Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Over & Over
2. The Ledge
3. Think About Me
4. Save Me A Place
5. Sara
6. What Makes You Think You’re The One
7. Storms
8. That’s All For Everyone
9. Not That Funny
10. Sisters Of The Moon
11. Angel
12. That’s Enough For Me
13. Brown Eyes Never Make Me Cry
14. I Know I’m Not Wrong
15. Honey Hi
16. Beautiful ChildWalk A Thin Line
17. Tusk
18. Never Forget
19. Sisters Of The Moon (Single Version)

Disc 2:

1. One More Time (Over & Over)
2. Can’t Walk Out Of Here (The Ledge)
3. Think About Me
4. Sara
5. Lindsey’s Song #1 (I Know I’m Not Wrong)
6. Storms
7. Lindsey’s Song #2 (That’s All For Everyone)
8. Sisters Of The Moon
9. Out On The Road (That’s Enough For Me)
10. Brown Eyes Never Make Me Cry
11. Song #1 (I Know I’m Not Wrong)
12. Honey Hi
13. Beautiful Child
14. Song #3 (Walk A Thin Line)
15. Come On Baby (Never Forget)
16. The Dealer
17. Song #1 (I Know I’m Not Wrong)
18. Kiss And run
19. Farmer’s Daughter
20. Think About Me (Single Version)
21. Sisters Of The Moon (Single Version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2001 in Music
• Released on: 2004-03-22
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Deluxe Edition
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

CD Description
No home should be without at least one copy of TUSK. Fleetwood Mac's magnum opus of 1979 is considered by some to be their greatest work. And while you are probably familiar with the hits, you may not realise that this recording is full ofgems like Christine McVie's gorgeous "Brown Eyes" and Lindsey Buckingham's rousing and infectious "I Know I'm Not Wrong". Of course, even the Nikei industrial average would sound beautiful if it were sung with Christine's wonderful voice. And Lindsey Buckingham's home recordings that show up here are a virtual blueprint for the indie-rock home-recording scene that would flourish nearly 20 years later. While some records from this period seem campy and quaint in retrospect, TUSK still sounds terrific, thanks to those Dashut/Buckinghamproduction values. But what's up with that marching band onthe title track?

Customer Reviews

Wonderful reissue of the Mac's masterpiece from 1979...
I've said it before & I'll say it again:"Rhino do the best reissues." This two-disc take on Fleetwood Mac's Tusk is far superior to the prior-budget price version, which edited the sublime joy that was Sara. The first disc takes in the original Tusk double-album & adds a single-mix of Sisters of the Moon; while the second disc takes in earlier versions/alternate takes/outtakes relating to the recording of Tusk and is worth buying for these stunning curios. This is even better than that deluxe reissue of The Velvet Underground's Loaded & chance to reassess a great, great album...

Tusk was famously the follow-up to the bestselling Rumours (1977) and along with Fleetwood Mac (1975) is the centrepiece of their career (stuff like Mirage & Tango in the Night were distinctly underwhelming). This was the era when Lindsay Buckingham became the mainman, while Christine McVie & Stevie Nicks were more than equal. Tusk is better than Rumours as (i) it's a double-album, the three-songwriters having much to offer (ii) it was recorded in relationship-turmoil, everyone likes a car crash. See: The Visitors, Low, Blemish, Music for a New Society (iii) Camper Van Beethoven recorded the whole album in tribute to it (iv) DJ Shadow sampled Brown Eyes on one of his early recordings (v) the band insisted on a ping-pong table in the studio, the Beastie Boys followed suit on their Tusk: 1989's Paul's Boutique (vi) it's not overplayed/overfamiliar like Rumours (vii) it's quite insane in parts (viii) because it is...

