Following on from the gargantuan success of "Rumours", Fleetwood Mac were able to spend a whopping $1 million making this one. Not surprisingly, given the sales of Rumours and the fact that this was a double album, "Tusk" did not fare as well as its predecessor.
It's a pity, because Tusk is far more diverse than Rumours. Mixing the smooth accessible pop of that album with some even more mellow, laidback tracks, raucous almost honky-tonk rock music, and of course the urgent angular percussive drive of the title track.
The book describes them as drawing on the two Brians (Eno and Wilson) and that doesn't feel too far from the truth, given the harmonic and production boundaries the band play with and push against here.
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