Rumours

10/10.Perfection.

Fantastic. Simply fantastic

Soft-rock cocaine enthusiasts Fleetwood Mac. An easy 5/5 but it's a shame Silver Springs isn't on there in place of Oh Daddy.

A proper classic You can feel the dislike between the band members

One of the best albums ever made. Hit after hit after hit. Perfection.

Classic FWM album …. Their best ever…. Big thumbs up

Great then and great now. Love their style and would enjoy them getting together to perform old and new collaborations.

I saw the cover and immediately got excited, of the three boys I'd say I'm the least versed in Fleetwood only because I never listened to the albums, I'm sure I listened to greatest hits at one point but not a singular. This felt like greatest hits as there were so many from their roster on this one album. That alone is enough to give this one a 5, but it is the other songs that really boost it. While they don't stick as well as the favorites, I still enjoyed them all. As I said, this is an iconic album cover and I never realized the two dangling balls. Epic.

One of my favorite parts of this album club is seeing an album pop up that I know and love, getting whiplash imagining how hard I’m gonna five-star it the next day. This is one of those times. It's crazy just how many of Fleetwood Mac’s all-time hits are on one album. So much impressive variety of sound on here, a perfect way to follow up that early Beatles album that was just as bland as possible. Great guitar work, great vocal harmonies and variety (hard to beat three lead vocalists), and fantastic drumming. What could I possibly say about this that hasn't been said already? When people talk about "sex, drugs, and rock & roll" usually they're thinking of the Stones or whatever but this album was quite literally made by a bunch of rockstars doing cocaine and having sex with each other. No one could do this better. Favorite tracks: Dreams, The Chain, Silver Springs (bonus joint), Go Your Own Way, Gold Dust Woman, Never Going Back Again, Second Hand News. Album art: Undeniably iconic. The font is perfect, and the contrast between that picture and the background is also amazing. I always forget about the balls, what a great touch. I can't imagine what it would be like to see this album over and over and not know what sounds it possesses. 5/5

5/5. A perfect album. Every song is classic.

It’s great. I mean, it’s got The Chain. But how often am I going to listen to it?

This is a favorite and what I consider to be a classic album. Just amazing song after amazing song. Dreams will Always be a very solid like top 20 song of all time to me. Then you got Go your own way, Silver Springs, oh Daddy. I don't even really feel like I need to say much. It's a must listen, and it's an album that I could listen to for the rest of my life and never get tired of it. I have so far, and I am so glad this one came up again. Just looking for a reason to re-listen again.

oh daddy, mi ma masterpiece

5 5 is the only answer. Lekker plaat met ook echt wel wat hits. Echte must listen

The sound of freedom! Dit album kan uw dag gewoon terug opfleuren. Pascal Naessens zou zeggen: Puur genieten.

There are some iconic songs on this album, and personally, much as I admire him as a guitarist, I'm generally not a big fan of Lindsey Buckingham's songwriting ('Never Going Back Again,' one of his tracks on this album, is good, though). I do like Christine McVie's and Stevie Nicks' songs; some I like quite a bit. Love both their voices and they are excellent lyricists, especially Nicks. I like the sadness mixed with hope I can hear in the songs on this album. They all have great senses of melody; super-hard for me not to hum or sing along with nearly all tracks on this album, even the songs I don't fully like.

Not for me , for middle aged men who wear jeans and brown shoes...

Great album 10/10

Calm

No words needed

Brilliant

Thankfully, Lucas already f'd this up from having a full straight of fives so I don't have to. Never listened to this in its entirety and never followed FM, but this album is truly great. Gold Dust Woman, The Chain, and Never Going Back are superb. Some of the others are just overplayed like Don't Stop and Dreams and then there are a couple that drag it down like Songbird and Oh Daddy. But on the whole, I'm super happy to have listened to this one.

One of the best

Nice

Muito gostosinho. Destaco "Never Goin Back Again" e "The Chain", que eu já conhecia e é perfeita.

5

Some classic hits on this

Very good music. perfect for chill times

Dreams, Don't stop, Go your own way, the chain, nothing but bangers. Sound city magic.

17.05.2021.

All time classic, bangers after bangers.

Already have listened to this album is snazzy I like it. The chain will always be my favorite fm song.

Stevie Nicks was on some shit, just banger after banger. Recorded in Sausalito, CA!!

