Tusk

I felt like this is as kinda boring? It had the frenetic early talking heads energy but couldn't match the wit

In my opinion this is one of the worst Fleetwood Mac albums, produced by the most popular iteration of Fleetwood Mac. This 20 song LP is a complete abandonment of their blues origins.

In which Lindsey Buckingham tries desperately to be one of the cool kids and the rest of the band does their regular dull-as-dishwater shtick. Gets a point for "Sara", the beautiful chord progression and exceptional melody of which elevate it above the bland numbers and/or strained weirdness here.

Not my favourite work by Fleetwood Mac, I wouldn’t listen to this again

Not their best. I love rumors but this left me kinda disappointed.

No fue de mis favoritos, algunos de los lyrics están buenisimos pero el cambio de género que hay durante todo el álbum es medio pesado, es medio un descontrol; pero fleetwood no pierde su encanto

A ver, esta bien, no es terrible, pero tampoco es el Rumors, se rescatan un par de canciones, se escucha mas experimental. De mis favoritos no.

Disjointed album that doesn’t flow at all and is mixed terribly. I don’t think I actually like Fleetwood Mac a whole lot unless they are at the absolute top of their game. The increased emphasis on solo songs isn’t great for the band either. Christine McVie’s vocals on their own don’t do a whole lot for me, Buckingham only works for specific kinds of songs, and Stevie Nicks (who I otherwise love) sounds understandably checked out of the entire experience Albums after the band’s explosive success are always tricky too. This one desperately needed an editor or a critical eye to cut it down and instead it’s a dual album. You already want it to be over and then you find out the first album isn’t even done yet Lindsey Buckingham‘s really getting on my nerves. This is a 2 but the same way sometimes vibes make a 3 a 4, this has me looking real closely at the 1

This record seems to suffer unfavourable comparison to the band’s more celebrated work. Having said that, and having thought about it carefully, I’m giving it a low score largely because I’ve never really liked Fleetwood Mac.

I broke from protocol and took a look at some of the reviews of this record. I felt like I needed to understand how this record got here on this list. Initially considered a dud, this album went on to be considered a cult classic. I found out a little bit about the history of this record. This record came out two years after Rumours. It was an exceedingly expensive record to make costing $6 million in today’s dollars. And it debuted as a double LP with an initial cost of the equivalent of $64 today. I want you to pretend streaming doesn’t exist and you just drop $64 on an album expecting something as good as Rumours. Instead, you get 75 minutes of unbelievably boring tracks. I can imagine sitting there in the late 70s flipping over LPs waiting for this thing to get good. Yes, the last two tracks are great, but not only does it not live up to Rumours, it doesn’t live up to some of the 80s heaters that Fleetwood Mac dropped. Even by today’s standards. If I had not read the pitchfork review where they gave this album a 9.3, I probably would’ve decided from the people from the 70s. This thing sucks. It’s too long. Nothing for me has driven me more nuts than a mediocre album that just will not end. Even in the streaming era, I have no reason to return to any of the tracks on this record besides Tusk or Never Forget. I’ve gotta pay respects to the creators of this record and not give it a 1, but it’s close. To drop that much money on this album, and then ask people to pay that much for it, and have it be this bad is insulting to the people of 1979.

Did not finish. This album is approximately 1 hour too long for my liking. I would not consider doing a deep dive into this catalog as a result of this album. It’s not Kid Rock level terrible, but it is definitely not for me.

Troppo lungo e discontinuo come qualità dei brani

Too mellow

This sure was an album. It began and ended. There was music split across several tracks. There were vocals, drums, maybe even guitars. One of the albums ever made.

Not sure why this was on the list

Over and Over I like Thats All For Everyone is ok, some of the rest just feel like album filler. Maybe this is the benefit of hindsight!

Classic Fleetwood Mac sound familiar to Dreams era. Pleasant songs, light pop rock. Slightly boring and no stand out tracks. 5.5/10

The biggest thing going against this album is it’s not Rumors.

After hearing Rumors I expected to like this a lot more than I did. Not one song stood out to me as memorable. It isn't bad, it just isn't Rumors.

Not bad but borin. 2.4

Woof. Did not like it…..

I wonder if I'd even know Fleetwood Mac if not for Stevie Nicks

Really soft opener. Prety good but ould get boring if all the songs are like this. Wtf is this 2nd song. Dont tell me this is a bad white album kind of double disk. I was half asleep and this album did not helped. Painfully boring. One of the hardest listen I had in a while.

This album is too long. I like some songs and others are meh, but even some of the ones that I like reach a point where I am like okay wrap it up. Sonically the vocals and instrumentals sound good. Some songs just stand out more than others.

2.25 - I haven't listen to a lot of Fleetwood Mac, but I love Rumours. I'm disappointed that I didn't like this more.

This isn't a double album, this is three albums wearing a trench coat trying to get into masquerade as a coherent album. Every songwriter on this album creates completely different songs with different levels of skill. All the Stevie Nicks songs are pretty or really good, Christie McVie are in general good, and Lindsey Buckingham's are either fantastic (see the title-track) or not very good. Overall, this album lacks coherence in anyway, saved largely by the band's skills as instrumentalists and songwriters, though the latter is a lot lore dependent. In terms of an album, it's a mess. As a collection of songs it's alright, but I probably won't come back to it again. Highlights are Storms, Sisters of the Moon, and Tusk.

Did not need to be a double album.

