Their best albums sound like the perfect melange, like complete teamwork from the same mould. Jochen Scholl: The USP of the Band is the variety of three singers & writers. For that, I think it's his / their best work. Rumours is great, but Tusk is a man skillfully cracking open the band, and himself, to reveal the insanity beneath the surface. I freaking love Lindsey's weird songs and manic guitar playing and love that the band even entertained the idea of releasing them. The album does well to expand upon the greatness of the white album and Rumours, with those classic FM songs, but also serves to distance Lindsey from the band, and perhaps open people's minds to a different sound. I think that was his conflict with Stevie, and with Fleetwood Mac. Matthew Joseph Hughes: Tusk is the perfect example of a man rebelliously wanting to maintain his independence and individuality within a relationship. The rest of the album is sometimes jarring in its difference from Rumours, but should be applauded for that I think. Tusk is just a great track built around a drum track, total earworm. Shades of Rumours at times with Sara, Think About Me and maybe Sisters Of The Moon. But they got a little bit more experimental. Tusk ain't bad but you're kidding yourself if you say it's better than Rumours.Īdam Ranger: A great album, Would have been easy to make Rumours 2 and sell another few million. James Thomas: The Buckingham tracks clash with everyone else's so much that I think he should have had one of the discs to himself. Just about as perfect of a follow-up to Rumours as you can get. If I'd heard Tusk before Rumours I may just like it better. If I'd never heard Fleetwood Mac and someone introduced me to them by way of Tusk I would definitely be hooked. Hardek: Not gonna say I like it better than Rumours coz, well, Rumours is damn near perfect. Lindsey Buckingham's folly? Not even close - 9/10 for me (but then again I like Marmite).Īaron J. But apart from one or two songs that are close to filler, I think this is a great album - with plenty of strong tracks all over. Over And Over, Storms, The Ledge, Walk The Thin Line, Think About Me, Sisters Of The Moon and of course the title track and the mighty Sara are all highlights. My view of Tusk now? A great album, probably only second to Rumours. When I first heard Tusk, I almost hated the album, but there was enough to keep me interested, and to start appreciating the deep cuts. I'm in the former camp, but it wasn't like that originally. Philip Qvist: The typical marmite album, some people love it, others don't. I would go one further and argue Mirage might be even better and more overlooked. I love Tusk for all it's Brian Wilson-style oddness and sonic depth. Robert Nolan: Everything is better when Lindsey was running the show. As a piece of pop art, it's peerless." ( AllMusic) Of course, that's why it bombed upon its original release, but Tusk is a bracing, weirdly affecting work that may not be as universal or immediate as Rumours, but is every bit as classic. "This is mainstream madness, crazier than Buckingham's idol Brian Wilson and weirder than any number of cult classics. Also, it doesn't make for very good background noise." ( Robert Christgau) But only Buckingham is attuned enough to get exciting music out of a sound so spare and subtle it reveals the limits of Christine McVie's simplicity and shows Stevie Nicks up for the mooncalf she's always been. "The passionate dissociation of the mix is entirely appropriate to an ensemble in which the three principals have all but disappeared (vocally) from each other's work. In its fits and starts and restless changes of pace, Tusk inevitably recalls the Beatles’ White Album (1968), the quirky rock jigsaw puzzle that showed the Fab Four at their artiest and most indecisive. "At a cost of two years and well over a million dollars, Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk represents both the last word in lavish California studio pop and a brave but tentative lurch forward by the one Seventies group that can claim a musical chemistry as mysteriously right – though not as potent – as the Beatles’.
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