The All-TIME 100 Albums: Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

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The All-TIME 100 Albums

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By Josh Tyrangiel Published: November 13, 2006

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ALBUM: Rumours

YEAR RELEASED: 1977 LABEL: Warner Brothers ARTIST: Fleetwood Mac

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Some of this record's groovy, licentious aura is stoked by the circumstances of its creation: during recording, the group's two couples — John and Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks — were breaking up, and drummer Mick Fleetwood was hardly an innocent bystander. All that sloppy, vengeful friction infuses songs like "Go Your Own Way" and "Never Going Back Again" with a fury that even the very L.A. production can't smother. The rest comes down to individual strengths: Christine McVie's tough-talking smoothness; Nicks' vulnerability; Buckingham's precise guitar, and the taut blues rhythms of John McVie and Fleetwood.