Tusk

According to Wikipedia this album took 10 months to produce, cost well over a million dollars and was recorded through a blizzard of cocaine. The personal relationships between the two couples in the band had long since broken down, but they stayed in the band like divorced parents staying together in frosty silence for the sake of the children. Thus, many of the tracks were recorded individually before being stitched together with the end result feeling curiously flat. The album meanders on over four sides without really ever going anywhere. There are a couple of fun bouncy tracks that weirdly enough reminded me of the sort of thing that Wild WIlly Barrett produces, with the difference being that he is working from a shed with instruments salvaged from bits of driftwood and scrap, instead of a million dollar studio. After the previous album featured a picture that automatically made you think about Mick Fleetwood’s dangly bollocks the title of this one comes from his nickname for his todger. Apparently Stevie Nicks almost left the band when she found out, and maybe if she had we would have spared this snooze fest.

2.5

Bored.

No shot anyone cares about this if it wasn’t Fleetwood Mac.

Eh... Fleetwood Mac were never really my taste. I dig Rumours and there are a few tracks from other releases that I can dig. But this is nearly Lindsay Buckingham-less. No thanks

Kinda bland, too mellow. I bumped it up a star for Sisters of the Moon, the one song that didn’t sound like grandma’s easy listening.

so many two stars so far which implies hating them but it's just that three is already good enough which this is not quite there. at first i was intrigued by it sounding interesting while i thoight this sort of music wouldn't to me, so i think i can say whatever they're doing, it sounds right? i'd also think the record came out years later which is a compliment. i really liked the female vocals performances. but other than those thoughts i have nothing else to say and it is a bit too long for my liking, with little to no highlights at least from the top of my head, so kind of nothing burger at that. the daily time window doesn't allow for multiple replays to try and let it sink in but i wouldn't be too interested either.

This is a huge disappointment and a over load of songs with only 3 or 4 being better efforts.

Whoa-so not my favorite Fleetwood Mac.

Interesting as it's not the Fleetwood Mac I know.  If I zero in on the music and take care, I hear some really pleasant musicality and expression.  It does have depth in that sense.  It is, however, entirely dull and boring.  How they have managed that is spectacular.  I think they slowly unpicked their skill by literally fragmenting it all, unlinking anything that would excite you and then droning for a whopping 20 tracks.  They also managed to be completely inoffensive so listened to it twice in the hope I would wake up.  I didn't. 

I remember listening to a Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits once and thinking it was very samey and far too long. I didn't know how good I had it. Stevie Nicks is not one of my favorite vocalists, but she's the only one lending anything of interest to the tracks here. I felt like this started out with some pedestrian tracks that were nice enough, but nothing really did much for me until "Sara," which was actually pretty outstanding. I'm going through the writing credits and I think every moment on this record I despise is written by Buckingham while every one that bores me is penned by McVie. The whole thing feels really disjointed, and yet some songs feel like carbon copies of each other. I'd save Sara and gladly skip the rest of this slog.

Half of this album had me questioning life, the other half had me going, this is ok. I feel as though this is a sub par record and not an actual Fleetwood Mac recording. A lot of the songwriting just made me sad.

This is no Rumours. It’s ok but doesn’t really seem to be put together. Might have been better as a single album.

A couple stand out songs but disappointed from fleetwood

lowkey wishing me the napalm death album back

Rumors was the kind of lightning in a bottle album that many bands would struggle to follow up, much less a band plagued by the drama that this band was enduring. It's clear on Tusk that everyone is trying to make their individual contribution but it doesn't feel like a band just a bunch of disjointed, talented musicians laying things down. The short, experimental interjections do nothing but interrupt what would have probably been a better album with more cohesion. I can't really fathom why it is a must listen to album, Rumors pretty much is their collaborative peak and this does nothing but sour me on the idea of expanding to listen to anything else they put out.

This album was just ok. I love a little of their other music and Stevie Nicks live was amazing. I really wanted to like this but it was just so boring. She, unsurprisingly, did not sing act songs from this album.

Never really listened to Fleetwood Mac. A surprisingly annoying collection of songs.

It's grating with occasional listenability. And I think Lindsey Buckingham is a prick.

so so

Listened

2.2/5 Nothing amazing, nothing horrible.

i dont get it. feels like rehashing some of the bigger hits from rumours. its also far too long. it didnt not justify its staying time. i wondered who this was for outside of the super fan. that doesnt usually bode well. it felt like a tepid release and there were only a few standouts. i like the horns in “tusk”, but i barely remember listening to the album. meh.

Some songs are fantastic, but other songs are unbearable to me. What a weird album.

This is basically a collection of mediocre soft rock songs. Starting by the worst part, what was the need to make this so damn long? It is an hour and a quarter long, and there is a good amount of songs that don't add anything, making this even more difficult to sit through. The cherry on top is that I don't even love the highlights. I do appreciate how smooth some of the material can sound, and how great the female singers sing. Nonetheless, the number of times I found anything to be interesting is incredibly low. "Tusk" has a great energy, "Brown Eyes" is incredibly soothing and "Sister of the Moon" has a nice mystical feeling. But these are just three of the twenty songs that stand out to me. The rest I just find to be very dull, either lacking energy on the more upbeat songs or not emotional enough for me. With that being said, it isn't as terrible as I might make it seem. I described the songs as uninteresting, but I don't think they are terrible. At worst, they are just a bit boring. Either way, I still believe that this experience is quite tame and unnecessary long.