Love it 😍

The absolute best album from start to finish

This is great

"Second Hand News" must feel terrible about itself. Everything else on this album was a massive hit. Like getting picked last for dodgeball teams. Or being the one sibling in a big family that doesn't get good grades. (Ok so I actually didn't know "I Don't Want to Know" or "Oh Daddy" either, but that's only 3 out of 11.) Really, it's ridiculous. I don't know what other album has had such a collection of incredibly well-known songs. I was curious, so I looked through the top 50 albums on Rolling Stone's greatest albums list, trying to find something that comes close. Only "Thriller" seems to be in contention. How much of this is due to my particular musical exposure? I'm pretty sure I've never listened to "Rumors" as an album before. Most of this has gotta be through rock, classic rock, and pop radio. A lot of crossover potential from the songs might've gotten them played across a wider range of stations? I would guess I heard them as a kid in the 80s and 90s on both the classic rock station and "Mix 101.5 - for the best mix of the 70s, 80s, and today!" But I'm pretty sure radio is my only experience with Fleetwood Mac. (Oh, and Hole's cover of "Gold Dust Woman" from the Crow 2 soundtrack! Maybe the best thing Hole did... but I digress...) Of course, much more could be said about the actual music here, or the drama behind the scenes during the recording of the album, but at its core "Rumors" is just an amazing collection of songs, without a dud or a misstep in the bunch.

Love it. Some songs are stupid, but the classics are amazing

Every song is worthy. A classic, a masterpiece.

Embarrassing truth, I have never listened to this album before, I have never even actively chosen to listen to Fleetwood Mac…and yet I knew all but 3 songs. A testament to the song writing that every song was such a big hit that I knew them anyway. This album is pervasive in our culture’s collective consciousness for a reason.

👌

Fleetwood Mac is one of those bands that I’ve always been peripherally aware of but never really listened to. I have heard most of the songs on this album at one time or another. This album is packed with good songs. The experience was as if the album tracks were each audience members and Oprah is on stage, “You are a hit song! You are a hit song! You are a hit song! Every track is a hit song!!!!!” This album is a prime example of human beings’ ability to excel while drowning in dysfunction in their lives. The fact that this exemplary art was created with a divorce, an on-again-off-again strained relationship, and an extramarital affair going on is impressive. What is incredible is that most of the dysfunction was not elsewhere in their lives, but rather mostly amongst the artists in the studio. How does one even come into the studio to work with people you despise and create this? It’s likely that the dysfunction actually helped create some of the beauty on the album. The emotional compartmentalization required to do so is spectacular. You know what else helped? Copious amounts of cocaine, reportedly. When the emotional toll was too much, cocaine helped dull the pain. The ability of the band members to stand broadside into the hurricane of negative emotions and create this magnificent album is truly remarkable.

Great album. Best from them for sure

Very good album with a lot of hits. I liked the differing lead vocals vs. just one person.

This is an easy one. What's not to love? There's not a single song that couldn't have been a radio hit, not one. All the bonus tracks are a little useless, but that's not saying much. There's enough for 4 hit albums in the main tracks.

Nice album.

Go Your Own Way

good. all songs are bops. thats it.

Gave this a 5 faster than fleetwood macs inner relationships broke down

Hey, you can't just give me a perfect album as the first thing to review! Thats cheating!!

Ah yes, a timeless classic

Suena bien

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Possibly my favourite album

I loved this. I knew the popular songs, but discovered a few gems that were a must have for my playlists.

A lot of "Popular" sounding softish rock tracks that you might wonder about. Definitely a good album when with people also.

This is simply amazing!!!

Killer

It's a love/meh album. A lot of tens, and a lot of sevens.

An easy 5, one of my favorite albums of all time.

Easy 5 stars. One of the greatest albums of all time. Secondhand News is incredibly underrated. The Chain has one of the best breakdowns in music history.

Best album ever

Best album ever

It's way better than I thought it would be. I guess it's the classic case where the average fan is so repulsive that it tarnishes an otherwise great band

Has some bangers.

Pretty close to perfect

Other than Second Hand News, which gets on my tits, every song is brilliant.

Rightly thought of as a classic.

Great album. Love the cover of the F1 theme tune

Pretty much close to perfect as albums go

Mac-nificent

An absolute classic.

