50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN 4 INNER LP SLEEVES HMMMM?

Somewhere in my busy day today I heard at random "Never Make Me Cry" in my head, more and more repeatedly and incessantly as the day/night wore on. It seemed to be the only thing that summed up my feelings about the day. When I was finally able to play that of my own free will at home...ah god, the release.

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Anyway, I love this album and this thread is nice to read.

76 (or whatever). How the humming at the end of "What Makes You Think You're The One" sounds like the melody of Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes"

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ah, okay.

Astral Weeks is an incredible album, but I'm not sure what the heck heck it has to do with Tusk? anyway, cute to see upthread that Ragget discovered Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, an album readily available in dollar bins across the nation for 20 odd years, in calendar year 2004. What kept you away Ned? Those scintillating Gene Loves Jezebel and Alien Sex Fiend deluxe CD editions?

-- Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:14 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

God, this guy was such a douche.

Jaymc, I think reviving a thread just to pick on somebody (who still posts) is a pretty douchey move itself.

You mean-spirited little twerp.

Also, I like Ned, but the Gene Loves Jezebel zing was LOLs.

my record store had three copies of tusk in the $0.50 bin this week.

Very common record. I personally have two copies. One for emergencies.

I haven't seen Stormy post in months. Anyway, I was talking about Tusk on the Britney Spears thread, so I opened this thread up to read about the album in more detail and was disappointed to find another one of Stormy's weird chip-on-his-shoulder routines.

haha Stormy had a go at me on some random thread for being a macroeconomics auto-didact or some such shit, this was last week I think

I was disappointed to open up this thread and read one of your weird chip-on-your-shoulder routines as well, so it's a good thing you kept that going.

<I>I haven't seen Stormy post in months. </I>
So he must have stopped reading ILX entire, I'm sure.

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Seriously, Alfred, what is wrong with Honey Hi? It is a great great track. If there is a dud, for my money, it is Storms

RIP. Heaven needed a guy who was smug about living on the South Side and wasn't afraid to get down with some sweet classic rock.

Honey Hi is one of my faves. The dud is Sister of the Moon.

Man, Jaymc, you're just a really bitter prick aren't you?

xp Sorry, Ian.

I don't mind "Honey Hi" anymore.

BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT "NEVER FORGET." OMIGOD.

Haha, I'm not bitter! I think you're just friends with all of my ILX enemies. :/

the build at the beginning is pretty epic

it is a great driving song, maybe one of the best

"Enemies" is strong: just people that seriously rub me the wrong way.

If I had a nickel for everyone on ILX who rubbed me the wrong way...

I'm with Ian on Sisters of the Moon, and I'm a huge Stevie apologist. I really don't get all the hate for Storms.

I'm not fond of it either, although the fadeout is cool.

Amazingly there are no duds on this album. Just things you get into now and things you get into later.

Storms is AMAZING but you really have to listen to it really loud to get all the crazy interplay with the bass and lyndsey's 15 guitar tracks. seriously its some next level shit.

The Ledge. It's my all time favorite Mac song.

Alfred! You share my "Never Forget" love!!

I got a Lindsey song from this album in my head the other day which was weird as I'm really not a big fan of him.

912: the backing vox on 'know i'm not wrong'

913. Mick is so fucking awesome on "What Makes You Think You're the One".

DONK!-DONK!-DONK!-DONK!-DONK!-DONK!

yes

are we sure it's even Mick drumming?

my record store had three copies of tusk in the $0.50 bin this week.

I couldn't find this disc anywhere in Miami for the longest time. Then, one day -- totally at random -- I spotted it in a Spec's store, used and priced at maybe $5. I grabbed it immediately and just love it.

The part where Lindsey's voice goes up and you can't tell where his ends and Christine McVie's starts. Or maybe it's all Lindsey overdubs. Either way, that song RULES.

OTM. Also, there's that ghostly college marching band vibe in this song, just like in Tusk, which makes them a compelling one-two punch.

I should add this here, really: Penny Drops! "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac - or is it?

Okay, wait a minute. "Beautiful Child" has just put its hook in me like never before. I crave more Stevie on this. "Angel"..."Storms"...I think I've really looked over this stuff in favor of McVie.

are we sure it's even Mick drumming?

Found it -

Paul Zollo: I was listening to his part on "What Makes You Think You’re The One" from Tusk.

Lindsey: Oh yeah, that’s one of the classic drum tracks. I love that. That’s one of the great drum tracks that I’ve ever heard. That’s up there with "Instant Karma." That was a great moment. That was just Mick and myself late at night in the studio, me at the piano. We put a cassette player that has one of those really cheap mikes in it, we put that right under his snare, and it was so explosive the way he heard it in the cans, he got off on it, and he just turned into an animal. And it was just two-piece, there was no Christine or anybody putting any constraints on what could or couldn’t be done. That has to rate as one of my top-five moments with the band.

from "Songwriters on Songwriting"