Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

What does it say in the chorus? Is it supposed to be "Must be just exactly what I need"? Funny I always hear "sexy" instead of "exactly".

 

If almost the same track if not the same track, then I won't buy a copy.

Thanks for the info.

 

It seemed to me that at this time Lindsey was definitely being influenced by Brian Wilson, if not so exactly in reproducing his sound (although there were moments) but in the manic quality he brought into the studio. Like Pet Sounds was for Brian, Tusk was his chance to challenge assumptions about what he could do in the studio as leader of one of the (and at the time, arguably the) biggest bands in the world.

 

Fantastic album with all five members on top form and not a single dud among the 20 tracks.

 

I also hear "sexy."

 

I always did too.

 

+3

 

Tusk was great record. It has my favorite Stevie tracks. Sisters of the Moon and Storms are Stevie at her peak imo. this record is not perfect but never fails to be interesting.

 

He kind of slurs it so it comes out like "Must be just eggzacksy what I need."

I doubt the lyric is "must be just sexy what I need."

 

According to FleetwoodMac.com, here's the opening verse:

"That's all for everyone
That's all for me
Last call for everyone
Must be just exactly what I need"

 

They lie. It's: "Must be just too sexy something something." Then again I might be biased from hearing Right Said Fred twenty years before I bought me some Mac.

 

Could it be "Must be just too sexy what I need"? Is that even english?

 

Proof that a band can spend a million 1979 dollars and still not get a perfectly clear vocal. If the band had listened to James Gang's first album on the studio hifi they would have learned to ENUNCIATE.

 

I think the single, that is the song "Tusk" is unbelievable. It was a big thing at the time hiring the USC marching band to play on the record. The album, I'd have to pair it down to my ten favorites to like every track.

Someone involved with the group said to me, it Mike Curtis who cowrote Blue Letter, he said the album was thought of by people as Fleetwood Mac's White Album. It was only the third studio album of the Lindsey, Stevie lineup but they were already fragmenting. I can't remember Mirage that well but I think that was a return to the more commercial sound of Rumors. At least in my mind.

 

I broke down and picked this and Mirage up last week and I gotta say both really impressed me. Mirage does pander a bit towards more getting singles on the radio than Tusk does but both are very tight collections. There was always going to be too large a sales expectation after Rumours so even though sales weren't as large it certainly didn't fail as a piece of art or natural progression forward from the previous two LPs.

 

Using the word makes on a real ding-a-ling [I too always thought that the song Tusk could work well even much longer.]

 

The best song is Sara, especially 6-1/2. My famous profile pic, Sarah Silverman, could use that as her theme song.. Brings tears to my eyes..

 

I think a lot of people bought it just on the merits of the song Tusk, which got one hell of a lot of airplay. The album was very well promoted.

I personally don't like all of it, I think it could have been a one disc release.
It always sounded to me to be a bit of a Lindsey Buckingham playing with studio gadgets and experimenting album.

 

The most overrated Mac album probably - it's not "groundbreaking" or "cutting edge" in any way and the material is subpar except for a half dozen tunes. The great title track points to what it should/could have been. IMO.

 

Well it wouldn't be without precedent, as Peter Green had written a song about Mick Fleetwood's genitals almost ten years earlier:

Now, I know this guy
His name is Mick
Now, he don't care when he ain't got no chick
He do the shake
The rattlesnake shake
Yes, he do the shake
And jerks away the blues
Now, jerk it

 

First I've heard of it.

 

I like Tusk and think its one of the their better albums. Some of it is experimental, but songs like Sara and Angel are really well done. I still like Rumours and Mirage a bit more.

 

Tusk in its entirety, with the pauses as Lindsey Buckingham intended

(start at 1:05 for reference)

 

The band deserves a ton of credit for not going the safe route after Rumours and instead making a challenging, often difficult work that challenged their fan's assumptions. Spearheaded by Lindsey of course, who crafted some absolutely fascinating vocal and instrumental textures - I especially love the close harmony choral work on "Save Me a Place" on Side 1.

For me, their last essential album.

 

Yes, let us never speak of 'pruning' the White Album again!