After Rumours this was an album on release that I thought I should get. I even went to my local WH Smith’s or maybe Boots to get it. It was being played when I got there as it was one of the major releases that year. This was fortunate because had I not heard these few tracks I would have bought it on the strength of Rumours (remember no streaming try before you buy in those days) This would have been a big mistake as it sounded and still does like an half baked attempt in reproducing Rumours in haste. As a double album at twice the price I would have been even more disappointed if I had got it home. As I would have had the money burning a hole in my pocket I would have bought another album in its place but cannot remember which. Just checked other releases at the time and the only likely candidate would have been Regatta De Blanc which is a fine album head and shoulders above this one. Tusk does have its limited moments. Sara in particular but can’t help feeling I dodged a bullet and still don’t feel compelled to add it to my collection even when others in the know say it is a significant album. 2/5 7/3/26

The first few tracks of this are most middlest of the middle of the road soft rock, before it eventually evolves into something passably interesting. But aside from a few solid tracks in the middle, it never really gets anywhere and feels sprawling, incoherent and bland. There's a passable one-record album that could be culled from this double.

2.5

Not bad, definitely lots of talent on display, but quite a bit slower and more whining than some of their others. Probably won't be enjoying this album again

Ok

chaotic but also not that interesting

Overly long and quite incoherent

With the exception of the song “Tusk” (which is much better live!) this album is a real snoozefest. This is elevator music with the exception of Stevie Nick’s voice on the tracks when she sings. Fleetwood Mac has made some really good stuff, but this album isn’t that. Absolutely boring.

Imagine intentionally following up Rumors w this nonsense.

"Did I ever tell you about my father?" "No..." "Well, he thought he was Mick Fleetwood. We would have taken him to the hospital, but we needed a driving rhythm section!" That was a joke my father would repeat constantly growing up. It's terribly unfunny, and culturally lost on an 8 year old. That being said, this album is one continuous unremarkable sound for a little over an hour. The songs bleed one into another, and I just kept waiting for it to end. Look, it's not a bad sound, it's just... bland, and uninteresting. Left with no tracks, as nothing was worth saving.

its ok just not my vibe

Im pretty indifferent towards Fleetwood Mac. Just sounds pleasant and inoffensive. 5/10 Favourite track: Tusk

Bland, utterly bland. 5/10

Weakest album by Fleetwood Mac on this list. Outright boring and way too long.

This album is huge, and by that I mean long. Not sure I like the sound of it all together, and it all feels disconnected and all over the place. Like any 20 song album I always feel like you could cut it close to 10 and be better off, it's like multiple albums layered together. I don't know if I love it, and there's a huge diversity in the songs. I do think from time to time it clicks but it may be few and far between, and there's a lot of rough stuff in the between. That all being said, the times it clicks sounds like some of the best we've come to expect from Fleetwood Mac.

An album that does not sound like Rumours. By that date it was the most expensive album.

I usually like Fleetwood Mac. I just couldn’t get into this album. Kinda bland.

Not offensive but boring x

i don’t think it’s their best!!! but still a lot of fun songs on there, very quintessential fleetwood mac. and i wanna give them their flowers for sarah as it is one of my all time favourites

It was fine, I'm sure there's another album that was left off the list that was more deserving, Rumors is a no brainer best album for Fleetwood Mac

Not bad, but nothing great

Meh. Feels like demos that got them to their hits rather than hits themselves.

Tusk feels sort of monotone, and compared to other Fleetwood Mac albums doesn't quite do it for me.

Boring, some catchy hooks, too long, liked the opener, "that's all for everyone" sucks, a lot of 80's sounds, novelty of Nicks' lyrics has worn off. Sisters of the Moon is still pretty cool, though (I like the ending), I'm surprised I haven't heard any of these songs before, Angel is pretty good too (sounds like Rumours), Tusk sounds like a Talking Heads song (so inaccessible - I can't see why it has so many plays but I like it), "Come on baby now don't you be cold just remember that love is gold" is one of the worst things I've ever heard

Not for me personally

після дрєво це ніби рай ех занадто повільно😔 блін мені шось не дуже занадто не той тип музики який мені нрав, хоча текста зароші ще й 20 пісень йомайо ну я думаю це залежить ще від того хто співає...нізна ну мабуть мелодії не дуже мені не зашло...

I like Fleetwood Mac but I don't like this album

I don't know why I had it in my head that this was a good album. It's not the worst but so many uninteresting songs, feels like there was no one there to tell them to trim it down. Very bloated album, and yet I can't remember any one song.

Just OK

Vorrei dare 2.5/5. L’album è effettivamente un po’ troppo lungo e le canzoni che mi sono salvata sono giusto alcune. Tra i loro album non il mio preferito ma sono sempre e comunque un’ottima compagnia di ascolto.

this did not resonate with me

Double album. Double boredom. I assume a lot of the money spent on this album went to booze and coke.

Quite forgettable.

There are a few songs here that I’ll keep with me - including Sara and the Ledge.

I happen to like several Fleetwood Mac songs, but none of them are from this album, and unfortunately, nothing from this album really grabbed me like those songs did. I expected more honestly.

I keep not liking it. Way too long. Some great songs washed down in the general mediocrity of the album. Boring and repetitive. Not my cup of tea.

Every song on here that I like was because it sounds like Rumors, and everything else is pointless. 2*

Good band but not my cup of tea. I got pretty bored listening to it.

Album was a bit all over the place, and a bit long. Loved the one-two punch of Sara/ What Makes You Think You're The One

Can’t say I was super into it, a few nice moments but not really my vibe overall. Also was a bit of a slog at well over an hour long. Stevie Nicks is cool, didn’t realize how little she actually features on the album though.

So boring...

Not as gripping as the two albums that preceded this one.

It's got that typical fleetwood mac feeling, but I feel like they have made better albums. While it's not bad, I don't feel like there are many exceptional songs on this one.

Ännu ett album som lider av oförmågan att kunna begränsa sig. Ändock, här hade det varit så enkelt. 20 låter varav 11 som inte Buckingham skrivit. Behåll dessa och du har ett ganska bra album. Allra bäst blir det nog när Stevie Nicks står för skapandet (och sången).

Jag fattar inte varför Fleetwood Mac är så kritikerrosade. Deras musik är överlag trist, ibland tramsig, men aldrig engagerande.