Great album. Can you go wrong with Fleetwood Mac.

Överallt. Ett par bra, men flera inte så bra. Kan plocka ut stjärnorna och kasta resten. Totalt sett inte den nivån jag vill ha av FM

I'm aware of this album as it has a bit of notoriety to it, but I've never listened to it start-to-finish. In general, I find Fleetwood Mac a little dull. I prefer the songs where Lindsay Buckingham is belting out his vocals, but that generally doesn't happen too often. And this album is more of that overall dull thing. The songs frequently feel like they're overstaying their welcome and like they're much longer in duration than they are.

Wow, talk about a downgrade from the previous album. Half the songs are the same uninspired, mid-paced BS. There are about 5 notable songs, which isn’t enough to fill a single album, let alone a double. The production is amazing though, so it’s worth a listen just to hear those few gems.

old music STO

There are a few great mellow songs here mixed with mediocre or weird mix of foot stomping tracks

There were some interesting sounds and production choices, none of them were the words or vocals though.

Meandering and boring. 🥱

Not particularly offensive, just bloated and boring. Some nice tracks though.

Music to be an alcoholic from the deep south to.

Maybe I will return to it and change my vote. For now, it seemed not exceptional coming after a few good and inventive albums.

The ubiquitous FMac, or at least they were in the late 70s. You would hear this everywhere. Every older person owned this - it was prime dinner party music. I preferred this to Rumours at the time, which was the other FMac album that my dad would constantly play. Haven't heard this since I left home as I associated it with, well... boring adults and their boring dinner parties (sorry, mum and dad and your boring friends). What about now? Now I'm a boring adult? Dear lord, NO! Sounds like a compilation album of different artists as it flits from one style to another, none of which are "my" style. The bit where they try to sound like Devo is particularly embarrassing. Mate, you're a boring old hippy, stop pretending to be punk 😐 Just stick to the FM radio rock. You were good at that!

Start it off pretty strong. I’ve never heard any of the songs off the album throughout this hour long journey. The song is pretty much blended together, and I was starting to get bored of the sound.

It's alright. It's a very long album and cut have been cut in half. My favorite part about it is that a sample of Tusk is used at basketball games. Standout songs: Storms, Sisters of the Moon, Tusk.

I like the title song. Not too much else I want to hear again.

Just… boring.

woof. rumours this is not. this album is the same length as oliver and company, but at least that movie has some fuckin bops. this is just bleh. favorites: over & over, sara

A classic case of the double album just extending the pain. So shall we just politely say that this was pretty dull and move on.

Great

It’s fine. It’s no Rumours. But it’s fine.

It’s so mild and soft that it barely evokes any emotion. Except boredom. Ok, there’s a couple of interesting moments - but that is not enough for a double album. A regular album could probably get away with it and be called “ok, whatever”, but just a couple of moments in a freaking double album is bad.

When I was a younger punk (and therefore obliged to hate Fleetwood Mac), I had a friend who insisted "Fleetwood Mac are corny but Tusk is good." I took her word for it because I didn't care to listen. 15 years later, I'm listening and pretty underwhelmed. Fleetwood Mac are a "good band" insofar as they are all strong players and singers who have figured out how to mesh well. But the songwriting is bland, uninteresting, and uninspired (at least on this album). The musical compositions do nothing to me, they pass over me like a stray breeze.

Rumours is a good example of rampant cocaine abuse and relationship breakdowns making for a compelling listen. Tusk is a good example of how it usually comes completely apart soon after. It isn't bad, per se, and there are some great FM tracks on it, but it just sounds completely passionless to my ears.

I see the appeal for certain demographics, I am not it

Idk, 20 songs might’ve been overkill and it just felt so sporadic, but sometimes boring. A massive step down from Rumours. 2.5/5

Ei tääkään oikein.. Liian pitkä levy

Vähän humpaks jäi tääki.

Highlights: Sara, Storms, That's Enough for Me, Brown Eyes, Tusk

Groovy but i did not like it.

It was ok, very long and boring though. fav song is Brown Eyes

This is really boring and soft. Give me Rumours.

WAY too long.

I respect Fleetwood Mac and quite like much of their music. But this album's addition is unnecessary. The band does know that you don't have to have every song you wrote included on the final release, right? It just feels half baked and gratuitous.

Not my favorite. Felt a bit chaotic. A few nice moments, but I kept waiting for it to be over

Remember when Fleetwood Mac was an entirely different band? Then Peter Green left and they went downhill. I mean I don't remember that because I wasn't born yet but still. The funny thing to me is that this album was supposed to be a departure from Rumors and go in a completely different direction but it really just sounds like B-sides from Rumors and recordings that didn't make the final cut on that album. I would expect that a band snorting a literal mountain of cocaine while dropping acid like tic tacs during recording would come out with something a little more exciting and energetic than this. It's super bland. And it goes on forever. An hour and fifteen minutes and not one song that I saved or can really even remember. I might enjoy the odd Fleetwood Mac song here and there but none of them come from this album. 2/5

Me gusta fletwood macho,pero este álbum fue medio pollo sin sal

File under: Interesting as a historical document I know people love this album, but I couldn't find any of the things I like about Fleetwood Mac, here, and I didn't like the inklings of corny 80s stuff I was hearing.

A bit boring

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.