Fleetwood Mac-Rumours (1977)
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Title: Rumours
Label: Warner Bros.
Format: 8-Track
Cat #: M8 3010
Year of Release: 1977
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1977
Listed Condition: VG+/VG
Sell Date: 9/24/25
Sell Price: $9.38
Discogs Last Sold: 4/4/25 VG/VG $6.87
Low: $1.95
Median: $5.00
Average: $6.63
High: $27.50 NM/NM White MCA Outer Case NM- (an obvious addition-says 'Equivalent 2-Records Set'). Black 8 track shell NM-: just a few slight lil' cover slick bubbles.
Current low price: $2.99
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15
Have/Want: 382/792
Where Sold: Renton, WA
Time it took to sell: 1 year
Where and When Bought: Ebay 8-track lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
A household staple of my childhood from my mother playing it incessantly from 1977-1979 or so, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was introduced to my household from a neighbor who recently moved to California and came back to visit. My mother already had the last album and was playing that relentlessly the previous couple years. At some point Rumours took over. I have to say I always liked it a little less than Fleetwood Mac, but who am I fooling. It charts to this day because it has a little something for everybody in the straight rock realm.
My favorite songs weren't the hits either way back then or now. "Second Hand News," "I Don't Want To Know" and "The Chain" are the ones for me. Oddly enough, I never really thought of the singles as "singles." They were heard so much at home, whether or not I heard "Dreams" or "Don't Stop" somewhere else seeped into the background of 70's top 40 compared with the stuff I actually elected to hear. In that way, Rumours was forced on me a bit and I never really needed to put it on from my own volition. Other people take care of that throughout life and I'll zone in on the things I like: the bass and solo in "The Chain." "Second Hand News" has the short and sweet to the point lyrics lying down in the tall grass to do stuff and missing you when you go. "I Don't Want To Know" has handclaps not worth anyone else replicating and a ragged joy in misery that I appreciate. The rest of the album is pleasant wallpaper for me that I never need to hear again.
The 8-track track reorder is a little jarring. For starters "Oh Daddy" is the second track instead of the second-to-last track, which is radically different mood-wise than the hit "Dreams" after "Second Hand News." The Lindsey-Stevie war is broken up imperfectly by Christine McVie. Track 2 kicks off with "Dreams," Track 3 with "Don't Stop" and Track 4 with "The Chain." That completely shuffles the mood and flow and perhaps even the intent of the album.
At least we get silence at the end instead of fade in/outs throughout.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
Various Artists-Happiness Is Dry Pants (1987)
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