Guys, Rumours has done well, we’d better knock out another album. Yeah, we’ve got some songs left over, they’ll do. There’s a couple that are half decent. Mick: I can’t be arsed to drum though. Don’t worry Mick, a basic effort is all that’s needed, punters will buy anything…

forgettable

Not aboard the Fleetwood Mac train. Not bad. But not something I’d spend more time on.

Primal.

2.2

Nothing special... følte ikkje eg fant någe som fenga Beste sang: Beautifull Child

I get why people felt this was a disappointment on the whole (comparatively to Rumours).

Great music to talk over at a campfire setting. Can't really see another situation for this album.

Worse than Rumours and I guess I'll never listen to it again.

I listened to this one twice thinking I was missing something. It’s all the album filler songs with the singles stripped out. Bang average.

There's more to listen to than this

Bit dated, didn’t enjoy 2/10

Compared to the excellent Rumour, Tusk is just a mess. Overlong, self indulgent and with mostly very average songs. Like every double album I've heard so far, it would have benefitted massively from some judicious editing. If it was 40 minutes long, I think I'd give it a 3, but I'm dropping it down to a 2 because there's far too much of it.

I don't really like Fleetwood Mac

Some great songs but someone needed to step in and add some direction, and an editor. Sprawling, meandering, over indulgent.

Not my favorite of theirs.

Boring, lazy, tame, unmemorable. I gave up a bit over halfway. Too long

Boring

An exercise in blandness. Nothing happens until very nearly the end. Then nothing happens again.

Insipid soft rock/country hybrid if this led to punk then I get why they were angry, Peter Green era great

Not a FM fan, but may put it on while crushing some garage crispy bois. Really bland background music.

title track is great, the rest is fine but not classic. 2.5

Asked my family what they thought of it. Carly says "it's fine". My Mom said it has some good songs and Dad never heard of it. It's mid.

Honestly found it pretty boring, and was glad when it ended

Definitely not my favourite Fleetwood record. It’s hard to listen to their best work (Rumours) and then listen to something like this and be like “wow this is great!” It’s like eating the freshest grape straight from the vine where it’s crispy, juicy, and then eating a raisin being like “yeah they’re the same thing”. This album is the raisin.

mmm

A pale reflection of Rumours

Not having em

Too much Tusk

God this album sounded awful. Horrible mixing, horrible production, horrible quality, everything. Then i read on the wiki on how much tike they spent setting everything up and placing instruments in certain spots and recording equipment in certain angles and in different rooms and blah blah blah. The entire team was high on drugs and recorded everything in a soup can is the only logical explanation

Weirder than I expected from a Fleetwood Mac album. Felt like a lot of filler. Not as interesting as I had hoped.

As much as I love Fleetwood Mac, this album is tremendously bloated. It could be cut down to an EP and that would still feel a bit long. Title track is their best song though.

Ágætis lög inn á milli en flest fannst mér leiðinlegt

Heyrðu, þetta er bara ekkert spes. Kemur á óvart frá þessari útgáfu af Fleetwood Mac. Ekkert sem að grípur mann.

Not their best work. Good band though.

What the fuck is wrong with this album? Now don't get me wrong; I expected Fleetwood Mac to be over-glazed and mid, but I also expected consistently good musicianship. Every song on this album sounds like a different group of people were bought into a studio with expectedly mixed results. Tusk (the song) had some heavy Ewok energy, which is fun in an ironic way I guess. I have a feeling that wasn't what they were going for though. This album was experimental? What was the experiment, making bad music? But really, this is your goat? Inconsistent vibes and drama? That's crazy

I never listened to Fleetwood Mac so it's my first listen and I have a question why did classic rock musicians like double albums? I find first part is mid and uninteresting with exception with Sara and Storm and 10th song Sisters of the Moon I finally find tunes I like. I had hopes that second part of the album would be interesting but sadly it starts more or less the same. I liked some songs there but overall I think it is mid. Track that I found likeable. Sara Storms Sisters of the Moon Brown Eyes 2/5

This has some really boring tracks on it.

Many of its songs managed to resonate with me. It is a fairly long album, with tracks that, when listened to without sufficient attention, don’t immediately connect with the listener. However its lyrics and melodies work together and generate emotions that can gradually mature and connect pleasantly, once the album’s intent is understood. When listened to straight through, the album is not easily felt, it doesn’t maintain the same level of connectivity and concentration throughout. Its distance from Rumours (1977) clearly signaled a broad risk in its experimental approach, and some songs failed to captivate me because of that, such as the album’s title track. Still I highlight the sensitivity of its lyrics, which is what I will remember most about the album. Favorite song: Sisters of the Moon.

Interesting start to a double album. The subdued “over and over” transitions to a frenetic “the ledge” which is a hyper kinetic muffled buzz into “think about me” that feels like some safe listening, more true to previous Mac form. This album threw me. A goulash of the many songwriters present in Fleetwood, it’s disjointed. Lindsey Buckingham was on something. The sheer volume would ensure there’s something for everyone, I guess. “Tusk” was interesting. It was tough to get through it. A testament to a band in flux and they missed whatever hell mark they were aiming for.

I am hoping that there is another album that has better songs because otherwise I do not understand the hype about Fleetwood Mac

Good

Not as good as Rumours

Fleetwood Mac: Tusk: Honestly? Not my thing at all. Every song is really by the books and boring, or, kinda annoying. There are some alright songs on here, like sisters of the moon, but nothing really wowed me, and a lot of these album just kinda happened. Really not impressed. 5/10

Enjoyed Rumours but this thing fucking dragged.

Two or three good song but much longer than it needed to be

The Ledge is very catchy and I like it. Sara is good and it reminds me of the classic Fleetwood mac I know. The mix of songs feels a bit strange to me. Not as much Stevie Nick's as I would like and some songs and vocals were a touch boring. Looking at the album, it is written and sung by different people throughout and that is apparent.

This is such a departure from Rumors in a bad way. As a listener, you get the sense they were desperate to capture the magic but the in-fighting meant that the magic slipped away.

