50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

sure is fun to watch and wonder.

I like this remix Cut Copy did of "Never Forget"
Fleetwood Mac - Never Forget _Cut Copy Lifelike Remix_.mp3 - 3.85MB

i think that's just a portion of a cut copy mix, where 'never forget' goes into 'so electric' by lifelike

The best thing is that they will never need to re-issue the vinyl.

89. Lindsey's harmonies on "Beautiful Child"

90. First "flop" LP whose flopness I became decisively aware of ('79 was the year I'd started reading music magazines.)

yep that's definitely the 90th greatest thing about fleetwood mac's "tusk"

250,000. The ultimate ILM album

a friend finally sent me this album, and somehow it has that sound that i love, of wind passing through an empty house

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90th place on a list of 50 could definitely be improved upon, obv

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This album is so amazing that I've bought and given a lot of time to all their subsequent full band and solo releases.

(91?)

no

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/stevie-nicks/album-rock-a-little.jpg

TUSK SIDE D

91. the durutti column-esque guitar in brown eyes

92. the spacemen 3 ("ode to street hassle") guitar in "storm"

me: 'you're the poet in my heart"!?!>!>! puh-leaeze
Pete: aww but it's lady-to-lady
thats how ladies talk to each other

93. The title track is the only Fleetwood Mac song I like.

Get outta this thread.

seriously.

i don't think i've ever heard such a perfect frisson of sadness and wonder as is Beautiful Child. my boyfriend put it on at a sleepover the other night. i was standing on a chair, singing, and my girl Marissa was swaying on the floor, passing me a bowl. "and i'll do as i'm told | even if i never hold you again" broke my heart into pieces.

^^^

it took me a long time to get beautiful child, and it's still one of my least favorite songs on the album (which is undoubtedly my favorite album.) i think at first brush the lyrics were over the top ('i'm not a child anymore'-- 'women usually are') and almost painful to listen to (not in a good cathartic way, in a cringey-smiley way.) part of it may have also been that it comes smack between my two fave songs on the lp--'walk a thin line' is so great and i never wanted to wait for it to start.

ALL THAT SAID, i love it unreservedly, but it's been problematic for people i want to introduce to TUSK. most people don't seem to like it so much at first.

that's kind of shocking to me. it was definitely my first wow moment on the album.

I think it hit me immediately - "I'm not a child anymore" is not at all a simplistic or over-the-top statement in context I think.

The entire concept of childhood is framed quite sensitively I think. What Stevie finds attractive in Mick Fleetwood is his childlike nature, his innocence, presumably a certain kind of "in the moment" simplicity w/r/t love (the irony of course being that fleetwood is much older than her), but it is her distance from these qualities which also makes the relationship doomed. The freedom implied by the statement "I'm not a child anymore" includes the freedom to make moral decisions w/r/t how your actions might affect others adversely, regardless of their own wishes and yours. Hence the seeming contradiction of "I'm not a child anymore / I will do as I'm told..."

Stevie Nicks' delivery of the lines "I still look up... when you walk in the room. I've the same wiiiiide eyes" in "Angel" could (could) be her finest moment.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Monday, November 14, 2005 6:51 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

had to put this on

can't wait for this to blow the 70s album poll sky high

Tim F's excellent post just made that song click for me...thanks!

Sometimes 'The Ledge' is my favourite song ever - I just checked out some rhearsal footage on the youtube, and today's surprise is that Christine's playing guitar. I didn't know she could stand up.

I'm getting Beatles Rock Band for my christmas, but secretly I wish there was a Fleetwood Mac one I could have.

I think it hit me immediately - "I'm not a child anymore" is not at all a simplistic or over-the-top statement in context I think.

The entire concept of childhood is framed quite sensitively I think. What Stevie finds attractive in Mick Fleetwood is his childlike nature, his innocence, presumably a certain kind of "in the moment" simplicity w/r/t love (the irony of course being that fleetwood is much older than her), but it is her distance from these qualities which also makes the relationship doomed. The freedom implied by the statement "I'm not a child anymore" includes the freedom to make moral decisions w/r/t how your actions might affect others adversely, regardless of their own wishes and yours. Hence the seeming contradiction of "I'm not a child anymore / I will do as I'm told..."

― Tim F, Thursday, December 24, 2009 5:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

do you mean, Tim, that the freedom of adult morality is actually binding, insofar as she simply wishes to do as she is told, as a child would?

or maybe that she will do as she is told in terms of the rules of grown love -- that she can no longer just be in the moment. even if she'll never hold him again. :*( gahh

I'm getting Beatles Rock Band for my christmas, but secretly I wish there was a Fleetwood Mac one I could have.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:59 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this imo

the rehearsals to which Ismael alluded -- and we do see Christine on guitar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNanT533pQ0

In her own mind Stevie has the choice between doing what she wants and doing what she knows is "right" (which happens to be what society tells her is right, in this instance at least) - she chooses to do the latter, her freedom to choose thereby entailing submission to social standards.

i.e. Stevie had obv just finished reading Kant's Critique of Practical Reason.

UR NEVER GONA MAKE IT BABAY

My take on the McVie songs.

Lovely piece...I didn't know you wrote for Popmatters.

Great article. I pulled the Cut Copy 'Never Forget' off the link upthread recently, which is a lovely track.

does anyone remember when bill wyman was rock critic for the reader, before peter margasak. anyway, bill wyman sucked. anyway, one year he had "best 50 moments in rock" or something like that. one such "moment" was "the production on 'tusk.'" huh?

problems with that:

(1) production of an entire album is not a "moment" by any stretch

(2) idea that "production" is this added _thing_ on an album, like a layer of frosting

chicago reader btw

Lovely piece...I didn't know you wrote for Popmatters.

Thanks. First article for'em.

Sorry, I'm gonna dissent as to the quality of that article.

From admissions of (zmg shocka!) deliberate contrariness to clumsy analogies to pathetically RONG mishearings of lyrics* ... sorry, not feeling it.

*"just remember that love is GOLD"

nothing personal, just sayin. we cool lordsotosyn.

Just bought Tusk on CD finally. Criminally, Warners didn't have it in the shops when FM were over in the UK last autumn. It's not the deluxe edition cos that was stupid price, but the single CD. Sara is billed as an edit. Is this an edit I should give a shit about?

x-post Looks like McVie is on guitar here, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Pe9X5Lp90&feature=related

And Lindsey is sweating cocaine.

not familiar w/the "sara" edit, but jeez, it's one of the best songs on there...

Pretty sure I like the edit better