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A similar story occurred with Weezer. Their sophomore album "Pinkerton" was a departure from the poppy college rock that came before it. Rolling Stone and a number of other magazines flogged the album -- hating the songs. So much, in fact, that the lead writer (Rivers) left the band for a while due to him not coping well to the critical failure. Only a few years later, after the fans had declared it to be the band's best work, Rolling Stone re-wrote a review and essentially rated it at the top of the chart. It's funny how fans and a little bit of time can change your perception and appreciate of an album. Tango is similar. While it has a distinct 80s vibe (at times, a little cheesy), it was quite ahead of its time in terms of style and feeling. It still holds up to this day. I love modern bands like Cut Copy who claim that both Tusk (and especially Tusk) and Tango were hugely influential in their musical process. It's nice to see brilliant albums still being regarded so highly. In retrospect, one has to wonder what music we might NOT have had if Tusk was never released... |
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Arkansas Times, by Benji Hardy, August 26, 2014
http://www.arktimes.com/RockCandy/ar...-fleetwood-mac For over a month now, my friends and I have been listening to the 1979 Fleetwood Mac double album “Tusk” almost every day. Let me qualify that by first admitting that my musical knowledge isn't exactly encyclopedic. I don’t have a complete discography of anything, I rarely know the lineups or lineages of bands, and I don’t really understand what it means to remaster something. So while I realize this may be old news to some of you, I’m still excited about discovering that “Tusk” is an unbelievably good piece of music. Fleetwood Mac released the double LP as the follow up to 1976’s “Rumors” — still among the best-selling albums of all time — and though it's got much the same sound, "Tusk" is quite a bit weirder than its predecessor. There’s a hyperactive, carnival attitude to some songs, like Lindsey Buckingham’s “I Know I’m Not Wrong,” that reminds me of a candy-fueled ten-year-old jumping up and down on a bed. Then there are meltingly lovely Christine McVie tracks like“Honey Hi” and the absurd, wonderful drama of Stevie Nicks on songs such as “Sisters of the Moon” (can you think of a Stevie Nicksier name?) and so much in between. It all hangs together as a jumbled whole; listen to the entire thing to get the proper effect. Wikipedia tells me that “Tusk” cost more to record than any rock album up until that point — over $1 million, for whatever reason. When first released, It was priced at the equivalent of $52.46 in 2014 dollars; the record sold four million copies worldwide, and its label, Warner Brothers, considered that to be a failure. This summer, my roommate bought the double record in perfect condition for five bucks. — Benji Hardy |
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I also think Mick was correct that 'Tusk' had to be a double album - to ease the pressure of the 3 songwriters fighting over space. It also had to be a left turn in order to appease Lindsey, who was already reacting (imo, over-reacting) to Mac being portrayed as "dinosaur rock" by punk rockers. |
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To me, the one weak link on Tusk is actually McVie. She does have some gorgeous songs on there - I'm thinking "Think About Me" and "Brown Eyes" - but none of her Tusk songs have the pop music hooks that she had in her songs on Rumours or on Mirage or Tango. On Mirage, Lindsey is the weak link. It's probably from being burned on the commercial "disappointment" that the label and band felt about Tusk, which everyone blamed on Lindsey's punk-ish streak. On Tango, the weak link is Nicks. Her self-penned songs don't hold a candle to her previous work. So for me, ever since Rumours, every album that had the McVie/Buckingham/Nicks songwriting triad has had one of the writers not up to their usual standards of material. |
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And The Dance likely would never have happened, because that was totally a reunion album and a big deal since Lindsey came back. |
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Actually all three were "coming back" in a way (Stevie to the group and Chris to the road), and the whole thing was a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Rumours.
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Good point. I'd actually forgotten that Nicks had quit after Behind The Music, and that McVie had stopped touring.
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