It's... fine. Nothing special to really recommend it. There is no reason for this to be on a list of "must listen" albums. It's fine. It's a solid folk-rock album. But there's nothing special about it. It came out in 1979. It has some good songs, but doesn't pioneer, experiment, fuse, or perfect anything. Everything it does well has already been done better by earlier albums.

Álbum de buena calidad pero que salvo un par de canciones de las 20 que tiene no me ha llamado demasiado la atención.

Was never going to be rumours, I just wish it was more like that

Very mid.

It's white bread rock. No entertainment, just manufactured for Walmart. 3/10

Very hit and miss.

A double album and it feels like one. Seems to go on forever. After the heights of Rumours a real disappointment.

Not their best

Boring

Don’t say that you love me.

toothless

Edgeless, boring, cold Rock.

This album is long, far too long with little payoff. The pace of the majority of songs can only be described as glacial and they are so similar that when my Spotify cut out part way through I couldn't pick out the song I had just been listening to to restart. The title track is a gem and languishes at the end. Pity really as many may fall asleep before that. The other memorable songs aren't actually that good, they just have a bpm of over 40 so stick out. Also some of the quicker songs had flavours of country music, not for me. I know Fleetwood Mac are revered but as someone new to them, based on this I really don't see why. Maybe I need to hear Rumours. +1 for title track. 2/5

Cocaine makes you think every idea you have is a great idea. It's not.

Underwhelming from the band that created rumours

Know FM a bit, but had never actually listened to this particular album. Honestly, it sounds a bit uninspired and incomplete, even though it's a massive double album. There is something missing in these compositions...maybe a "soul"?

Not for me, have liked all the other fleetwood mac I have listened to but this was mostly just too slow

I don’t really get this band. I like Nicks’ voice but otherwise this seems like boomer nostalgia.

A few moments that are nice but overall it collapsed under its own (light)weight

honestly couldn’t get through the whole thing just not the biggest fan of fleetwood mac. lowkey insists upon itself favorite track: sara least favorite: the ledge

Doesn't compare to Rumours

Not great.

Disappointingly monotonous

Rumours is infinitely better. Forgettable

4/10

no good songs

Their twelfth album. What do you do after making Rumours, one of the best albums in history, you make a twenty song double album whilst on cocaine and rambling, musically, all over the place. FM had a free pass after Rumours and they experimented whilst being fucked up. The production is also very tinny. It's tough to follow up an all time great album but the drop off from Rumours to Tusk is a huge one.

I've tried getting into Fleetwood Mac in the past and I just can't. Back in my teens I explored a lot of highly rated music and even purchased a couple Fleetwood Mac albums (not this one). I listened to them multiple times and just couldn't get into it and later gave them away. And I felt the same way about this album. The only song I enjoyed was I Know I'm Not Wrong.

IDK man, something about Fleetwood Mac just doesn't connect for me the same way it seems to for others. Not to say this was a bad album, but I don't see what is so appealing about it. Sara is solid, but otherwise, I didn't find a lot worth reporting on here. Not a big fan of Stevie Nicks to begin with and 74 minutes felt like a chore. I'm a high 2 on this endeavor.

Pretty medicore, long album that could have just been a single album. Also not a fan of the song "Tusk" However the 70s Beach Boys inspired tune "That's all for Everyone" is really good 2.5/5

Love rumors but I couldn't make it through this one. Just kinda boring.

Guitars played like balalaikas make me sad

This isn't the Fleetwood Mac that I know and love. On most songs they don't sound into it at all. Some decent tunes but I'm rating it low because of what their previous albums were and what this is not.

Thoroughly unenjoyable. The album has no identity. Stevie isn't even featured until the fifth song. I wouldn't recommend this album to even fans of Fleetwood Mac.

It's ok, NOTHING LIKE RUMOURS!

Best Song: Tusk. Finally, a song that feels lively and energetic and unique. Worst Song: That's Enough For Me. A weirdly spastic little song that stands out egregiously in an otherwise fairly smooth album. Overall: It is a very long album, and one which lacks many of their biggest hits. I also got the feeling that the instrumentals often felt like they were fighting for attention with Stevie Nicks' vocals, whereas I feel like her vocals ought to be the focus of any Fleetwood Mac album.

Tusk is such a weird album because half of it sounds like a normal follow-up to their previous record Rumors, but then the other half is their attempt at sounding like The Clash. The parts individually I enjoy, but its like listening to a playlist on shuffle with the genre whiplash and I don't know if I like that in an album as its 2 different vibes. -mitona This is my first time listening through and yeah whiplash is exactly how it feels. There are some solid tracks on it though like Angel and The Ledge … but yeah it just doesn’t feel cohesive to me. -spacecrabs

It's a five hour album. Yeah right.

Ovo će biti dugo. Prije svega, svi koji vole fleetwood mac mora da su na teškim drogama. Ovo je, generalno, grozno. Postigli su da svaka pjesma zvuči isto a da je album opet nepovezani haos. Trenutak kad sam se ponadala da je album prikrajčio, na kraju prvog od dva diska (!!!), je ujedno i najbolji dio ovog albuma. Ima nešto u Stevie Nicks, njene pjesme su neuporedivo manje grozne. Opet ne znam je li ona sama dovoljno dobra za dvije zvjezdice ali danas se nešto osjećam velikodušno. Drago mi je što sam njihov prvi album dobila nakon što sam gledala onu seriju, i dok ne odslušam Rumours čvrsto vjerujem da je cijeli hype oko njih samo vezan za lične drame.

You know you're not wrong... that was you failed to make a great album ;-) It's not bad... and it's not good either. Sometimes some good vibes... but too rarely on this album to deserve 3 stars

I’ve only listened to Rumours, so I don’t know any of the 20 tracks on this album. Nothing really stands out or explains why it’s considered special. From Rumours, I only find a few rock elements in Sisters of the Moon. The rest bores me deeply. It feels like plain American pop music.

