Rumors this! "Dreams"that! Fleetwood Mac rides again thanks to the help of Tik Tok's latest video craze of skateboarders and roller-bladers singing along to "Dreams." And you know what, good for Fleetwood Mac! They've been working their asses off since the 60's to remain relevant in the world of pop and rock, and sometimes the blues. They deserve the love. Rumors is perhaps the pinnacle of Fleetwood Mac, the album everyone's parents had in their vinyl collection. But, follow-up album, Tusk, is the black sheep of the Fleetwood Mac family (excluding the Bob Welch years). Tusk seems to go against everything the band achieved with Rumors. It's a double album, hardly known for a single hit song, and actually kind of avant-garde as far as Fleetwood Mac goes. John McVie said it best in that it sounds like the work of individual solo artists, something quite useful in a band like Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham brings more of the radical post-punk sound in songs like the suspiciously funky "The Ledge" and the USC marching band laden "Tusk." Stevie Nicks is on her song-writing A-game with "Sisters of the Moon" and "Angel," lesser known tracks from her that prove she was by no means a one album wonder. Christine McVie is a force to be reckoned with on "Brown Eyes" and "Never Forget," truly the glue that makes this a Fleetwood Mac album. And of course, original members John McVie and Mick Fleetwood keep things in rhythm with remarkable studio professionalism on bass and drums. Hey, even original guitarist Peter Green makes an appearance on "Brown Eyes." All in all this album is a lively romp in the hay with Fleetwood Mac. It's fun, imaginative, and pretty damned catchy.
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