - a man who wears leather and goes out to meet...other men!) who used to shoot razorbacks when he lived in Australia. That sounds impressive, til' you consider your average razorback is about the size of a cairn terrier, but Mike apparently loved every blood-spilling minute of it.
Anyway, in normal life I'd rather sleep with a razorback than take a musical recommendation from Mike. He's firmly in the 'metal' enclave, he and his road-tearing associates live in a jelly outside time and listen to Queens of the Stone Age and Kings of Leon when they're not burning rubber on the (real) Queens highways and byways.
While 'Rumours' was Mike's guilty pleasure, it didn't take your raving correspondent long to recognize it for what it really is - a true great.
To bear the burden of greatness for 30 odd years is a task in itself, but the Fleetwoods easily carry it off. In truth, 'Rumours' is that good it probably doesn't deserve to be reviewed on these pages. It's certainly too good for me in a false modesty sense, so why bother, why waste all the words and sleep-hours in pursuit of descriptions of it's profundity and glory?
Prattish vanity, rockist bravado and pride are my motives for creativity (and it's not going un-noticed, I've already been offered a column in 'Cow Breeders International' magazine. I was tempted, but it's not really my field.(!) ) and it does give one a perverse thrill of challenge, to 'review' one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, albums of all time.
'Rumours' has everything. It rawks; ('Go Your Own Way') it's sexy; (Dreams', 'You Make Lovin' Fun') it has GORGEOUS ballads;('Songbird' in particular. I've racked my brain and I can't come up with a better one.) It is a complete, criticism defying, reviewer-proof package.
And speaking of sexy, as I usually am, what about that sensuous siren Stevie Nicks, I hear you all cry out as one voice in the darkness. Well, I'm not going overboard like I did with Theresa Bazaar, ("Never praise a woman, it will only spoil her" - Vladimir Putin) but I will say, my affectionate regard for her high beauty is in stark contrast to my lurid opinion of her ghastly solo out-pourings, but she's central to 'Rumours'. Her voice is folky, funky and fun, and it soars above the songs, like a junior Sandy Denny, (and that's HUGE praise!). She's smiling sweetly on the cover, but where it matters, in the grooves, she's down and dirty, with all guns blazing, and in a real sense, she's the Annie Oakley spirit of 'Rumours'...
It's a romantic album. It can stir you, soothe you. You can play it when your up, down or anywhere in-between. You can work out to it, do your accounts to it, write reviews to it, (!) and crucially, it's the album you choose when nothing else fit's the bill.
Not much else to say. Reviewing 'Rumours' is a thankless task, is there anybody out there not familiar with it to some degree? Anyone who is just finding it now, I envy you.
When the final gongs are handed out, it'll be up there with 'Blood on the Tracks, 'Astral Weeks' and 'Closer', maybe even eclipsing all three..
On the down-side it is rumoured that Stevie Nicks has incredibly ugly toes, information which if true, would have me scuttling back to square one, excising Mike the Bike, and beginning the `Rumours' review with fresh new perspective and insight.
Thank God I don't believe what I read...
Note: Information on shooting razorbacks and all other bush inhabitants can be found on Discovering Australia. Com.
Rating:
- Not a fan ...I actually do not like the songs on this album. Musically speacking they do sound great, however this album sounds flat and souless to me. So before you buy any fleetwood Mac album, listern to the songs first before buying.
Rating:
- A Chain Of Good MusicMany people say I am to young to be listening to Fleetwood Mac. What's to young anyway? I don't see 30+ on any Fleetwood Mac CD. Or The Who, or The Kinks, or The Byrds, or Cliff Richard...
But anyway, age is just a number and just because you are older (And considerably wiser) doesn't mean THEN you are supposed to listen to good music. Or any music that was in the 60's+. Fleetwood Mac are one of the best bands and even the young now that... Well me anyway.
This album is a good example of how music is suppose to be. Good.
Rating:
- A pop masterpieceThis was my first encounter with Fleetood Mac, so I don't know what they used to sound like but I know I like this. In fact, I absolutely adore this album. Since I got it a few months ago I must have listened to it twenty, thirty times. Everything about it just works so well together. It's the combination of everything at once that really makes this album work as a whole. That sounds stupid I know, but there are so few albums where everyone is contibuting so perfectly to the the whole mix.
I think my favourite track has got to be 'The Chain'. The way it is split into two parts, with the first having a super catchy chorus and then the second with a brilliant bass solo and powerful outro is genius. Whenver I listen to that track, or any track off this album, I just cant resist the urge to sing along to it. Every track is just so catchy and easy to sing along to you will be after just a couple of listens.
While every song is great, I think my other favourite has got to be 'Go Your Own Way', a definite contender for best pop song ever. The simple intro that is slowly built up by Fleetwood adding more and more instruments, eventually explodes into this beautiful chorus that just has so much force and emotional turbulence behind it is magical.
I am only seventeen years, have only had this album a few months, but I know I won't ever stop listening to it. It is that good and I love it that much. This is real pop, as it should be.