Couple of great anthems, good guitar solos

Classic alert

By 1977, Fleetwood Mac had left their roots as a blues outfit long behind, opting for Lindsey Buckingham's sunny California pop. It's hard to imagine now, but at the time, most of the songs on Rumors were inescapable on the radio. For me, it was a cultural phenomenon, so the songs on Rumors are a bit difficult for me to assess as music. Adding to the difficulty is that I don't especially enjoy Fleetwood Mac; straight-up pop not being my thing. That said, it's easy to see why Rumors was such a massive success. Fleetwood Mac avoids the wretched synthesizers that ruined many a record of the period; Fleetwood Mac uses them judiciously and tastefully. Their arrangements are tight, only as detailed as they need to be, transparent, and succint, leaving plenty of room for the songs to breathe. There are tons of hooks. Fleetwood Mac never repeat themselves on Rumors--every song is different; there's a wide range of styles and tempos, and there are no real duds. The playing is competent, never ostentatious, and always in the service of the tunes. And it's all so middle of the road, AM radio friendly it hurts. So, how to rate? It's easy to dismiss this kind of music because it sounds so simple, like anyone could do it. But if making a 20x Platinum record was easy, everyone WOULD do it, for the money and fame, if nothing else. I can't deny the artistry and craftsmanship involved. Fleetwood Mac set out to make a state of the art mainstream pop record and they succeeded wildly. 4.5 out of 5 and I'm only docking this half a star because I would never listen to this record out of choice.

Not my kind of music in general, but so many songs here have transcended time

5/5 One of the best albums ever!

Great record, not heard it in its entirety before. Lovely

Rumours. No, all true. Easy 5

The Chain. That is the only song worth hearing on this album. I never really got the Fleetwood Mac thing. The only reason I like that song is because it was the theme tune to F1 racing for years. The rest is all too mellow and nice, it has no passion in it.

Change of pace from Fleetwood Mac with the American connection bringing a poppier stance and the sound of a band falling apart spectacularly, yet staying together.

An album from my Yoot. I hadn’t heard this in years. I totally forgot that they had an earlier album with Rhiannon and Landslide. My memory said they were all on one album. As a teenager, this album (and the prior one) were played at every party and, in general, everywhere. It’s one of the albums that the girls liked and the boys were also OK with. Stevie Nicks was the most popular band member at the time but my SO-phisticated taste in music preferred Christine McVie’s songs. They made a good pop album but these brothers also knew how to play. e.g. Buckingham’s guitar work on Go Your Own Way. Listening to this was a wonderful trip down memory lane.

Just heard this for the first time recently. Great songwriting and arrangement. No questions as to why this is on the list.

The best

Obviously a classic

Classic. Some great songs and the sound is superb-so distinctive and still feels fresh. Favourite song-Dreams

Love this. Wonderful album.

Un disco muy pero muy sobrevalorado, probablemente en el top 3 de sobrevaloración. Las rolas chidas son Dreams, Never Going Back Again, Go Your Own Way y por mucho, muchísimo la mejor: The Chain. Lo demás es basura cocainómana. Hasta me emputa escuchar esta basura.

Brilliant album. Unlike some, the continued familiarity with most tracks doesn’t dull them. The phrase ‘timeless classic’ couldn’t be more apt.

Duh

English middle class “I have a personality” passport

The 4 famous tracks give this album a much better reputation that it deserves.

Uiteraard ronduit goed

The 🐐

Iconic

Everyone loves Rumours, don't they?

aye, this is class

Maybe the best album of all time.

Jamás he entendido el hype por Fleetwood Mac, pero tienen canciones muy padres. No creo que el álbum en su conjunto sea pa tanto como para un 5 porque si me dieron ganar de darle skips a varias, pero pues sí está chido. Favoritas: las más famosas —Dreams y The Chain— y ese final bien oscuro donde se ve escucha la brujería de la Stevie con el concepto muy dark folk, pues muy bien. Mood: cholo tiktokero tomando su juguito en patineta

Obvious classic

Another one I used to play on cassette in my car not long after I got my drivers license. The Chain was and still is my favourite song, as was So Afraid on their prior album, so I guess that makes me a big Lindsey Buckingham fan. In listenIng to this LP now, his contribution was pretty significant, but it's the blending of the different vocalists and songwriters that make album. Gold Dust Woman and Dreams are classics, and the rest of the album is solid enough.

One of best pop rock albums of all time. Beyond the hit singles, every now and then you can rediscover classics such as The Chain, Gold Dust Woman, Oh Daddy...

Okay, WOW. I knew almost every one of these songs, but I had no clue that they were all from the same album. Very influential, and there are so many of these songs that are still in movies, shows, etc in daily life. I liked a lot of these songs and this will be a new favorite.

Good shit

Brings back tons of memories; being a kid and singing along; my mom hated Steve Nicks' vibrato voice but the songs were so good and still are :)

Good but not all that people say.

