Dec 18, 2015 - When Fleetwood Mac's Tusk finally was unveiled to the masses back in 1979. Add to that USC's marching band drumline-ing across the focus. It was also the year of Tusk, the album in which Fleetwood Mac, a soft-rock band second only to the Eagles in their embodiment of easy 1970s gloss, completely lost their minds.

[quote]I thought that it was Mick's idea to name the album Tusk, that the word was English slang for the male's genitals. I read that Stevie was against the idea and even thought about quitting the band over it. And then you take a look at the album cover of Rumours and think, yeah no. I bought this on CD and rather than release a double CD, WEA decided to try cram it onto one CD to keep costs and the price down and only managed that by taking a knife to 'Sara', which was one of the standout tracks on the album. By Anonymous reply 94. Yes indeed, we too use 'cookies.'

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Click to expand.Yeah, it really was a huge amount of money. Weren't they in and out of the studio for more than a year?

Compare that to 20 years earlier when Nat King Cole (and others) could whip out a nice album in 3-4 days. I think even Nat's triple album of greatest hits (the NKC Story) re-recorded in state-of-the-art stereo took only about a month back in 1961. That anticipation for Tusk was huge. I think by the time it arrived the wait had been so long it was almost an anti-climax.

But for a lot of us it was on the turntable back in 1979--and afterward too. It's not as accessible as Rumours, and I don't think Tusk earned back its money very quickly. I think one of the main reviews for Tusk (in Rolling Stone, maybe) made the point that unless you had a pretty nice stereo you were going to miss some of the special audio touches they'd spent all that time and money putting into the thing. It still is pretty impressive, I think, as a pop soundscape. Interestingly I remember that about 10 years later, in c.

1988 (?), the record company brought them back together for Tango in the Night. That album also took something like a year and a million bucks.

It had a couple of nice songs, but it wasn't much compared to Tusk imho. I sold my CD of it back after a couple of weeks, I was so let down. Mac shortcut keys cheat sheet. Wouldn't mind having it now. Maybe I was too critical.

I think this is the original review from Rolling Stone Fleetwood Mac Album Reviews Fleetwood Mac Tusk At a cost of two years and well over a million dollars, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk represents both the last word in lavish California studio pop and a brave but tentative lurch forward by the one Seventies group that can claim a musical chemistry as mysteriously right—though not as potent — as the Beatles'. In its fits and starts and restless changes of pace, Tusk inevitably recalls the Beatles' 'White Album' (1968), the quirky rock jigsaw puzzle that showed the Fab Four at their artiest and most indecisive.

Like 'The White Album,' Tusk is less a collection of finished songs than a mosaic of pop-rock fragments by individual performers. Tusk's twenty tunes—nine by Lindsey Buckingham, six by Christine McVie, five by Stevie Nicks — constitute a two-record 'trip' that covers a lot of ground, from rock & roll basics to a shivery psychedelia reminiscent of the band's earlier Bare Trees and Future Games to the opulent extremes of folk-rock arcana given the full Hollywood treatment. 'The White Album' was also a trip, but one that reflected the furious social banging around at the end of the Sixties. Tusk is much vaguer.

Semiprogrammatic and nonliterary, it ushers out the Seventies with a long, melancholy sigh. On a song-by-song basis, Tusk's material lacks the structural concision of the finest cuts on Fleetwood Mac and Rumours. Though there are no compositions with the streamlined homogeneity of 'Dreams,' 'You Make Loving Fun' or 'Go Your Own Way,' there are many fragments as striking as the best moments in any of these numbers.