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Tusk (2002 Album)
''Tusk'' is a 2003 studio album by American alternative rock group Camper Van Beethoven, a song-for-song remake of the Fleetwood Mac album of the same name. Tusk is the first album the band released following its reunion, and the band initially claimed that it was recorded before their break up. However, it was recorded in the period leading up to their reunion tour. In an interview with the ''Chicago Tribune'', bass player Victor Krummenacher admitted that some of the band members hate the 1979 album, saying that it was "like the '' Magnificent Ambersons'' of rock, a work that's supposed to be good, but is really just a cocaine-damaged horror of excess. Which is why we took it on, I suppose, and I think we improved upon it." Track listing Disc 1 # "Over and Over" (Christine McVie) – 4:48 # "The Ledge" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 2:06 # "Think About Me" (Christine McVie) – 2:48 # "Save Me a Place" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 3:23 # "Sara" (Stevie Nicks) – 4:56 # " What M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camper Van Beethoven
Camper Van Beethoven is an American rock band formed in Redlands, California in 1983, later based in Santa Cruz and San Francisco. Their style mixes elements of pop, ska, punk rock, folk, alternative country, and world music. The band initially polarized audiences within the hardcore punk scene of California's Inland Empire before finding wider acceptance and, eventually, an international audience. Their strong iconoclasm and emphasis on do-it-yourself values proved influential to the burgeoning indie rock movement. The band's first three independent records were released within an 18-month period. Their debut single was "Take the Skinheads Bowling". The group signed to Virgin Records in 1987, released two albums and enjoyed chart success with their 1989 cover of Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men", a number one hit on ''Billboard Magazines Modern Rock Tracks. They disbanded the following year due to internal tensions. Lead singer David Lowery formed Cracker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Think About Me
"Think About Me" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in March 1980. The song was composed by Fleetwood Mac keyboardist Christine McVie. "Think About Me" and " Not That Funny" were the first "Tusk" singles released in their remixed form. The song peaked at number 20 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart and number 24 on Canada's ''RPM'' Top 100 Singles chart. Even though "Think About Me" was a Top 20 hit, it was not included in the 1988 album ''Greatest Hits'' but was included in the 2002 album ''The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac''. Fleetwood Mac played the song for the first time live in over 25 years for their Australian leg of the "On with the Show tour" in Sydney. Christine McVie introduced the song in a more humorous fashion; “It ''was'' released as a single, although I don’t think it did do terribly well. But we like it.” Canadian indie rock band The New Pornographers recorded a cover version of the song for the 2012 compilation album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Albums
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tusk (song)
"Tusk" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 double LP of the same name. The song peaked at number eight in the United States for three weeks, reached number six in the United Kingdom (where it was certified Silver for sales of over 250,000 copies), number five in Canada, and number three in Australia. The single was released with two different picture sleeves in many territories: the first featured the black and white picture of producer/engineer Ken Caillat's dog Scooter snapping at a trouser leg, the same as that used for the album cover, whilst the second featured a plain cover with the same font as the album cover but without the dog picture. A limited promotional 12-inch version, featuring mono and stereo versions, was also released to US radio stations. A slightly different mix of the track appeared on the retrospective four-disc compilation ''25 Years – The Chain'' in 1992. History Looking for a title track for the as yet unnamed album, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walk A Thin Line
"Walk a Thin Line" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1979. Composed and sung by guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, it was one of the nine songs he wrote for the ''Tusk'' album. Background Along with "Angel" and title track, "Walk a Thin Line" was one of the later songs written and recorded for "Tusk". The song was inspired by a Charlie Watts drum fill on " Sway", off the Rolling Stones album ''Sticky Fingers''. This drum fill caught Buckingham's interest, and he intended to feature the fill on one of his on ''Tusk'' songs. Buckingham ultimately selected "Walk a Thin Line" as it shared a similar tempo with "Sway". The "military press-rolls" Mick Fleetwood recorded were multi-tracked, and were later blended in with another drum track Fleetwood recorded. Buckingham also recorded some backing vocals in a push-up position while singing into a microphone taped to the floor for a more "aggressive" vocal timbre. ''Rolling Stone'' applauded the use of the " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Know I'm Not Wrong
"I Know I'm Not Wrong" is a song by Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 Tusk (album), double LP ''Tusk''. It was recorded as the final song of side three of the LP on 19 September 1979, written by Lindsey Buckingham, whose sparser songwriting arrangements and the influence of punk rock and New wave music, new wave were the leading creative force on it and other ''Tusk'' tracks. This was both the first and last song worked on for the ''Tusk'' album, and took almost a year to complete. Background While drummer Mick Fleetwood played drums on "I Know I'm Not Wrong", Buckingham recorded another drum part on Kleenex boxes. In the 1970s, conventional drums were often in the forefront of the mix, which was something that Buckingham wanted to move away from when recording the ''Tusk'' album. Instead, Buckingham sought to emulate what he heard on early rock and roll records, where the drums were more elusive. Cath Carroll, Fleetwood Mac biographer and author of a book on the creation of ''Rumours ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Eyes (song)
