Save Me A Place

[Hawkeye]

Originally Posted by dontlookdown

i'm coming again.


I suppose the single "Tusk" best fits that description - but once listeners got the album in their sweaty palms, Save Me A Place was the first song they heard that was a true departure - a signal of what was to come for the rest of the album.
I grew up in New York and in 1979 there were a handful of pretty adventurous dj's on the radio - and they ate Tusk up like it was the best thing they had heard in ages. The New York shows were pretty spectacular also - very uncommercial - but very loud and raw. Which is how I like Fleetwood Mac best - when maybe the harmonies aren't perfect, with no back-up singers, no additional musicians - just the band as they were meant to be. That's what Tusk was for me.

The Ledge is #2 on the album and I think it's the first that departs. And The Ledge also kicks SMAP's ass. The Ledge is a masterpiece. As is Not That Funny and Tusk and I Know I'm Not Wrong, and one that just very recently grew on me, Walk a Thin Line. But this thread is about the awful Save Me a Place, so I have to be raining on a parade