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“Never Going Back Again” by Fleetwood Mac
From the album Rumours (1977)
“Never Going Back Again” by Fleetwood Mac appears on 11 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2002 and 2020. It was first released in 1977 on the album Rumours. Its best result is #606 on the KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,875 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Lindsey Buckingham wrote "Never Going Back Again", words and music, and it's one of the leanest, brightest little shocks on Rumours, the eleventh studio album Fleetwood Mac unleashed on February 4, 1977. Buckingham plays the guitar and sings, and the band produced it with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut, who engineered it too.
Like several Rumours songs, it crawled out of the wreckage of his romance with bandmate Stevie Nicks, and it was one of the last things written for the record, by which time he'd taken up with someone new on the rebound. Buckingham later called it sweet and naive and didn't think the lyric went very deep; what's left is a vow not to make the same mistakes twice. On single it lived as a flip side, backing "Don't Stop" in America, "You Make Loving Fun" in Britain and "Dreams" in the Netherlands.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 611 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) | 923 |
| 2004 | 606 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) | 923 |
| 2007 | 812 | WTMD | WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time | 897 |
| 2011 | 891 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2012 | 933 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 923 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 948 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 725 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 932 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2016 | 969 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 | 1007 |
| 2020 | 805 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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