In the words of a song from this album, that's enough for me.

Langt, rodet og for det meste kedeligt

Hate the drums, everything else is good enough

Não gostei

Every song sounded so unenthusiastic and low effort until "Tusk", which kinda sucks because theres like 18 other tracks to go through before hitting gold. Its such a standout track that feels like it shouldn't be on the album at all. Album overall gets a 2, loved the song Tusk though.

Fleetwood Mac! I know these guys are popular, though I have next to no familiarity with their music. It's surprising to me that the band only has two top-thousand albums on the list - they appear to have been on a bit of a hot streak throughout the mid-70s and late 80s if Wikipedia is to be trusted. Anyways, the album. I'm not sure what the exact image of Fleetwood Mac is in my mind, though they've always struck me as more of a mellow, easy-listening band. I'm surprised by just how firmly rooted this album is in a "sharp" sound with the lively guitars and the importance of percussion throughout the album. These songs are more than competent on their own, but smash 'em together into a 20 song slogfest and we have a problem. There's a very high signal-to-noise ratio. A lot of the songs sound very similar to one another with minimal variety to break the pace. All that being said, there are some pleasing songs on this album. "The Ledge" is a good tune. The buzzing guitar works quite well with the melody of the song. "Sisters of the Moon" is another good cut. The singer's vocals are quite pleasing, the guitar performances are among the more ambitious on the album and the percussion does a good job of moving the song along. "Honey Hi" is up there as another favourite. I like the percussion on the song - whatever instrument it may be. The vocal performances at the end of the song are also very nice. The follow-up track, "Beautiful Child" is also a good song with the delicate guitar and nice piano. I've heard fans of Fleetwood Mac describe the band as a reminder of family, which is a connection that I can definitely see being made. Gonna look at the book as my uninformed ass needs some educating. The most expensive album to produce at the time of release. That's surprising, especially with how often the album delves into a lo-fi sound. An older, wiser record following "Rumours". Didn't match the commercial success or critical acclaim of Rumours, but succeeded by going in it's own direction. I'm inclined to believe that Fleetwood Mac deserve more albums on the list with how enduring their popularity has been, so I definitely can't knock this inclusion.

Det är nog objektivt ett bra album men Fleetwood Mac är nog inte helt för mig, iaf inte hela album. Lyssnade på det mesta men inte helt klart

Not my thing really, plus I’ve heard better Fleetwood Mac. Kinda forgettable, plus only the songs with Stevie Nicks singing are decent.

This was dull. I can see why Saboo the Shaman vetoed it.

Was a weird album from a band I know. Didn’t enjoy the tone of feel

I don't really understand the hype around Fleetwood Mac. As a "Greatest Hits" band they rock, but listening to a whole album... meh. The fact that they have the second-highest rated album in this challenge is probably just a testimony to them appealing to a broad audience AKA Easy listening. Obviously, this doesn't apply to Pink Floyd, David Bowie or the Beatles, who also dominate the top 10 !!!!!!

En mörkbrun blöt filt ligger över hela inspelningen. Det låter som att bandet är i garaget och mikrofonerna i köket. 20 låtar är på tok för många. En utrensning hade varit på sin plats. Har finns några hyfsade låtar men inget som sticker ut 1979. Knappt godkänt.

Strange. More like a collection of the individuals solo efforts than one Fleetwood Mac album. If you want to work out if you prefer Buckingham, McVie or Nicks, this will help you decide.

not their best

Pretty ok album. Enjoying it but not my favorite Fleetwood Mac album.

For a band that gets so much hype, this was unbelievably dull.

Right, 65ish minutes of this 75 minute mammoth record is absolute tosh. It irks me to the point of anger that this band carried Peter Greens legacy to places like this. Don't get me wrong they've had a couple of decent tracks but the majority is shite saved by some occasional decent singing from Stevie Nicks. In truth they should have changed the band's name to Fleetwood McNicks and at least I wouldn't have to cringe when I tell people I like Fleetwood Mac. No wonder poor Pete went a bit mad... 😩

Pretty meh. Not a big fan of fleetwood mac and it was very easy listening but nothing notably exciting

The intro to Sara is still spine tingling and the title track is an odd, eccentric masterpiece. The rest couldn’t really sustain me through a whole double album though.

I know a lot of ppl like this album, but to me, it was meh.

I really like the hits, and have only listened to Rumors and the Best of... So this is different, and it takes some adjusting for me. Slightly too many meandering, dragging tracks. It does pick up pace halfway through, becoming more enjoyable for me. Very clearly a 'skip Side A' record for me. Second half is really enjoyable, even if too meandering to my liking at times. Ends fairly weak as well. Too bad, expected more.

2.5 stars This could have been a solid 4 star follow up to their 2 great previous pop records. There are enough good songs for that. But they bloat it with unnecessary excess that makes the album drag and takes away what would have made it an enjoyable listening experience.

God just so not Rumours. It’s like a different band

I kept waiting for the good Fleetwood mac songs that I have heard so much about. I guess they arn't on this album. 4/10

God there's a reason why this album is lesser known.

Да чет никак...

Should have been a single LP

You know the Fleetwood Mac album with all their songs that get stuck in your head? It isn’t this one.

Not for me.

Ett par bra men annars rätt tråkiga

I did not enjoy this one a lot. It's hard to desribe but I felt like barely any song was catchy and mostly it was hard to listen to it. Its weirdness seems to be the main thing people like about it but I did not get it, really. That's fine though, the album was not bad at all but it just did not connect with me.

[4/10] Album on life support

Long and eclectic but focused and mostly painless, Tusk ought to be far grander and stranger than it is. 'When you build your house, I'll come by.' Lyrically, that's about as impressive as it gets, and while 'What Makes You Think You're The One' and 'I Know I'm Not Wrong' have a great deal of pop oomph, I'm not really feeling any track here - not in the gut nor in the head. Somewhere between the White Album and Exile on Main St., but not nearly as successful as those seminal releases, the record can't seem to make up its mind. Is it from the heart or the brain? While you'd most likely want it to be both, Tusk is not soulful enuf to have me moving unreservedly or clever enuf to have me thinking uninhibitedly. In short, it's immensely boring.

