Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (2LP, 45RPM, Slipcase Box Set, Ultra Disc 1Step)
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Drums: Mick Fleetwood [click here to see more products featuring Mick Fleetwood]
Lindsey Buckingham – electric, acoustic, and resonator guitar, banjo, vocals
Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
Christine McVie – keyboards, synthesizer, vocals
John McVie – bass guitar
Stevie Nicks – vocals
2 LPs, Slipcase Box
Deluxe Slipcase, Premium Foil-Stamped Jackets, Faithful-to-the-Original Graphics
Limited to 7,500 numbered copies
Original analog Master tape : YES
Ultra Analog
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 45 RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Fidelity Record Pressing
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Reprise Records
Recorded February–August 1976 at Criteria (Miami), Record Plant (Sausalito and Los Angeles), Zellerbach Auditorium (Berkeley), Wally Heider's Studio 3 (Hollywood), Davlen Studio (North Hollywood)
Engineered by Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut
Mixed by Ken Caillat, Bill Inglot, Brian Kehew
Original session produced by Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut
Reissue produced by Keith Olsen
Originally released in 1975
Reissued in 2025
Tracks:
Side A
- Monday Morning
- Warm Ways
- Blue Letter
Side B
- Rhiannon
- Over My Head
- Crystal
Side C
- Say You Love Me
- Landslide
- World Turning
Side D
- Sugar Daddy
- I’m So Afraid
Awards:
Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” - Ranked #182
Album of the Year at the 1977 Grammy Awards ; inducted in 2003 into the Grammy Hall of Fame
40 million copies sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time
Reviews :
"The band's two romantic couples - bassist John and singer-keyboard player Christine McVie, who were married; guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks, who were not - broke up during the protracted sessions for Rumours. This lent a highly charged, confessional aura to such songs as Buckingham's "Go Your Own Way," Nicks' "Dreams," Christine's "Don't Stop" and the group-composed anthem to betrayal, "The Chain." The Mac's catchy exposes, produced with California-sunshine polish, touched a nerve; Rumours, a landmark Seventies pop album, ruled Billboard's album chart for thirty-one weeks." Rolling Stone
“Rumours is the kind of album that transcends its origins and reputation, entering the realm of legend -- it's an album that simply exists outside of criticism and outside of its time, even if it thoroughly captures its era. Prior to this LP, Fleetwood Mac were moderately successful, but here they turned into a full-fledged phenomenon, with Rumours becoming the biggest-selling pop album to date. While its chart success was historic, much of the legend surrounding the record is born from the group's internal turmoil. Unlike most bands, Fleetwood Mac in the mid-'70s were professionally and romantically intertwined, with no less than two couples in the band, but as their professional career took off, the personal side unraveled. Bassist John McVie and his keyboardist/singer wife Christine McVie filed for divorce as guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks split, with Stevie running to drummer Mick Fleetwood, unbeknown to the rest of the band. These personal tensions fueled nearly every song on Rumours, which makes listening to the album a nearly voyeuristic experience. You're eavesdropping on the bandmates singing painful truths about each other, spreading nasty lies and rumors and wallowing in their grief, all in the presence of the person who caused the heartache. Everybody loves gawking at a good public breakup, but if that was all that it took to sell a record, Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights would be multi-platinum. No, what made Rumours an unparalleled blockbuster is the quality of the music. Once again masterminded by producer/songwriter/guitarist Buckingham, Rumours is an exceptionally musical piece of work -- he toughens Christine McVie and softens Nicks, adding weird turns to accessibly melodic works, which gives the universal themes of the songs haunting resonance. It also cloaks the raw emotion of the lyrics in deceptively palatable arrangements that made a tune as wrecked and tortured as "Go Your Own Way" an anthemic hit. But that's what makes Rumours such an enduring achievement -- it turns private pain into something universal. Some of these songs may be too familiar, whether through their repeated exposure on FM radio or their use in presidential campaigns, but in the context of the album, each tune, each phrase regains its raw, immediate emotional power -- which is why Rumours touched a nerve upon its 1977 release, and has since transcended its era to be one of the greatest, most compelling pop albums of all time.” AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
UltraDisc One-Step :
Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's new UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) uses only one step, bypassing two processes of generational loss. While three-step processing is designed for optimum yield and efficiency, UD1S is created for the ultimate in sound quality. Just as Mobile Fidelity pioneered the UHQR (Ultra High-Quality Record) with JVC in the 1980s, UD1S again represents another state-of-the-art advance in the record-manufacturing process. MFSL engineers begin with the original master tapes and meticulously cut a set of lacquers. These lacquers are used to create a very fragile, pristine UD1S stamper called a "convert." Delicate "converts" are then formed into the actual record stampers, producing a final product that literally and figuratively brings you closer to the music. By skipping the additional steps of pulling another positive and an additional negative, as done in the three-step process used in standard pressings, UD1S produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today. The removal of the additional two steps of generational loss in the plating process reveals tremendous amounts of extra musical detail and dynamics, which are otherwise lost due to the standard copying process. The exclusive nature of these very limited pressings guarantees that every UD1S pressing serves as an immaculate replica of the lacquer sourced directly from the original master tape. Every conceivable aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the most perfect record album available today.
Ratings :
Allmusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs :