Thursday, September 14, 2006
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Top 500 Countdown Update)
This album is chock full of very good songs "The Chain," "Dreams," "Never Going Back Again," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," and "You Make Loving Fun" are all songs I've heard on the radio over the years. The other songs on the album aren't bad and so the album really never misses a beat with good solid pop music. The oddity of the album is that there are three main writers Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, and Stevie Nicks each having their own sound. This gives the album an almost greatest hits feel to it since there is no consistency in sound from one song to the next. Funny but you can tell who wrote what song without knowing much at all about Fleetwood Mac. I think this is a shame because my favorite song on the album "The Chain" is the only one that gives multiple writing credits and has the most complex mix of sounds that work very well. It's hard to think of these hits songs being any better than what they were, but who knows.