Rumours

A gem.

Well, here it is. The highest rated album on this list and possibly the biggest soft dad rock record. While I might go for their self titled or even Tusk before Rumours, this one is pretty hard to argue with.

Car died and almost crashed into the freezing snow during this album. Absolutely amazing

Never listened all the way through before but this is excellent stuff.

Another album that makes me wonder if I need to listen more to know the band. All the hits and some hidden gems.

# Playlist Track - Gold Dust Woman # Notes - Even if you don't know anything about the drama and the chaos around this album, this is a pretty damn good one. - Great lyrics, execution, catchy songs. The whole deal. One of the few albums that you really really should listen to before you die.

One of the top-to-bottom best albums ever, in my opinion. The lore behind album is so interesting in itself. How they were ever to put aside their internal issues and come together to produce such an iconic album is incredible. Top tracks: All of them, but top are: Secondhand News, Don't Stop (bop), The Chain, Gold Dust Woman

It's Rumors. I'm not gonna over think this one

Iconic! This album is always a winner. One of those super special musical moments captured for us to enjoy.

Is it possible to give 6 stars? Possibly the most perfect album ever, it has become a meme for success. "Just like Rumours, every one a hit".

Strong 4,5

i mean like do i even need to say anything

Iconic

Its Rumours. It's damned near perfect, basically.

every song is a banger

Album top, tot de ruptures hahah. Cançons que me sonavem i que m'agraden molt: Dreams i Go your own way. Me recorda la vibe a Dasy Jones and The six.

Fun catchy easy badass technical stupid pop

All time classic, loads of hits, variety of mood and tempo, One of the best ever.

TOP 10 ALBUM OF ALL TIME.

One of my favourite albums of all time. Back to back with absolute classics (we are going to ignore “Oh Daddy” for this purpose). This album could easily have been overshadowed by all the chaos going on behind the scenes, yet it’s not. Or maybe that’s what made it so magic. So many of these songs, like “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way”, remain radio staples in the almost 50 years since this was released, but the standouts for me are “The Chain”, a song with one of the most recognisable bass lines in history, “Songbird”, which only works as a Fleetwood Mac song due to the gutting, softer vocals of Christine McVie, and my fav, “Gold Dust Woman.”

This is, as far as I'm concerned, a perfect album. It hits that beautiful combination of being an album I'm very nostalgic about, as both my parents loved it and played it a lot when I was young, and being an album that's also genuinely great. I love that the voices meld beautifully and that different songs have different genders taking the lead vocals so there's a real variety in sounds. I like the simplicity of Songbird recorded in an empty echoy room. I adore Go Your Own Way which was a particular parental favourite. I love that The Chain turns into the theme tune to the BBC's coverage of Formula One for most of my life, thus making me think it's the weekend. This album absolutely deserves it's spot in the global rankings vying for the topspot with The Beatles. 5/5

One of my favorite things a pop album can do is absolutely fucking rip when it needs to. Obviously all the hooks and harmonies on this are excellent, but the bits and pieces of flashy guitar work take this from "great" to "all-timer" for me.

you really can't write a cheating break up album better than this Would I listen again: Yes. Deserves to be on this list: Yes. 4.8

Seeing that this is the top rated album of the entire 1001 albums generator project, it's difficult not to want to be a contrarian and give it a lower score than 5. That's crazy, though. It's Rumours! It's a fantastic album, emotionally fraught and wall to wall certified hits. There never has and never will be another album like it.

Hell fuckin ya

The height of commercially accessible 70s rock.

This is the perfect pop rock album. Two all time great vocalist in Nicks and Buckingham (and pretty good one in McVie), Buckingham’s incredible guitar work, beautiful and varied songwriting. This is just a perfect ten. So many timeless songs, just pure bangers non stop. Personal favorites are Landslide, The Chain and Never Going Back Again. I do have to say something’s happened with this album that got it a bit overrated in the public eye in the last decade or so. I mean it’s an easy five and an all time great, but it’s not Pet Sounds or Revolver or Nevermind or anything in that caliber and it seems like recent discourse rates it as highly as those albums, which is a bit too much.

Genius

Perfect no notes

It’s hard to give five stars to the second album on the list. But it’s pretty good. Sonically interesting, even 48 years later. I will be listening again in future.

my favorite

No notes. 5/5

The popularity of Rumours wasn't because it was just a passing fad or a product of its time. Its popularity was earned from being such a strong collection of outstanding songs. This was and is an all-time classic.

Obvious 5

¿Qué se puede escribir sobre el Rumours que no se haya dicho? Obra maestra. 12/10.

cara a: 😃💔 cara b: 🤠 💔

Classic. Rightfully.

One of my all-time favorite albums

favorite soft,acoustic rock album of all time

Alright this

After many, many listens, I got to give respect where it's due. I'm sorry, Fleetwood Mac, for ever doubting your legacy. I understand now. To summarize, let me quote a wonderful exerpt from The Onion: "Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain' Was Over In For A Thrill Of His Fucking Life" After so many listens, the second part still gives me chills. Every. Time.

