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Originally Posted by GoldDustWoman22
I do think Angel would have made great single. Maybe it doesn't have the great hook in the chorus, but the beat is strong and the melody is "up" while the lyrics have "a definite eeriness to it"  . I also think that Stevie's voice sounds amazing on "Angel".
Does anybody else think that "Save Me A Place" would have made a good single? It's a very beautiful song and although not upbeat is very catchy and again the melody is rather easy to get stuck in your head. |
Its interesting that a number of people are citing "Angel" as a shoulda-been single. When I think about possible other Tusk singles I also often come back to this song...in some ways, I think it might have done better chart-wise than "Sisters of the Moon" did.
As for "Save Me A Place", I initially *hated* that song when I first got Tusk. Like many people, in 1979 I rushed out and bought Tusk, put it on my record player and then sat there stunned not knowing what to make of the entire album. I admit that I, again like many people, was expecting and looking for Rumours II and I didn't know what to make of it that Tusk was so wildly different. The closest I could come to a Tusk moment was that I thought "Storms" was sort of "Dreams"-ish, but wow was Stevie's voice different! Anyway, I generally disliked most of Lindsey's songs with the exceptions of "Tusk", "That's All For Everyone" and "Walk A Thin Line". "Save Me A Place" in particular seemed like a misbegotten attempt to do some kind of country-ish gospel tinged SOMETHING (I wasn't sure what it was). In the following years though I have to say that I often find myself suddenly singing this song! So there definitely is something about the song that burrows into your mind and lodges there. I don't know that it would have made for a successful single, but clearly the song isn't as throw-away as I initially took it.