History Music / Rumours

The record won the 1978 UsefulNotes/GrammyAward for ''Album of the Year''. An episode about the creative process behind this album was featured in the documentary TV series ''Series/ClassicAlbums''. Both the album and the song "Dreams" ended up returning to the American charts after [[MemeticMutation a TikTok video was released showing someone riding a skateboard while drinking Ocean Spray cranberry juice cocktail out of the bottle]]. It would ultimately hit #12, the band's highest chart appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1988.

-->I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you

John and Christine [=McVie=] were ending their eight-year marriage. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks had broken up with fiery animosity. And Mick Fleetwood's wife was having an affair with his best friend.[[note]]He would retaliate by having an affair with Stevie.[[/note]] However, the only constant that kept these bandmates together was the music they would create.

-->--'''Dreams'''

* Music/StevieNicks - lead vocals, tambourine

* Lindsey Buckingham - lead vocals, guitar, dobro, bass, percussion

* Christine [=McVie=] - lead vocals, keyboard, piano, organ, clavinet

[[AC: CD-only bonus track (2004 onward)]]

* DespairEventHorizon: "Never Going Back Again"

* OneWordTitle: "Songbird", "Dreams".
* PepTalkSong:
** "Don't Stop"

** "Gold Dust Woman"

* WorkingWithTheEx: Around the time of this album, the band consisted of two broken relationships and a divorced drummer (who had a fling with the singer.)
* {{Yandere}}: "Silver Springs"

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: "Dreams".

* ReCut: Cassette copies swapped the positions of "Second Hand News" and "I Don't Want to Know" in order to even out the lengths of each side. This was ironic since an early selling point of prerecorded cassettes over 8-tracks was that cassettes could duplicate the LP tracklisting exactly. Uneven side length was apparently an issue back then, but many releases simply put a disclaimer on the cover advising listeners that one side may be longer than the other and that they should simply fast-forward after the last track before flipping the tape over.

* ReCut: Cassette copies swapped the positions of "Second Hand News" and "I Don't Want to Know" in order to even out the lengths of each side.

* ReCut: For some reason, cassette copies swapped the positions of "Second Hand News" and "I Don't Want to Know." While reshuffling tracks was common on 8-track tapes at the time to make them fir more evenly into the four programs, this one was odd as one selling point of prerecorded cassettes was that they could have the same tracklisting as on the LP.

->''Now, here you go again''\\
''You say, you want your freedom''\\
''Well, who am I to keep you down''\\

''It's only right that you should''\\
''Play the way you feel it''\\
''But listen carefully, to the sound''\\
''Of your loneliness''\\

''Like a heartbeat, drives you mad''\\
''In the stillness of remembering what you had''\\
''And what you lost''\\
''And what you had''\\
''And what you lost''

--> ''When the rain waSHES you clean you'll know.''

--->''Loving you isn't the right thing to do''\\
''How can I ever change things that I feel?''\\
''If I could, maybe I'd give you my world''\\
''How can I when you won't take it from me?''

--->''Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me''\\
''I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me''\\
''I'll follow you down til' the sound of my voice will haunt you''\\
''You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you''
** In both "Second Hand News" and "The Chain", the lover hasn't gotten over it, and in but in "I Don't Want to Know", for instance, the protagonist [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy accepts that his former girlfriend now has a new partner]].
--->''I don't want to stand between you and love''\\
''Honey, I just want you to feel fine''

--> ''You don't know what it means to win\\

Mmm, never going back again''

--> ''Well, did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love?''
* ObsessionSong: Both "Go Your Own Way", and its B-side "Silver Springs"

--->''Why not think about times to come''\\
''And not about the things that you've done''\\
''If your life was bad to you''\\
''Just think what tomorrow will do''

---> ''Well, did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love?''\\
''And is it over now? Do you know how to pick up the pieces and go home?''

** Lead single "Go Your Own Way"'s probably the most obvious - the ''Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do'' line is Buckingham insulting Nicks. Nicks responded with the single's B-side "Silver Springs" - which features the line ''I'll follow you down 'till the sound of my voice will haunt you/you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you''. The last-named song was, for many years, one of the rarest and most sought-after of Fleetwood Mac tracks because it appeared only on the B-side of the single of "Go Your Own Way"; it had been left off the album because of lack of space, much to Nicks' displeasure, and wasn't officially released on a Mac album until their 1992 retrospective box-set. It's also been added to the reissued and remastered editions of this album, for what that's worth. [[note]]Saying that Nicks was displeased about "Silver Springs" being left off this album is a classic {{understatement}}. She once recounted in an interview that when Mick Fleetwood gave her the bad news, she went out into the parking lot and literally shrieked in rage. Later, after FM's tour for Behind the Mask, Nicks wanted to include the song on her upcoming best of Stevie Nicks album but Fleetwood wouldn't allow it because he planned to put it on an upcoming FM box set. Nicks quit the band over this. [[/note]]

** Lead single "Go Your Own Way"'s probably the most obvious - the ''Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do'' line is Buckingham insulting Nicks. Nicks responded with the single's B-side "Silver Springs" - which features the line ''I'll follow you down 'till the sound of my voice will haunt you/you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you''. The last-named song was, for many years, one of the rarest and most sought-after of Fleetwood Mac tracks because it appeared only on the B-side of the single of "Go Your Own Way"; it had been left off the album because of lack of space, much to Nicks' displeasure, and wasn't officially released on a Mac album until their 1992 retrospective box-set. It's also been added to the reissued and remastered editions of this album, for what that's worth. [[note]]Saying that Nicks was displeased about "Silver Springs" being left off this album is a classic {{understatement}}. She once recounted in an interview that when Mick Fleetwood gave her the bad news, she went out into the parking lot and literally shrieked in rage.[[/note]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Listen very carefully t the start of "The Chain" on the 2015 remaster, and you can hear Lindsey Buckingham sigh ''"fuck"'' before beginning the guitar riff -- likely a result of the legendarily [[TroubledProduction difficult]] and [[HostilityOnTheSet unpleasant]] recording sessions.