To nie są zwykłe plotki, ani sensacyjne wiadomości z drugiej ręki. Ten album to marzenia każdego fana muzyki zaklęte w dźwiękach. Jest niczym śpiew ptaków delikatny, a zarazem mocny jak łańcuch, który pęta słuchacza tak, że nie ma już odwrotu. ​Nie chcę wiedzieć, kim bym był, gdybym nie znał tych utworów. I choć każdy z nas musi w życiu iść własną drogą, przy tej płycie nasze ścieżki się przecinają. Nie zatrzymuj się na jednym odsłuchu, ten album wciąga i uzależnia jak złota kobieta, o której nie sposób zapomnieć.

93/100. Some albums are great because of the songs. Others because of the sound. Rumours is great because of the feeling. There’s a reason why these tracks have lasted. They’re emotionally direct without being dramatic. They speak to the kinds of feelings most people don’t know how to put into words. Jealousy, forgiveness, resignation, nostalgia. It’s not just a collection of singles. It’s a complete experience. You don’t want to skip anything, and you don’t really want to pause it either. It invites you in and holds you there.

the gossip is as good as the music 10/10

deserving of all the praise

no, it’s all true

Album incredibile dal primo all’ultimo pezzo. Voci incredibili, arrangiamenti spettacolari ed è pieno di brani iconici.

We've all heard this and it's a truly great album from start to finish. A rare occasion where there isn't a single weak song on the album. I've heard it hundreds of times but I'll probably put it on again anyway.

I have no problem rating it a five, but my persistent question is why is this THE album everyone seems to own and the #1 rated on the list? I actually think Apple Music’s analysis is pretty good. Paraphrasing heavily, Rumours takes everything interesting going on in the 70s, runs it through an adult contemporary filter, then makes songs out of only the finest parts that remain. So You Make Loving Fun kinda sounds like a Stevie Wonder song and The Chain kinda sounds like a Zep song and Gold Dust Woman kinda sounds like a Patti Smith song. But they’re all just the Mac. I also noticed this time through that the band is incredibly locked in… in a way that feels almost unreal. I think that explains the magic of The Chain especially. So I’m content for it to be one or those mega-records like Thriller. It’s just a *little* too slick to be a favorite record for me. I have trouble imagining anyone breaking down and crying hearing Rumours, and that’s the effect I ultimately want a great record to have. But I’m still humming… don’t… stop… thinkin about tomorrow…

An all timer!

WHAT AN ALBUM

Such a great album. Every single song is a hit!

Iconic, full of hits, well written and a part of music history. This is one of those albums you actually expect to be on this list.

As amazing as you'd think

stone wall classic

Incredible from front to back. Captivating lyrics, timeless melodies and memorable performances from the whole band.

All time album

Oh, only one of the top selling albums of all time and the definition of a no-Skip. The album that made Fleetwood Mac.

Pretty goated if you ask me

I love this - I'm not sure why. Nice to sing along to?

This absolutely deserves its spot as one of the top rated albums on the site. So many classic songs. I feel guilty trying to choose a single favorite. Favorite Track: The Chain

(100/100)

Canciones con buen ritmo y una historia compartida y que conecta. Top 3: The chain Go your own way Songbird

I mean, it’s Rumours. Come on.

Best Song: The Chain This is tied for the highest rated album on the 1001 by users and for good reason. It's a phenomenal record. I have heard it several times and had it on vinyl but enjoyed it even though my album was warped and The Chain skipped, which is a real bummer. 5/5.

can i give more than 5 stars?

Doesn’t get much better than this. This could be Fleetwood Mac’s greatest hits album. No skips. No notes. Okay, I do have one note— I don’t understand how “Silver Springs” was left off of this album, I feel like it’d be right at home here in content and quality. On this listen, Christine McVie's "Songbird" really stuck out to me in a way it hasn't before-- it's so tragically romantic, expressing your love for someone despite knowing you will never be together again. I was unaware until today that "The Chain" was the only song on the album with all members credited as writers, and it truly feels like the perfect culmination of all of their pent-up anger and feelings of betrayal. As Logan said, "it sounds like they're in their Rep era." Favorite tracks: Second Hand News, Never Going Back Again, Songbird, The Chain, I Don't Want to Know (and Silver Springs if they actually included it on the album of course).

I have 10 minutes left in the work day so it's the perfect time to give my thought dump. None of this will make sense. And thats okay. Went through a big fleetwood mac phase in high school because stevie nicks and don henley did leather and lace together and it is one of my favorite songs. Anyhoodle what a banger of an album. Truly. Non-stop bangers. Top songs for me have always been You Make Loving Fun, Gold Dust Women, and Never Going Back Again. Phenomenal guitars. Phenomenal lyrics. Cowbell.

No surprises here, this is one of the strongest albums on this list and rightfully deserves its place. Chock full of certified hits, and everything else is just as good. Amazing what you can do with a whole bunch of interpersonal drama, loathing and cocaine. It's a travesty that Silver Springs never made it onto a vinyl pressing of this album, but at least the super deluxe version restores it in some way. I've never listened to this album before, but I already know half of the songs just by being a person who exists... and I could talk about what I love about this album for hours and fill pages of review, but so much of what I'd want to say has already been said by many other people. I know it's a pretty basic-ass opinion given this is the top rated album on here, but I think this is my favourite album so far. Listening to it makes me happy.

