10 More Perfect Rock Albums Of The 70s With No Bad Songs

10. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac (1977)

This was the defining album of the Stevie Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham fronted incarnation of Fleetwood Mac. Musically, everything came together for the band just as their personal lives started to fall apart. In the most clichéd of broken marriage tropes, Mick Fleetwood had just found out his wife was running off with his best friend. John McVie and Christine McVie were both reeling from their recent divorce, and Nicks and Buckingham were dealing with the complications of sharing a stage and a bed together.

This should have been a recipe for disaster. But, as is the way with so much great art, all the interpersonal turmoil helped birth one of the greatest creative endeavours ever to be pressed to vinyl.

Although the themes of the album resolve around the break down of romantic relationships, the scope spans a multitude of sceneries, from sadness, despair and anger to optimistic musings on the future.

This record contains a track to score every stage of a breakup, should you wish to live your life like a movie. You've got the bitter expressions in Go Your Own Way, there's the remorseful reflections in Dreams and the optimistic resolve in Don't Stop. There isn't a song on this record you don't know every word too.

Someone should have told Taylor Swift, this was the only breakup album the world ever needed.