Image of Rin Tin Tin from Rin Tin Tin #29, 1959
I know I'm coming a little late to the Tusk party. When some old record comes up in the rotation for rediscovery every few years, I make a note of it, but I don't always rush out and buy the record being talked about. (Sorry, Vashti Bunyan, Georgio Moroder, and whoever else has had a recent resurgence in popularity!) To tell the truth, I've been looking for a used copy of Tusk for ages - I decided I didn't need the 2-CD deluxe version, and I figured lots of people would be unloading the old single-disc version. It was a longer wait than I anticipated, but this record was worth the wait.
Tusk is a "big" record, in several senses of the word. Each of the songwriters in the band (Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham) wrote at least five songs on the record - Buckingham has nine! And it's the Lindsey Buckingham songs that really make this album great to me - there is a compelling nervous energy to his writing from this era (hello, cocaine!) and his production style is very forward-thinking. I am starting to see why people say that REM's Murmur borrows a lot from the Buckingham sound. The mystery to me is how the title track is the only well-known song from this record - it's arguably the only throwaway song on the whole disc. "I Know I'm Not Wrong" should have been huge - take a listen and tell me I'm wrong. I know I'm not.
"I Know I'm Not Wrong" by Fleetwood Mac
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