Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (2LP) [RHINO]

Why you'll love it

This 2LP set keeps the original double-album layout with printed inner sleeves for all four sides. Tusk went to No. 1 in the UK and No. 4 in the US, and the title track and "Sara" both reached the US top ten.

This edition

• 2LP set
• Printed inner sleeves
• Pressed in Germany

About the album

The obvious move after Rumours was to make Rumours again. Lindsey Buckingham had other ideas. Taken with Talking Heads and the post-punk records coming out of London and New York, he steered the band toward something stranger, and Mick Fleetwood decided early that it would be a double album. The band rented Studio D, a custom room built for them at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles.

Several of Buckingham's songs, including "The Ledge," "Save Me a Place" and "That's Enough for Me," came from his home studio, where he once played a Kleenex box as a snare drum. Stevie Nicks brings "Sara" and "Sisters of the Moon," Christine McVie supplies "Think About Me," "Over & Over" and "Never Make Me Cry," and the title track pulls in the USC Trojan Marching Band for horns and percussion. Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut co-produced with the band.

It cost about $1.4 million to make, a record sum for a rock album at the time, and still sold four million copies. The marching band, as far as we can tell, has yet to send an invoice.

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Tracklist

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On Warner Records (cat# R1 3350), a reissue of the 1979 album.