Line #18 Music/Rumours


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/342504129_mi0001511716_answer_7_xlarge_5000.jpeg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''And if you don't love me now, you will never love me again''\
3	''I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain'']]
4	->''Now, here you go again\
5	You say, you want your freedom\
6	Well, who am I to keep you down\
7	\
8	It's only right that you should\
9	Play the way you feel it\
10	But listen carefully, to the sound\
11	Of your loneliness\
12	\
13	Like a heartbeat, drives you mad\
14	In the stillness of remembering what you had\
15	And what you lost\
16	And what you had\
17	And what you lost''
18	-->-- "Dreams"
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20	''Rumours'' is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Music/FleetwoodMac. It was released through [[Creator/WarnerBrosRecords Warner Bros. Records]] on 4 February 1977 in the United States, and the next week in the United Kingdom.
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22	Riding off the smash success of [[Music/FleetwoodMacWhiteAlbum their self-titled tenth album]], an extensive six months of touring started to tear the band apart at the seams.
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24	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]] And everyone was in thrall to truly heroic amounts of cocaine. However, the only constant that kept these bandmates together was the music they would create.
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26	The band started producing their next album in February 1976 under the working title of ''Yesterday's Gone'', which Buckingham took charge of to create a "pop album." He and Christine [=McVie=] laid out the foundations of many the tracks upon guitar and piano, and the band would see what worked and what didn't, splicing portions of songs onto other songs and beyond. However, cocaine and sleepless nights dragged the recording onward, where they would come in at seven at night and wouldn't record until two in the morning. All the while rumors circulated about the band breaking up, replacing members, and other scandals.
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28	In spite of the tumultuous recording sessions, ''Rumours'' was essentially all Fleetwood Mac wanted.
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30	Mostly.
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32	Nicks' "Silver Springs" was cut in favor of "I Don't Want to Know" because the latter was shorter and jauntier. But "Silver Springs" became enormous following its inclusion in the LiveAlbum ''The Dance'' in 1997, and was added to the album in releases from 2004 onward.
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34	''Rumours'' would ultimately go ''twenty-times Platinum'' in the United States--upgraded to double-Diamond when the RIAA launched the Diamond certification in 1999--and 14-times Platinum in the United Kingdom. It has sold 45 million copies worldwide, making it one of the ten best-selling albums of all time. It's currently #5 all-time in the United States.
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36	Four singles were released from the album: "Go Your Own Way", "Dreams", "Don't Stop", and "You Make Loving Fun". All four were Top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Dreams" being their first #1. Many other songs would become famous without singles releases, most notably "The Chain", "Second Hand News", and "Songbird".
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38	The record won the 1978 MediaNotes/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.
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41	!! Tracklist:
42	[[AC:Side One]]
43	# "Second Hand News" (2:43)
44	# "Dreams" (4:14)
45	# "Never Going Back Again" (2:02)
46	# "Don't Stop" (3:11)
47	# "Go Your Own Way" (3:38)
48	# "Songbird" (3:20)
49
50	[[AC:Side Two]]
51	# "The Chain" (4:28)
52	# "You Make Loving Fun" (3:31)
53	# "I Don't Want to Know" (3:11)
54	# "Oh Daddy" (3:54)
55	# "Gold Dust Woman" (4:51)
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57	[[AC:CD-only bonus track (2004 onward)]]
58	# "Silver Springs" (4:29)
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61	!!Principal Members:
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63	* Lindsey Buckingham - lead vocals on tracks 1, 3-5, 7, 9, guitar, dobro, bass, percussion
64	* Mick Fleetwood - drums, percussion, harpsichord, congas, maracas, cymbals, cowbell, sound effects
65	* Christine [=McVie=] - lead vocals on tracks 4, 6-8, and 10, keyboard, piano, organ, clavinet
66	* John [=McVie=] - bass
67	* Music/StevieNicks - lead vocals on tracks 2, 7, 9, and 11, tambourine
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70	!! We're just second hand tropes, we're just second hand troooooooooooooopes...:
71	* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: "Dreams."
72	-->When the rain waSHES you clean you'll know.
73	* BSide: Though cut from the album, Nicks' "Silver Springs" stands as one of the band's most famous songs. It was only released on the back of Buckingham's "Go Your Own Way", to which it served as an AnswerSong, but proved popular enough to appear on a later BoxedSet. The live version from ''The Dance'' was a hit. It was eventually added to the album proper on the 2004 reissue as the closer.
