50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

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"

<3 <3 <3

there was no Christine or anybody putting any constraints on what could or couldn’t be done.

ouch!

That has to rate as one of my top-five moments with the band.

what band?

You know, "The Weight"... "King Harvest"....

..."The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down" - wasn't that one of his?

I didn't hear Tusk until 2007. I don't look at dollar bins.

Well I can't seem to find whatever thread it was that was most recently revived about them where someone mentioned the second bonus disc that came with Tusk. I was aghast because I only had my old single disc copy I bought in like...I dunno, 2001, probably. So I was like "why the hell don't I have the bonus disc version?" But then I thought about it - "how essential would a bonus disc of Tusk songs really be to my life?" and I decided "not very". Thank GOD I changed my fucking mind and got drunk enough one night to order the damn thing like a good boy should, cause I am eating this shit UP!!! See, I thought I'd heard that version of Sara, but I hadn't at all and I was like "um...wow" also the "Lindsey's Song #1" sounded so wonderfully olde Englishy folky yummy!

I also like the other versions of Storms & Sisters of The Moon and I'm going to try very hard not to post here every time I hear another song.

If anyone knows a more appropriate thread I can post on than this one, do let me know. Thanks. I really wish I knew what that thread was where someone mentioned this bonus disc. It was only a month ago or something.

Okay so NO ONE wants to comment on this bonus disc? No one? Wow. I'm insulted. ILM can do better, I know ya'll can.

the bonus disc is very good, the sara outtake is to me just as amazing as the album version, but in different ways (the spoken bit at the start and the ooh-wahs near the end..)

Alternate version of Sara, that's damn right. Thanks, electricsound. I mean thanks, Jim.

"I wanna be a star/I don't wanna be a cleaning lady..."

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

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^^^ good idea

"don't know why i have to work/don't know why i can't play"

77.

Real savage-like

ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), thanks! That just roolz!

78. Lindsey, on the reaction Warner Bros. execs had after hearing the finished album: "They could hear their Christmas bonuses flying out the window."

79. Lindsey again, on the mode of transport employed by the Mac on the European lag of the Tusk tour: "It's not like we asked for Hitler's train."

Sometimes I think I play this album TOO often. It's a good one for breakups, that's for sure.

80. ..a nearly-chorusless mix of tribal (but not danceable) drumming, marching bands and monkey yells over a bed of what sounds like thousands of dogs sneezing very far away...

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― Hideous Lump, Friday, April 11, 2008 8:51 PM Bookmark

81. The fact that when this album was issued, it was quite expensive, and now you can get pristine copies in any well-stocked Music-themed charity shop for £3 tops.

82. The fact that -- despite two or three cd reissues of it -- vinyl is still the way to go on this one.

It's a good one for breakups, that's for sure.

Maybe too good that it's bad... :-(