Fleetwood Mac

Rumours catapulted Fleetwood Mac to the top of the charts throughout all of 1977, with songs such as "Go Your Own Way," "You Make Loving Fun," "Dreams" and "Don't Stop," providing the band with a handful of stunning, career-defining moments. Without a doubt, Rumours is the must-have Fleetwood Mac album for fans and novices alike.

Rock & roll has this bad habit of being unpredictable. You never can tell when a band will
undergo that alchemic transmigration from lead to gold. The medium of transformation is
almost always a hit single, but such turnarounds often swamp a band in notoriety it can't
live up to. But in Fleetwood Mac's case the departure of guitarist Bob Welch---who'd
reduced the band to recutting pointless and pretentious versions of old standar... More >

Why is this easy-listening rock different from all other easy-listening rock, give or take an ancient harmony or two? Because myths of love lost and found are less invidious (at least in rock and roll) than myths of the road? Because the cute-voiced woman writes and sings the tough lyrics and the husky-voiced woman the vulnerable ones? Because they've got three melodist-vocalists on the job? Because Mick Fleetwood and John McVie learned their rhythm licks playing blues? Because they stuck to this beguiling formula when it barely broken even? Because this album is both more consistent and more eccentric than its blockbuster predecessor? Plus it jumps right out of the speakers at you? Because Otis Spann must be happy for them? Because Peter Green is in heaven? (Grade - A)