Dreams is one of my favourite songs, and I was surprised by how many more songs on this album I knew. Really enjoyed this

Could be the best songs put together as a package. Most artists would love to have this repertoire of hits their entire career. Let alone a single album. Legendary album. And for good reason. Blues, piano, pop, and ballads. Just a great combination of songs.

137/1001 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Heart before? ✅ Revisit? ✅ This is the only album in both my parents' collections that they could agree upon and so needless to say, this got played a lot in the house as I was growing up. Fortunately, it didn't have the same impact on me as Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water. There's still something so magical about this album and the quality of it, seeing as though they were drugged up to the eyeballs and cheating on one another. It's honestly one hit after another. Phenomenal stuff.

Good album with many bangers. Many diffrent vibes and styles of songs within the album.

Hard to argue with. Not just good songs, not ones that have stood the test of time. It's got a wide path, mining a whole range of sounds and styles. Just very very impressive overall

perfect no skips pop album! it does not get old

What a great album!

Excellent

Does it get any better?

all-time fav

I judge people who don't put 5 stars for this album

4.8

While Tusk is my personal favorite, most would mark this album as the band’s finest work. It’s amazing to where the band evolved once the Americans arrived on the scene, though I truly loved the band when Peter Green was the driving force.

veoma fino i slatko, predobar albumcic

One of the best albums ever.

Been heard.

For this album the hype is truly real

Perfect

Leaving Silver Spring off was a mistake, but this is a top 3 album of all time.

From start to finish - one of the best albums of all time. Wish I could give it more than 5 stars!!!

A true classic. One of my favorites. I spin a number of these tracks on the regular!

5/5

Legendary

Both Len Houmous and Ken Chutney were lined up for play roles in Running Man. Arnie remembered them from their legendary set at the final of the 1980 Mr Olympia. He tried to call but Mick Fleetwood took the call and then the roll! Len was delighted to see how poor his performance was! Embarrassing! 5.0 3/11 Never Going Back Again

Fleetwood Mac is blessed with two phenomenal female singers. Christie McVie with her calm, clear tone that is naturally beautiful and effortless, and then Stevie Nicks who has a mystical, ethereal, raspy sound. I can’t overstate my love for Stevie. She’s one of my absolute favorites. This album is a prerequisite for anyone who has a vinyl collection, to the point of being cliche, but for a reason. It’s incredible how they created such a tight, perfectly blended, harmonious album when they were literally falling apart as a band. Not to mention the massive amounts of cocaine. Maybe that helped? An easy 5 all day. Every song is amazing. A classic I have listened to hundreds of times and will listen to hundred of times more.

Yeah sure, it’s a solid 5. But it’s not a 7. It’s not the best album of all time. It’s not “no skips”. It may be the most popular album on this list, but that doesn’t make it the best, now does it - or did high school teach you nothing? Save all of your hyperbolic bullshit. It is quintessential 70s and filled with songs that everyone knows and loves. Overal, it’s great and soars in places, filled with moments that make you feel good. So, yeah. 5 it up. But, really, why are Mick’s balls hanging out on the album cover?

Amazing album, not top of the heap amazing, but I really do love this album. You can hear the internal strife the band was experiencing as well as soke beautiful tender songs. Brilliantly composed album. Songbird was the highlight of yesterday's listen for me, I forget that song exists, it hits me by surprise everytime, McVies voice is amazing. The rest of the songs are bangers as well, not a dud on the album.

Asbra, helt enkelt

Tyckte i många år att detta band var väldigt ointressant och tråkigt, men efter en roadtrip med det här albumet spelandes i bilen så började jag på nåt sätt tänka om och nu anser jag detta vara en av 1900-talets absolut största musikhöjdpunkter. I princip perfekt rätt igenom och jag kan tänka mig att albumet är top 5 av hela det här projektet.

Oh yeah :ok_hand:

Brilliant album

Top 10 albums ever made. Maybe top 5. Maybe even top 3. This is some of the greatest, most beautiful music I have ever heard, and Dreams in particular is one of my favorite songs of all time.

great 10/10

Meilleur album de tous les temps?

<3

A masterpiece of 70's rock.

Ókei hún var góð

Besta plata sögunnar? Minnsta kosti topp fimm.

One of the greatest albums ever? Yeah, but sy\till prefer FM1

A classic for a reason

Very good absolutely a 10 but nothing insane

i didn't *get* fleetwood mac until i hit my 30s, and then something clicked and i REALLY GOT fleetwood mac. do you have to have lived a bit to really feel the pain and heartbreak and messiness of this music? is that the most pretentious/ok boomer thing i've ever written? idk what i'm saying. this album is just bangers bangers bangers.

16/1001 Here it is, the current number one album on this list. It’s all downhill from here I guess. Is it the greatest album of all time? I don’t think so. It is an album of catchy songs. One after another. Just hit after hit. After listening to this album yet again I reluctantly give this five stars.