"Brown Eyes" is a song by Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 double LP ''Tusk''. It was one of six songs from the album composed and sung by Christine McVie. Background Original guitarist Peter Green also took part in the sessions for "Brown Eyes", but his playing on the track is not credited on the original album release. Mick Fleetwood, the band's drummer, remembers that Green still remained in contact with the band and occasionally joined them in the studio. At Fleetwood's request, Green overdubbed electric guitar on "Brown Eyes", although his playing was only included on the fade-out for the official release. The full recording session, dated 20 September 1979, appears on disc three of the 2015 deluxe edition of ''Tusk'', which contains alternate recordings of the album's 20 tracks. This version has McVie singing different lyrics to those on the original album. In a 1999 interview with the Penguin, Green admitted that he had no recollection of the recording session, likely due to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisters Of The Moon
"Sisters of the Moon" is a song by British-American rock group Fleetwood Mac. It was written and sung by band-member Stevie Nicks and was released in the US as the fourth single from the 1979 album ''Tusk''. It peaked at No. 86 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song was not released in the UK, where "Not That Funny" had been released as a single instead. The 'single version' of "Sisters of the Moon" is included on the compilation ''The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac'' and both the 2004 and 2015 remaster of 'Tusk'. "Sisters of the Moon" emerged from a jam during a session at Village Recorder in Los Angeles. Unlike Nicks' other songs on ''Tusk'', "Sisters of the Moon" was not written with anyone in mind; she found the lyrics nonsensical. When performed live, the song would usually go for over eight minutes in length, most notably the Mirage Tour version in 1982. The song did not appear on any subsequent tour until their 2013 Tour. "Sisters of the Moon" was also played on the North Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not That Funny
"Not That Funny" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1980. Composed and sung by guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, it was written as a response to the punk movement in the late 1970s. Background Buckingham performed his vocal part on the ground in a push-up position to achieve the desired vocal take. He also insisted on recording the vocals in a replica of his own personal bathroom, which was installed in Studio D of the LA Village Recorder. Engineer and co-producer Ken Caillat taped a microphone to the bathroom's tile floor to satisfy Buckingham's request. While released as a single in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, "Not That Funny" was not released elsewhere. Instead, the track's B-Side, "Think About Me", was issued as the third single in North America. Like the singles from Fleetwood Mac's 1975 Fleetwood Mac (1975 album), self-titled release, both singles were slightly remixed for radio. While "Think About Me" reached the Top 30 in both the US an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storms (Fleetwood Mac Song)
"Storms" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1979. Composed and sung by vocalist Stevie Nicks, it was one of her five songs that appeared on the '' Tusk'' album. The song was also included on the US 2002 and UK 2009 editions of ''The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac'' as the final track on disc one. An alternate mix with more stripped back production was included on the 2015 deluxe edition of ''Tusk''. Nicks said that the song was about her affair with bandmate Mick Fleetwood, which she believed contributed to the dissolution of his marriage with Jenny Boyd. Background "Storms" was the first song that Nicks presented for the ''Tusk'' album. In its demo form, the song only consisted of vocals and a rough piano part played by Nicks. Carol Anne Harris recalled that her former boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham, was critical of "Storms" when Nicks played her demo to the band, which led to an argument between Nicks and Buckingham. Producer Ken Caillat described th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Makes You Think You're The One
"What Makes You Think You're the One" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1979. Composed and sung by guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, it was one of his nine songs that appeared on the '' Tusk'' album. The song was also included on the US 2002 and UK 2009 editions of ''The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac''. Background In February, Buckingham entered Studio D of The Village Recorder with a JVC ghetto blaster. After playing producers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut a demo of "What Makes You Think You're the One" through some JBL speakers in the control room, Buckingham suggested that they create a new version using the JVC deck's input as the recording device. Caillat pushed back against this, insisting that the boombox would make the song excessively compressed, but Buckingham insisted that they use the device to emulate the distorted sounds of old rock and roll recordings. Fleetwood set up his drums in the corner of Studio D and recorded the song with Buck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara (Fleetwood Mac Song)
"Sara" is a song written by singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks of the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, which was released as a single from the 1979 ''Tusk'' double LP. The vinyl album version length is 6 minutes 22 seconds, and the edited single version length is 4 minutes 37 seconds. The song peaked at No. 7 in the US for three weeks, No. 37 in the UK for two weeks, No. 11 in Australia, and No. 12 in Canada. Origin Speaking in a radio interview for the ''Friday Rock Show'' with Tommy Vance in the early 1990s, Stevie Nicks said the song was partially written about her good friend, Sara, who married Nicks' ex and bandmate, Mick Fleetwood. However, Nicks' former boyfriend Don Henley claimed that the song is about their unborn child. In 1979, Nicks said, "If I ever have a little girl, I will name her Sara. It's a very special name to me." In a 2014 ''Billboard'' interview Nicks said, "Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
