Tusk

This is what "phoning it in" sounds like. What a chore to listen to.

Shockingly Inconsistent. Stevie Nicks carries tho

It's always been the case but when listening to this album there are clearly 3 independent songwriters which makes it a bit disjointed. Apparently Lindsey Buckingham was into Talkin Heads and trying to be more experimental. While I appreciate the effort, some songs didn't fit at all. Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks both contributed hits. Angel was a new find for me. Overall it would have been a better single album than a double.

Vraiment pas mal !

Beautiful, dreamy folk rock, peak Fleetwood Mac. Well, it would be, if it wasn't for that OTHER album. I know the variety is what makes the band great and everything, but I can't help but love the Stevie Nicks-lead songs more than the others. Writing is great, some fun guitar work, beautiful harmonies. Tusk is insane, such a banger.

Fleetwood Mac is a band that I have barely heard of before because of my lack of knowledge on 70’s and 80’s music (Which will probably become more and more hugely apparent as I write about and rate more albums) So I dreaded listening to this record coming into this because of its 20 song length, come to find out this is a double album and the release after their most popular and acclaimed album, Rumors (An album that I have heard of before), that apparently has a different and more experimental sound, based off the post-punk movement going on during the time of the album. So I was basically going in blind with this one, I haven’t heard Rumors in full before and I had only heard one Fleetwood Mac song before and I liked it, and I’ll say that it did surprise me. Very few duds on this record, and despite the length the album remains solid throughout. They nail the soft country folk/rock sound perfectly and the record gives you a nice mellow, calm feeling that isn’t exactly sadness but it also doesn’t inject you with happiness (mostly). Amazing ballads that have well-written heartfelt lyrics like Storms and Beautiful Child, colorful folk rock like Think About Me and I Know I’m Not Wrong, even though there are some songs I don’t like everything is very colorful and vivid throughout no matter how different the sound is on the songs. If this is what Fleetwood Mac can bring to the table then this has me very excited to listen to Rumors. Highlights: Over & Over, Sara, Storms, That’s All For Everyone, Sisters Of The Moon, Brown Eyes, Never Make You Cry, Beautiful Child, Walk A Thin Line, Never Forget Lowlights: The Ledge, Not That Funny - I’m not gonna lie I though both of these songs were really lame, honestly only having 2 bad songs out of a 20 song double album is very impressive

this was a pleasant listen. its not the type of music i listen to but i think i didnt get bored and vibed with it more than i thought i would. fleetwood mac is a great band and this surely isnt their best album so i wasnt blown away. what they do surprisingly well is every element works with each other like a charm. it might be related to the fact that they have been in each others beds but for now it is a saturating decently good album definitely worth listening to. if i had liked rock i wouldve given it higher memorable tracks: What Makes You Think You’re The One Not That Funny 3.1/5

The light in my dads eyes when I told him I was listening

TUSK!

Good, but kinda some filler. A lot of it sounds the same and its really long. BUT the length paired with the sound makes it kinda a vibe. middle of the road for me

Christine McVie sings like an angel. Stevie Nicks is timeless. The dudes are pretty meh, though.

I'll get to Tusk in a second, but I'll admit I've never given Rumours a full shot, just songs here and there, and many reviews here are drawing comparisons to that record. When it comes to Tusk, and without the context of its predecessor, I enjoyed it for what it is. Even if you can hear some of the "blank check, do what you want" aspect of the way this album was made, I definitely don't get the sense that it's really that avant-garde, the instrumentation is middling (with the exception of some great bass at times), and the lyrics are whatever, but it still works. I didn't feel the need to switch off the record even with the fact it's a double LP.

Fleetwood Mac in their golden era. Top stuff. Seemed to like the Stevie Nicks stuff the most. Either way, a cool variety of songs with the different songwriters in the band, some better than others.

Never listened to this before, so happy that it came up. It's less experimental than advertised - more just a break with their earlier sound. And it sometimes reminds me of late Beatles, if only in the sense that it seems like there are several songwriters operating independently from each other. It's a long album and not everything works, but there's great stuff on here, and it's a strong four stars.

2.2/5 Nothing amazing, nothing horrible.

Not one of my favorites by them but it's a good one. It wouldn't be on this list if it weren't.

Very good sound 8:10

the ledge ofc but we alreadyknew that :)

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.

Rumours með Fleetwood Mac er líklegast ein af þeim plötum sem ég set oftast á þegar ég veit ekki hvað mig langar að hlusta á. Ég set ekki aðrar plötur með þeim þannig að þetta var góð tilbreyting. Frábært stöff en ég set fjórar bara af því að ég veit hvað þau eiga inni með Rumours.

Such a broad range of songs with the through-line that is Fleetwood Mac’s musical synergy. I wouldn’t say any singular song blew me away, but together it’s such a solid—often soothing, sometimes electrifying—collection of songs. Strong four! STAND-OUT SONG: “Brown Eyes” HONORABLE MENTIONS: “Sara”, “Never Make Me Cry”

(6/7) some strong stuff on here

There's a great single-disc album here.

A bit conflicted by this album because this album was really consistent it didn’t have the heights of rumours, it also didn’t have some of the cheese of it either, definitely a welcome listen because I’ve never heard this album before but again why 2 albums from the Buckingham/nicks era and no Peter agree era

Decent albums. A bit hit and miss. They were clearly trying to follow up on the success of Rumours but could catch lightning in a bottle this time

So this one doesn't measure up anywhere near to Rumours, but what does? They took some risks on here, some worked, some not so much, but there's a good bit to like.

Sous-côté par rapport à Rumours qui est sur-côté

그냥 평범했다. It was just ordinary.

Worth a listen

fleetwood mac lets go. Good listen. I feel like I should listen to it again cause I wasn't really paying attention but still dug the vibes. Can't be mad about Fleetwood Mac.

Love this album. My favs are Sara, what makes you think your the one, Not that funny. Off course Tusk is an all time classic. And never forget. Great band!

I really try to like Felletwood Mac but in the end it is mediocre

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

Kind of a hard one to rate for me - we listen to a lot of Fleetwood Mac around our house and I know this one sort of caught a lot of flak around the time of release for being (which I think was very intentional) "not Rumours". Each main songwriter has their own unique flavors here so it doesn't really sound cohesive as an album per se. Buckingham gets weird and I do sort of love that in parts, especially The Ledge which I find super catchy in a very offbeat way. The McVie songs are more just solid, pretty in parts, but think I'd probably lean Nicks for the best songs on the record overall (Sara in particular).

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.

In the unfortunate position of following up Rumours, Tusk doesn't offer anything to convince me I shouldn't just be listening to it's predecessor. After a monumental success it's impossible to recapture the magic, in no small part because you're given unlimited support and money. The record-breaking budget of Tusk is more an indictment than an endorsement. Much like George Lucas's Star Wars prequels, this album demonstrates what is lost when creative constraints don't exist. I don't know how to create good music, but I know to continue making it requires constant criticism of the old and reinvention of the new, and Tusk doesn't do either.

There's a lot of texture and interesting things going on with the production that's a bit more experimental than their other albums, which I dig, even though I miss having an obvious hit (other than the title song).

This album is really pleasant, I like it.

Fleetwood Mac is probably the most popular band I’m not that familiar with. I’ve listened to Rumours before but the rest is terra incognita. Tusk isn’t quite as hard-hitting but it’s interesting. I’ll have to listen to it some more before I can really get a feel for it.

Clear step down from their best couple albums but the Nix-led ballads here are still highlights, Sara and Sisters of the Moon especially. 3/4 border

Again, not bad, not good. Just meh. Looking forward to better fleetwood mac albums tho but this aint it.

