Editing Rumours (album) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| MC = 99/100<br />{{small|(deluxe version)}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/rumours-35th-anniversary-deluxe-edition/fleetwood-mac|title=Rumours [35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] by Fleetwood Mac Reviews and Tracks|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=28 June 2023|archive-date=30 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130111328/https://www.metacritic.com/music/rumours-35th-anniversary-deluxe-edition/fleetwood-mac|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=AMG>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/rumours-mw0000193833|title=Rumours – Fleetwood Mac|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=13 July 2015|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|archive-date=12 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212002359/https://www.allmusic.com/album/rumours-mw0000193833|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2330|title=Fleetwood Mac: Rumours|magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|issue=7|date=April–May 2002|access-date=9 December 2017|last=Collis|first=Clark|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019163129/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2330|archive-date=19 October 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev3score = A<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Fleetwood Mac: Rumours|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1265|access-date=13 July 2015|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|publisher=[[Ticknor and Fields]]|year=1981|isbn=0-89919-026-X|archive-date=20 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520041324/http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1265|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4score = A<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2003/04/18/then-play-bare-trees-fleetwood-mac-rumours-tusk-time/|title=Then Play On; Bare Trees; Fleetwood Mac; Rumours; Tusk; Time|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=18 April 2003|access-date=11 October 2020|last=Brunner|first=Rob|archive-date=8 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108110512/https://ew.com/article/2003/04/18/then-play-bare-trees-fleetwood-mac-rumours-tusk-time/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Independent]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=THEINDEPENDENT>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-review-fleetwood-mac-rumours-super-deluxe-remastered-version-rhino-8466135.html|title=Album review: Fleetwood Mac, Rumours: Super Deluxe Remastered Version (Rhino)|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=25 January 2013|access-date=9 December 2017|last=Gill|first=Andy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129222257/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-review-fleetwood-mac-rumours-super-deluxe-remastered-version-rhino-8466135.html|archive-date=29 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Fleetwood Mac: Rumours|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|issue=232|date=March 2013|page=100}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev7score = 10/10<ref name="Hopper">{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17499-rumours/|title=Fleetwood Mac: Rumours|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=8 February 2013|access-date=14 July 2015|last=Hopper|first=Jessica|author-link=Jessica Hopper|archive-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626151227/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17499-rumours/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/rumours-deluxe-edition-104834/|title=Rumours: Deluxe Edition|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=13 February 2013|access-date=9 December 2017|last=Rosen|first=Jody|author-link=Jody Rosen|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026023329/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/rumours-deluxe-edition-104834/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Fleetwood Mac|last1=Coleman|first1=Mark|last2=Kemp|first2=Mark|author-link2=Mark Kemp|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/303 303–04]}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev10score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Cocaine heights|magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|issue=83|date=April 2004|last=Carlin|first=Marcello|page=112}}</ref>
}}

''Rumours'' has been acclaimed by [[music journalism|music critics]] since its release. [[Robert Christgau]], reviewing in ''[[The Village Voice]]'', described it as "more consistent and more eccentric" than its predecessor. He added that it "jumps right out of the speakers at you".<ref name=xgau>{{cite news|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv3-77.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|date=21 March 1977|access-date=11 October 2020|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809082829/http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv3-77.php|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's John Swenson believed the interplay among the three vocalists was one of the album's most pleasing elements; he stated, "Despite the interminable delay in finishing the record, ''Rumours'' proves that the success of ''Fleetwood Mac'' was no fluke."<ref name=RS>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/fleetwoodmac/albums/album/245785/review/6067955/rumours|title=Fleetwood Mac: Rumours|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=21 April 1977|access-date=28 December 2009|last=Swenson|first=John|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620032033/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/fleetwoodmac/albums/album/245785/review/6067955/rumours|archive-date=20 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> In a review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[John Rockwell]] said the album is "a delightful disk, and one hopes the public thinks so, too",<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|title=Pop Life; New Fleetwood Mac Album, Leo Sayer Makes It on His Own|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=4 February 1977|last=Rockwell|first=John|author-link=John Rockwell|page=53|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/04/archives/new-jersey-weekly-pop-life-new-fleetwood-mac-album-leo-sayer-makes.html}}</ref> while [[Dave Marsh]] of the ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]'' claimed the songs are "as grandly glossy as anything right now".<ref name=SPT>{{cite news|title=Fleetwood Mac gloss just hides more gloss|newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]]|date=16 March 1977|last=Marsh|first=Dave|author-link=Dave Marsh|page=3D}}</ref> [[Robert Hilburn]] was less receptive and called ''Rumours'' a "frustratingly uneven" record in his review for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'',<ref name=LAT>{{cite news|title=Petty & the Heartbreakers Merit a Second Hearing|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=27 March 1977|last=Hilburn|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Hilburn|page=W74}}</ref> while Juan Rodriguez of ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]'' suggested that, while the music is "crisper and clearer", Fleetwood Mac's ideas are "slightly more muddled".<ref name=TMG>{{cite news|title=Spin Off: The perils of success|newspaper=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]|date=19 March 1977|last=Rodriguez|first=Juan|page=41}}</ref> The album finished fourth in ''The Village Voice''{{'}}s 1977 [[Pazz & Jop]] critics' poll, which aggregated the votes of hundreds of prominent reviewers.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres77.php|title=The 1977 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|date=23 January 1978|access-date=28 December 2009|archive-date=4 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304082952/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres77.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a retrospective review, [[AllMusic]] editor [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] gave ''Rumours'' five stars and noted that, regardless of the voyeuristic element, the record was "an unparalleled blockbuster" because of the music's quality; he concluded, "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."<ref name=AMG/> According to ''[[Slant Magazine]]''{{'}}s Barry Walsh, Fleetwood Mac drew on romantic dysfunction and personal turmoil to create a timeless, five-star record,<ref name=slant>{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/fleetwood-mac-rumours/|title=Fleetwood Mac: Rumours|website=[[Slant Magazine]]|date=19 April 2004|access-date=28 December 2009|last=Walsh|first=Barry|archive-date=1 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301201022/https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/fleetwood-mac-rumours/|url-status=live}}</ref> while Andy Gill of ''[[The Independent]]'' claimed it "represents, along with ''[[Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)|The Eagles Greatest Hits]]'', the high-water mark of America's Seventies rock-culture expansion, the quintessence of a counter-cultural mindset lured into coke-fuelled hedonism".<ref name=THEINDEPENDENT/> In 2007, the [[BBC]]'s Daryl Easlea labelled the sonic results as "near perfect", "like a thousand angels kissing you sweetly on the forehead",<ref name=BBC>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/r563|title=Fleetwood Mac Rumours Review|website=[[BBC Music]]|date=14 December 2007|access-date=28 December 2009|last=Easlea|first=Daryl|archive-date=24 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424055441/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/r563|url-status=live}}</ref> while Patrick McKay of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote, "What distinguishes ''Rumours''—what makes it art—is the contradiction between its cheerful surface and its anguished heart. Here is a radio-friendly record about anger, recrimination, and loss."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/diamond/fleetwood-mac-rumours.htm|title=Fleetwood Mac – Rumours – The Diamond|website=[[Stylus Magazine]]|date=14 August 2007|access-date=28 December 2009|last=McKay|first=Patrick|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116053654/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/diamond/fleetwood-mac-rumours.htm|archive-date=16 November 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>