What a record. What a feat of songwriting all these songs are! I can't decide if the songwriting is better than the performance or vice versa. Either way, the end result is basically peerless. And then there's the backstory to the making of the album, the internal wranglings and the personalities. Look, it's Rumours, does it really need reviewing? If so, then I would say that both sides of the record open in absolutely astonishing ways, with the bounce of Second Hand News (a vastly underrated song) contrasting so well with the threat of The Chain. And then there's the delicacy of things like Songbird. Above all else, there is Go Your Own Way, in the conversation for the GOAT song. If you have a spare four minutes, then listen to Go Your Own Way. If you have a spare eight minutes, then listen to it twice. If you have a spare 12 minutes, listen to it twice, and then go to YouTube and search 'Go Your Own Way isolated vocal'. Watch that video.

The quintessential 5* album against which others are measured!

Un banger tout simplement et l'écoute de l'édition super deluxe fait plaisir + validé par Laura

Classic Fleetwood Mac album. I wasn't a fan of these guys growing up, but when I listened to this album, I learned a better appreciate them. I usually always prefer the Stevie Nicks songs to the Lindsay Buckinham songs. But Second Hand News isn't bad and Go Your Own Way is a classic. Never Going Back also classic. Gold Dust Woman and Dreams are the best for me, and Chains, written by several of the band. First slow point of the album comes with Songbird--that one's a skip track for me. I Don't Want to Know isn't the strongest Nicks song, but Oh Daddy is a great sounding track by McVie, though the lyrics are a little masochist. Whatever you're into, I guess. Overall, the one or two slow points don't detract from the excellent overall product. 5/5

All timer

Rumours? Nah it’s all true

Not much that hasn’t been said, near perfect album

Great, know it well.

On this list's (or this site's) battle for the best album ever I'm more the "Abbey Road" person... but can't deny its rightful 5 stars. What a classic.

What is there to say about a record that, if you grew up at a certain time, you heard every song on the radio for many months. A classic album, a breakup album, a heartbreak album

How many times have I listened to this? I am surprised that my original 1977 vinyl copy still has grooves, it's been played so much. Obviously this belongs on this list. It plays like a Greatest Hits record because every song has been ubiquitous for the past ~50 years. And deservedly so. Immaculately produced this is an album from the sky. It's remarkable and rewards with every subsequent listen.

5 stars I try to listen to every album I get, even when I’m quite familiar with them. But I’m a bit behind and Rumours is an album I’ve listened to enough to know my opinion well. I first bought the album 21 years ago after being familiar with around half the tracks from pop culture osmosis or classic rock radio. I loved it from the beginning and have listened to the album in full countless times. It is an album where the known tracks are the best, but the deeper cuts are also quality. I know every song and even the ones that aren’t bangers have an important contribution to the overall album. Great songwriting, singing, harmonies, and instrumentation. Softer rock in the year that punk rock was exploding in the US and UK, and it still managed to rock. It’s solid!

I dont have anything to add. Perfect album

Best Track - "The Chain"

Classically good.

9/10 very nice, very chill

I was definitely sleeping on this album the last time I tried to listen to it. Most likely literally. This is almost like a greatest hits compilation!

Their eleventh album. Rock. This is such an intimate and authentic album. It's a high definition view into the lives of a Rock band who are immersed in love, sex, drugs, creativity and ego. The tracks themsleves have been written about for forty eight years now. I can't really add more. Rumours is a giant of an album that will stand tall in the pantheon of popular music forever.

Perfect

Classic!

Amazing! And the drama wow

Dreams is one of my favorite songs!

Milestone

The harmonies…. I always notice something new every time I listen. There’s such depth to this album. The little noodles on the guitar, the drumming is excellent. What a masterpiece this really is.

top 5

Any album with "Dreams", "Go Your Own Way" and "The Chain" on its tracklist is an instant 5. However, it's not just these monolithic tracks doing all the heavy lifting; the rest of the record holds up to these songs to an extent. There's a reason it's tied with Abbey Road for highest rated album at the time of writing.

Rumours! Yes! I've been waiting for this one. As a kid I HATED Fleetwood Mac. The drums sounded like they were made out of cardboard; the bouncy, happy Adult Contemporary feel; the annoying melodies paired with cloying harmonies. And then I turned 27, and suddenly all of those liabilities became assests. Rumours was my maturity litmus test. The songs and performances are exceptional. The guitar in "Never Going Back Again." The elliptic drums in "Go Your Own Way." The hypnotic repetition of "Dreams." People bag on "Oh Daddy" but I enjoy it. And of their best songs, "Silver Springs," didn't even make the album! There is a trick to their songwriting - they'll employ fairly typical verse-chorus arrangements, but they'll hold back a super-strong hook until the end of the song ("Second-hand News," "You Make Loving Fun," "The Chain," "Don't Stop"). Cause when your verses and choruses are already so strong, why not throw another hook on at the end? I have about 900 more records to go - I'm guessing there will be less than 10 records that are such slam-dunk FIVE STARS

Infinite stars. The best band that ever was, and ever will be.

No doubt 5

GOATed for a reason

The go-to quintessential "no-skips" album

10/10 no skip album. I didn’t realize how good this album was until I listened through the entire thing

Dreams,never going back, go your own way, the Chain, I don’t want to know whole album is good

Truly one of the greatest albums ever.