Some have described parts of this record as manic or with high tension. This made me actually look forward to this record. This is what made me push through the first few songs which were just plain boring. Than I realised, some of these are supposed to be "the manic" ones such as the ledge. Apperently manic sounds like a room of white 50 year olds linedancing. I have to give it to them "the Ledge" and "That's enough for me" are the highlights, but only because the rest of the songs are dreadfully boring and unispired. No surprise this is one of their less popular record. But the question remains, why is it on this list? I am not even going to pretend I finished this monsterously long record. I have better things to do. 2/10 which is a point for every song I didn't hate.

Fleetwood Mac was one of those artists If never gotten around to actually listen. I have to ti say, it is nice and good, but it honestly feels a little boring. Nothing wrong with it, but not particularly memorable to me.

Underwhelming to say the least as a fan of their other work. Also underwhelming considering the production budget for this thing.

This is my second FM album and I feel like their overall sound just doesn't land on my ears right. Their music is solid, but I don't feel like I'm hearing what everyone else hears when they give them praise. Maybe I just need to listen to them more? Anyways, this was a good listen. I found that Nick's songs were typically the ones I liked. I would give this a 3.5, but I'm okay with a 4.

the punk songs were lowkey bad but the more classic fleetwood sounding songs were mostly groovy

6.10.26 really good album but i got very distracted while listening bc i learned my ac will be broken for two months. anyway prob my fave so far Favorite Song: The Ledge Rating: 4.5/5

It’s a bit too long but edited down it would be much better regarded. I’m giving it 5/5 because the good stuff is really great and for the bravery to go in a different direction after releasing such a commercially successful album as Rumours. The easy and obvious choice for them would have been to churn out more of the same, which probably would have been OK but a lot less interesting than this.

Me he guardado Sara y Angel. Suena muy bien, pero no he terminado de llamar mi atención. He leído que está considerado su álbum más experimental. Es cierto que no tiene canciones fáciles de escuchar, aunque a día de hoy no suena especialmente raro.

Not anywhere near Rumors but still pretty solid. Saved a couple songs

A wonderful album which is almost ruined by Lindsey Buckingham's whingey interludes. Honestly, I know he has written some amazing songs otherwise, but on this album he's insufferable.

Ambitious album with some mis-steps. Generally liked it

Good vibes but that's it. Liked "Beautiful Child" and "Walk a Thin Line".

empezó bien aunque es un flow muy tranquilo, la calificación es muy canción por canción, me parece que hay unas que cambian mi opinión y así pero en general le pondría 2,5 o 3

Fleetwood Mac is very hit or miss for me. Or maybe I should say hit or meh. This album is primarily meh.

Goddamit, I KNOW I wrote a review for this, and it's not here. That pisses me off. As did this album. I mean TUSK. What a great fucking name for an album or a band. In either case, though, it should be a fantasy-oriented stoner doom-psyche metal band/song, not . . . whatever this album is.

I've never listened to this record before, probably because I really don't like the title track. That made it a fun trip since I like Fleetwood Mac on balance. I found a ton to like on two listens and will take more spins to unpack it. Seems to me like Lindsey is the person most ready to turn the corner. The fact that they barely ever sing together on this record seems very real to me.

This was a real pleasure to listen to -- think I'd never heard the whole thing. It's a pretty soft 5, and probably should have been a single album. But it hit me at the right moment. One other note: I tend to prefer the McVie & Buckingham songs to the Nicks songs, but "Storms" is great. Maybe my favorite Stevie song now.

3/5 - This is what a blank check of coke sounds like. Schizophrenic and overly long, but has its moments.

I had higher hopes for this album as Tusk is one of my non-negotiable no skip songs. I think my mindset definitely changed the real rating.

one of my favorite bands of all time 🫶🏼

Title track is great but the album in general falls short compared to their better work. 3/5

It's not Rumours but it has it's moments.

Love Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nick vocals are unreal. Tight band funky rock songs 😎 Not quite the passion of Rumours but still good album

Tusk has a reputation problem. Because the title track is so famous, and because it follows Rumours, it’s often discussed as an act of rebellion. The story tends to be that Fleetwood Mac reached the summit of mainstream success and immediately decided to make something perverse. Listening to the whole album, that explanation feels inadequate. The more interesting question is why a band at the peak of its powers became so interested in accommodation. Not compromise. Accommodation. By 1979, the musical landscape had altered dramatically. Punk, new wave and post-punk had challenged assumptions about arrangement, rhythm, production and performance. Yet Fleetwood Mac’s response was not to abandon their identity. Instead they attempted to enlarge it. The album’s most remarkable feature is not Buckingham’s experimentation, though there is plenty of that. It is the band’s ability to absorb those experiments without losing coherence. Throughout the record, new ideas are admitted into the system: nervous new-wave rhythms, buried vocals, unusual instrumental textures, repetitive structures, songs that seem more interested in atmosphere than conventional narrative. Yet the centre holds. Part of this comes from the extraordinary quality of the musicianship. Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, in particular, function as the album’s infrastructure. Their contribution is less flashy than Buckingham’s or Nicks’s, but without them the record would likely fragment. Again and again, songs are allowed to stretch because the rhythm section provides an unshakeable foundation beneath them. What becomes apparent over time is that Fleetwood Mac are no longer functioning as a conventional rock band. They have become an ecosystem. Christine McVie writes concise and elegant songs that seem almost effortless. Stevie Nicks contributes pieces that operate through image, atmosphere and emotional weather. Buckingham constantly probes at the boundaries of form and arrangement. The achievement lies not in any one of these approaches, but in the fact that all three can coexist. The album is also notable for the degree to which meaning is carried by arrangement rather than lyric. Many of its most memorable moments are musical rather than verbal: the arguing pianos of Sara, the tremolo ripples of Brown Eyes, the stacked vocal textures throughout, the peculiar decision-making that seems present in almost every track. Listening becomes less an exercise in interpreting songs than in observing choices. This is perhaps why the title track functions more successfully within the album than outside it. Heard as a single, Tusk can sound like a provocation. Heard after the preceding eighteen tracks, it feels less like a departure than a culmination. The album has spent over an hour demonstrating how Fleetwood Mac might accommodate new ideas; the title track simply makes that argument impossible to ignore. The closing Never Forget then performs a final act of framing. It does not retreat from the album’s experimentation. Instead it quietly reminds the listener that the traditional Fleetwood Mac virtues remain intact. The message is not “we’re sorry” or even “don’t worry”. It is simply that expansion and continuity are not opposites. The usual comparison is the White Album. There is some truth in that. Both records are fascinated by the tensile strength of a successful group. But where the White Album often asks how much divergence a band can survive, Tusk asks how much change a band can absorb. The answer turns out to be rather a lot.

Great album. Can you go wrong with Fleetwood Mac.

Fleetwood Mac is like pizza. Even “bad” pizza is pretty damn good

A terrifically fun shambolic mess with an inspired Lindsay Buckingham going off the rails, it’s my favorite Nicks/Buckingham era Mac record, the “White Album” to Rumors’ “Sgt Peppers”. It’s all over the road in the best possible way

Dope

Good.

Nice melodies but after a while repetitive. Won't add to my library

No es muy mi estilo pero está bueno, tocara escucharlo más veces

A great album, although I argue that Rumors is still there best. Highlights: "Save Me A Place" and "Sister's of the Moon"

#960. I don't know if I would classify this as one of the albums you need to hear before you die, but I would classify it as one of the albums. 3/5: acceptable.

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

Not necessarily a Fleetwood Mac girly, but I can certainly appreciate me some Fleetwood Mac from time to time.

So much cocaine.

Fleetwood Mac are fucking excellent. I’ve only listened to Rumours before and this wasn’t far off in terms of quality, and I liked how there was more electric guitar this time around. Excellent guitar, drums, vocals, and vibes throughout. Marking down a star fairly harshly because it’s a tad too long - if a few songs were chopped off the end, the album would be better for it.

