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? A
>>130210077cocaine
I really don't know what is up with boomers, zoomers and this gay ass band.Even my father who own vinyls from Joy Division when they were nobodies, Cowboys Junkies, Frank Zappa, John Cale, Virginia Astley, This Mortal Coil bought Rumours too. I just can't see it. Landslide is a great song yes, but listening to an entire album of that? Fucking hell
>>130210110this album along with Hotel California was absolutely huge in the late 70s and everyone and their dog had to own it
>>1302100771 good song
>>130210171That being track 4.
they must not have had mu back then
>>130210110Normie accessible but also not total MOR mush like Debby Boone or pre-Grease Olivia Newton-John.
>>130210099sixty-two abortions
>I DON'T WANNA KNOW THE REASONS WHY LOVE KEEPS>RIGHT ON WALKING ON DOWN THE LINE>I DON'T WANNA STAND 'TWEEN YOU AND LOVE HONEY>I JUST>WANT YOU TO FEEL FINE>FINALLY BABY>THE TRUTH HAS BEEN TOLD>NOW YOU TELL ME THAT IM CRAZY>ITS NOTHING THAT I DIDN'T KNOW >TRRRRRRYIN TO SURVIVE>OHHHHH YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME BUT YOU DON'T KNOW >YOU GOT ME ROCKING AND A REELING>HAAAAAANGING ON TO YOU
>>130210110>vinyls
>>130210226It's hard to reach that magic combo of both normie and somehow patrish at the same time.
>>130210077the musicianship appealed to the guys and the relationship drama/Stevie self-insert character appealed to the girls. they were a true crossover band.
>>130210077Having multiple singers was what made Beatles albums fairly easy to listen to all the way through.Was FM the only other major band to realize this fairly simple trick?
>>130210406>Was FM the only other major band to realize this fairly simple trick?KISS, kind of.
>>130210406Eagles had at least a few singers on every major album
>>130210406jefferson airplane, jellyfish, supertramp, the cars, cream, royal trux, beastie boys
>>130210077this and the previous albums are literally entire unskippable albums. i dont even like AOR apart from childhood nostalgia but its hard to deny these are well crafted songs that stand the test of time.
it's the rhythm section. Mac was a formula band and had a string of hits with a good bass and beat. Dire Straits did the very same thing.
>>130211382>love for Dire Straits isn't mainly due to the virtuosity of Knopfler Hmmmm
