It is now considered something of a lost classic. Tusk was deemed a failure at the time after selling only 4 million copies. Many fans simply taped the album instead of paying the hefty price tag for the LP. Curiously WB decided to play the album in its entirety on FM radio. Tusk was the first album that cost more than 1 million dollars to make and took 13 months to record. Eager to dine on the popularity of Rumours, executives at WB priced the album at $15.98 or nearly $62 adjusted for inflation. Inspired by the New Wave, Punk and fear of becoming rock dinosaurs, the band's de facto producer Lindsey Buckingham stripped down the Rumours sound, stomped on it, ripped it apart and then pieced it back haphazardly. Clocking in at 74 minutes and 20 tracks, Tusk is either a disjointed mess fueled by cocaine induced megalomania or a deliberate, calculated masterpiece depending on who you ask. You make one of the the highest selling albums of all time.
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