A complete change from Rumours which didn’t meet with approval from all fans. I loved it!!

The chemistry on this record is incredible. You can kind of hear the creative friction and fusion as the same time. I like the direction they took this, I can see that they were inspired by post-punk and The Beach Boys. I'm not sure they really landed that sound, but what they came up with is really incredible. The guitar tones, the weirdness and creativity in songs is so good. I like how they're playing folk or blues but trying to be Talking Heads while also having grounded Stevie Nicks ballads. Its good.

Great double album.

Good for people that like Fleetwood Mac. The downside is it epitomizes everything people dislike about Fleetwood Mac too.

They make beautiful music, all very ahead of its time, and it always surprises me. The one thing that bothers me is the lack of ‘variety’. Essentially what I mean by this is that on a first time listen, a lot of the songs sort of blend into each other. You could call this cohesive style, but many bands, like Radiohead, the Beatles, the Clash, do this without it feeling repetitive, even on first listen. And I know Fleetwood Mac can do it.. I’ve listened to Rumours. Apart from that, super good, especially for a double disk! Incredible. Will be listening again!

A big album, but no songs I recognize. Still it was enjoyable

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.

3,2/5

Could go either way on this to 3 or 4. But giving benefit of doubt

An experiment that doesn't prove a hypothesis is still a successful experiment.

Wasn’t as familiar with this one, but still fun.

Fleetwood Mac has such a nice sound, and the different vocalists keep things fresh even across a 70+min album. I feel that the album should've ended with Tusk, but otherwise this was an excellent ride. 4.5 rounded down.

This felt like a fun collection of more polished demos, but I'm not sure that there was a consistent thread to connect them. As such, it could have probably benefitted from editing to trim a few of the tracks out. So, I'm not sure I want to round that 4.5 stars up.

Following up Rumours has to be impossible…and while I don’t think this comes near its quality, there’s still some good songs sprinkled throughout. Likes: Sara; Storms; Angel

ufff amo fleetwood mac, los amo, no es mi album favorito de ell@s pero los amo

4.5 favs: storms, sara, sisters of the moon, tusk

260526 13:34 3.5

It's classic fleetwood Mac, cant complain really

J'adore le groupe, mais cet album n'est pas une grande réussite 2.5+/5

Unique coming off of Rumors I think the band and the money that came from that I think this album was their work of love basically doing what they felt. 4 stars actually enjoyed it.

I didn’t like this at first, the first few songs that way Lindsay’s voice was recorded/mixed and some of the sharper edged sounds. But as the album went on it continued to grow on me and by the end I loved the back half of the album. Not as consistent as rumours, but still very good and I think this will reward me on re listens.

It's not Rumors, but it was okay

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.

Really, really good. Surprised.

honestly kinda mid

Too long, not many great songs but not terrible

Longer than it should be, but there's a lot of pleasant songs on here. Everyone can find something that they might like. Nothing groundbreaking though.

When you’re reviewing a new album each day, there are a lot that don’t get the time they deserve, or that you just take at face value and move on from. Had I done that here I would have missed out. Now I don’t pretend to be musically inclined, and I didn’t really appreciate this album until towards the end and upon a second listen through with lyrics and reading about its creation. Beautiful Child was the standout to me and probably my favorite each time. But wow, I learned so much here, about the band, their inspiration, musical experimentation, etc. Huge credit to Spotify’s Song DNA (I strongly recommend exploring when available). Ultimately, this album delivered exactly what I want from this journey. Something new in the old, discovery and appreciation I would have otherwise passed by, learning more about the artistry and techniques that made the album unique for the time, and an invitation to explore more about the musicians and their other works.

Even if it feels like an odd one out from the Fleetwood Mac discography, it's still a Fleetwood Mac album. I can't think of a track that really stood out as best but the music quality is still there.

is better than “Rumours” in every single aspect

вроде все хорошо и приятно звучит, но ни одна песня не зацпила настолько чтобы ее сохранить...

Funny that the title track is the last on the album and it's kinda weird!

Is it self-indulgently overlong? Yep. Does it suffer the usual curse of double-albums of hiding a better single album somewhere in there? Yep. But do I forgive a lot of the bloat for that title track…? Absolutely, yep.

La force de vouloir en faire trop ne garantit pas le succès

Much much slower paced than the previous album obviously but it wasn’t too bad, 20 songs to make up an hour and fourteen minutes is alright, some of the songs I felt may have dragged on slightly but other than that not too bad I thought the guitar was quite good in some songs. My top three are Over and Over, Sara and Sisters of the Moon

really long but good

I hadn’t listened to this album for a long time; and not very much, for that matter. Listening to it with fresh ears, I liked it quite a bit more than I expected to, even though some of the songs are really longer than they need to be. I would really like to give it 3.5 stars, but I will round up to four.

Weet wanneer je moet stoppen met nummers op een album stoppen, no way dat dit album 20 nummers nodig had. Verder een prima album dat beter had geweest als het wat leaner was

Lang niet zo gefocust en consistent als Rumours, maar genoeg individuele mooie nummers om 4 sterren te kunnen strooien.

Listening to this on my computer through headphones and it is definitely the wrong choice. I know very little of Fleetwood Mac beyond Rumours and that is probably a shame. One almost perfect album shouldn't be a way to decide about a band and a legacy. This is the album after. Another double album in a row. Just finished Exile on Main Street where it is the last gasp of rock for a band who is done and then this double of a band falling apart and trying to distance themselves. Heroin for the Stones and cocaine for Fleetwood Mac. I don't have any context for this album other than against Rumours. So, here we go. Mostly thoughts as I listen. I have heard The Hedge before. Something about it reminds me of Mumford and Son. There is a brightness and trebly quality to the sound here. Definitely some production tricks with the whispers. So far not as experimental as I have been lead to believe. Might also be due to so much music that I have heard over the years. Way brighter than Exile that I just finished yesterday. This is like too much light off the water on a summer's day rather than the muffle under water. I really wished I wasn't using Spotify for this. I wish I had Tidal on my work computer. I may end up using my phone for the remainder of the time that I listen away from my home. I just found out that Camper Van Beethoven did a whole cover album of this. I will be listening to that as I really dig David Lowery. I can imagine that it will be more experimental than what I have heard so far. Sometimes these songs sound like they belong to another album. They share some similar DNA of sounds but from somewhere else. This is Storms that makes me wonder about this. I like this song. Very much jingly jangly. That's all for everyone seems like a half a song. Maybe something that Andy Patridge was working on for XTC. Something that didn't make the Beatles influenced Skylarking. Sometimes this feels like the Travelling Wilburys with more treble. This feels like a coke bender between frantic come ups and mellow comedowns, never spending enough time to fully follow an idea to an end. Either getting bored or sliding into a more mellow tune. Sisters of the Moon. Solo at the end was not as wanky as I expected. Self indulgent but only going so far. Angel feels Proud Mary like to me. That's Enough for Me reminds me that I should re-listen to T-Rex. Something Bolanesque about this one. Brown Eyes the first song that feels really experimental to me probably due to the weirdos I listen to. This song seems to be perpetually ending on the next beat; like falling forward walking upstairs. Never Make Me Cry feels like a full song. Probably the first fully formed one. I'm starting to think it isn't that bad of thing to be like this. This becomes apparent on Honey Hi which sounds like a Rumours reject. It also sounds like a rock/pop version of minimal techno with repeating phrases over simple melodies and beats. Maybe just a pop version of experimental techno? I hate the piano in Beautiful Child. I can't say why. The first song I want to skip but I hold out. Tusk - Another one that feels like an experiment. T-Rex, Tom Waits or a demo. All feel at home here. This is a wandering, meandering time of someone lost and trying to find a way. Some great production and some bad decisions. I would lean to a 3.75 for the shining moments. --- I have read a number of the reviews and while it looks as if I have been leaning towards some themes. I like to listen to records as if they are intended to be heard together and have some sort of cohesion. It doesn't have to be sonically. It could be thematic. This just seems to be a whiplash mood and wanting to do something different. I don't find it as trashy, disconnected or experimental as others. There are some cool production tricks and a definite impact of substances on the recording. I will give it a 4. I will probably dip in sometime in the future when I listen to some alt country, 80/90s prog rock or some more organic techno. --- I finished listening to the Camper Van Beethoven cover. It is a great companion piece to this. I will definitely be listening to that again.

