another tusk mention ...

carrie721 · #1 12-04-2006, 05:37 PM

this time on blender magazine's "most disastrous albums of all time" list. oh please.

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2205

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BEFORE
In 1977, Fleetwood Mac became soft-rock royalty with Rumours, which sold 8 million copies in its first year alone.

"HOPE YOU LIKE OUR NEW DIRECTION!"
"I remember someone saying, 'God, you must be scared ****less! How are you going to follow up Rumours?'" guitarist Lindsey Buckingham recalled. His answer was to seek inspiration from new-wave acts such as the Clash and Talking Heads.

When Warner Bros. heard Tusk, "a lot of people saw their Christmas bonuses flying out the window," Buckingham said. Priced at $16, a lot of money in 1979, the double album failed to come close to Rumours' success. "Six months [after Tusk came out]," Buckingham added, "[drummer] Mick [Fleetwood] said, 'You blew it.'"

AFTER
The Mac recovered some commercial ground with their next record, 1982's Mirage, but would never match Rumours' sales.

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
"It's part of musicians' job description to follow idiosyncratic flights of fancy," Moby says. "Like the Beatles' Revolution #9' or Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Not that people rushed out to buy that, either."

jannieC · #2 12-04-2006, 05:53 PM

^^^^^

Funny, it's my favorite FM album.

carrie721 · #3 12-04-2006, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

^^^^^

Funny, it's my favorite FM album.

it's tied with rumours as my favorite ... it's just too easy & specious to call it a disaster. i mean, have these people even listened to it? it does not belong on a list with mc hammer and mariah carey.

DrummerDeanna · #4 12-04-2006, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

it's tied with rumours as my favorite ... it's just too easy & specious to call it a disaster. i mean, have these people even listened to it? it does not belong on a list with mc hammer and mariah carey.

No - it should have been replaced with another of Mariah's albums (as they should all be on here)

I LOVE Tusk..I hate when it gets put on lists like this

gldstwmn · #5 12-04-2006, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

this time on blender magazine's "most disastrous albums of all time" list. oh please.

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2205

F*cking idiots probably weren't even born when Tusk came out.

Sahara · #6 12-04-2006, 06:32 PM

I think in terms of Christine and Stevie, Tusk was one of their finest hours... Lindsey ... argh, Over My Head!!

So what would have happened if the next album had been a Rumours II, like Lindsey always swore it wouldn't?
In terms of music, sales, future....?

PsychCat · #7 12-04-2006, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Sahara

I think in terms of Christine and Stevie, Tusk was one of their finest hours... Lindsey ... argh, Over My Head!!

ITA. Christine and Stevie's songs are great and definitely some of their best. Lindsey? ..... not so much. His stuff all basically sounds the same and after awhile become almost like cartoonish intermissions between the better Christine and Stevie material.
I realize Lindsey was avoiding "Rumours II" to the extreme but surely there was some gray area?
I'm just saying.....

rbs3676 · #8 12-04-2006, 10:12 PM

Commercially,It was a risk at the time and a defiant one.
Sonically, nothing came close to it -- I though it sounded "expensive" then and I still do...the production is lush, just not in the way RUMOURS was.
It's a gorgeous album, through and through.

It's my favorite MAC album...

rbs

**jbrownsjr** · #9 12-04-2006, 11:35 PM

Tusk has masterpiece moments for all members in my opinion

elie · #10 12-05-2006, 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

it's tied with rumours as my favorite ... it's just too easy & specious to call it a disaster. i mean, have these people even listened to it? it does not belong on a list with mc hammer and mariah carey.

my thoughts exactly. if someone says they don't like or 'understand" tusk, the first thing that comes to mind is that they probably haven't even listened to it.

shackin'up · #11 12-05-2006, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Tusk has masterpiece moments for all members in my opinion

I agree. And that makes it a masterpiece as a whole. There is no second album in the world that lets shine the utter qualities of three songwriters in three totally different ways and still it hangs together as a whole. The rythmsection is on a creative topform too, so that makes Tusk the best album ever recorded by anyone. Or have I mentioned that before?