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...with us now back to that distant time when dinosaurs roamed the earth and supergroups ruled the charts. Fleetwood Mac's first album in three years, and its first without Lindsey Buckingham, is an easy-to-take, if occasionally lumbering, excursion, with some sprightly love songs by mainstays Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks...
...That Funny" is somewhat new wave with its synthesizer solos--but nearly all the cuts seem forced to fit into Fleetwood Mac's formulaic style. Tusk is from the same mold as Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, the other albums recorded by the present members of the group (John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks). One wonders why it took three years to produce, even if it is a double...
...more interesting are the female vocalist tracks. Fleetwood Mac has always been at its best in the slow, seductive songs of Stevie Nicks and the more assertive but somehow also more despairing ones by Christine McVie. Between the two a certain tension exists which keeps the group from sinking totally into the morass of '70s pop. Nicks plays the Looking for Mr. Goodbar-waif, on her eternal cruise for romantic fulfillment, while McVie acts The Unmarried Woman, imagining herself to be above love but actually despairing over her lack...
...that simple, Nicks, though passionate, is also remarkably lucid and even-tempered; McVie, though aggressive, is also reserved and aloof. McVie constantly harps on helpless love ("So go and do what you want/I know that you're happy/don't worry baby, I'll be all right/you'll never make me cry) while Nicks is the tidal wave of passion ready to strike the helpless drowner ("Every night you do not come/your softness fades away/did I ever really care that much/is there anything left...
...phone?") set beside 120 members of the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band, blasting away to create an unlikely mixture of mystery, humor and the slightest hint of menace. Tusk is the penultimate song on side four. The album ends with a lovely Christine McVie tune, Never Forget, whose congenial conventionality seems calculated to assure listeners that the band has come back down to earth...