Big, weird, and scattershot. About twice as long as it should be. It’s a clear downgrade from Rumours, but I do appreciate the boldness here and the refusal to make a basic sequel.

It's Fleetwood Mac.

Honestly a bit of a sad album but so good and beautiful and emotional at the same time.

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My dad always says that this album is made up of all the songs that didn't make it into Rumours. I tend to agree with him on this one, not as good as Rumours, but still exceptional music.

This probably should have been two albums, but it was still cool to jam for a while. It felt like time slowed down :)

It's definitely no Rumors

old music STO

It was good 🙂👍. My favorites were Over & Over, The Ledge, and Never Forget. Overall, I would give it a 3.9/5! 🍃

3.2

very fun. great production but lot of filler tracks and very dragged out. beach boys smile works vibes

Jamais écouté avant. Impossible de ne pas comparer Tusk avec son immédiat prédécesseur, Rumours, véritable bijou de perfection pop qui, j'imagine, finira bien par faire partie de cette liste. Comparaison d'autant plus évidente que la volonté de s'éloigner le plus possible des recettes qui ont fait le succès de l'album précédent est ici flagrante : sans être totalement expérimental, les membres de Fleetwood Mac tentent, avec un succès aléatoire, de se réinventer, en s'inspirant notamment de la vague post-punk alors à son apogée. Du coup, Tusk est un album bordélique, trop long pour son propre bien, mais où transparaît par bribes le songwriting génial de Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham et Christine McVie. Inconsistant, oui, mais charmant, malgré tout. Top : Sisters of the Moon Flop : Not That Funny

Favorite Song: Sisters of the Moon

Too many songs, they all kinda blend into one towards the end. Great music though

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

Sure I’ve heard the millions of singles, but I’ve never listened to a full album. I think I’d like Rumors a lot. I liked this one, but I didn’t love it. I liked Not That Funny and Sisters Of The Moon.

Fun to learn about some of the background of this album. Makes me like it more to know that it was kind of against the grain of the major label. Christine's vocals are so underrated. Love the production on "Not That Funny" and "Over & Over". I haven't listened to this album for a few years, but I feel like the standouts are completely different now than they were before.

This is just a bit too long for me, and I'm not sure it's something I'd deliberately listen to ever. But it's good?

This album is interesting, but doesn't have much listening value beyond that. It's also way too long. I don't need a double album for whatever this is.

This album is boring. That's my main takeaway. It's my first Fleetwood Mac album and it doesn't give me hope for the other, much more popular one, Rumours. This was the most ok album ever.

Estoy seguro que debe haber mejores, es el primero que escucho de Fleetwood. Stevie es toda la magia Nota: 3.4

3.5

4.5 A few weaker songs, mostly the more experimental Buckingham stuff. Could have done a shorter album that would almost be comparable to rumours out of the better stuff though

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

Maybe the best fleetwood mac b-sides record ever? I don't mean that as an insult this just feels like their version of the white album where they just got all the ideas out there in a non cohesive but fun listen.

Sara and Tusk are highlights for sure

Top 5 albums of all time.

It’s a really good album, but I probably need to listen to it a few more times to fully appreciate it.

Kinda boring and wayy too long. Didnt even finish it

The Ledge is unrivaled

Amazing. Timeless

Post Peter Green Fleetwood Mac take the most middle of the road elements of country and rock and combine them to make something blander than either genre achieves separately. Beautifully produced music for people who don't really like music. I almost gave this 2 stars for being better than Rumors.

Mó paz esse início, curti. Parece que não tem uma identidade única no álbum, me confunde num review mais por cima... foda huahuauhauh. Gostei da Angel, baixinho legal. Todas as músicas são boas, as vezes simples, mas bonitas, com alma. A falta de uma identidade no geral me incomodou um pouco, não sei por que, talvez por ser muito grande. Acho que merece 4*, se destacou mais que muito 3* que ouvi.

Meandering and boring. 🥱

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

Odd collection. I remember the fuss about the album when it came out. Mostly mundane music

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.

Tusk is kind of the anti-Rumours to me. Rumours is instantly pleasant, catchy, coherent and full of hits. Tusk takes some time to digest and is very inconsistent in terms of theme and sound. Rumours is the anger, passion, and immediate emotion of a great relationship going sour. Tusk is the hangover and the struggle to put the pieces back together. But something about that grows on you. I find myself enjoying Tusk a little bit more every time I listen. It’s bloated, and some of the middle songs are forgettable, but I think as a whole Tusk deserves more credit than it gets. 4/5.

For such a long album, it does not get stale. I went into this very much a fan of Fleetwood Mac, but I did not know any songs off of this album. The fact that they can rely on so many different vocalists is really a delight. "Sara" and "Sisters of the Moon" really stood out to me, this makes me want to listen to all of their discography and discover what else I am missing. I am guessing they have albums I would enjoy even more than this one.

solid

This really is Fleetwood Mac’s White Album….

I guess I'll rate this a four, I don't know, like a weak four, it's good, a bit long, Sara and Tusk are great, none of the tracks I dislike really, it's a pleasant listen.

This was a letdown. The album "Rumors" is legendary, but this one? Not at all.. To my ears it was barely OK. "Sara" & "Beautiful Child" were both perfectly fine songs. I think I liked "Angel" and "Brown Eyes". Despite it being tonally so different than their other stuff, "Tusk" was pretty good too. The rest of the record just felt so unfocused. Songs like, "The Ledge", "Save Me a Place", "What Makes You..", "That's All..", "Not That Funny..", & "That's Enough..", were all big misses. The entire production just seemed scattered and all over the place. (2/5) I'm not coming back to this one. This came about in the wake of "Rumors", so maybe they were trying to chase that lightning? Sadly, that's almost never how it works and it definitely doesn't with such an aimless piece like this. I can see it's inclusion for this list, as it resembles (in spirit) the Beach Boy's post-"Pet Sounds" trainwreck, "Surf's Up". It's another example of entropy hard at work -- a dazzling mess of a follow up to a legendary album. Sometimes people should just leave when they get to the top rather than ride out the fall... I agree with this album's inclusion to a 'must hear' list, but it doesn't mean I like it.

This one's tough. Fleetwood Mac is one of my favorite bands (Rumours was the album I learned to drop a needle on), and I've tried a few times over the years to get into this one. Following two of the most successful pop rock albums of the 70s with an art rock double LP just feels "experimental" to the point of over indulgence, particularly on Lindsey Buckingham's part. Many of the tracks feel unfinished, as though an idea for a longer more, meaningful piece, while others feel over polished or too long. The lack of traction for any single aside from Sara speaks volumes, despite a robust critical reception. Still, there's enough here to cobble together a single album that would have been respectable if not great, so it lands at a rather disappointing 3/5 for me.

