TUSK SIDE C

I can't separate "Brown Eyes" from "Never Make Me Cry."

he tried to write this song about 3-4 different ways on this record but this is the best of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5NfhKiw9Jg

this is a better vid imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74lJmTcI5I

angel is a good mid-tempo groover (their signature right?) and has a sweet hook but i'm gonna defer to LB on this one.

christine's side c sap i dig in the album form but if we're gonna pick apart sides they don't hold up.

(i even mentioned on the SIDE D thread that I wished IKINW was on side D)

I know all about your IKINW obsesh.

i think Angel is my vote fwiw.

is it worth doing a side 2 poll? won't "what makes you think you're the one" run away wityh it?

"that's all for everyone" won the ILM tusk poll iirc so ?

Never Make Me Cry
(squeaker over IKINW)

I'm still waiting for a certain publication to run my article on McVie's Tusk contributions, of which "Brown Eyes" is the best.

stevie's stuff at the end of "angel" is astonishing. like the whole song is this perfect understated groove then stevie just erupts at the fade

the way the drums on "brown eyes" tease out and don't fully kick in until the fade out is so good. i think it's my favourite mick performance on the album

And Peter Green playing the solo outro....

is that right? he's not credited on the vinyl. cool info

thats enough for me? i dunno this is hard

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you look at me with those brown eyes
what do you want to say
are you just another liar
or will you take me all the way
all the way

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damn, side C

ANGEL!!

sidec is definitely the one i play the most

love that american folk music on amphetamines vibe in 'thats enough for me'

I think I voted "that's enough for me", but "Angel" might just be my favorite FMac song now. So glad I've seen the light with Stevie.

i know i'm not wrong

angel

As for Christine McVie, she didn’t really come up with anything too compelling for the record, which is strange since she is otherwise the group’s most reliable hit maker.

wtf perpetua

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/58/186370762_2e5890a323_b.jpg

o man why is he writing abt fleetwood mac

brown eyes and never make me cry are literally the definition of compelling! look it up in the dictionary, perp!

The album opens and closes on Christine McVie. This was not a mistake!

"Over and Over" is fucking amazing what the hell??

yeah wtf @ that. can you believe this guy writes for rolling stone now

kind of

haha yeah thats true

'Angel's the worst song on the album

It and "Sisters of the Moon."

sisters of the moon is way worse imo

Naw, they're both trainwrecks, but I don't think anyone was really standing with her on the Angel trainwreck. Sisters at least holds together musically, in a dark, long skidding-into-the-80s kinda way.

Good way of putting it. I also give Nicks a couple points for frantic scarf and sleeve waving in live clips.

yeah, i mean, i like 'em, but hearing those nicks songs mainly makes me want to go back and listen to "sara," "storms" or "beautiful child"

even with "Beautiful Child," I gotta be in the mood for it.

I think "Beautiful Child" is a gorgeous song, but I've had trouble with the "trusting, yes, but women usually are" line.

always sorta thought that line was kind of mocking? like someone had said it to the singer, and she was sarcastically saying it back? maybe i'm wrong ...

Whoa, fuck. I hadn't thought about it that way. Could be! Thanks, Tyler.

She sings it sarcastically.

That shit just went from bad to rad, gentlemen.

sweet, now imagine her singing the song to don henley. (did i just ruin it again?)

Imagine her singing it to a dead baby.

big perp belting it at a karaoke

lol

"Angel" is fucking great, get the fuck out of my thread you suckers.

^^^ hi 5

I'm not a child anymore!

For example, I can’t think of many first tracks less suited to opening an album than “Over and Over,” a country rock ballad by Christine McVie that is so minor and low key that she may as well sing “bury this on side four” in the second verse. This song, one of the most square soft pop tracks in the entire Fleetwood Mac catalog, is immediately followed by “The Ledge,” a Lindsey Buckingham tune that is probably their all-time weirdest recording.

wtf is this guys problem

He must hate Purple Rain -- starting the album with a frenzied rocker like "Let's Go Crazy" only to follow it with the psychedelia of "Take Me With U." What nerve!

he's entitled to his (totally dumb) opinion

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"Angel" is fucking great

^^

Will rep 4 'Sisters Of The Moon' though - Lindsey's solo at 3:42 uhhhh

I prefer "Sisters Of The Moon" and "Angel" to "Sara" fwiw.

Tusk/Nicks
1. Storms
2. Beautiful Child
3. Sara
4. Angel
5. Sisters of the Moon

Tusk/McVie
1. Over & Over
2. Never Make Me Cry
3. Brown Eyes
4. Think about Me
5. Never Forget
6. Honey Hi

Tusk/Buckingham
1. That's All for Everyone
2. Walk a Thin Line
3. Save Me a Place
4. Tusk
5. The Ledge
6. I Know I'm Not Wrong
7. Not That Funny
8. What Makes You Think You're the One
9. That's Enough For Me

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:41 PM (3 years ago)

Not a huge Sisters of the Moon fan over here tbh. It took me a while to come around on Sara, but I have now and love it.

Never Make Me Cry is the only song I don't like on the whole album. Kinda cringeworthy imo and I generally love McVie.

madness!

Fleetwood Mac Tusk Rehearsals 3 CDs

http://rapidshare.com/files/54359410/tusk1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/54360560/tusk2.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/54362086/tusk3.zip

I love Angel. I love that it feels so casually tossed off.

Angel is weird in the sense it's like many mid-period FMac two-chord jammy grooves, except that the first "verse"(? "Sometimes the most beautiful things...") is more relative to the chorus ("You feel goo-ood...") than what turns out to be the meat of the song. Like such an odd "intro" if that's what it's called, kinda sets you up for something quite different than the two-chord endless groove-out.

...keep passing me by...

TUSK SIDE C

I still look up when you walk in the room.

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That verse is my favorite part of Tusk.

how is Angel a trainwreck?! i love it!

xp - i guess i don't know what trainwreck means. but yeah it's "different"

got my new needle in the mail today... first thing to be jammed, side c of tuskeroo.

Angel shuffled up just as i entered the train this am and was a fine way to have to slide into that jostly hell.

the tossed off-ness, if that is even fair, allows the song to hold onto charm. A more crafted exploration of the sentiment would have gone gross given the recording process being conducted.

Why Lindsay Buckingham, why now? Did I miss an explanation post?
Over the past few months I have become fascinated by Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac. I had always liked their music but for whatever reason this stuff has become a lot more interesting and resonant for me recently...Also, I figured that there were probably a significant number of readers who either were not very aware of Lindsey’s music or hadn’t given it much thought.

thank you fluxblog for introducing me to fleetwood mac

lololol

And Peter Green playing the solo outro....

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 8:11 PM (1 year ago)

Wait what?! Wikipedia backs you up too. I love that solo, it's blistering but you can barely hear it. I hope there's a full unfaded version somewhere to release one day.