Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Albums

Fucking hell, twelve people actually voted for Rumours?
Twelve, really?!!!

that‘s twelve on this thread voting with absolutely no musical taste/knowledge whatsoever


All that great music in the mid 70s and you consider Rumours to be a top album, jeez.
Maybe not every one voted 3 Genesis, 3 Pink Floyd, 3 Led Zep, just maybe some voted for one artist per album.
So what is wrong with Rumours worth a punt just for Stevie Nicks ;-)
 
For some people if Dark Side Of The Moon isn't number one it will be like the post match thread after City have lost. Too much traffic to get on bluemoon. Demands for a recount. BlueHammer to be sacked. Mahrez and Gundog are shit and not good enough. Be carnage
the moon is looming I think at no 1
 
8. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 12/109

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Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. Records. Largely recorded in California in 1976, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. The band wanted to expand on the commercial success of their eponymous 1975 album, but struggled with relationship breakups before recording started. The Rumours studio sessions were marked by hedonism and strife among band members that shaped the album's lyrics.

Recorded with the intention of making "a pop album", the album's music featured a pop rock and soft rock sound characterized by accented rhythms and electric keyboards such as the Fender Rhodes or Hammond B3 organ. The members partied and used cocaine for much of the recording sessions, and its completion was delayed by its mixing process, but was finished by the end of 1976. Following the album's release, Fleetwood Mac undertook worldwide promotional tours. Rumours became the band's first number one album on the UK Albums Chart and also topped the US Billboard 200. The songs "Go Your Own Way", "Dreams", "Don't Stop", and "You Make Loving Fun" were released as singles, all of which reached the US top 10.

Rumours was an instant commercial success, selling over 10 million copies worldwide within just a month of its release. It garnered widespread acclaim from critics, with praise centred on its production quality and harmonies, which frequently relied on the interplay among three vocalists and has inspired the work of musical acts in different genres. It won Album of the Year at the 1978 Grammy Awards. It has sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. Domestically, it has received Diamond certifications in several countries, including the UK, Canada, and Australia, and has been certified 20× platinum in the US.


Often considered Fleetwood Mac's best release, the album has featured in several publications' lists of the best albums of the 1970s and of all time. In 2004, Rumours was remastered and reissued with the addition of "Silver Springs", which had been excluded from the original due to tension within the band, and a bonus CD of outtakes from the recording sessions. The album has been included in numerous lists of the greatest albums; in the Rolling Stone "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list it was ranked number 26. In 2003, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" by the Library of Congress.

1. Second Hand News
2. Dreams
3. Never Going Back Again
4. Don't Stop
5. Go Your Own Way
6. Songbird
7. The Chain
8. You Make Loving Fun
9. I Don't Want to Know
10. Oh Daddy
11. Gold Dust Woman
12.
Silver Springs


Bluehammer Fact: A year of painstaking recording – including heaps of overdubs, with few songs featuring instruments recorded aside one another – saw the release pushed back from its original date of September 1976 and an entire sold-out tour canned.




Top album.
 
Top album.
Exactly...

It won Album of the Year at the 1978 Grammy Awards. It has sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. Domestically, it has received Diamond certifications in several countries, including the UK, Canada, and Australia, and has been certified 20× platinum in the US.

The album has been included in numerous lists of the greatest albums; in the Rolling Stone "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list it was ranked number 26.
 
Fucking hell, twelve people actually voted for Rumours?
Twelve, really?!!!

that‘s twelve on this thread voting with absolutely no musical taste/knowledge whatsoever


All that great music in the mid 70s and you consider Rumours to be a top album, jeez.

Er you mean people have different musical taste to you and liking Rumours indicates nothing one way or the other about musical knowledge. The facts generally are against you as someone else has already posted and indicative that perhaps your musical knowledge is lacking given the critical standing and popularity of the album makes it a top album in every sense.
 
Fucking hell, twelve people actually voted for Rumours?
Twelve, really?!!!

that‘s twelve on this thread voting with absolutely no musical taste/knowledge whatsoever


All that great music in the mid 70s and you consider Rumours to be a top album, jeez.
Feels a bit like mis-placed outrage to me squirty - it's a very good album.........
 

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