Variety: 3 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 3 Emotionality: 3 = 3.8 rounded up to a 4 "Come on, you guys are like Fleetwood Mac. You break up, you get back together again, and then you go out and make a great album… like The Best of Fleetwood Mac" This is one I've never heard all the way through. Hell, I'm not even sure what else I have heard aside form the title track. I didn't really appreciate Fleetwoood Mac until my 30s ( aside from "Everywhere" - that's always been and remains a favorite) I don't think, and came to love Rumours, as well as a handful of others from a random selection of albums before and after that one very late in the game. I think their hits that got played on the radio were just a given, sort of like The Eagles when I was a kid. This is pretty much a blank check album for them I think. After the massive success of Rumours they could do anything they want, and like a lot of bands they decided to splurge creatively and try to make the masses listen to their more idiosyncratic ideas. That often backfires, but lets see what 46 years or so does for this one. THE TRACKS Side one "Over & Over" - Some country-fried guitars bring us into this low and slow number. While both McVie and Nicks are great in their own way, McVie will always be my favorite of the two. This is the band taking their sweet time, knowing full well they don't have to grab you right away, and sets the table for a more drawn out and patience testing album. Will that test turn out in their favor though. I hope so, if this pleasant little thing is any indication. "The Ledge" - This weird, jumpy little number seems like Buckingham heard some Joe Jackson or Devo or something on the radio and was like "I can do that." It feels like it's heading in the direction he'd go with solo stuff like "Holiday Road." This is pretty catchy nonetheless, and would call it a successful, if risky swing. "Think About Me" - We go back to some tried and true safe territory on this one. Fine enough, but nothing especially hooky here ( though the band almost has a solid level of always having some decent vocal hooks and harmonies) and feels more like a jam piece with no particular direction. "Save Me a Place" - This one reminds me a bit of the odder stuff Paul McCartney would have been doing several years earlier on Ram. O'm a sucker for all that light fare though. Kind of a campfire singalong vibe here, and I dig it. "Sara" - We had to wait five tracks to get the first Stevie Nicks showcase, but I guess there's a lot more opportunities on this wahle of an album ,so no biggie. I have heard this one before though, so it must have been pushed as a single. The kind of beautiful layered stuff I expect from the band, and would not sound entirely out of play on Rumours. Which actually makes me wonder if any of the stuff here were maybe reworked leftovers from that. Not that it would be a knock against them. Ton of bands do that. But in particular I think these guys are known for it. At least Buckingham and Nicks when they joined up brought a a lot of their previous material over and retooled it for the band. Side two "What Makes You Think You're the One" - Another big swing from Buckngham as it seems like he's swimming in the same water as David Byrne with his off kilter delivery. Again though, I think it works. It's a bit shaggy and unproduced so sounds weirder coming from this band than it might from anyone else, but still pretty damn good. "Storms" - I was worried at first that this one wasn't going to build towards anything, but eventually we got a bit of a rise. This is the sort of thing I could imagine being cover song fodder for any number of 2010s indie rockers, and could become gold in Cyndi Lauper's hands especially I think. As is, it's nice enough but that's all. Or in some alternate universe where Buckingham and Nicks had continued on as a duo, this would have had a place on their bizarro version of Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights. "That's All for Everyone" - If Buckingham was referencing McCartney earlier, he seems to be drawing from the essence of Lennon on this one. I love how busy this is. It holds up incredibly well, and probably would not blink an eye if I had heard this blind and someone told me it was a deep cut from some modern-ish neo-psych pop act like Olivia Tremor Control maybe. "Not That Funny" - Late period Kinks pulled this sort of chameleonesque thing off much better I think. Buckingham takes another swing, but this time misses the mark ever so slightly. He goes too hard with the vocals here, but despite that I still kind of like it. Just not their best. "Sisters of the Moon" - The Macs try their hand at a gothy disco number and... it's fine? This is sort of the flip side of The Rolling Stone's "Miss You" in that it starts from the same place and goes in a vastly different place. Both have that disco beat, but where "Miss You" is tight and hoppy, and bluesy bit of fun, this is sprawling and self serious. Side three "Angel" - Another return to the old sound here, and to my ears kind of apes the chorus of "Werewolves of London" in the main guitar line ( I just had to loo this up, and can't find anyone else making this connection, but John McVie and Mick Fleetwood both play on the Zevon track!). More middle of the raid, decent stuff, but nothing special. "That's Enough for Me" - Even more of a preview of solo Buckingham sound we would get on "Holiday Road" I think. This one is so much that that it even seems like he could have just wandered into it after trying to replicate this. This is fun stuff. It almost sounds like it wants to be a zydeco song, but with completely different instrumentation. Wonder if there are any covers out there that would scratch that itch. "Brown Eyes"- Slowing back down a bit for some Steely Dan-ish organ driven sounds. It stays in the same groove the whole time, and while interesting, never quite delivers any sort of musical catharsis. "Never Make Me Cry" - This is the kind of thing few people can get away with making me like. McVie takes an interesting, but sappy idea and adds some real depth with her vocals. Linda Ronstadt or early Tom Waits could have had a great take on this. "I Know I'm Not Wrong" - Everyone is firing on all cylinders here. We got interesting, catchy music with some airy, unique harmonies ad backing vocals to support Buckingham's lead. That fat synth sound and the heavilu processed ( I think?) drums sound almost like another band. Side four "Honey Hi" - This was as light and thin as anything on the album, both composition and lyric-wise, but damn if I didn't find myself tapping a toe along to it. "Beautiful Child" - Nicks does a fine job here, as always, but this one was kind of a mood killer for me. The best parts of this were Nicks's build towards the end and the subtle, simple piano accompaniment. "Walk a Thin Line" - I can hear a little bit of Beatles influence on this one. This was pretty and full of nice hooks. "Tusk" - But this one is completely made up of hooks. Some kind of weird phantasmagoric marching band ( the USC Trojans marching band literally played on this track) bursts into the middle of this dark and moody number and everyone gets mixed up and blends together and in the chaos who knows where one ends and the other begins. "Never Forget" -Solid closer with Christine McVie shining once again and elevating material that's maybe not their greatest. This sucker's an inch away from being a Captain and Tennille song. HIGHLIGHTS - "Over & Over" - "The Ledge" - "Save Me a Place" - "Sara" - "What Makes You Think You're the One" - "That's All for Everyone" - "That's Enough for Me" - "Never Make Me Cry" - "I Know I'm Not Wrong" - "Honey Hi" - "Walk a Thin Line" - "Tusk" MIDLIGHTS - "Think About Me" - "Storms" - "Not That Funny" - "Sisters of the Moon" - "Angel" - "Brown Eyes" - "Beautiful Child" - "Never Forget" LOWLIGHTS FINAL THOUGHTS The weirder stuff worked best for me on this. My admiration for Fleetwood Mac continues to grow, especially as I hear more and more of their back catalog. I definitely prefer the stuff after Buckingham and Nicks joined, but there's still a ton of good older material. This one can't hold a candle to Rumours, but there's not much that can. I appreciate them stretching their legs here and trying new sounds more than anything, and there's more than a whole album's worth of great tunes on here. The problem is that they're spread out amongst a lot of decent to good filler. Still there's a LOT more to like than dislike on here. It never approaches classic level for me, but it was a damn solid listen with a lot of surprises. And who doesn't like listening to songs from a band you like for the first time. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Those highlights by themselves would make this a legit high 4-star album for me FURTHER LISTENING - The Original Soundtrack by 10cc - Moving Targets by Flo & Eddie - Hotel California by The Eagles - Law and Order by Lindsay Buckingham - Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks - Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood

This is a new listen for me. Fleetwood Mac is one of those bands from the past that has only ever existed on classic rock radio and playlists for me. Gave this one a morning listen and kinda mentally checked out right around "Sara." The somber opening number "Over & Over" followed by the atrocious sounding "The Ledge" as well as the annoying sounds on "What Makes You Think You're the One" just did not immediately capture my attention. Also, I wasn't in the mood for discovery listening. Maybe I needed more sleep, who knows? I hit "Storms" though and that one landed. It was a highlight. So did "Sisters of the Moon" And by the end of the album "Beautiful Child" choked me up and "Tusk" was interesting enough to be worth revisiting later in the day. In the end this was truly an album that was dependent on my mood and not one that imposed its mood on me. That's the neat thing about music, I think. Sometimes you can just hear the muse at work and the artist can conjure the right emotions and reactions and sometimes they're only good enough to reflect back to you what you bring into the listening experience yourself. There is competent musicianship within this album, but too few occasions where Fleetwood Mac took me with them. At least for my tastes. Also, I can respect an artist that stretches their creative freedom after such a monumental success. Even a novice like me can hear the experimentation going on here. I can respect it but, I may not always enjoy it.

