50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

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.

― ian, Friday, January 25, 2008 4:55 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ 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... :-(

Bump.

i run across a fair number of (people with traditional and boring musical tastes) who still think this album is awful and prefer Tango in the Night.

83. Becuase the final score is Buckingham 9, McVice 6 and Nicks 5 ... and that balance is just perfect.

84. Dennis Wilson photo on the inner sleeve

Tango In The Night Is pretty great but its :

Tusk>Rumours>Mirage>Fleetwood Mac>Say You Will>Tango In the Night

Just bought this on vinyl for 3 euros... Awesome packaging!

also bought rumours for 3 euros too..

I wish I was back where you are!

Mirage over Fleetwood Mac?!?

Just bought this on vinyl for 3 euros... Awesome packaging!

also bought rumours for 3 euros too..

― Jack Battery-Pack, Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:28 PM (2 months ago)

I want an update on this

i listened to this at work tonight, and i now know the single greatest thing about tusk is the amazingly cute girl in a short skirt and boots who got up and began dancing (in a kinda sexy line-dance fashion) and singing along to "angel"

See the thing is I KNOW I love Kate Bush more than her, and I know I love Christine McVie more than her, too. But I'm on this trip right now with Stevie, she is the queen of my world right now. I can't shake her magic. And I know I've got to get over it. But I can't stop.

I occasionaly wonder if there's a Fleetwood Mac/Swans connection

Other week I played music trivia onstage at a bar, and a question was "What Fleetwood album is the song 'Tusk' on?" Nailed it.

HAHAHAHHA