First disc was mostly boring. Lots of droning, not hearing a lot of great melodies. Not That Funny was horrible. SIsters of the Moon is probably the best song so far. Hopefully disc 2 is better. Disc 2 is better so far. That's Enough for Me is definitely a highlight so far. Overall disc 2 was better, but not a fan. Apparently enjoying this album takes a lot of work that I'm not willing to put in.

Not great. 2

I was excited to get Fleetwood Mac but then was really surprised when I didn't recognize a single song.

Felt like two bands, mostly the boring one. The opening track sounded like it should be at the end of the album, or at least the end of a side.

Lindsay Buckingham being “punk” just doesn’t work for me. Or maybe the band didn’t go for it hard enough, wasn’t willing to go far enough with him to make it work. I imagine there are people who like how “eclectic“ this album is to me it just sounds like an identity crisis.

I guess I just don’t get Fleetwood Mac. This is just dull music to me. It’s background music for a convenience store. It’s not unpleasant, it’s just bland. I don’t think I’ll ever understand the appeal of this band.

not my favorite. didn't really hold my attention.

Rumours was one of the first major albums I remember coming out and being a big deal and I really liked that album. I remember being excited about the release of Tusk and being disappointed when I actually heard songs from it for the first time. Having now given it a full listen decades later, my opinion has not changed.

There's three types of Fleetwood Mac. The first one is pre-Stevie Nick's (so damn great), second one is Rumours (a couple of good songs), and third is no good.

I don’t know what the big deal about this album is. Didn’t sound anything too special

I've always been under the impression that Rumors is overrated, it's good, but it's no where close to being the greatest album of all time and this album is reinforcing my opinion that Fleetwood Mac got lucky with a few hits. Some of these songs (most of them with male vocalists) sound god awful. Like is Not That Funny supposed to sound bad as a joke? Were they trying to be experimental? Ignoring the songs that sound like dog turds, my biggest problem with this album is that a lot of the songs sound unfinished. A lot of the songs feel like they have 3 verses in a row and then fade out. There are no hooks or memorable melodies anywhere on this album. If I can give Rumours is that it has hooks "Chain keep us together", "Thunder only happens after it rains", or "YOU CAN GO YOUR OWN WAY!!!". Nothing here sticks. High 2.

Decent overall but it didn’t feel very cohesive and a lot of the songs were pretty forgettable. It was an easy listen but I don’t think it’s something I’d listen to again.

It's just not my favorite Fleetwood Mac album. After getting half-way through, I couldn't justify spending the time to listen to the last of it.

Yawn.

It's no Rumours

Having just finished this album, I look back on it to find I can't remember a single song apart from the foot-tapping but uninteresting Ledge. Some nice simple drumming on some tracks as a comment pointed out, but this is already fading from my memory.

Good dog on the cover. Eh.

ok but not great...

Wow, it's as if after rumours they wanted to prove they were also really good at making bad albums. Some songs sound OK (mostly the ballads) but are, musically, basic pop songs (Sara, Storms). Many songs are cliché, boring rock & roll (I know I'm not wrong). Some songs are barely tolerable (What makes you think you're the one). Fleetwood Mac deserves to be on this list, but not this album. Could have been a 3 if they kept the better half of the songs. Also, I don't understand why this was the mostly expensively produced album ever at the time. My wife said it better than I can: it's as if it's recoded in a pub and anyone can sing along.

Poor (by Fleetwood Mac standards!)

sorry buy boring

This is the second time I tried listening through this album. First time I got about half way through before giving up. I find this album utterly boring, way too long and sort of fumbling through. It's a pop album that is trying to have an edge, emulating what is popular at the moment, but without much passion in the trying. It's got the polished sound of a well produced albu, playing with new gear in the studio with a capable sound engineer, but otherwise I can't hear the millions of dollars poured into making it. To me it's all filler material, none of the tracks grabbed.

As a disclaimer, I’ve always held the very unpopular opinion that I hate Fleetwood Mac. However, I’ve also had the realization that it might just be Rumors that I hate. That may be true, because I didn’t hate this album nearly as much. It’s kind of like stepping in a puddle vs stepping in dog poop. Neither are enjoyable and I avoid both as best as I can, but one is decidedly more objectionable. Some of my opinion of this album may be due to a preexisting bias, but there’s also very little here for me to sink my teeth into. From an objective as possible view, these aren’t really great songs. Save Me a Place is particularly awful.

Даже не на 3. Хуй знает зачем двойной альбом из каких то недопиленных демок

Overlong and a step down from previous material.

Not their best work. Only a couple of memorable songs.

I love Fleetwood Mac but Tusk is a HARD listen.

This is the first I’ve ever listened to Fleetwood Mac. I feel like I really wanted to like it but just couldn’t get into it. Also mixed in Stevie’s voice. It’s unique and interesting but only for a couple of songs then I get over it.

Eh. Can’t really review because I listened to a few songs and skipped around but it didn’t really connect.

Nossa, tô achando bem picolé de chuchu. Meio pra baixo, sinceramente.

First time listening to this album. Not what I expected from the little I've heard from FWM.

Dit mist voor mij wel echt alle spanning van Rumours. Het is een te lang album met ruim een uur aan muziek, maar vooral mist dit album echt pit. Het is een beetje een gezapig album. Er zit echt wel goede muziek in, ik vind Sara en Angel nice, maar dat is echt niet genoeg op ruim 20 nummers. Het grootste deel klinkt alsof iemand naar Rumours heeft geluisterd en daar een soort slap aftreksel van heeft gemaakt. Nee ik ben hier niet heel enthousiast over, er zit denk ik een prima album in van 10 nummers, maar het dubbele aantal is dan weer zwaar overdreven. Ohja, Tusk is ook een ijzersterk nummer. FAVO: Sara, Angel, Tusk

Overestimated in my eyes. None of the songs in this album is remarkable or recognisible among others.