We're talking a near front-to-back album of hits. Not just Fleetwood Mac hits, but the greatest songs in their catalogue altogether. So much fuckin' talent -- Mick's drumming on The Chain and Go Your Own Way give me goosies. Solid production, and an all-time memorable album cover. No wonder this is consistently a Top 10 record of all time.

I had no idea I loved them so much!

Only good tracks, best album ever

Struggling to think of an album with a better run of songs than this

There’s a reason why all the songs on this album are so well known that they are almost like comfort food - they are just filled w great musicianship and hooks.

впервые послушала альбом целиком, хиты из него успешно заслушиваются на протяжении нескольких лет) потрясающе!

It’s wild how many songs from this album are just part of the collective consciousness - you don’t even realize you know them until they’re playing. It absolutely earns its place as one of the greatest albums of all time. What blows my mind is how much chaos surrounded it: drugs, heartbreak, breakups, betrayals, and yet they turned that mess into something so cohesive and timeless. By the time they got to Rumours, this was their eleventh album, but their first with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, and you can feel that spark! It's like that perfect storm of pain, talent, and chemistry, where every track feels deliberate, like a group of people baring their souls but still making sure the music never cracks under the weight of it all. It’s nearly impossible to find fault with this record. It’s emotional turbulence transformed into pop perfection.

Buckingham will always be in my echelon of "underrated" musicians.

Can’t really go lower on the rating. Perfect pop songs that I wish I could go back and hear for the first time. So much talent in one bad.

Classic favorite

I mean … come on. It’s one of the best! Still holds up. 5/5

Really enjoyable and surprised how familiar the songs were

Here’s another one of those albums that were a required purchase when it was released. Listening to it now is like meeting an old friend that you haven’t seen in years. Back then we didn’t know about all the dysfunction within the band - that came to light later. Anyhow, this gets a top rating despite two of the tracks (“Don’t Stop” and “Go Your Own Way”) which have been seriously overplayed.

Heard it many times. Great record.

Easy

Classic.

Awesome

There are few albums which spawn a radio hit, fewer still have multiple. But Rumorurs is among a mere handful which can claim that all songs, hit or not, are fantastic. Please listen to this album if you have not already.

Worthy

Lives up to the hype

Just a great album. 6 fantastic songs and 4 more great ones. The Chain and Dreams are the obvious highlights, and Gold Dust Woman is the more lowkey but still great song. Add on Don't Stop, You Make Loving Fun, and Go Your Own Way, and you have a damn near perfect album. I still don't really like Oh Daddy though. As stereotypical as it is to say, this is a 5/5 album for me. Not quite the peak of music, but damn close to it.

Fleetwood Mac has never been my thing. Always like them, but never really got into them. On top of that, this album is full of songs that I've already heard so many times before, I don't really need to hear them again. Even with all that in mind, listening to the album again, there's just no denying it's a near perfect pop album. The only song that made me cringe a little was "Oh Daddy". Always creeps me out when someone refers to their partner as "Daddy". I would give it 4 1/2, but since we can't do halves, I'll give it the full 5.

Can you name one bad song on this album. One of the greatest!

bomba atomica. uno degli album migliori della storia

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS. God this album rules. Every track is fantastic, and some, like The Chain, are on my personal list of greatest songs ever recorded. This is an all-time great album and likely to be one of my absolute favorites of the entire project.

Superb album. Nothing more needs to be said.

Heartfelt offering by veteran band unafraid of change in the mid- late 70s. The way Buckingham- Nicks were welcomed with open arms and found their footing to create genuine magic within the gentle confines of this long-running act is the stuff of legend. Concept album of relationships on the rocks with all the light, dark and every shade in between.

There's a reason this is considered one of the best albums of all time. Everything about it is great

Not a lot to say about this album that hasn't already been said, but an easy 5 if there is one. Like Thriller, an almost unbelievable amount of timeless songs packed onto one album. The counterpoint of the Buckingham songs, the Nicks songs, the McVie songs, it all works. The harmonies are impeccable, the songwriting is excellent (the build on The Chain is almost worth the price of admission alone), the instrumentation, everything. An all-time classic and bestselling album for a reason!

Parfait. Timeless instrumentation, production and song topics. If landslide were on here it would be 11 out of 10 but their self titled is also excellent.

Une très bonne découverte ! 5/5

Nearly flawless album. Doesn't wear out its welcome. Easy 5/5

Of course this album is great. I mean, it's Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. It's not the best album ever, but it is really close to it. It is great from start to end, and it is a really strong record. So, of course, it much deserves to be here and to have five stars.

My wife would disown me if I rated any less than 5 stars

This is just a great album from start to finish.

Amazing that they could produce this masterpiece despite the inner discord and turmoil within the band at the time

I’m not really sure I can say anything that hasn’t already been said about this album. Good to listen to it again as it had been a while.

Simply brilliant

Banger after banger

Day 41 Not exactly a hot take but this album is pretty much perfection. 10/10 Highlights The whole album but is there a better moment on any album ever than when the baseline at the end of The Chain kicks in?

This may just be no 1. It could be this for 1001 days and I’d be happy.