As a response to psychedelic rock this brilliant group invented anesthetic rock

Studio: we've never had such success. Just make rumours again. We'll bankroll any amount! Fleetwood Mac: Oh you want rumours again? How about the opposite. This hit in a really weird way. Rumours is a much easier listen. This one goes a bit long at times and isn't all perfect but there's a lot that stands out. Tusk. Sara. Sister's of the Moon. Storms are all easy stand outs. Some like What Makes You Think You're the One even are interesting listens. Cool album and I like how experimental this feels vs the success they had just had. I almost love this more just for the creativity it shows when it would've been easier to just follow the formula they wrote and cash cheques.

I really enjoyed this listen. It's not a perfect album and that's one of the reasons I liked it. I think a there was a quite a bit of music in the 2010s influenced by Fleetwood Mac. Some tracks that stood out for me. The Ledge Storms Sisters of the Moon I'd like to re visit this one.

Best song is “Sara” and “Tusk.” “Beautiful Child” is a newfound love. I really love Stevie Nick’s vocals.

I think this would be a lot stronger if they cut out the weaker tracks and just made this a significantly shorter album. There’s some great songs on here but also some quite boring ones. The title track is a stand out and I wish they’d done more in that vein.

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.

Too lengthy, I found my mind starting to drift while listening. I don't really see why this is is rated so high - in my books they've released stronger efforts, such as „Tango in the night“.

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.

Sara makes this album for me, I’ve always rated it as a song. I’m a massive Fleetwood mac fan tbh and specially from this era. Although it’s no rumours, I still enjoyed the album, I’m expecting rumours to be on this list at some point. It’s more of a b side album but I think it shows how creative they were.

Not as good as rumours for me but still got some great tracks on it and I'm a guy who really loves 70s productions... Just a little bit too long of an album for me, it can get tiring!

It's too bad this album sounds so boring and bland. far too long for my liking as well. I only really liked maybe 2 songs at most - The Ledge was a good one. too rough sounding for me to really enjoy this whole album lol.

Getting this album a bit more now, I feel the strengths are in the two girls songs, they may be more low key then rumours but the hit the same deaths in emotion Kinda like what blond was for me, more low key but deeper and maybe more long lasting

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

3 de 5 Trabajo arriesgado y experimental, un disco doble que incluye lo-fi, pop, new wave, fusionándolos y creando una pieza ambiciosa desde la perspectiva de producción y arreglos, asi como costosa para producirla. Un trabajo que muestra al grupo en su punto más alto de creatividad. A destacar: Track 1 - Over & Over Track 5 - Sara Track 7 - Storms Track 10 - Sisters of the Moon Track 15 - I Know I’m Not Wrong Track 20 - Never Forget

I ummed and aaaaaahed over this, but I'm gonna give it 5 stars. Every song sung by a woman is fantastic on here, and it contains most of my favourite Fleetwood Mac songs. There's an occasional dud by a man, but I think the quality outweighs the middling 3 songs x

I love Fleetwood Mac. Though, this isn’t my favorite album. It’s pretty good though!

Very long. Too long I would say. Some songs were pretty decent, mostly the tracks were there in the background.

2.5

Just… boring.

los temas están buenos, ninguno desentona y me gusta como laburaron los coros en el disco (a diferencia de temas posteriores de la banda), pero no podés hacer un disco de 20 temas, 0 sentido.

Mot perfect on the Rumors sense, but Mashable brilliance and my favorite album Mac album.

what in the massive downgrade was that

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

Hard to follow Rumours. Great songs. Love Sara and Tusk

I can see why this didn’t do as well as Rumours. Nothing outstanding but equally nothing terrible. Just fair to middling stuff.

Another middle of the road offering with no real highs or low.

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.

I think that coming out after their most iconic album, Rumors, it was hard not to try and step back into that light with Tusk. However, seldom for a few songs, this album just sounds like the scraps from Rumors. I adore Fleetwood Mac, but I would have to skip too many songs to ever pick up this album in particular.

I belong to the unfortunate percentage of the population to have listened copiously to "Rumours" without bothering to give their follow-up album a listen. Thankfully this list has forced me to do so and it is really rather good; even for a first listen in which I probably wasn't able to give my full attention to the second half. It is longer and has a wider range of tracks, that I'll definitely be giving another listen. Favourites: Over & Over The Ledge Sara Tusk

Great

I’m surprised (and excited) I haven’t heard any of these songs before. Different kind of sound for sure and it was all over the place, but I liked it. Althoughhhh too many songs.

Disappointing. Fleetwood Mac-lite. The massive production costs are a sure sign of an artist looking to cover up a void at the heart of the work.

This band is legendary, but this album was kind of all over the place for me. Solid, but not their best!

I listened to this three times. I like Fleetwood Mac a lot but this album isn’t my favorite. Strong neutral.

Weaker Fleetwood Mac album but ok

I was excited to get a Fleetwood Mac album, but then got very disappointed when I realized it was those Fleetwood Mac songs I skip when listening to their stuff.

mt bom pra ficar triste e pra ficar feliz e varias emoções, 4.7 estrelas

n é melhor que Rumours mas é muito bom tbm

Love this ine

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.

I’ve never really got into Fleetwood Mac beyond Rumours, which is just hit after hit and genuinely superb. Every track feels purposeful and it manages to be both cohesive and varied at the same time. It’s a brilliant album and a tough benchmark for anything to live up to. So going into Tusk, I was interested to see how it would compare. Straight away, it feels like a very different kind of record. Where Rumours is polished and full of big moments, Tusk is more relaxed, more experimental, and a lot less concerned with delivering obvious hits. It’s got a chilled, almost understated feel to it, and at times it feels like the band are just exploring ideas rather than trying to land big, memorable songs. That approach makes it an easy listen in many ways. It flows nicely, there’s a certain style and atmosphere to it, and you can appreciate the creativity behind it. But at the same time, it doesn’t grab your attention in the same way. It lacks the energy and consistency of Rumours, and there aren’t many tracks that really jump out and demand a replay. Favourite tracks: “Sara” is a really nice, mellow standout and probably the track that stayed with me the most Least favourite tracks: Nothing I disliked. Everything is worth a listen, it just blends together a bit and doesn’t leave a huge impression Album artwork: Cool album cover, I like the dog.

enjoyed this more than the last time i listened to this album 6 or 7 years ago. some greats songs, some not so great songs.

Quite liked it, not my favourite but I like it

POLYCULE TAKEOVER RECORD ACCUSING ME OF WEAPONIZING MY TRAUMA TO GET OUT OF DOING THY DISHES (I'm doing cocaine)

Very good album. Definitely between 4 and 5 stars. The album is quite long, but the point is that it features three pretty different composers. The tracks by McVie are basically very good songs. The tracks by Buckingham are highly experimental and surprising (and are likely to grow on me). The songs by Nicks are, in my view, great. This would be 5 stars, without a doubt, if all songs were written (and sung) by Stevei Nicks.

