"Tusk" is Fleetwood Mac's greatest album ever

[Taverner]

I never heard this album all the way through until recently, when I picked it up on iTunes.

Wow - this is better than Fleetwood Mac AND Rumors

Starting off with one of McVie's greatest ballads, Over and Over the band takes us on a journey. From what I hear this album was the "Heavens Gate" of rock albums.

Your thoughts?

[Critters2]

1. Agreed.

I thought of this when they were reporting that the VT shooter played one song over and over again. My college roommate and I played "Tusk"--the album, not just the single--over and over again. I wondered whether our suitemates thought that was weird.

[Taverner]

3. It is one of those albums that could be played endlessly

"Yessongs"

"Tusk"

"Bitches' Brew"

These and many more fit into that category

[taterguy]

2. As a music snob I only like Peter Green era Mac

I do think it's funny in a Bevis and Butthead kind of way that Tusk is supposed to be slang for male anatomy and they hired the University of Southern California Marching Trojans band for it.

[Taverner]

4. Awww now I like the Peter Green stuff too

And I love Penguin - but what gets me about the Green era is that its consistently on the brink of greatness, but never getting there. With Nicks-era mac they take a different route, going pop but doing pop right, like the Eagles.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

8. "Future Games" and "Mystery to Me" are my favs.......

Bob Welch moved the band pretty far forward after Green left, but he gets very little respect for it.

[stuntcat]

5. Yes.

That's what I think too, I loooove Tusk the most of all their albums.

[wildhorses]

6. i dunno about calling it the greatest but, i liked it n/t

[acmavm]

7. I like Bare Trees

[Lyric]

9. Ah yes, "Tusk"

The ultimate angry He-Man song, complete with phallic references, ominous percussion, and creepy evil noises.

Tusk was written by Lindsay Buckingham, when he found out that Stevie was getting hot and heavy with Mick Fleetwood. The fact that it is so incredibly percussion heavy is likely a passive-aggressive jab at the band's drummer--good old Mick himself. Lindsay made him work hard to play his own revenge song.

Fleetwood Mac was a TERRIFIC band, and the constant drama between the members was a large part of the reason why. Lindsay giving Stevie lots of harmony work on "Go Your Own Way". Stevie writing in a lengthy lead guitar solo for Lindsay in "Silver Springs", the song that she specifically wrote about Lindsay. And they sing it with such DRAMA on the stage!

I think their best album ever was 1996's "The Dance". It's a live album of remakes of their old hits, and it is just amazing. I highly, highly recommend it--especially if you can get the video version. The tension and drama between Stevie and Lindsay is still there, all these years later. They practically weep and scream their songs at each other. I love it. :)

[LostinVA]

10. I'll tie that and Rumors

But, the best album of all time is Pet Sounds.

[Taverner]

12. I don't think there is a 'best album of all time'

I love The Beach Boys...but I also love Boston...and The Clash...and Radiohead...

Each for different reasons.

Pet Sounds is an amazing album created by a sad genius

[LostinVA]

14. It always irritates me when Pet Sounds is overlooked

[LibraLiz1973]

11. Tusk is good but Rumors is my #1 favorite album of all time

I plan to be buried with a copy


Ok, not really. But I really, really love it.

[Roon]

13. I love the song "tusk"

OOoooooH!! gonna listen to it now!!!

[Midlodemocrat]

15. Rumors is my favorite.

[Joe Fields]

16. The rhythm and blues era of Mac has always been my favorite.

Everything else has, to me, been too commercial.

[grannylib]

17. Awww, no.....some good stuff on it, but not the greatest!!

Mystery to Me!
Kiln House!
Bare Trees!
SO many more that were much better, IMHO.

[kwassa]

18. Faint praise, indeed.

Fleetwood Mac had a great album?