Making Rumours out of Tusk

[Mr Scarrott]

What's also curious - and please try this at home- is that it's quite possible to condense this material into an excellent single album that almost feels like Rumours II. Fine, but would it have the peculiar allure of the record they delivered, which grows on you as it unfolds and if you take the trouble to return to it, eventually exerts a powerful hold? ~ from the liner notes of the the latest Tusk reissue.

Apologies if this has already been done, but I'm sure we're equal to the challenge. I've tried to give each Rumours track a musical or spiritual sibling of sorts from Tusk and I think this order works well, having listened to it. Any suggestions, criticism or improvements would be welcome.

I know I'm not wrong (Second Hand News)
Sara (Dreams)
Save me a place (Never going back again)
Think about me (Don't Stop)
What makes you think you're the one (Go your own way)
Never make me cry (Songbird)
Tusk (the Chain)
Brown Eyes (You make loving fun)
The Ledge (I don't want to know)
Over and Over (Oh Daddy)
Sisters of the Moon (Gold Dust Woman)


I think there's a goodly portion of the peculiar allure of Tusk here whilst offering a Rumours feel. Opting for a Lindsey song in place of IDWTK doesn't seem a bad idea to me. If anything he's more prominent than Stevie in the latter. All bar one of Christine's songs on Tusk are pretty slow so a doppelganger for YMLF isn't really on, but Brown Eyes mirrors and enhances its sexiness. If Silver Springs had made it onto Rumours, I would have used Beautiful Child as its Tusk replacement and stuck it between Never make me cry and Tusk between the two sides of the original LP.