It's a strange dump of songs and runs a little long. But I like it. All of the songs feel very original, and I never really got bored. Still classic Fleetwood Mac.

doesn't have carry that american cultural suffusion of Rumours, but that also gave it a delightful angle of "a bunch of fleetwood mac i havent heard before". what's funny is how almost every song (on a *big* ol' album) has something to offer. lots of cool sounds and ideas bouncing around. favorite song is probably Sara or The Ledge but i have a great love for the kookiness of the title track Tusk

Rating: 8/10 Maybe it's less perfect and more scattered than Rumours, but I still love it. Its 20 tracks and 74 minutes make for a great soundtrack to a weekend morning and the variety between its three songwriters is quite nice. Sara is amazing, my favorite song, but there's also Storms, the beautiful Sisters of the Moon and Angel, Beautiful Child. Oh, I just listed all of the Stevie Nicks songs so you can guess where I regard her in the band. Christine McVie has some great contributions too though, like with opener Over & Over and Brown Eyes. The only thing about this album is that the Lindsey Buckingham songs are the ones that don't do it for me as much, but they're still enjoyable. It would be a very respectable choice for one's favorite Fleetwood album, so much to love

Fun to listen to a "fresh" album without many hits I've heard before compared to Rumours. Solid album that feels like a complete package and reminds me that Fleetwood Mac just pumps out quality. Still though, felt a little long and drawn out and there wasn't much to pick apart and get excited about specifically (except for Sara - that one was great) 7.1/10

This was a very enjoyable listening experience and I really wouldn't have expected nothing less. The title track is a really underrated Fleetwood Mac song in my personal opinion. It's a good thing to know that the rest of the album is just as good as the song.

Fleetwood Mac Tusk - 4/5 - Positives: A huge soundscape experiment when compared to their commercially safe Rumors Album, It’s ability to cross Each member provides unique and pivotal roles - McVie with her anecdotal ballads, Nicks with her lush and alluring arrangements, Buckingham with his eclectic structure - overall providing a phenomenal experience, Each member provides an insightful amount of depth and internal tension the band would have been experiencing; varying from a number of topics - Nicks with the overall theme of heartbreak, Buckingham with an inner reflection of vulnerability and aggression, And McVie offering a safe space for the listener to reset with themes of everyday emotions commonly resembling affection, On first listen Tusk is incredibly jarring (Especially following Rumours) being scattered with sonic whiplash and lengthy tracks; yes, but don’t let that trick you this vision stands true in my opinion as the band’s Magnum Opus with an addicting amount of replayability and influence to what I’m sure would shape the indie scene. Verdict: 89-90/100. This album I have to say is a timeless classic and worthy to be on the list of Albums To Listen To. Though some would consider a long album I say its tendency to remain unsettled, leaving the user in a state of disarray is met with grounded counterpoint structures that helps the project venture into masterpiece territory and something that could be listened to on repeat for a lifetime depending on what mood you’re in. A near perfect album and one to add to the collection. Favourite Songs: Over & Over Sara What makes You Think That You’re One Storms That’s all for everyone Not That Funny Brown Eyes I know I’m Not Wrong Beautiful Child Walk a Thin Line Tusk

So good, you can really distinguish between different songwriters. However, it’s not rumours

Lots of mac fans obsess about this album but I don't really get why. There's some experimental stuff I suppose, and they aren't going all out for global hits. Stevie is drenched in reverb and Christine offers a couple of gorgeous piano ballads. But mostly i found it boring, and wished it was rumours

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.

An interesting, but slightly bloated, follow up to Rumours. I like the generally soft rock sound that the album has, with Sara and Sisters of the Moon, but most of the more experimental numbers also come off. The title track, complete with USC marching band, is mad, but I like it. It is too long though- whereas Rumours channelled the band’s tensions into a tight and gripping album, Tusk is sprawling, feeling like each member had to have a few songs to keep them satisfied. A very good album, but would have benefited from being more concise.

There was a lot I enjoyed about this album. The varying styles of the songs kept the album interesting throughout its long run time. My three favourite tracks ‘Over and Over’, ‘That’s All for Everyone’ and the title track are all representative of different styles. That being said, it’s an album I like rather than love, which is why I’m giving it 4 stars.

Wisely choosing to not try and recreate ‘Rumours’, this album is a quite different follow-up, not as consistent but still great, with some excellent contributions from all three songwriters. Lindsey Buckingham's more experimental tracks in particular have clearly taken some influence from (post)-punk, while Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie, by contrast, have gone for a much softer, more melodic approach with many of theirs. They're not the flashiest rhythm section but I've also always liked John McVie and especially Mick Fleetwood too. ‘Tusk’ isn’t as good as ‘Rumours’, but it’s certainly still worthy of a very strong 4 stars.

I bought this record off eBay around 2003/4 from a woman in Hawaii. When she mailed it to me, she included a note saying that she used to live on my same street in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn and that it made her feel good that the album was headed back to her old home. It was a nice way to start my relationship with these songs, whose warmth helped me fall in love with vinyl. For many years I would name Tusk, first released 12 days after I was born, as my favorite album of all time, and it may still be. It's the unique double album that has zero skips. The sprawl and scope are immense yet digestible, especially on vinyl - each side is its own complete journey. Lindsey Buckingham outdoes himself in the producer's chair, creating comfort food soft rock and ahead-of-it's-time alien folk rock in equal measure. The reason this band is so good is that it's an extremely rare example of an ensemble where all members have equal status. There is no preference or superiority to the songs of Christine, Stevie or Lindsey, and the rhythm section never takes a back seat either (after all, the band is named after them). A maximized version of that dynamic, shot through with feeling and inspiration, can't help but be absolutely essential.

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

This isn't a good album, but the interesting bits are really good. Shame there's at least an album of very boring and not very well put together material here.

It’s and probably too long but also by turns fragile and brittle and frustrated and a band all up in their feelings about each other and everyone around them. It’s my shit. I do love Fleetwood Mac.

Really liked Tusk(song) in Tusk(album). Fleetwood Mac pretty good me thinks yes yes. Forgot they made The Chain. Ver Gud song.

mt bao

Pretty interesting album. From the start, you know it's going to be a bit different--for one, who opens an album with a soft, ballad-esque track? Especially a double album? Post-Rumours Fleetwood Mac is who, I guess. If they wanted to go for a different experience than their previous efforts, they succeeded. A few of the songs on Tusk sound like they could fit in on an earlier album, but the majority sound and feel like contrasts to what had come before. The shift doesn't feel forced, which makes it more enjoyable than it might be otherwise. I think the worst aspect of the album is that a lot of it feels disjointed. Where contention in the band worked for the better in constructing Rumours, here it just makes everything feel a bit piecemeal. The shifts from one writer/performer to another seem more stark than before. Even within the songs themselves things sometimes feel unpolished or incomplete. There really aren't any tracks I would consider bad, though. Some of them are pretty good, and there are definitely stand out songs. You just have to wade through a lot of seemingly random stuff happening to get to those good ones. I wouldn't say that there's a lot of filler here (as can happen on double albums), but the runtime makes it a more difficult listen. This one is a little tricky for me. I did like it, I just didn't really love it. It's interesting, but in a way that I find hard to quantify. And the end of the day, I'll say it's good, but not great. I think it's worth the listen, though. Overall: 3.25/5

My first concert! Love Fleetwood Mac for all time

I had high expectations and unfortunately they were not met. It’s way too long and contains too much mediocre material. The good stuff really stands out (the first song is beautiful) but is muddied by the average.

Me encantó su dinámica, sus diferencias ritmos , cada canción es un mundo diferente, y sorprendente

second time hearing this and this time i’ve learnt to appreciate this for its experimentation and how different it is to other albums by them, some great tunes, it’s a bit messy but in a structured and beautiful way

No big hits but that made it more interesting.

