50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

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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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 16 May 2004 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

(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 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

62) It mercifully isn't Astral Weeks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"disinterest"

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

I was IN OMC man

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

How bizarre.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Grief. Sounds unsettling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I was not unguilty of using it

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link

You were duly shamed, I trust.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

I just didn't get the weird arrogance of reviving this thread solely in order to put another record down.

Actually I was going to revive it anyway, that just happened to be the last post so I was amused. As for everything else, decaf, dude! You'll find it helps you avoid your imminent coronaries.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link

(And really, begging for me to give you a 'serious' answer with all the insults is the easiest way to get me to laugh. You're so cute when you insist you've found God and I haven't!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link

the way you guys feud makes me think of all of the strife in fleetwood mac at the time of their great double album Tusk.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Bags being Stevie

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll go for Mick, I appreciate his height.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

is this a great double thread?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

"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

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