A bloated nonsense album, which has all the hallmarks of over-production of under-developed tunes. Oddly, the only track I like is the title one, which doesn't redeem the whole.

Ei nyt kyllä iskenyt. Tykkään joistakin heidän kappaleistaan kyllä mutta tältä kevyltä ei oikein noussut mikään. Vähän jotenkin latteaa.

Pretty lengthy and nothing notable.

A challenge! Not sure why this needed to be a double alby=um

TL;DL

Bit of a boring one

LOVE them but not this album - Sara is a massive hit, so dreamy and beautiful never gets old and Tusk is a fun track.. + a few other Christine McV slower tracks but that is it - F Mac for me peaked w Rumours this album not so much

Sara connects. The rest of the album... not so much. It blended into the background.

Yeah, I really didn’t care for this one

The music isn't bad, which is about as much of a complement as I can give this record. The songs feel unedited (constant repetition) and incomplete (the repetition leads nowhere). Additionally, The production is rough, lending to that feeling of incompleteness (a remarkable feat for an album well over an hour long). If FM had cut 7 or 8 songs, and edited or re-produced the rest, this album has great potential. As it stands, however, this is a bit of a mess.

I thought I was going to enjoy this - I mean it sold 4 million copies - But I didn’t. 10 months in the studio one would think they could have come up with something better than this

I prefer the hits Fleetwood Mac to the avant garde Fleetwood Mac.

This album seemed about 17 songs too long. The boring ones all sound the same, which is to say they sound like Fleetwood Mac and are highly annoying. The song Sara is the stand out obviously.

There's the odd track with signs of like to keep this above 1* but this is pretty boring

2/5. I don't have any true feelings about this album. I skipped it because on my first listen I got nothing from it, it felt like just sound. I love other Fleetwood Mac material but this was nothing. I let it sit for like a year and now reviewing it again and... it's about the same. Nicks songs were the best part about this record, and a lot of the other songs were just fumbles. Sure, some of the songs are simple and fun but that enjoyment goes away by the end of the song and I forget what I just listened to. Again, it wasn't terrible but this was the not great overall. Best Song: Storms, Sisters Of The Moon, What Makes You Think You're the One

These are skilled musicians and they deserve to be on a list such as this. However, when an album has 20 tracks and I enjoyed maybe three of them, I cannot rightfully rate this very high. Without further context about why this specific Fleetwood Mac album is on the list, I'm going to make an assumption: it was when everyone confirmed their vocals should just be left to Stevie Nicks.

An uneven and un-memorable follow up to a classic. Not experimental enough to challenge and one of the most bloated albums I’ve heard so far with about half the tracks feeling like musical wallpaper. The were some moments that I enjoyed, particularly around the middle of the album, but this is no one’s favorite Fleetwood Mac album.

Anxious to read why this one made it. I am looking for the hits, but none in sight.

Not a good Fleetwood Mac album.

Subpar for Fleetwood Mac. I feel like they haven't matured or evolved beyond where they were 30 years ago and it shows.

That's way more Christine McVie than I expected.

Mid album

It's too long and has too many mediocre songs

Really wish zero stars was an option

Didn't like this much - I can see why their later albums were more successful.

Don’t get the hype

I am used to way better from Fleetwood Mac. These are just some demos as far as I'm concerned. I don't know why this album is on this list.

Not my thing, just a bit too mellow and more songs simply fade out than is necessary. Not bad background music, but not an amazing album that I'll go back to

mid 2

I found this album to be extremely dull and boring. There were some good songs, with "Tusk" probably being the best, in my opinion. However, most of the album felt forgettable and basically unnecessary, especially at the length the album is. I don't think the music is actively bad, but it is just so dull that I can't imagine listening to it again in its entirety.

Recording sessions were described as a 'cocaine blizzard' lol Maybe I'm too basic, but I prefer Rumours any day of the week. I appreciate they were going for experimental, but not all experiments work out.

I wont be too coarse. But I don't see the appeal. Rumors was special sure. But, referencing it in the lineage doesn't add much value to the content or conversation. This is certified Target Mom junk music. There's something to appreciate somewhere within it. But, its mostly simple instruments and non complicated vocals with pretty simple song structures. Like a 8th grader could write something equal.

la segunda cancion vale corneta, mid af

Like 3 good songs, generously.

Distinctive sound and loads of tracks, but nothing grabbing me and telling me to listen to it over and over. Sadly forgettable.

Ive never really got Fleetwood Mac. True, Rumours had a lot of excellent pop hits on it that makes it an undeniably great album but its spectacular rating was always alien to me. Tusk seemed to be all of the run of the mill bits of the band without the pop hits. I dont know where this comes in their discography but it sounded like them post-Rumours furiously trying to create another hit record but having to substitute good songs for endeavour and throwing as many ideas as possible at a record in the hot that some stick. 2 listens through and i can only really recall the weird production on maybe track 2 that was all bass and really low vocals

Really unremarkable for a Fleetwood Mac album. Doesn't contain any of my favorite songs. 2.5/5

Not their best albums

It's no Rumours

I really don't wanna point about what the 'tusk' is as it could be inappropriate, but I could be wrong :skull: Anyways, I like that the lyrics are simple, and I also like the album.

is this a joke? this album isnt terrible, but on a scale of buckingham to mic fleetwood this is a christine mcvie

Meh

Didn't really like it surprisingly.

