Tusk

Certain Songs #453: Fleetwood Mac – “Tusk”

February 16, 2016 by Jim Connelly

Album: Tusk
1979

It goes directly to the massive commercial power of Fleetwood Mac in the late 1970s that this weird, experimental song crashed the top ten, and even more impressive that they could have made the more conventional “Sara” or “Think About Me” the all-important lead single from the follow-up to Rumours.

But no, they went with fucking “Tusk,” which not only didn’t sound like previous Fleetwood Mac songs, it didn’t really sound like anything else, period.

Certain Songs #452: Fleetwood Mac – “That’s All For Everyone”

February 15, 2016 by Jim Connelly

Album: Tusk
Year: 1979

While it took me a couple of years to buy Tusk — I didn’t get it until late 1981 — it was also the first Fleetwood Mac album I actually purchased, as there was literally no reason even then to purchase its hugely popular predecessor.

But Tusk was different. Tusk had the reputation of being a commercial failure — despite going double platinum — for the most honorable reason: experimental weirdness.