A limited promotional 12-inch version, featuring mono and stereo versions, was also released to US radio stations.Ī slightly different mix of the track appeared on the retrospective four-disc compilation 25 Years – The Chain in 1992.Īt the request of Mick Fleetwood, the band recruited the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band to play on the single. The single was released with two different picture sleeves in many territories: the first featured the black and white picture of producer/engineer Ken Caillat's dog Scooter snapping at a trouser leg, the same as that used for the album cover, whilst the second featured a plain cover with the same font as the album cover but without the dog picture. It was one of the first songs to be released using a digital mixdown from an original analog source. The song peaked at number eight in the United States for three weeks, reached number six in the United Kingdom (where it was certified Silver for sales of over 250,000 copies), number five in Canada, and number three in Australia. With that out of the way, I applaud anyone that wants to have a deeper conversation about such a multi-layered album, and I hope your initial post gathers many well considered responses! Tusk is awesome, and I know that you know that." Tusk" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 double LP of the same name. All I know is that it’s inconsistency (in terms of commercial viability) and sprawling and wildly experimental nature keeps me coming back to it over and over (heh) over the years, and every time I drop the needle, press play on CD, or click play on Apple Music, I absolutely need to listen to the whole album from start to finish.
I don’t have the experience of hearing this album on release day and being thrilled or disappointed. I can’t argue with your choices for a paired down album, but maybe the flow of the record seems a bit off now? “Over and Over” is the perfect album opener: the calm before the storm, the voice of reason before the first line of blow, the finger in the dam of what we expected from a Fleetwood Mac LP and what we received.įull disclosure, I am 38 years old and only heard Tusk for the first time in 2001, and it’s inconsistently wild spirit led me to explore beyond Rumours and self-titled back into the Bob Welch and Peter Green eras. Tusk is a hot mess of an album, and I love it for that. Having said that, Godfather III in fact IS receiving a new re-cut courtesy of Francis Ford Coppola, and is said in the press kit to be an improvement, so what do I know? To me it seems as pointless as taking a classic movie like The Godfather or Gone With the Wind and debating which scenes could be cut and which deleted scenes could be re-edited in to improve the film. It is what it is, and people love or hate it for those qualities. I’ve never really understood the reasoning for endless personal restructuring of albums that have been in the public consciousness for decades.
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