It was in offensive. Fleetwood Mac is exceptionally talented, just nothing that wowed me on the album

Fleetwood Mac is a legendary band. Their songwriting was renowned, their musicality was first rate, and the Rumours of the internal drama was the 1970s equivalent of Love Island. According to Wikipedia, this was one of the most expensive albums ever, and became a commercial failure. I kind of get it. The first few songs are …mmmmeeeeh… until you Storms. I respect the experimentation. For me, a lot of this album feels overproduced and disjointed. There are some gems in there, though admittedly I find myself leaning into the Stevie Nicks tracks. Storms and Sisters are my standouts. As a whole I’m torn about this album….

I really, really like Fleetwood Mac, however, this is not their strongest album. This even more apparent since Rumors was my record of the day 3 days ago. Some enjoyable songs, but overall not my favorite. This could have easily been a single album. Some of the songs sound so far removed from their premier material.

Not anywhere near as good as rumors

I remember listening to this when it first came out - stoned, sitting in a girlfriend's basement, thinking about how damned good this music was. I must have been *really* stoned.

This one didn’t grab me, especially having heard Rumors recently where every song’s a certified hit. If I was in the mood for Fleetwood Mac I’d always reach for that one instead.

Not in the same league as Rumors

Better than I expected. I like the weirder tracks. They should have leaned in to weirder.

Not bad but definitely not my favorite of their albums. It was nice to hear the songs that I am not familiar with though even if they don't have the same impact as their earlier albums. I'm sure I will listen to the hit songs on this album but probably wouldn't listen to the whole thing again.

This is a great band that just kinda missed the mark here. A lot of the songs felt very jarring and while the harmonies were nice, there was something a little off about them. And so whiny at times. Not a strong outing by an otherwise pretty great group.

I know I wasn’t exactly Rumours biggest fan, but this was…. well, I listened to Rumours again after this and I guess this made me appreciate Rumours more? I can tell my preference against country/folk is in play when it comes to Fleetwood Mac. I am not saying Tusk is bad per se, but it was definitely a step down for this band. Rating: 2 Rating: 2

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Not the Fleetwood Mac album I wanted. Rumours is one of my favorite albums of all time, and I had high expectations for this. I was pretty disappointed. Everything about this album just felt flat. There wasn’t any of the genius that the other album had. It didn’t hurt my ears or anything, but I wanted more.

welllll I like the famous Fleetwood Mac songs. Alas, I will remain a basic bitch it's super sunny and it's ok as a backdrop for seeing my hometown in its full glory but it feels like not much more than the backdrop to me unfortunately. I got into the vibes of What Makes You Think You're The One at some point, as well as Sisters of the Moon, but I doubt I'll be coming back

It was okay. Twangy and folksy, and altogether forgettable.

This list must be compiled by a very pretentious person, bent on avoiding fantastic records that might be seen as cliche, in favor of albums like this. FM have two top tier albums, this is not one. Not even close. It is a boring album with way way too many tracks.

Not my favorite sound from FM. Hard to place it, but I kinda felt like skipping every other song.

So I am famously not a fan of Fleetwood Mac. Oh I don't hate them and I totally respect Rumors for the classic that it is. But I think they're largely overrated. So I was prepared when faced with listening to Tusk to be proved wrong. I would have to admit that the album was good and FM were a great band. Not so fast. I can honestly say Tusk is everything I do not like about FM. The songs seem half baked and meandering. While I like Christie McVie's voice I find Stevie Nicks annoying in all but certain of her songs. It feels like one of those albums where each of the major players in the band was allowed their few songs so it comes across as disjointed and fragmented. A few moments are a 3 but overall its a 2 at best.

Not memorable.

Fleetwood Mac had a long and crazy history from the excellent blues band with Peter Green to the later AOR band that produced the massive Rumours (and losing several guitarists along the way). It's hard to disagree that Rumours was a massively important and well-crafted album. But Tusk must have been designed to follow Rumours with something a bit different. For this, I think the band deserves credit. But I think the end result is a double album of AOR pop/rock that is surprisingly bland. I didn't find much of this album notable.

I've long thought Fleetwood Mac was not to my liking. But I'd never gone below their known hits on the radio, which I never liked. So this was a good test. By 3 songs in, my opinion was strengthening. A few more songs and it's just about confirmed. I finished, and it is not at all to my liking. In my opinion, this is a very overrated album.

Very surprised this is post Rumours, it feels earlier.

I kept wanting it to be better. It’s boring

this album is... weird. coming off the back of a WILDLY successful and popular Rumours, its a very interesting turn that they take. its almost like if Rumours had the wheels starting to fall off for the band, this album is them pulling the cart without three wheels and all taking separate turns. there seems to be little cohesion between the songs, and its much more rough than the previous album. i knwo i shouldnt be comparing it to Rumours so much... but to have that album and then follow it with this... its quite the juxtaposition

Dull and lacking substance

If Rumours is the sound of a couple breaking up while on a cocaine high, Tusk is… well what is Tusk? It’s kinda long, and kinda boring, and most of the songs are kind too long, and kinda boring. It’s more like being the only sober person listening to a conversation between a drunk group in a pub, but everyone’s like sad drunk and not funny. I feel as if the album’s a grower, and that you have to be in the right mood for it, to be in the mood to like settle down and appreciate it’s melancholy beauty or some shit like that. I’m just surprised that they seem to have forgotten how to write hooks

Over & Over Sara Sisters Of The Moon Tusk

Tusk doesn't do it for me. I can indeed hear that it is all a bit more experimental, but it's Fleetwood Mac Experimental. It creates a few songs that I can hardly sit through. Amazingly, almost all of them are Buckingham songs. The title track jumps out a little for me. For the rest, there is a lot of mediocre stuff that goes in one ear and out the other. Tusk doesn't feel like an album made on autopilot, but neither does it feel like an album that has a clear vision. Three captains on a ship, so to speak. I understand that a second 'Rumors' was not desirable from Buckingham's perspective, for me it just doesn't make for an album that I really enjoyed. Not something that annoyed me, but I really don't understand the high scores.

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einmal im hintergrund gehôrt, und nichts hat beraus gestochen.