Is apparently this week. CNN has made a bit of a hoopla about it, calling it, "the perfect album".
Y'know, there was a time in my life back in the '80s when I would have agreed with that. For all my metalheading, I freaking loved Fleetwood Mac. Now I'm not so sure. I still have a great deal of respect for Lindsey Buckingham, and I think Christine McVie has (arguably) the best female rock voice ever, but the Buckingham/Nicks-era Mac hasn't aged well.
The problem? It's safe. The band took no risks whatsoever. They churned out agreeable pop music with a virtuoso guitar player. Not only isn't Rumors "perfect", it doesn't appreciably stand out from other 1977 albums....
-Pink Floyd's Animals
-Parliament's Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome
-The Clash's The Clash
-The Commodores's The Commodores
-Bob Marley's Exodus
-UFO's Lights Out
-Clapton's Slowhand
-ELO's Out of the Blue
-Rush's A Farewell to Kings
Not to mention other crowd pleasers like Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell and Kansas's Point of Know Return.
And no way does Rumors rival timeless albums like Floyd's DSotM or WYWH, Zeppelin's IV, The White Album, Pet Sounds, London Calling, and so on.
So why the love for Rumors? Yeah, it's a good album full of innocuous songs. But "perfect"? "Timeless"?
I don't see it.
35th anniversary of Rumors
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35th anniversary of Rumors
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Yea...not perfect, and not even best of the year as you point out.
I don't even think it's THEIR best...prefer Tusk myself...though "Sara" seriously makes me suffer involuntary regurgitation.
I don't even think it's THEIR best...prefer Tusk myself...though "Sara" seriously makes me suffer involuntary regurgitation.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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It's an excellent album, you haters!
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
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Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
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i think it is excellent as well. had they included Silver Springs it would have been better.
but the Chain, Gold Dust Woman, Dreams, Don't Stop, Songbird, You Make Loving Fun, Go Your Own Way - all excellent.
i forgot I Don't Want To Know as well.
the original album here
but the Chain, Gold Dust Woman, Dreams, Don't Stop, Songbird, You Make Loving Fun, Go Your Own Way - all excellent.
i forgot I Don't Want To Know as well.
the original album here
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