Look, kid, you have to listen to the WHOLE ALBUM

Driving home Saturday with my band nerd, clarinet-playing Daughter #3 after freezing in the bleachers at the La. Tech vs Nevada slaughter (42 - 0, NEV).

Dad: "That was a kickin' version of 'Tusk' y'all did in the second half."

D#3: "'Tusk'? What's that? We didn't do that."

Dad: SIGH! "Fleetwood Mac? 'Tusk'? Duhhh? I know 'Tusk" when I hear 'Tusk' and I heard 'Tusk'!"

D#3: "Never heard of it. Oh, wait. You said 'second half.' That must've been the percussion section doing their thingy."

Dad: "Yeah and you and your little woodwind wimps were taking a break and ignoring them. Good grief! You've never heard of 'Tusk'?"

D#3: "Well, I've heard of Fleetwood Mac."

Dad: "Oh, you have, huh? What was their biggest selling album?"

D#3: "No fair! I only know singles, I don't know albums!"

Dad: (Hits the brakes and pulls over) "Do what?!"

D#3: "I'm sorry, I just never paid attention to albums. I mean, now you download a song. Nobody buys a whole album. What's the point?"

Dad: (Choking in frustration) "Aaagh...coff! The songs on Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumors' album cannot be appreciated fully without listening to the album, in sequence, start-to-finish, in the order in which they were arranged by the composers! Same with the 'Tapestry' album. Same with 'Sergeant Pepper's.' Same with "Dark Side of the Moon!"

D#3: "Fleetwood Mac did all those? I thought the Beatles did 'Sergeant Peppers' and didn't Pink Floyd do 'Dark Side of the Moon'?"

Dad: "Yes, but those are all albums and all you know is singles. It's like taking one song out of an opera instead of listening to the whole opera. It's like only listening to 'Circle of Life' without ever watching 'The Lion King.'"

D#3: "Oh, I get it. So, this 'Rumors' album by Fleetwood Mac was big?"

Dad: "No, huge. Enormous."

D#3: "And 'Tusk' was actually a song on that album?"

Dad: "No, 'Tusk' was on the following album. The 'Tusk' album."

D#3: "Oh. So, what were the other songs on the 'Tusk' album?"

Dad: "Who knows. The album stunk. 'Tusk' was the only song from that album that anybody liked."

D#3: "But, you said..."

Dad: "The 'Tusk' album was no 'Rumors.'" :)

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