Listening this time, it feels like it has more filler tracks than Rumours but it's still pretty great.

3.5, not my fave fleetwood mac

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

I like them but wasn't familiar with this album of theirs

Ihan kivaa musaa mutta ei tältäkään levyltä hirveesti mitään superbiisejä kolahtanut

Ei tääkään oikein.. Liian pitkä levy

Vähän humpaks jäi tääki.

Ihan kivaa rallattelua, mutta niin tuhti paketti, että ei saa kyl kokonaisuudesta kunnolla OTETTA.

Jees! Mä kyllä diggailen tästä popimmasta Fleetwood Macista! Ei tämä nyt sentään Rumoursin kaltainen hittikimara ole, mutta sanakirjassa voisi olla Easy Listening -määreen perässä tämä levy. Tosi mukavaa ja toimivaa taustamusaa. Rytmiryhmä puksuttaa kuin juna, ja laulut toimivat.

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

Groovy but i did not like it.

This was…fine. I feel like Stevie’s songs are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I disliked Lindsay’s songs the most because they all sounded kind of garbled to me as far as the mix.

Ok, not my favorite

The songs I like here are the ones that sound the most like Rumors. Rumors better be here.

I listened to this album at a Benefits Fair, waiting in line to exchange a meal voucher for a carnitas and chicken bowl. I was well into the middle of What Makes You Think You're the One by the time I got to the front of the line. I also read the text message "That would be funny!!" just as "Not That Funny" started playing. It feels weird to begin my journey with Fleetwood Mac here, and not with an album like Rumours; I worry that an unfamiliarity with the band might be playing a part in my reaction to this album, because I am getting very little sense of identity here. Almost every song here, especially throughout the first half, sounds like it could have come from an entirely different band. There's what sounds like a classic folk outfit, then a jug band, then a Billy Joel song, then the soundtrack to a Vaudeville show, then finally the Stevie Nicks songwriting I primarily associate the band with. For being an immediate followup to Rumours, Tusk is surprisingly slight and disjointed in some parts, with only consistently plucky and sparking guitar work serving as a somewhat constant presence. Some of instruments are occasionally mixed so loudly that I feel like I'm being punched. I was told by my friend, after conducting their own research on the album, that Lindsey Buckingham wanted Tusk to send nothing like Rumours, which is understandable for the purposes of new creative expression, but man, what an unfortunate decision. I have to stop researching Fleetwood Mac for now, as I will surely have the chance to pick up my research later, but I can already tell that they are a strange, strange band. And how was this the most expensive rock album ever recorded at the time? While there are great songs, and the second half is much more consistent than the first, it still a baffling experience. Highlights: The Ledge, Think About Me, What Makes You Think You're the One, Angel, Brown Eyes, Never Make Me Cry, Honey Hi, Beautiful Child, Walk a Thin Line, Never Forget

Well that was pretty terrible … it would have got 2 stars but I deducted 1 star due to the fact that it was not only a dull album but it was also a dull DOUBLE album.

The Ledge Save Me a Place Sara What Makes You Think You're the One That's All for Everyone Not That Funny Sisters of the Moon I Know I'm Not Wrong Walk a Thin Line Tusk

Over & Over Sara Storms Sisters of the Moon Brown Eyes Tusk Never Forget

like youre shitting me its fucking fleetwood mac's tusk with usc marching band. #fighton

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

Es un álbum más calmado pero con canciones increíbles como Sara y tusk

Franchement plutôt bon album. Ce que je trouve particulièrement bien dans le projet, c'est vraiment sa diversité, alternant entre des longs morceaux très calmes et méditatifs comme "Storms" abordant une certaine mélancolie dans la voix de McVie qui rend plutôt bien. D'autre part, on retrouve plusieurs titres très courts et beaucoup plus énergiques comme "The Ledge", qui je dirais témoigne de la volonté du groupe de tirer vers un mouvement "post-punk". Néanmoins, cet aspect auto-proclamé de "subversion" pour sortir de leur style d'origine est pour moi assez dérisoire dans le sens où il n'est absolument pas particulièrement marqué dans l'album, avec un jeu sur les mêmes instruments, qui alternent certes entre certaines tonalités, mais conservent une identité très "classic rock" voir "pop rock". De plus, quand on sait que l'album a été financé à la même hauteur que "Rumours" on ne peut s'empêcher de se dire qu'il s'agit vraiment d'un gachis technique. L'album est donc plutôt agréable à écouter, tenant bien sur la durée et très solides, mais assez peu aventureux par rapport à ce qui était annoncé.

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.

Enjoyable but immemorable

I love JoJo

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

Tusk is awesome

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

Meandering and unworthy of a second listen.

Look, it's not Rumours. That's about the only negative I can come up with.

nice album, i like the chill songs a lot

Not a perfect album, but fantastic overall. Appreciate the creativity of Buckingham, despite tracks like "Not that Funny". Rating: 8/10 Favorite Song: Sisters of the Moon

I love the ledge

This sounded to me like four people trying to make a Fleetwood Mac album while Lindsey Buckingham was trying to make a Ween album. Christine was the VIP here in my opinion.

Is it Rumours or Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album? No, but Tusk is still a solid departure from those sounds.

There is some funky bass on this album. Why isn't all their stuff like this? Favorite Track: The Ledge

Harmony vocals are ok. Slap guitars are ok but the kick bass is too harsh throughout imo. Being unable to see Stevie twirl is limiting my love of this one. Hits of Sara and Angel and Tusk carry this one for me, but some tracks I had to pass by.

This was kind of unhinged, but I didn't hate it. Saved a few bangers. Might listen again.

Kaunis. Sopii roadtripille tai rentoon(ish) fiilistelyyn. Sisältää myös menevämpiä kappaleita. Ei hidas eikä nopea. Tämän albumin kanssa on hetkessä läsnä.

Obviously Nicks and McVie didn't get Buckingham's memo about the new wave style on this album. Like most double albums the changing between them is a bit jarring at times. But overall some amazing songs, especially the Buckingham ones where we find him thinking out the box a great deal here. After the rouring success of Rumours it would have been easy to try to make another, so credit to them for pushing the bounds of their creativity. Although Sara really is just like every other Stevie Nicks song she wrote.

8.5/10. I love Fleetwood Mac, and this one feels like them just doing whatever they wanted. It’s messy, experimental, sometimes all over the place… but that’s kind of the charm. Not as clean as their other stuff, but way more interesting.

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

Classic and well loved. Can never turn down a Fleetwood runthrough.

Rich production. Depth of songwriting. This is a strong album.

This was a surprise. I really like this record! I have never even heard a single song of it before but it’s great.

It was alright

Synes det var rart at lytte til, og nice at dykke mere ned i Fleetwood mac, kender kun Rumours albummet <33 det er gemt

The Lindsay songs are odd no doubt, but charming

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.

One of those bands for whom my opinion changes just about every time I have cause to listen. This was a disinterested day; tomorrow may be different. "Tusk" is a cool song, though.

goes on and on. its not like The Suburbs where the songs are all the same. it has variations here in there. gives off slow dance vibes.

So great - not on par with the two previous albums (5/5), but still great. Sara is amazing

A bit boring

hell naaah im good with the other 1000 tho

Fint, men står inte ut alls lika mycket som Rumours

Otroligt härligt sound som alltid, om än inte deras absoluta peak.

Trots avsaknad av tidlösa klassiker så tycker jag ändå deras skicklighet som band finns där och låtarna håller en väldigt hög lägstanivå.

Inte lika banger-tät som Rumours men låter annars mycket bra!

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

Listened to this while drinking a cold bottle of Asahi in a private bath at a Japanese ryokan. That is all.

Fine album and a good listen but not the best Fleetwood Mac album