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Originally Posted by David
What was so great about her work on Tusk? The White Album & Rumours are where she really shined as a songwriter. Them's her apex. Since then, everything's been dependent on a great vocal or a great, catchy orchestration (putting aside her greatness as a live singer for many years).
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I think all five of her songs on
Tusk have beautifully written lyrics. It's like every word serves its purpose which I think she's been quite "hit and miss" with in later years -- thus, the excessive amount of 'wells', which is lazy writing as much as I love hearing her different vocal inflections on them.
Say You Will is her best work since
Trouble in Shangri-La, make no mistake. The latter was a breakthrough, probably the most consistent set of songs she'd put forward to an album since
The Wild Heart (if I'm being objective, because I love all of her songs on
Rock A Little and
Tango in the Night).
Say You Will, while for the most part her songs in my opinion are better than Lindsey's, there are only a couple that make me get that knotted feeling in my chest of a great song. It's one of those albums which I played to death when I first became a Fleetwood Mac fan, and now I'm a bit indifferent with and I haven't listened all the way through since last year.