Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (Deluxe Edition)
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Free Music Review: WOW!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow!! This is an awesome, beautiful album. The second disc is worth twice the price. I remember all the criticism about this album when it came out. Everyone compared it Rumors which had been the number one album in the country for 52 weeks. No other album before or since has been number one for as long a time, so can you really compare anything to Rumors? I don't think so.
In my opinion, Tusk was a landmark album, one that only comes about every once in a while. It had the power to change the way we listen to music. Like many people, when it came out, I did not like any of the songs. Well, that's not exactly true since I was one of the members of the USC Trojan Marching Band that recorded Tusk with the band. I even got to play five nights at the Forum in LA on the Tusk Tour. But even though I was that into the album, I still didn't like the music. It was difficult to listen to. It wasn't what I was used to listening to.
On top of all that, it was an expensive album with two twelve inch discs, yes, before CDs. It was competing with the past success of Rumors and with the Eagles Hotel California which was just a single album. Lots of people considered Tusk to be a failure.
Because I was on the album, I played it from beginning to end over and over. It took me about three months before I realized that I was beginning to like the songs, then I started to really love the songs. That's the first time I understood the concept of "ground breaking" music. Fleetwood Mac had not just given us more of the same, which they could have done and we all would have loved it. They had given us something that had never existed before, which is why it was difficult to listen to at first. We'd never heard anything like it before. It was different. We couldn't instantly like it. We had to grow. Our ears had to change. It evolved us, and there was no going back.
If you've never listened to Tusk, I hope you give it a try. If you're a fan of Tusk, I hope you buy this new version and listen to the second disc which contains new versions of the old songs. It's hard to believe that this album is 26 years old. I've definitely crossed over to being an old timer, because it seems like yesterday that I was first listening to these songs. Thank you Fleetwood Mac.
Free Music Review: Different from and better than Rumours.
Hit: 5 Stars
So, what do you do after recording the best-selling LP of all time? Do you create a third consecutive record of soft California pop-rock or do you do the traditional Fleetwood Mac thing and venture again into uncharted waters? The former course would have been perilous. The band's "new" fans, those who discovered the band only in 1975, couldn't possibly have been satisfied with anything less than a replica of Rumours and that would have been, with due respect to the band's talents, a Herculean task. Thus, wisely, Fleetwood Mac moved off in yet another direction and succeeded brilliantly. I actually prefer Tusk and Fleetwood Mac to Rumours. The latter has a couple of weak songs amongst its eleven offerings. Tusk, too, has a few songs that I could do without (mainly a couple of Lindsay Buckingham's songs). However, on the whole I find Tusk stronger in the songs that I particularly enjoy and more consistent overall. For me Rumours is just Fleetwood Mac, part two - a good LP/CD with three world-beating killer songs - we all know which ones.
I enjoyed Tusk when I first played the double album in 1979. I enjoy it more now. It is full of excellent songs. This is no mean feat when you are filling four sides spanning 69 minutes. Over the years many artists have tried their hands at double albums and have failed. In like manner those who today attempt to fill a CD to the brim rarely succeed in making a CD that one can listen to all of the way through at one sitting. And here I am on my second run through of Tusk this afternoon. Boy, Stevie Nicks excels on this record - Sara, of course. While one thinks of her as a singer of delicacy (Beautiful Child) she is also capable of letting it out, as on Angel. The title song is a far out experiment that works brilliantly. Honestly now, if I told you that FM would do a song featuring a marching band what would have thought?
Fleetwood Mac were the consummate professionals, from the beginning until the new millennium. Some would call their music of the latter 1970's well-produced candy for the ear. For me this is a compliment. After listening to the Pistols and the Ramones thirty minutes of slick west Coast pop went down just fine thank you.
Free Music Review: Way beyond a 5...