Forever. Happy birthday mom

Knew this was going to be great and it was somehow even better than I expected. Go Your Own Way and Dreams on the same album is crazy enough, but The Chain and I Don’t Want To Know were discoveries for me

Superb album, not a bad track on it.

Is it a sin to give this less than 5?

I was wondering when we'd get to this one. I've listened to this one more times than I can count already.

Great!

BÄNGERI

4.54

never have i listened to an album where every single song is absolutely phenomenal.

Yeahhhh rumours is great. Its nice to come back to an album you liked years ago and its still good. Nice yo not do the whole I was a dumbass thing. Sometimes young you makes some good decisions. Its just fun and nice and enjoyable start to finish. I like almost every song in the record and the ones im not crazy about still have bright spots. Its just a classic and I could see someone calling it perfect. I dont believe in that but its so damn good. Worth a listen 100%. One of the easier recommendations ive got.

An all-time classic.

One of the greatest albums of all time.

One of the best albums of all time. If you don’t like this, you don’t know music.

Such a cracking album with so many great tracks. 5/5

With Dreams, The Chain, Never Going Back Again, and Don't Stop, Rumors is a strong contender for greatest album ever.

Obviously

One of the greatest albums of all time.

So good

This is a five star album. I like every song, and they all regularly come up on shuffle. There's a song for every mood and every ocassion on this album. Some standouts: Dreams - ugh, so good. Stevie's vocals are golden, the simplicity of the music is sublime. Songbird - I actually grew up with the Eva Cassidy version in my house as a child which I prefer. To me it's always been a really sad song, but I think it's probably because Eva Cassidy died so young. Christine McVie sounds great here though. The Chain - this is such a cool song, another for my setlist if I was ever in a cover band. You Make Loving Fun - It's like Dreams' carefree older sister, love both songs on this album. Only critique of this album is that I don't LOVE Gold Dust Woman as the final song. And, all I could think about when listening was WWF legend and hall-of-famer Golddust. So much so, I looked it up to see if this was where he got his ringname from: "The character was portrayed as a drag queen obsessed with films and everything gold, which is a parody of the Oscars statuette. Dust, is a play on his real name". Not quite.

Amazing album, a classic for a reason. Loaded with hits that have absolutely stood the test of time. Not a weak song on this and just about perfect throughout.

One of the top 5 most complete albums ever made, IMHO.

The magic of making love to a roadie I guess.

Peak Fleetwood Mac! It's amazing that such a triumph came out of such a dark time in their lives. I'm only a mild fan of Mac in general, but this album is off the charts.

Proof that sometimes mountains of cocaine, messy affairs and grudge fucking are actually beneficial. Best Tracks: Second Hand News; Go Your Own Way; You Make Loving Fun

Perfection

What else is there possibly to say about this album? It's one of the all-time greats for a reason. Many reasons, actually.

One of the greatest albums of all time. This would probably live in my too ten if I didn’t find it too galling to create such a list.

I love how you can practically hear them all banging each other

I've always heard this album is one of the best albums ever written and I never quite got it. I tried listening to it previously, but what the hell was I listening to before because it wasn't this. This was incredible and absolutely worthy of the praise! Absolutely fantastic album through and through. There's the bangers and the ballads, all of which are sonic beauty. Deserves more than 5 stars. 5/5

Fleetwood Mac are overrated! It's pop without any depth or edges! This was my sentiment and I was determined to keep it this way. At "Go Your Own Way" I started to give in, and at Chains my barricades got breached. From enemies to lovers in 20 minutes.

Perfection

(5) never actually listened all the way through but i did listen to my favs from the delux version after too

It is never anything less than a complete joy to sit and properly listen to this album; to hear the songs in their origin context, find new angles or jags to chip away at, new moments to obsesses about. For me this time it was the harmony in the second half of “The Chain”’s choruses. At one point I was comparing it aloud to one of those passes Lionel Messi can make that suddenly strands an entire defence in No Man’s Land … a daft simile, but, on reflection, I find it edifying that we might never, as a species, run out of ways of celebrating this record. To put it more plainly though, “Rumors” is so good that you could scrub any of “Dreams”, “The Chain”, “Don’t Stop” or “Go Your Own Way” from the track list and still be holding onto one of the best pop or rock or whatever albums of all time. Luckily, we don’t have to. There’s no thought experiment here, no test. There’s just something wonderful.

One of my all time favorite albums

Ahh...the quintessential 'big sister' album. But c'mon. It wasn't just your big sister's music, it was America's soundtrack. It's where we fell in love, or adopted as our spirit animal, Stevie. And we can only hope it's where some 'discovered' the magic that lives in Lindsey's fretwork and Christine's angelic (better than Nicks, IMHO) voice. Take all that, and then factor in that this album was a declaration of war. The band was infighting, infucking, incredible, in the pocket and at the top of their formidable game. Only Richard and Linda Thompson have a better, "we're breaking up, let's kick some ass' disc. Enjoy. And tell your big sister thanks.

I already know this album is amazing

I mean c'mon, who doesn't know this

Groovy, mysterious, passionate

Classic!

Such a good album. Solid songs, with solid themes, vocals, harmonies, and variety.

