Fleetwood Mac – Tusk (Ltd Green Vinyl Edition)

Few multi-million-selling albums puzzle more than Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 double album Tusk. After the wild success of Rumours, the band refused to rest on laurels – especially Lindsay Buckingham, who’d been listening to post-punk and new wave. The outcome was ten months in the studio, costs of around one million dollars, and an album that Christine McVie once described as “very different, very Lindsey Buckingham”.

But painting it Buckingham’s baby (soon after its release, when it was clear it wouldn’t repeat the success of Rumours, it was referred to as ‘Lindsey’s folly’) does grave disservice to the group’s two other songwriters, who met Buckingham’s experiments with more subtle, yet no less effective, sideways steps.

On Tusk, McVie embraced an ambiguity that she never quite articulated before or since: the album’s opener, “Over & Over”, begins as though it’s suspended in mid-air, while Stevie Nicks contributes the album’s most resonant, Mac-esque songs, with several of her classics appearing on Tusk, including the breathtaking “Sara” and one of her most epic melodramas, “Sisters Of The Moon”.

But it’s fair to say the album’s legend rests on the wildness of Buckingham’s experiments, such as curiosities like the taut elastic snap of “The Ledge”, or the modular drum tattoos of “Tusk” – the album’s most experimental song.
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2 x LP, Limited Green Vinyl

Tracklist:
        Over & Over    4:35
        The Ledge    2:02
        Think About Me    2:44
        Save Me A Place    2:40
        Sara    6:26
        What Makes You Think You're The One    3:28
        Storms    5:28
        That's All For Everyone    3:04
        Not That Funny    3:19
        Sisters Of The Moon    4:36
        Angel    4:53
        That's Enough For Me    1:48
        Brown Eyes    4:27
        Never Make Me Cry    2:14
        I Know I'm Not Wrong    2:59
        Honey Hi    2:43
        Beautiful Child    5:19
        Walk A Thin Line    3:44
        Tusk    3:36
        Never Forget    3:40