Rumors (album)

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Rumors
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Studio album by
ReleasedSpring 1976
RecordedDecember 1975
StudioVanguard's 23rd Street Studios, New York.
Genre Rock
Length35:46
Label Vanguard
Producer John Anthony
Arrogance chronology
Prolepsis
(1975)
Rumors
(1976)
Suddenly
(1980)
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Rumors is the third album by the North Carolina band Arrogance, released in 1976. It was their first album on a major label, Vanguard Records. In 2000, Don Dixon re-released all of Arrogance's albums on his own label, Dixon Archival Records. The version of "Rumors" contained two bonus tracks, demos of "Open Window" and "Final Nickel" recorded at Charlotte's Reflection Sound Studios in 1975.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Don Dixon; except where noted.
Side One

  1. "We Live to Play" - 00:25
  2. "Sunday Feeling" (Kirkland) - 3:56
  3. "Final Nickel" - 3:04
  4. "Two Good Legs" (Kirkland) - 3:27
  5. "Dying To Know" (Kirkland) - 4:17
  6. "Open Window" (Kirkland) - 3:48

Side Two

  1. "Why Do You Love Me" - 2:57
  2. "Lady Luck and Luxury" - 4:08
  3. "Pitchin' Woo" (Kirkland) - 2:33
  4. "I Doubt It" - 3:37
  5. "It's Sad (But You Can't Really Hear Me at All)" - 3:34

Bonus tracks on 2000 CD reissue

  1. "Open Window" (Demo) - 4:21
  2. "Final Nickel" (Demo) - 3:46

Personnel

Arrogance

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