74	* BreakupSong: Actually, a whole breakup ''album'':
75	** "Go Your Own Way", which Buckingham [[CelebrityBreakUpSong wrote about his breakup with Nicks]], the protagonist angrily rants at their former lover about their infidelity.[[invoked]]
76	--->Loving you isn't the right thing to do\
77	How can I ever change things that I feel?\
78	If I could, maybe I'd give you my world\
79	How can I when you won't take it from me?
80	** "Silver Springs" is Nicks's AnswerSong.
81	--->Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me\
82	I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me\
83	I'll follow you down til' the sound of my voice will haunt you\
84	You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you
85	** In both "Second Hand News" and "The Chain", the lover hasn't gotten over it, but in "I Don't Want to Know", the protagonist [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy accepts that his former girlfriend now has a new partner]].
86	--->I don't want to stand between you and love\
87	Honey, I just want you to feel fine
88	* CoverVersion: ''Series/{{Glee}}'''s [[Recap/GleeS2E19Rumours Rumours]].
89	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover is shot in black-and-white.
90	* DespairEventHorizon: "Never Going Back Again":
91	-->You don't know what it means to win\
92	Come on down and see me again\
93	Been down one time\
94	Been down two time\
95	Mmm, never going back again
96	* FaceOnTheCover: Fleetwood and Nicks are posed in profile on the front.
97	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Mick and Stevie, pictured on the cover. They were in the midst of an affair at the time.
98	* LineOfSightName: Stevie got the title to "Silver Springs" after seeing a highway sign for [[UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC Silver Spring, Maryland]], on tour and liking the name.
99	* LoveHurts: Half the songs on the album.
100	* LoveRedeems: The ''other half'' of the songs on the album.
101	* LoveRuinsTheRealm: "Gold Dust Woman".
102	-->Well, did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love?
103	* ObsessionSong: Both "Go Your Own Way", and its B-side "Silver Springs".
104	* OneManSong: "Oh Daddy".
105	* OneWomanSong: "Gold Dust Woman".
106	* OneWordTitle: "Songbird", "Dreams" and the album title itself, "Rumours".
107	* PepTalkSong:
108	** "Don't Stop":
109	--->Why not think about times to come\
110	And not about the things that you've done\
111	If your life was bad to you\
112	Just think what tomorrow will do
113	** "Gold Dust Woman":
114	--->Well, did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love?\
115	And is it over now? Do you know how to pick up the pieces and go home?
116	* ThePowerOfLove: "Oh Daddy", which praises the protagonist as the "best thing in my life". "You Make Loving Fun" and "Songbird", which express delight with the desired partner and the things he/she does.
117	* PrecisionFStrike: Listen very carefully at 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.
118	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "You Make Loving Fun" was inspired by the affair that ended the [=McVie=] marriage. Christine was describing how her paramour, the band's lighting director during the tour to promote [[Music/FleetwoodMacWhiteAlbum the previous album]], made her feel.
119	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Buckingham and Nicks' lyrics mainly consist of these toward each other. See TakeThat below for some examples.
120	* 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 fast-forward after the last track before flipping the tape over.
121	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: "Gold Dust Woman" is a swipe at both oversexed groupies and cocaine addiction, which makes it an odd {{cover\|Version}} choice for Music/CourtneyLove of the band Hole in the soundtrack for ''Film/TheCrowCityOfAngels''.
122	* ShoutOut: A line in the first verse of "Dreams" references the classic Creator/EdgarAllanPoe story ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart''.
123	* TakeThat: This album is absolutely loaded with these from one band-member towards the other.
124	** 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.[[note]]Nicks tried and failed to get those lyrics changed; she later said that when Buckingham sang that line on stage, she "wanted to go over and kill him."[[/note]] 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]]
125	** "Gold Dust Woman", which ''did'' make the final cut, is a TakeThat at the groupies who hung around the male members of the band, particularly Mick and Lindsey.
126	* UpdatedRerelease: Reissues from 2004 have "Silver Springs" added to the running order.
127	* VisualInnuendo: The clackers very conspicuously hanging from Mick Fleetwood's crotch.
128	* WhiteVoidRoom: The band members stand in one on the album cover.
129	* 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).
130	* {{Yandere}}: Some of the lines in "Silver Springs" come off like this:
131	-->''I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you\
132	You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you''

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