Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Deluxe Edition)
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Artist: Fleetwood MacEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-03-23
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Second Hand News
- Dreams
- Never Going Back Again
- Don't Stop
- Go Your Own Way
- Songbird
- Silver Springs
- The Chain
- You Make Loving Fun
- I Don't Want to Know
- Oh Daddy
- Gold Dust Woman
- Second Hand News
- Dreams
- Brushes (Never Going Back Again)
- Don't Stop
- Go Your Own Way
- Songbird
- Silver Springs
- You Make Loving Fun
- Gold Dust Woman #1
- Oh Daddy
- Think About It
- Never Going Back Again
- Planets of the Universe
- Butter Cookie (Keep Me There)
- Gold Dust Woman
- Doesn't Anything Last
- Mic the Screecher
- For Duster (The Blues)
Free Music Notes for Rumours (Deluxe Edition)
Free Music Review: The stellar music outlives the surrounding hype on this outstanding record
Hit: 5 Stars
What is left to say about this album? One of the biggest sellers of all time (18 million copies and counting have been sold), RUMOURS proved that musicians can make an album that is an enormous success both commercially and artistically. The story of the group's two sets of couples ending their respective relationships while in the process of creating the album is well-documented and shall not be recounted here. So much attention has been paid to the soap opera-esque theatrics of the group members' personal lives at the time that the quality of the actual music contained on the disc can often be somewhat shortchanged. Simply put, even when divorced from the real-life drama that surrounded it's writing and recording, RUMOURS is a truly exceptional album that remains one of the milestones of the singer/songwriter era.
All three of the group's principal songwriters are very nearly at the peak of their powers on this album. Once again, Christine McVie offers up a set of tuneful and compelling pop numbers. Christine offers one of her most delicious hooks on the sly hit "You Make Lovin' Fun" (#9 Pop), which effectively sets Stevie and Lindsey's amazing harmony vocals against a killer refrain and one of Christine's most soulful lead performances. The eerie "Oh Daddy" also makes fantastic use of the group's incredibly tight harmonies, and is perhaps the most chilling number that the usually upbeat McVie ever wrote. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum from the sparse "Oh Daddy," Christine also penned the delightful smash "Don't Stop" (#3 Pop), a jubilant ditty that could bring a smile to even the most hardened cynic. The best of McVie's material, however, is the heartbreaking "Songbird," a genuinely touching ballad that avoids schmaltz with a healthy dose of restraint and sincerity. It has remained a staple of Mac concerts since the release of this record.
RUMOURS finds Fleetwood Mac's other grand songstress in top form too. Stevie Nicks' provided the group with two of the previous record's most memorable songs ("Rhiannon" and "Landslide), and this time she goes one step further and gives the group it's biggest hit ever with the ethereal mid-tempo rock ballad "Dreams" (#1 Pop). Nicks' haunting melody and poetic lyrics combine with John McVie's dementedly thumping bass line to create a surreal masterpiece, and it is perhaps best described as the aural equivalent of a Van Gogh painting. Stevie's irresistible pop confection "I Don't Want to Know" is so uncharacteristically lighthearted and sunny that it sounds like her version of the type of song that Christine typically writes. This attempt at up-tempo pop is so surprisingly successful that I'd actually like to hear Stevie tackle this type of song more often. Nicks' final solo contribution is the sobering album closer, the powerful cocaine-inspired opus "Gold Dust Woman." Though never officially released as a single, "Gold Dust Woman" is yet another song that has justifiably became a concert staple and it is now commonly regarded as one of Nicks' finest compositions.
In addition to his increasingly active role in producing the album, Lindsey Buckingham also once again makes a lasting impression as both a songwriter and vocalist. In addition to providing a memorable duet vocal opposite Christine on "Don't Stop," Buckingham also contributes three solo compositions, all of which rank among his best work. The seemingly chipper "Second Hand News" effectively uses it's frenetic arrangement and instantly memorable chorus to undercut the pain and bitterness in the lyrics. This device creates a powerful juxtaposition that brings added depth to each and every line of the lyrics. The basically acoustic "Never Going Back Again" is a sputtering folk ballad that gains strength from it's refreshing simplicity, which isn't something that typically found in the majority of Buckingham's work. Obviously the best of Buckingham's solo material on RUMOURS is the immortal "Go Your Own Way" (#10 Pop), an angry and angst-ridden rocker with a blistering guitar solo and an unbeatable hook. It's probably my favorite cut on an album overflowing with highlights, and zero filler.
All five of the band's members had a hand in writing "The Chain," a mammoth cut that serves as the centerpiece of both RUMOURS and the band's entire career. With moody versus and abstract lyrics that break away into a fist-thumping chorus and whirlwind fade out, "The Chain" combines the very best elements of each member of this particular lineup of the group. While this merging of talents literally comes to a head on the "The Chain," it is evidenced and echoed throughout the entire album. At the time of the creation of RUMOURS, Fleetwood Mac was a band of five very distinct individuals who could somehow play together as one.
Rumours (Deluxe Edition) Poster
Three decades after Rumours established itself as one of rock's most ubiquitous, overarching successes, discussing Fleetwood Mac's heady 1977 monster (18 million sold and counting) might seem pointless; one might as well deconstruct a Big Mac. But this remastered, double-disc deluxe edition succeeds by offering up a generous, compelling portrait of that overly familiar musical triumph via 18 bonus tracks that include demos, outtakes, run-throughs, and studio jams. Stripping hits like "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way" and "Gold Dust Woman" down to their most bare-bones form reveals the sturdy, elemental framework that tellingly lies beneath all the pop perfection. But tracks like Lindsey Buckingham's ebullient instrumental "Brushes" (the basic tracks of "Never Going Back Again") also display a musician whose focused vision is informed by accomplished playing that's anything but simple. The two brief studio jams included aren't much more than noisy, disposable fun. But other outtakes of songs that didn't make the album (Stevie Nicks's "Think About It" and "Planets of the Universe"; Buckingham's "Doesn't Anything Last") help underscore the contention of Dave DiMartino's insightful new liner notes: This was a band on the cusp of triumph literally coming apart at its emotional seams, yet one which somehow channeled that personal turmoil into nothing short of epochal musical success. --Jerry McCulleyClassic Rock Music CDs
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