Greatest album of all time

Bands that have multiple songwriters - The Beatles, The Clash, Teenage Fanclub, Sloan, and the Buckingham/Nicks era of Fleetwood Mac, enjoy a distinct advantage in that filler and lesser material gets squeezed out in the competitive jockeying for vinyl space. And Rumours is that point at which all the major songwriters of the Mac were both clicking and emotionally inspired by the romantic turmoil that was roiling the band at the time. The result is a magnificent pop album enhanced by Buckingham’s exacting production. Masterpiece.

The best of the best

What a great album! Highly acclaimed, widely loved and for good reason. The Chain is one of my all time favourites, I can’t think of many builds in a song that hit quite like the build in The Chain, it gets my arm hair up and oh man what a fucking tune. Proof that disdain for one another can be a great ingredient to an awesome album. Buckingham’s guitars shine and Nicks’ powerful pipes, what a combo. Fleetwood’s drums and McVies bass deserve a nod as well. Only gripe is Daddy, I really don’t care for that tune but this is still 5 stars

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A perfect album!

Classic

A stone-cold classic with every Stevie Nicks track a standout.

There aren't many perfect albums. This is one of them, my friends.

40 mins of greatness. Surely one of the greatest rock albums ever and even better when you know the coke binging sex fuelled stories behind it.

Pop music may not get better. Production is on another level. Crazy good on every track but Dreams is a marvel, they turned two chords into one of the best songs ever. Lottaaaa mega hits. A+

Don’t have anything substantial to add other than it’s a great album. Maybe the best American record of the 70s? Never going back again is one of my favorite songs. Unsolicited plug for a cool cover - ‘dreams’ by the electric peanut butter company.

Masterpiece Loved listening to pieces of the super deluxe version. Disc 3 has early takes that are amazing to hear. Buckingham sounds like Billy Corbin in the early takes of Second Hand News The lore of this album is endlessly entertaining to dig into. Theres no doubt that these were supremely talented and volatile people that made something generationally relevant

Obviously 5 stars. No point in even having this on here except as a benchmark for what a 5-star album sounds like

“Hell yes” - I muttered to myself when this popped up before I needed to make an hour long morning drive for work the day after Labor Day. Just what the doctor ordered. This is the album my wife and I have probably listened to the most straight through, a road trip staple with no skips. This album is so perfect it’s almost insulting to have it on a list with all of this other trash. Every song good enough to stand on its own, and every song perfectly placed in sequence. Dreams is a great song and it might be my least favorite on the album. I go wild for the kind of raucous, multi-voiced party sound of Second Hand News, I Don’t Wanna Know, and Gold Dust Woman. SHN might be one of my favorite songs of all time - I love the build the outro guitar solo. Now I want to go listen to Tusk, has fallen out of my rotation and should be on this list.

All hits, no filler. A serious contender for GOAT album, especially knowing the backstory of all the drama that led to it. Also inspired one of my favorite bits of comedy dialogue: "You get a love triangle- you know? Fleetwood Mac situation. Well there was four of them, so more of a love square... Mind you, they did make some of their best music back then." "Rumours." "No, that's all true."

there is nothing i could say about rumours that hasn't been said before. this shit fucks. every song is a like.

Hits, vocal harmonies, clashes Second hand news Don't stop Go your own way The chain

Ok damn, this did live up to the hype. Abbey Road is still better, though

Cavalcade of hits

This one was fun, varied and had a few absolute bangers... Amazing songwriting, very good feel for how songs work... Easy 4.5

Hard to listen to this and find any flaws, definitely a must listen to for anyone wanting to make it big in pop rock

Instant classic. Takes me back to my youth.

Songbird, Dreams, The Chain, You Make Loving Fun, I D'ont Want to Know son las mejores canciones del disco. Muy balanceado entre melodías y canciones optimistas y canciones y melodías planas o suaves

Perfect.

What is there to say? Every single one of these songs is a classic

It’s rare to hear a record where every track stands out, production is mint, the vibes are immaculate, and every rational person can agree on its merits. But here it is. It’s a perfect record. That’s all that needs to be said.

I mean, it's Rumours. Easiest 5/5 of my life.

Never Going Back Again was a diamond in this goldmine of an album!

Very familiar with this one. Let's go! Hmm, don't know if I realize Don't Stop was by these guys. Wild. Never Going back Again is fantastic. I mean...this is basically a greatest album. Geez 4.6/5

I never intentionally listened to Fleetwood Mac but it’s amazing how many of these tracks have stayed in our collective consciousness. Some really strong tracks on the b-side. Favorites: The Chain, Dreams, You Make Loving Fun

Massa, muita cocaina

9.5/10, first song was meh, rest is amazing

Highest rated album on the generator for a good reason, an old favourite and widely regarded to be one of the best albums of all time. Tight, succinct, fantastic sound.

Garbage album. Couldn’t make it through 2 songs.

I’ve listened to this album a handful of times through the years but today it hit my heart in a new way. Thank you.

10/10 no words this album is absolutely perfect. The fact that they were all in a love triangle and all three of them sing in this album is incredible. I can’t say anything that hasn’t already been said but this album is an absolute masterpiece.

Perfect

Classic

I've already listened to his album (7). The best of the best, there are few albums like this.

The Bible of modern music.

You know why I am giving this album a 5 stars rating.

