In honor of the 30th Anniversary of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album, let’s hear most of the album in covered form. Here’s what’s on the show tonight:
| Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist (with link to the artists’ website, if available) | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
| Second Hand News | Tonic | Legacy: A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours | Fleetwood Mac |
| Dreams | Black Shakespeare feat. Charlie Charles | Rewind! 5 | Fleetwood Mac |
| Never Going Back Again | Colin Reid | Tilt | Fleetwood Mac |
| Don’t Stop | Darren Hanlon | Triple J: Like A Version | Fleetwood Mac |
| Go Your Own Way | NOFX | S&M Airlines | Fleetwood Mac |
| Songbird | Eva Cassidy | Songbird | Fleetwood Mac |
| The Chain | Tantric | After We Go | Fleetwood Mac |
| Gold Dust Woman | Hole | The Crow: City Of Angels – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Fleetwood Mac |
37 minutes | 
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nice choice. Such fresh music when it came out.
great cover story- as per the trivia Eva Cassidy didn’t cover Hallelujah, and you were right the bassist for nofx is the bassist for me first and the gimme gimmes.
Eva freaking Cassidy!!
Seriously, this is a great idea and I was wondering what the album could be, as Bat out of Hell and Never Mind the Bollocks were also 1977.
Great album, start to finish. IMO Lyndsey Buckingham is a genius.
Embarassing! I think I was caught somewhere between Jeff Buckley and Eva Cassidy when I said that. Eva Cassidy=”Over The Rainbow”, Jeff Buckley=”Hallelujah” (both=died too young)
Bay Area punk group Schlong did a medley of the entire Rumors album. It’s quite amazing.
I looked ALL OVER for that Schlong album. (It would have helped to round out some of the missing tracks). Still on the lookout for it, though. Might get it into a future show!
One of my favorite albums ever! I love the Eva Cassidy cover, no matter what anyone else says about her!
Mine cuts off halfway through Chain. Anybody else have this problem?
Influential !?
Lots of punk and new wave from 1977 influenced the future of music.
I don’t see Rumours as influential. How was the course of music changed by it.
I definitely won’t argue that there were some great punk/new wave albums that came out in 1977. Look at the great stuff coming out of the UK (Elvis Costello’s “My Aim Is True”, Queen’s “News Of The World”, etc.) and here in the US (Heart, Cheap Trick, etc.), but Rumours solidifed the transformation of Fleetwood Mac from a blues-rock band to a pop-rock act (and sure, a soft-rock staple). And the album spent 31 weeks at the top of the album charts.
Were they an influence on other artists? Certainly. And it was an ample alternative to disco, which at the time was inundating the airwaves.
@jim: Cuts off in the same position here.
I’m missing those last few chain links and GDW too. Tried pulling again without success. Reports as 29:57 long.
Which feed are you using (the folks for whom it’s getting cut off)? iTunes or Feedburner?
God am I a sucker for that Hole track! I don’t buy many CD singles, but I bought the single for that track when that movie came out. Courtney Love does have it in her somewhere to really be excellent – I hope that ability reasserts itself soon.
I got mine from the feedburner feed and also got cut off during “Chain.”
30 Years, wow. I haven’t listened to this album in ages. “The Dance” took over as my go-to Mac album after their reunion. Hard to believe that was 10 years ago!
This episode reminded me of how I used to listen to music – by albums, not by singles or downloads. I have a lot of favorite songs that I never would have heard if I didn’t listen to the entire album.
Remember Desert Island Discs? Rumors might be one of mine.