50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

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41. Lindsey on "I Know I'm Not Wrong": "You're here 'cause I SAY SO"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

42. Photo of dog grabbing at late-'70s sneaker.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

*leg wearing* sneaker

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 15 May 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

43. "That's Enough For Me"! (Their fastest song ever?)

― Burr (Burr), Saturday, 15 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

44. "What can they say, it's not against the law"--How I have no choice but to turn the stereo up even more when they get to that line.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

45. "It's not that FUNNY, is it?"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

46. How the remastered version sounds so clean that I can listen to it on my shitty little CD player at work (over and over and over again, some days), and I can still hear almost all the great bits in Nos. 1-45 above.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

47. The way the backing vocals are there, then aren't, then are again in "Sara" -- and how often they just don't seem like backing vocals per se, more like some weird lost ghostly thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

48. The cover of Farmer's Daughter on disc 2 of the re-issue.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

49. The fact that I am listening to it right now and it is easing the pain of being at work on a Saturday morning.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

50. The second disc of the re-issue is actually worth listening to, and is not just chock full of "Here is a version of the song that I played in the bathroom once, in case you were interested."

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, I just realized that I accidentally referenced the album in no. 46. Please pretend like that was intentional.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

And we have reached fifty. I'm listening to it now as well and it's not a painful morning, but it is a quiet and beautiful one, so yay.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

In the interest of thread unity, I will not number this post, but just observe, in passing, that Stevie Nicks declaring "I don't wanna be a cleaning lady" at the beginning of the nine minute version of Sara is kuh-lassic.

I sort of like to think it's the 70s rock-queen version of "Turn the music up in the headphones!"

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

51. "Real savage like"

― frankE (frankE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anybody besides me think that the alternate version of "Storms" on Disc 2 of the re-issue is actually better than the album version? I think it is more haunting because it sounds more disjointed, and I think the prominence of the repeating rhythm guitar line enhances the effect.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

And also, can we all stop to thank God (or, you know, if you're not religious vis a vis re-issues, just whoever was responsible for this one) that the re-issues aren't in that goddamned "Hybrid SACD" format (which, as far as I can tell, just = you can't rip the damn CD onto your computer, or even play it on your computer)?

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

28. Mick Fleetwood's hair-raising fill 30 seconds before the end of "Over & Over"--a little crescendo just when we've been in what feels like the fadeout for a solid minute already.

Let's be clear that it's not Mick's hair that's being raised. More like "razed"...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 15 May 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuggit. Dude said "one hundred great things," right? Anyway, "excess" is what these kids are all about.

52. When Stevie gives it up for Joe Simon on "Sara." Too bad she didn't learn as much from him as she did from Jimmy Webb.

53. That I now so love a record that lets Stevie Nicks thank "the poet in my heart," when that kind of shit made me gag in the fall of '79 (when I lived and died by 'Rust Never Sleeps' and 'Repeat When Necessary').

54. Imagining the rest of the group listening to something like "What Makes You Think You're the One" and going, "We have to stop Lindsey from bringing in demos!"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

55. The piano run at the end of "What Makes You Think You're the One."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

56. Everything about "What Makes you Think You're the One"

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 16 May 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

57. Lindsey (?) kickin' it on kalimba on the long fade of "That's All for Everyone," thereby turning the track into an EWF tribute cut.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

58. The mindless rave-up that is "Sisters of the Moon." It's no "Need Your Love," but y'know, it's a cool mindless rave-up.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

59. Lindsey's reinvention of the Beatles' "Yeah! yeah! yeah!" on "That's Enough for Me."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"The cover of Farmer's Daughter on disc 2 of the re-issue."

Is this the soundcheck version from the live album? or a different recording?

― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 16 May 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It's lumped in with all the other demos and studio outtakes and there are no further technical notes provided on any of those -- but having not heard the live album version I can't say. Anyone?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(And FWIW I picked up the Rumours reissue as well yesterday, now I just need to get the self-titled one w/"Rhiannon" and all that -- which was also part of the reissue thing, but everyone wants to only talk about Rumours and Tusk!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

60. the 'Baby once in a whiiiile' coda in "Think About Me"

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i went to the cd store today and they had all the reissues but this one. i bought nothing.

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got the reissue of Tusk from my local library. It cost nothing. (Well, ok, it cost £1 but thats next to nothing)

― mms (mms), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

61) the way Lindsey mews his "yeeeaahhs" at the end of Not That Funny

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

62) It mercifully isn't Astral Weeks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

63) Actually what Alex said for 62 but let me repeat it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to the cd store today and they had all the reissues but this one. i bought nothing.

-- the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsoun...), June 4th, 2004 10:44 PM.

this happened *again*!! cunce

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 29 October 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Which are fine releases all, actually. What kept me away? Nothing kept me away, more flat out disinterest. I knew it exists but I knew nothing more about it, and now that I live in a world where I can enjoy it *and* ASF etc., that means mine is a richer listening experience than yours. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"disinterest"

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, there's plenty of things others love dearly, musical or not, which you've heard about vaguely but haven't been interested in pursuing further for years upon years, and you know it. You can't pretend otherwise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

it's either gene loves jezebel or tusk, ned. admit it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't live in others' binaries. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I only got "Tusk" in 1998 or something, I suck too

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You 'orrible man. And you were listening to nothing but OMC before that time, weren't you?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I was IN OMC man

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

How bizarre.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I just realised what I like best of all about this wonderful record; it's a long long double. Thank fuck.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned did you ever hear Scribe's "Not Many"? It became the new "How Bizarre" for a bit, everyone'd go "...if any" anytime they managed to say "Not many", fun fun.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Grief. Sounds unsettling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I was not unguilty of using it

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

You were duly shamed, I trust.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa -- ten unread posts. sorry, ILX crapped out for a second so I went away. Anyway, no Ned -- I'd never deny discovering more common stuff years after the fact; I mention it on ILM all the time! I just didn't get the weird arrogance of reviving this thread solely in order to put another record down. That's the part I don't get. That's the reason I largely consider you sort of foolish in general. and yeah, when you do champion a buncha flat-out garbage at the expense of a lot of stuff that people with ears have sort of known and loved and found the good in for ages, it does sort of make you appear a buffoon. heck, I'm no Van fan. It's funny -- a lot of people are! they'll go on about The Poet's Champion's Confession or whatever whichever new album is called. I really couldn't care less. But I like Astral primarily for that great backing; great arrangements. Richard Davis on bass? Connie Kay on drums? Jay Berliner on guitar? shiiiiiit, dog -- I'm there!! which is sort of funny, too, when you talk about rich listening. cuz, see, the thing is, I've played instruments and seen tons of live musicians in improvisational contexts and I can pretty firmly tell ya that those guys are good'uns. I never get the sense from your writing that you know WHAT the heck is going on in a particular instrumental performance. hence, love of mommy's tum-tum music and so forth. but whatever, taste is taste. Keep on keepin' on, friend.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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