Tusk (album)

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Tusk
Tusk cover
Studio album by Fleetwood Mac
Released October 19, 1979
Recorded 1978
Genre Rock
Length 68:57
Label Reprise (1979)
Rhino (2004, re-issue)
Producer(s) Fleetwood Mac
Ken Caillat,
Richard Dashut
Professional reviews
Fleetwood Mac chronology
Rumours
(1977)		 Tusk
(1979)		 Mirage
(1982)


Tusk was a double album released in 1979 (see 1979 in music) by Fleetwood Mac. Considered somewhat "quirky" due to Lindsey Buckingham's apparent attempts to allow punk rock and New Wave influence into his work, Tusk did not achieve the level of success of its predecessor, Rumours. However, it still went double-platinum (U.S. sales in excess of four million copies).

The somewhat unusual title track, "Tusk", featuring the University of Southern California's Spirit of Troy marching band, proved to be a hit, reaching the Billboard Top 10. It was the first song featuring a marching band ever to do so. The accompanying promotional film was equally quirky, and was often played as a fill-in segment by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV channels during the 1980s.

The album was one of the first to employ digital mixing.

The project apparently made some record executives nervous, not only for its million-dollar production budget; the label had expected a re-working of the same formula that had made Rumours successful. The luxurious packaging and product that resulted topped the UK album charts on 10 November 1979, and the U.S. a week later.[1]

The third album since the inclusion of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks into Fleetwood Mac, Tusk perhaps most importantly displays the talents of the individual singers/songwriters in the quintet, working together as a whole and yet giving each other ample room for themselves. Every member was afforded the time and space to delve deeply and personally into their own artistic interests. At Lindsey's insistence, the album needed to be a double album in order for this to be so, a problem that often arises when a band contains so many creatively independent personalities and a cramped, stunted feeling arises.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

Early CD releases of Tusk contained a shortened edit of "Sara".[2] However, the 2004 2 CD-reissue of the album includes the full uncut LP version. [1]

  1. "Over and Over" (Christine McVie) – 4:36
  2. "The Ledge" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 2:02
  3. "Think About Me" (McVie) – 2:44
  4. " Save Me a Place" (Buckingham) – 2:40
  5. "Sara" (Stevie Nicks) – 6:26
  6. "What Makes You Think You're the One" (Buckingham) – 3:32
  7. "Storms" (Nicks) – 5:29
  8. "That's All For Everyone" (Buckingham) – 3:04
  9. "Not That Funny" (Buckingham) – 3:13
  10. "Sisters of the Moon" (Nicks) – 4:45
  11. "Angel" (Nicks) – 4:53
  12. "That's Enough For Me" (Buckingham) – 1:48
  13. "Brown Eyes" (McVie) – 4:30
  14. "Never Make Me Cry" (McVie) – 2:14
  15. "I Know I'm Not Wrong" (Buckingham) – 3:02
  16. "Honey Hi" (McVie) – 2:43
  17. "Beautiful Child" (Nicks) – 5:23
  18. "Walk a Thin Line" (Buckingham) – 3:48
  19. "Tusk" (Buckingham) – 3:36
  20. "Never Forget" (McVie) – 3:44

[edit] Credits

Fleetwood Mac

Additional personnel

[edit] Production

  • Producers: Fleetwood Mac. Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut
  • Engineers: Lindsey Buckingham, Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut, Hernan Rojas
  • Assistant Engineer: Richard Feldman
  • Mastering: Ken Perry
  • Remastering: Ken Caillat
  • Photography: Peter Beard, Jayne Odgers, Norman Seeff
  • Art Direction: Vigon Nahas Vigon
  • Design: Vigon Nahas Vigon

[edit] Billboard charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1979 Pop Albums 4

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1979 "Tusk" Pop Singles 8
1980 "Sara" Pop Singles 7
1980 "Sisters Of The Moon" Pop Singles 86
1980 "Think About Me" Pop Singles 20

[edit] Miscellanea

  • In 1991, R.E.M. covered "Tusk", introducing it by noting that, earlier in their career, they were able to take advantage of Fleetwood Mac's unused recording studio time.
  • In 2002, Camper Van Beethoven, an alternative/new wave/punk rock group, released a full cover of the original "Tusk". The cover art and track listings are almost identical.
  • The name for the album Tusk was inspired by a giant mammoth tusk in the museum of a small town called Saffron Walden, in Essex, England. The band saw it while touring and "tusk" became a running joke over the tour.
  • Tusk is often played at USC Trojan football games by the marching band with the fans chanting "UCLA sucks" at their crosstown rivals.

[edit] Footnotes and references

  1. ^ Rock Movers & Shakers, Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.
  2. ^ This was reportedly due to problems with longer CDs (74 minutes or greater) at the time of release."7a11d390a00b24db"
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Studio albums: Fleetwood Mac (1968) - Mr. Wonderful - English Rose - Then Play On - Kiln House - Future Games - Bare Trees - Penguin - Mystery to Me - Heroes Are Hard to Find - Fleetwood Mac (1975) - Rumours - Tusk - Mirage - Tango in the Night - Behind the Mask - Time - Say You Will

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