I've heard this record many times. Dreams, The Chain, Oh Daddy, Gold Dust Woman, Go Your Own Way.... definitely a classic.

Rock setentero. Varios megahits.

“An album made by and for people cheating on each other.” -John Mulaney

There’s not much for me to add here as there’s no question that this is an iconic pop/rock album. Dreams and Go your own way are probably two of the best pop tracks ever written, but IMO You make loving fun is right up there with them. The album isn’t perfect though and I would argue that it shouldn’t be ranked higher than DSOTM, Wish you were here, Ziggy Stardust or Sgt Peppers so it gets a 4 from me

Literally the goat

es la mamada este álbum

Todo suena muy bien, sobre todo cuando las voces de Stevie y quien más sea se juntan, esto es rock, pero es ya algo más también, ¿no? Como que sí suena un poco a lo que luego se explotaría como pop rock. Está la excelente "Dreams", claro, pero mi favorita de este disco es "The Chain" con ese minuto final de pura música. Igual no hay skips y tiene buena apertura y buen cierre. Muy bonito. 9.5/10

You need to be living in a bunk if you dont know at least 1 song of this album, its nearly perfect

it's meh, "trilha de novela"

I wish I hadn’t known that this was the number one highest rated album on 1001albumsgenerator because that has really messed with me. Giving it five stars seemed unfair. I didn’t want to go with the crowd. But giving it less than five seemed worse. It’s really, really, REALLY great. Ultimately, I think it gets four stars for Dreams by itself. Truly one of the greatest songs of the last fifty years. So the question becomes: is the rest of the album worth one more star? And the answer is an easy yes. I cannot stop listening to this.

Ok

Perfect

I think I like their self-titled album the best, their first album, but this is a good one. The Chain might be my favorite song of theirs.

better than i thought it would be

Good stuff, of course. Impressive to know the band hated each other.

Not a huge fan of this album, in part because I way over-heard it when it was released. I also prefer the earlier incarnations of the Mac. It is technically a good pop album, I'm just not big on it.

Stone cold classic

Cool stuff! Like the classics

Awesome album. A large majority of the songs could carry the album individually. It feels like a greatest hits album.

Tiene canciones chulas y está muy bien pero no me ha explotado la cabeza como el mejor álbum de la historia

Probably the best album of all time.

Only started listening to FM in the last few years, but I love this album, surprisingly, considering my distaste for folk, this is almost like a guilty pleasure. Almost, but not quite, cos its actually good. Just some great pop songs here, especially Go your own way and The chain.

👍🏻

Classic rock staple. Overplayed but still extremely good. 8-9/10 1. Dreams 2. Go Your Own Way 3. Never Going Back Again

A classic album Track 1 is a foot stompin good time Dreams is overplayed but still good Track 3 giving me Led Zeppelin instrumental vibes and I like it Go Your Own Way and The Chain still bang I love Gold Dust Woman, what a perfect last track. Didn’t someone in the 90s cover this song? So many hits on this album, so many songs I’ve heard 1000 times, it makes me appreciate the lesser known ones Stevie isn’t full Stevie-vibrato on this album(and that’s why I like it) Fleetwood Mac doesn’t not = Stevie nicks, love that this album features them all

All time classic, perfect road trip soundtrack

Unreal

Greatest album of all time

Amazing. So many hits. Love this album.

Great callback to my youth. This album was good when I was eight but it is great as an adult

Classic rock is classic but DAMN some albums SLAP.

Classic

That was enjoyable.

Not a Fleetwood Mac fan

Fantastic top to bottom

Trash mixed in with some of the best songs of all time, we need more Stevie nicks!!!! Any song without her sucked in comparison. Wouldn't listen to the whole album through again, but the chain and dreams are absolute classics

classics

Absolute classic. So many gems on one album. Just great songwriting in general.

Incredible. A classic.

How could you not 5-star this one?

Yesssssssss! Probably my favorite album of all time!!

Nearly every song is 'good'. So many classics- I did not realize how many of these I knew

One of my favorite all time

Perfect album

Amazing. Love.

Lots of hits on this album. Not a repeat listen for me.

Mellow anthems of the 70's

Fire

No, it's all true.

I enjoyed their music.

While I'm not a Fleetwood Mac fan, I can't deny that this is a good album. One million times better than Tusk or their other albums.

Album Dios

Cheese.

Classic, had previously listened in full.

One of the best albums I've ever heard

8.5

Classic. Songs that you can move to, songs that you can cry to. Songs that everyone knows. Beautiful guitar tones and voices.

DREAMS

Outstanding, I love this.

