50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

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"Reeeeal savage-like"

― PB, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

"I wanna be a star...I don't wanna be a cleaning woman...."

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

How "Brown Eyes" and "Never Make Me Cry" are actually the same song: the beginning and end of a love affair, moistened by weird electronic Eno treatments on the latter that's like looking at your lover after a few glasses of wine and tearing up.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread made me put the album on just now. Christine beats Stevie like rock beats scissors, but the restrained Stevie songs on this are great ("Storms," "Beautiful Child").

I didn't know about the 2CD reissue until just now. Will acquire toot sweet.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

The way the bass and treble (or is it two treble?) piano hook at the beginning of "Sara" come out of the left and right channels. Amazing arrangement and production.

― PB, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

ALL the backing vocal sounds being uncomfortably intimate

also, "What can they say / It's not against the law"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I lost the first disc of the re-issue. :(((( I am pretty sure I slipped it into some other CD case some time when I was driving in the last few months. But which one? I am thinking this is going to turn up some day here when I really need it the most.

Anyone else think "Angel" is the best Stevie Nicks song?

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

No, that would be Beautiful Child

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

"Walk a Thin Line" has some of my favorite vocal arrangements ever.

― jason., Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

YES.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Wasn't Tusk the first album to be returned platinum???

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

It's certified double platinum, but it's difficult to tell how much it actually sold since (a) it's a double album (b) it's the pre-Soundscan era.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

But it was either Tusk or Captain Fantastic... which initially sold so much less than anticipated that the record company got over a million returns.

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that 2x platinum number is actual units, Alfred, as I heard Tusk went 4x platinum, which prob. refers to the number of LPs sold.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Lindsey told me Tusk sold three million in America.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

The inside cover photograph where Lindsey seems the center of universe gravity, as all the members are either looking or clinging to him.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Plus he's the only one who looks 1979, as opposed to all the others who evidently still think it's 1971.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if that double album = two sales toward certification rule was in effect back then.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"Wasn't Tusk the first album to be returned platinum???"

Huh? How do you mean returned?

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Plus he's the only one who looks 1979, as opposed to all the others who evidently still think it's 1971

But Mac has a tracksuit of some kind on!

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Jogging was the "in" thing then! Have you never seen the hilarious John Travolta/Jamie Lee Curtis comedy Perfect?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

cheerleaders

― dontsaythatyouloveme boyclub girls, Friday, 15 April 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Jogging was the "in" thing then! Have you never seen the hilarious John Travolta/Jamie Lee Curtis comedy Perfect?
-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...), April 15th, 2005.

1 inspired eric prydz "call on me "
2 soundtrack contains the brilliant - jermaine jackson / pia zadora "when the rain begins to fall"

― dontsaythatyouloveme boyclub girls, Friday, 15 April 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

stevie dressed as a cheerleader for the "tusk" video! chingford tor ascender ahoy!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

64 (are we still counting?). the beautifully placid, almost glacial, "over & over" (and for an opening track!). i like this quality in "sara" (listen to the drum & bass) too.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 2 June 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

65. the harmonica in "i know i'm not wrong"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 2 June 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link

What ever happened to Stormy Davis? He was good for a tousle.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

he's around, somewhere

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

66. the reprise of "dont blaaaaaame me..." in "i know im not wrong."

im so glad i have this album. are s/t and rumours anywhere near as good?

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

67. My sister used to say that the vocals in the chorus of 'Tusk' sounded like the Muppet Chorus, led by Gonzo.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

s/t and rumours are great!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

(though i'm thinking lately that "then play on" is my favorite FM lp)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmm... interesting...

i think ill check out the rest of the "classic period" pop albums, but maybe then ill move back to some of the peter green/blues/etc stuff.

thanks amst! that one looks really good, too. "transitional albums" pwn.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Rumours > Fleetwood Mac, but both are entirely classic. Rumours is certainly in Beatles territory as far as the quality-to-popularity ratio goes.

― PB, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

"thanks amst! that one looks really good, too. "transitional albums" pwn."

Which is why I defend "Mirage," Peter.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I've always had a weird pathological fascination with the number 3, and its recurrances in nature. And so I've always loved trilogies of all sorts - the IDEA of them, that is, not necessarily the content - and that extends to albums. Any consecutive trio of chronological LP that are usually lumped together, from The Stooges/Fun House/Raw Power through Low/Heroes/Lodger to Swordfishtrombones/Rain Dogs/Frank's Wild Years gives me a warm feeling. And if it's not a trilogy officially recognized as such by others, I'll happily do it myself. So, in the tradition of Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" and Tom Waits's "Island Trilogy" and Slayer's "Rick Rubin Trilogy", I speak of Fleetwood Mac's "Off-white Trilogy", of which Tusk is the third instalment. So its very existence comforts me (even though I don't actually OWN it! so sue me!) And so, that's the 69th-or-so Great Thing about Tusk.

And yeah, I probably will buy it one of these days, since you've all made it sound most intriguing; and I do own & enjoy its two predecessors after all. I honestly don't think I've heard "Tusk" itself since it slipped off the charts 25+ years ago!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link

stevie gets sensual and doesn't know the effect she had on me.
my pants are shrinking just thinking about it.

― stevie's bf, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

someone covered it
http://www.sanity.com.au/search.asp?LOC=1379&q=tusk&l=1303&f=

― stevie's bf, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link

semi-OT: i've never heard camper van beethoven's version, but i can tell you than dougal reed's version of Rumours is shocking tripe except for "second hand news".

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Nobody mentioned Lindsay's awesome eyeliner...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

and the cool sneakers on the cover

― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe both have been mentioned, in fact.

― PB, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

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, 14 November 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

although she's pretty damn remarkable on "Beautiful Child" too.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Weird. "Save Me a Place" came up on the random shuffle and I was blown away by it. And then I noticed this thread five minutes later. So...

68. It made my afternoon.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

69. the fact the "its not that funny" and "i know im not wrong are actually the same song, and theres a common part of the lyrics on both of the songs:
"here comes the night time...etc.." sung very similiar.

70. the fact that most of the non-lindsey songs are less good, makes lindsey's songs shine even better,comparing to the others.

― shoot the, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link

71. Nah, Christine's songs also rule.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link

72. She is an absolute darling on this record.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

This song is fairly traumatic for me, as I am an alum of the University of Southern California.
USC's marching band, plays on the track, of course... to this day, you hear this song an average of 500 times a day walking across campus. For the final horn bursts, though, you are supposed to shout along "U-C-L-A sucks!"

is this really true? i'm so excited!

― s/c johnson wax (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 17 March 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

btw usc is so proud of the "tusk" thing that it's on their website:

Trojan Marching Band
The history of the "Spirit of Troy," the USC marching band, goes back to the inception of the university in 1880. The contemporary Trojan band began in 1970 with the arrival of Dr. Arthur C. Bartner and his unique "drive-it" style of marching. The band has performed at the Academy Awards, the Hollywood Bowl, the Rose Parade, and in numerous film and television productions. In 1979, the Trojan Marching Band recorded the title track for the album "Tusk" with the rock group Fleetwood Mac, which resulted in a platinum album for that song; no other collegiate marching band has ever been so honored.

― s/c johnson wax (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 17 March 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

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