Hit: 5 Stars
I still remember the joy I had picking up the double album on it's release date in 1979 at Licorice Pizza Records in California. I must admit that I was not ready for Lindsey's songs for a few years, but I fell in love with the Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks songs immediately. I have learned to love Lindsey's contributions, probably now more than ever with this outstanding double CD remastered release. It's good to know 25 years later that TUSK is at the top or near the top of so many 'best all time album' lists. I have to say listening to this spectacular version, my favorites remain Brown Eyes (listen to the glorious alternate mix on disc 2 - previously released on The Chain), Sara (yes, the full length version), Storms, What Makes You Think You're The One, Sisters Of The Moon, Beautiful Child, Never Forget, Tusk, Think About Me (the sunniest song on this set and perhaps the one song that should have ended up later on Mirage), Angel and Walk A Thin Line...but there is not a bad song on this CD. This CD is not for everybody, maybe not for the casual Fleetwood Mac fan, but certainly for anybody wanting to hear good rock and roll and something different. As wonderful as Rumours was and is, this is the ultimate FM album for it's creativity, bravery and sheer abandonement of what is safe. In the liner notes, author Parke Puterbaugh states that the album reached number 8 on the Billboard Top 200, however, the album reached number 4 and the title track single, Tusk, reached number 8 on the Hot 100 (that's how obsessed I have always been about this record, that's all from memory). Besides the nice second disc of outtakes, demos and single versions, the new remastered Rumours is worth getting, the songs have never sounded better. It's obvious that great care has been taken with both sets, the sound is much more separated than previous releases, dynamite. Lastly, pick up a copy of the DVD-A of "Say You Will," the best FM CD since Tusk. At 18 songs, it's almost as many as the 20 on Tusk - sure Christine is gone and missed, but Lindsey and Stevie rise to the occasion and jump into this decade with a sound that it both yesterday and today.Free Music Review: Buckingham goes insane = One awesome album
Hit: 5 Stars
This is certainly the strangest effort from the Mac's heyday. The whole album reels wildly from bracing, percussive pop-rockers such as "What Makes You Think You're the One?" (perhaps my favorite song on the album), to relatively simple songs such as "Over and Over" and "Sara" (the latter the best song Stevie Nicks ever came up with, including "Rhiannon"), and all-out weirdness ("Tusk") without batting an eye. The album is certainly dominated by Lindsey Buckingham, who provides the most challenging material on the album. His songs are twisted, skewed versions of the pop/folk/rock style that Fleetwood Mac had created previously. It is Buckingham who wrote most of the great songs on this album. It is also Buckingham who wrote most of the worst.
Don't get me wrong, his best stuff far overshadows his lesser works, and it's far more numerous. There are just a couple tracks of his that I dislike ("Save Me a Place" is one of the least of his songs). Stevie Nicks continues putting out excellent songs, especially the aforementioned "Sara" and "Sisters of the Moon." Christine McVie still balances the gap between them; her best work includes "Over and Over" and "Never Make Me Cry." But as I said, it is Lindsey Buckingham's work that steals the show. "The Ledge" is short, catchy, and a little off-kilter (the moment when the instruments die away, leaving the vocals suspended over nothingness, is genius). "I Know I'm Not Wrong" is more of the same, great, twisted pop-rock. And, of course, there is that strange, menacing title track, which uses a marching band (believe it or not) to great effect. Somehow, it was a hit, but I think that was more based on career momentum. When Tusk was released, it seemed that nothing could stop Fleetwood Mac. Few expected the band to release such a challenging album after scoring a massive hit with Rumours. And while Tusk did go double-platinum, it was no success on par with their two previous releases. It's really a shame, because Tusk is every bit as good as Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album and Rumours.
Free Music Review: BLOWN AWAY!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I must admit a few things: 1. I bought my first Fleetwood Mac album this week and I'm 32 years old. 2. See #1. I bought "Say You Will", "Fleetwood Mac", "Rumours" and "Tusk" within a two-day period because the new Lindsey Buckingham solo record picqued my interest in Fleetwood Mac's older stuff.
Tusk is a landmark album, to say the least. From the unexpected, laid-back "Over and Over" to the absolutely brilliant and ahead-of-its-time "Tusk", this album is one delicious musical confection after another. All three songwriters are in top form here and although Buckingham's offerings sometime seem like deliberate attempts to buck what people expected from him at the time, most of his efforts are successful. The remaster is absolutely gorgeous and with my Bose headphones, this stuff just sounds amazing. It sounds so amazing, in fact, that I'm having trouble putting the thing down! Every sound seems perfect and the songs themselves just sparkle with creativity, energy and variety. This is one of those albums that defies a label and simply exists in its own bubble of artistic perfection. I certainly don't know what it would have been like to listen to this in 1979 right after Rumours, but I can tell you that it is one of the most enjoyable musical experiences I've had in a long time.
Some of my personal favorite tracks are: "Over and Over", "Think About Me", "Tusk", "Brown Eyes", "Storms", "What Makes You Think You're the One", and "That's Enough For Me". If you love music, treat yourself to the most creative, exciting, groundbreaking album Fleetwood Mac will ever make.
I give this album five stars because I honestly don't think it could be any better. It's not "Rumours" because it wasn't supposed to be, but it is proof of the elasticity of one of the most commercially successful bands ever and has solidified their place in rock history as creative forces to be reckoned with.