Da ist sie also, die Platte, die von den Nutzern dieses Projektes die höchste Durchschnittswertung bekommen hat. Und die ich nicht kenne. Bin gespannt. Ach, dieses 'Don‘t Stop‘ ist von denen? Ach, dieses 'Go Your Own Way' ist von denen? Ich Ignorant... Bei 'Never Going Back Again' wusste ich sofort, dass ich den heute noch 20 mal hören würde. Die Platte ist durchwachsen, hat aber mit den genannten ein paar Knüller-Songs und ein paar gute mehr.

brilliant as always

One of the most played albums in my regular rotation, with good reason of course!

I could listen to this again and again.

In the immortal words of The Garbage Bin... “wild stuff. wonder if they made it.” Bajaj!

Several masterpieces.

Lots of classic from Fleetwood and the rest is good, 5 for you!

Good album from start to finish. I like every songs of this album.

One of my favourites of all time.

Has a bunch of hits and some filler.

Pleasant surprise!

Pure foot tapping excellence. This is music. I find it hard to give anything 5 stars because this suggests absolute perfection but, if not this album, what else would be worthy? 5/5.

Det var lite svårt. nära en trea men vissa låtar fick över mig till en fyra.

It’s a classic for a reason

Yksi legendaarinen leka ja soi hyvin noin muutenkin

This is a timeless record that deserves the accolades for it's impact on future iterations of rock / folk music in song structure, arrangements, and harmonies. Nearly every song is a single that stands on it's own merits (only Songbird and Oh Daddy have aged as misses on the album), with multiple songs becoming the standard bearers for defining 'classic rock'. Notable Songs: Dreams, Never Going Back Again, I Don't Want to Know, Gold Dust Woman

Simply one of the best rock albums of all time

Classic.

Phenomenal album from top to bottom. One of the best bands of the 70s at the top of their game.

Amazing album, never gets old. From the first notes (that make my 1 year old cheer and dance) to the last, Rumours is a sonic gift.

Some classics in there, enjoyed listening

5 1/2 stars

Slightly overrated but the singles are huge

Hehehe balls

To be honest, I had this on while busy. So it didn't get a full, critical listen, but it never jumped to my attention either.

I wondered when I'd get to this one. Every "best of" list seems to have this record on it, for some reason. I remember listening to this as a kid on my dad's record player. I actually have not one but TWO copies of this on vinyl for some reason. And yet, I could never understand why people love this record so much. I can't quite wrap my mind around the cult of Rumors. That remains true this listen-through however, because I've been doing this project which has forced me to listen to records with an open mind, I am finding more to like about this record than I have in the past. Songs like, "Go Your Own Way" and "The Chain" are great tracks, no question. The thing is, they're separated by "Songbird" which is a turd of a song. There's a lot of that on this record. Killer tracks separated by duds. Ah well, maybe it's just because of the separation in time between release and now.

The album is obviously full of hits - even the deeper cuts feel like they would be a lead single for a different band - but what sets it apart is that you feel like you're on the front row for a beautifully intimate slow-motion car crash. Nearly every member of the band was involved in some kind of break-up while recording (some of the separations were with each other), and they each handled it in Their Own Way, making for a diverse and yet unified look at heartbreak. Best track: Go Your Own Way

Connor: we spent a long time thinking about how to word our review of this album. We didn't really come up with anything suitably impressive.

Absolutely lives up

Todella hyvän tuulen levy. Pakko tykätä!

Classsssic

Colin likes Fleetwood Mac

Amazing with so much internal drama they were able to write a record with so many fucking incredible songs. "The Chain" is one of the best rock songs ever written. Favorite tracks: "The Chain", "Gold Dust Woman"

It's Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. There's not much else to say

1977. Key Songs: Dreams, Never Going Back Again, Go Your Own Way, I Don't Want to Know

great vibe here, good album, there are some flow things that I can't call it a five star

I have grown up with this album and always absolutely loved it

Classic, harmonies off the chain, true classic

One of my personal favorites.

Fleetwood mac is a boring band. I dunno why they're so popular. Like the 70s version of moby or something - music for people who don't listen to music. This album is just a whole bunch of their "hits" that bore the shit out of me. It's not bad, it's just so inoffensively bland that it's like the soundtrack to going for a bike ride in nylon and then going to a cafe afterwards. 2/5 just cause one of the songs was obviously where offspring got the idea for dirty magic from.

To go along with the general consensus; this album transcends genres and tastes. Full of melody, musicianship and emotion. Quite rightly lauded as one of the best!