Yes, for me Tusk is the perfect Fleetwood Mac album too. I first listened to it just last year! I'm a bit of a newcomer to Fleetwood Mac...when the Rumours lineup was touring the globe for The Dance, I was 4 years old and in preschool! I wish I had properly discovered the band in time to attend Unleashed and In Your Dreams Australian concerts...alas, oh well.
I especially love The Ledge, Not that Funny, What Makes You Think You're the One, That's Enough for me, Angel, Beautiful Child, Storms, Over and Over, Think About me, Never Forget.
What strikes me about Tusk is how it never ceases to surprise you, how each track sounds completely unique; and that jarring effect of some of Lindsey's songs juxtaposed next to Christine's - going from the slow, gentle Over and Over into the jumpy, frentic yet upbeat The Ledge, for example. And as someone else said, the album really does tell a story. Stevie's pride at writing Angel "a pure rock and roll song" with "edgeiness" is so cute (Tusk doco). That song really says something about her and Lindsey and their relationship at that time 1979. And it was before they absolutely loathed each other and before they had been out of each other's lives for the better part of the decade (as in before SYW/Unleashed tours where the relationship between Lindsey and Stevie was still strained and mainly just a business partnership) -so Stevie singing "I still look up when you walk in the room" sounds genuine and heartfelt.
In 2013 Stevie singing "You are a song for me melody, ingrained in my soul. Where would I be without you?" to Lindsey just sounds...untrue; a vocal performance without raw genuine emotion.
There's The Ledge (is it about Carol Ann Harris?) Beautiful Child - about Stevie's affair with The Beatles tour manager. Lindsey hitting back at Stevie perhaps with WMYTYTO. Chris' touching rendition of Over and Over...who knows who she wrote that about?
But Tusk just draws me in, as the listener I feel a part of the band's inner circle...it is beautiful and creative storytelling at its best. Unbeatable. For me, one of the greatest albums of all time, up there (right in the top 3) with my other favourites like Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story, The B-52s Cosmic Thing, Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club, Train's Drops of Jupiter, Tegan and Sara's The Con, Laura Marling's Once I Was an Eagle.