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Originally posted by CarneVaca
To be sure, Stevie contributes some of her best stuff ever to this album and Christine's songs, though not terribly exciting to me, have a wonderful charm about them.
Since I am feeling generous today, I will even say this: I can take Beautiful Child when I'm in the right mood, but usually I skip it. Actually, Tusk is the only Fleetwood Mac album these days that I can play beginning to end without skipping songs. I can't even do that on Out of the Cradle as I tend to skip Doing What I Can.
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O.K. I`ll be the bad guy to disagree concerning Christine
Although TUSK is my favourite FM album I skip a lot of songs. A contradiction? Yes and no. I simply can`t stand Christines contributions and always felt that they were misplaced on the album. Of course I have to admit that she is not my favourite band member. But I still like a lot of her songs from the 80's and from the pre Rumours era so it`s not a general point. But the "Yawners" are clearly on her side imo. I only used TABM for my private copy because I think it`s a fine example for a good LB/Christine collaboration. Now after a long long time, I listened to her tracks again because of the discussions we had during the last weeks. I can tolerate "Never forget" as an O.K. song. But Brown eyes, Honey Hi, and Never make me cry makes me either shiver or fall asleep at once. For me Tusk is a great balance between Lindseys strange tunes and Stevies epics. Christines songs don`t fit in the concept of the album- I don't see a connection between say WMYTYTO or NTF and Honey hi... And interestingly some friends who discoverd FM and Tusk at the same time I did, felt the same way. I suppose people who love her tracks first, are not too fond of the strangies from LB vice versa...?
As for Beautiful child, I`m not that euphoric about the song as some of the others here but I do like it. No Stevie song on Tusk is weak- I just like Storms, SOTM and Sara better. At the moment I would pick Storms as my fav from Stevie Tusk but that may change on a regular basis
Dito with LB`s songs.