The cocaine-Californian thing has been done wonderfully by others- Warren Zevon, Steely Dan, The Eagles' Hotel California ,Gene Clark, Steve Stills- this does feel like a band living on the edge, in their own world where they can have anything they want. I'm reminded a little of The Band in The Last Waltz or The Stones around Exile on Main Street. Despite the gossip-related problems, this is a wonderful collection of songs- perhaps they were miserable, but in that place, they created something beautiful & enchanting. Perhaps it's a record like Blood on the Tracks, Here My Dear, Station to Station or Third/Sister Lovers that was ultimately more fun to listen to than make?

There is still hints of that perfect FM-country of Rumours- Think About Me, Angel- so I never understood why people didn't take to this set. Many of the tracks could have been put on Rumours & people would have eaten it up! Buckingham & co were getting more adventerous- the production is more experimental and probably has more in common with Lee'Scratch'Perry or PIL than Dire Straits. Tusk is not Metal Machine Music though...

Every track on it is wonderful- from the mad-brass inflected title track (sort of a rap!) to the gorgeous Brown Eyes to Buckingham's modern inversion of Eddie Cochran on The Ledge. I just don't get people who don't get Tusk!- what's not to get? The six-minute plus ethereal joy of Sara?- Nicks bettering herself with Sisters of the Moon and Storms, which are the kind of songs you could lose yourself in (& explains why a few girls I knew in the 80s tended to model themselves on Stevie...). McVie's gorgeous Over and Over is just hypnotic- but the song I could listen to UNTIL THE END OF TIME would be That's All For Everyone, which has a wonderful hook & like many of the great records, doesn't go on long enough...

Tusk is now available in complete, expanded form and is now ripe for rediscovery after the Mac's succesful return last year. It's also one of the great double-albums, easily ranking alongside Warehouse (Songs&Stories), Exile on Main Street, Being There, Sign'O'the Times, Sandinista!, Spirit of 76, Check Your Head & The White Album. A great reissue and Fleetwood Mac's masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned...

Sheer magic
I first came across Fleetwood Mac in the 70's with the release of "Rumours" and fell in love there and then. I expected to be disappointed with "Tusk"; after all you can never quite re-experience the feeling of first love, right? But I was surprised back then and I'm surprised still, because "Tusk" is a fantastic example of why Fleetwood Mac are have the longevity they've had - they can cover so many moods, styles and sounds on just one album. I bought this cd because I've kept the original vinyl double album, long after my hi-fi has given up, and have relied on a home taped version of the album all these years, to hear my favourite songs in the world. Hearing them again, so perfectly reproduced and re-presented in new ways with the out-takes and remixes this album contains, has been an utter joy. The ethereal harmonies provided by Buckingham and McVie on the 2 best songs on the album - Beautiful Child and Storms - offsetting the earthy-yet-ethereal voice of Stevie Nicks, had passed me by on the original album. How sound quality and reproduction have improved! This is a great album - for baby-boomers like me, updating their vinyl music collection into cd format, and for anyone who's only ever heard the million-selling "Rumours" and wondered whether The Mac could do it again...

The Second Best Ever Double Album
Yes, this is Fleetwood Mac's masterpiece, because this album more than any other allows three awesome songwriters to show in depth what they were capable of. Only The Beatles' White Album surpasses it as a double album. And that is Saying Something. Better than Exile On Main Street, better than Songs In The Key Of Life, better than Goodbye Yellowbrick Road. Primarily because Fleetwood Mac are, apart from The Beatles, the only band I can think of with 3 songwriters of such sheer brilliance all contributing AND complimenting eachother. And a pretty mean rhythm section to boot. Buckingham is IRREPRESSIBLE throughout on his own songs - daring, beautiful, exciting, melodic, absorbing...I have RUN OUT OF ADJECTIVES and also on his bandmembers' songs....he takes Sisters Of The Moon to an ALTOGETHER HIGHER level, just to name BUT ONE.

From the ecsquisite opener right through to the mournful closing track, both from Christine McVie incidentally, this is an album to MARVEL at. Just as much so, 35 years or so after the event. Thank You guys, this album never fails to bring joy, warmth and happiness, not to mention a struggle for the appropriate words.