- already love this album - gold dust woman is a favorite

*listened before the project* Typically and classically nice, though not my favorite

One of the best albums ever made

Gold track after gold track

Älskar allt

What more can I say that hasn't already been said about this album? Legendary. Perfect start to finish.

One of the best albums of all time

What a great album

YES LETS GO CHEATING BAND ALWAYS WINS 5 STAR 5 STAR

Will forever love The Chain!

Uno de mis álbumes favoritos.

What is there to say really, an all-timer of an album. Not a single miss, musical perfection from top to bottom.

This is an incredible album and perfectly satiates what I look for in a pop/rock album. My favorites are The Chain and Dreams!

Thunder Only Happens When It's Rainin' 1001 Albums Generator 98 (08/18/2025) Last week, I had Fleetwood Mac's sprawling double album, Tusk, which was great, but extremely messy and eclectic. By that point, Lindsay Buckingham had completely moved into a more punk-y direction, so the album had lots of disparate songs on it. However, a big reason why Tusk was so experimental was due to the huge success of the album that preceded it, Rumours. Lindsay Buckingham said that he specifically did not want to make a second album like Rumours. But I mean, let's be honest, could they have made a second Rumours even if they wanted to? As much as this album is shaped by its distinct brand of soft pop rock, it is also defined by the circumstances under which it was created. John and Christie McVie divorced after touring for their tenth album and Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were in an on/off relationship. Meanwhile, even drummer Mick Fleetwood was dealing with infidelity in his own house when he caught his wife with his best friend. Additionally, the band was doing lots of Cocaine during the recording process. According to Chris Stone, one of the owners of the studio Fleetwood was recording at, "The band would come in at 7 at night, have a big feast, party till 1 or 2 in the morning, and then when they were so whacked-out they couldn't do anything, they'd start recording". So how the fuck did the album turn out this great? Dreams is obviously a classic. I love how it is somewhat inspired by like country or something and it's amazing that Nicks wrote this song in a single afternoon. That is real fucking talent right there. Another great slower one is the acoustic ballad Never Going Back Again, penned by Buckingham. Unfortunately, I am not a big fan of Songbird, although I understand why it is here for the flow of the album. It just feels the least necessary of any songs here. However, Oh Daddy is a great slower song. This song makes me feel like I'm in the Shire (positive connotation). Gold Dust is the last song and features some country inspiration, especially in the guitar work. Nicks' vocals here also have a perfect twanginess. I do wish this song was slightly shorter, but it's good. I love the upbeat songs here too. Don't Stop has this infection piano-led groove and features lyrics that Christine McVie wrote about bassist John McVie, which he didn't realize until after the song was released. Go Your Own Way always reminds me of Rockband and has the first of many incredible basslines on the album. John McVie just pops off so hard in the chorus. Speaking of which, have you guys heard this song, The Chain? Whoa! I absolutely love the change up that happens in the last third of this song, led once again by McVie's incredible bass playing before Buckingham starts shredding. This is my favorite song on the album; it makes me very happy that this was such a big hit. You Make Loving Fun is a surprising choice for the final single. It's good, but I don't think it's one of the best songs here, although I do like that it has this sort of disco-esque sound to it. Overall, Rumours is a classic for a reason, obviously. It's one of the least hateable albums I've heard, and even though there are one or two songs that I'm not crazy about, it's still a very high 4.5/5, rounded up to a 5. Favs: Dreams Go Your Own Way The Chain Least Fav: Songbird

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I want to not like this album so much but damnit! It is chock full of great songs with flawless production. The cocaine fueled obsession to every detail of the making of this album really paid off and is audible throughout. To be a contrarian, I must admit, I prefer the Buckingham sung songs. So there. Begrudgingly 5/ 5

Every song is a classic, the word masterpiece gets thrown around a lot. Applies here

The depth of this album is almost unparalleled, and if we just forget that Oh Daddy exists, doesn’t hit particular lows.

Any excuse to listen to this album again. Love Fleetwood Mac.

Look, it’s a five, but I also don’t need to hear most of these songs for another ten years.

What can you say about Rumours that hasn't already been said? Not much really. The emotional turmoil behind the scenes formed a masterpiece, and unless you knew about all of the tension and heartbreak going on within members of the band, you'd never be able to tell. Upon listening again you can hear, behind the professionalism of each performance, the intensity of their emotions breaking through.

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A near perfect album (4/5) but upping it to 5/5 since the full emotional journey is simply a masterpiece

There are genuinely two songs on here that I dont think are absolute classics but the rest are and are some of greatest songs ever written. How could this not be 5 stars? Bow bow bow bow ba ba bow bow bow bow ba ba ba bow bow bow bow doo dootle dee doo bow bow ba ba bow bow bow bow

Who could argue anything less than a 5?

What more can be said about this legendary masterpiece? Devastatingly good.

Flawless as ever. No notes

An absolute classic that sounds as good today as first released. Everyone knows the backstory which helps explain the songs and their meanings. A classic

Greatest album of all time. Everything else pales in comparison.

Yeah, that’s the stuff

It's hard to make sad songs catchy, but I can't help but hum to these classics. Great songs with great vocals, 5 stars for me.