Artist: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: TUSK EXPANDED & REMASTERED (2CD)

Year: 1979/ 2004
Media type: CD

A liner portrait of the big Mac, then coming off the commercial bonanza of Rumours, shows them looking anxiously at guitarist, singer, songwriter, and de facto auteur Lindsey Buckingham, a moment given weight by the sprawling ambitions behind this 1979 double album. Buckingham's superb sense of pop craft had catapulted the once blues-based rockers into multiplatinum ubiquity, and he responded not with a safe return to form but with an invitation for his songwriting partners to chase their respective muses. Comparisons to the Beatles' White Album abounded and remain apt: Stevie Nicks twirls dreamily through extended variations on her crystal visions, Christine McVie turns in a reliably fine set of sunny pop-rock cruisers and tender ballads, and Mick Fleetwood and John McVie sustain their reputation as one of rock's most powerful yet deft rhythm sections. Buckingham provides the wild cards, in largely self-recorded plunges into his own skittish psyche, culminating in the massive title song, beefed up by the University of Southern California's marching band, but more cannily in dreamy music-box exercises ("That's All for Everyone") and sudden bursts of gonzo, fuzz-toned rock ("That's Enough for Me"). Better than its detractors thought upon release, Tusk was a brave platinum "failure" that actually charts where subsequent Mac and Buckingham projects would go.

TRACKLIST CD1:

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
14. NEVER MAKE ME CRY
15. I KNOW I'M NOT WRONG
16. HONEY HI
17. BEAUTIFUL CHILD
18. WALK A THIN LINE
19. TUSK
20. NEVER FORGET

TRACKLIST CD2:

1. ONE MORE TIME (OVER & OVER) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
2. CAN'T WALK OUT OF HERE (THE LEDGE) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
3. THINK ABOUT ME (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
4. SARA (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
5. LINDSEY'S SONG #1 (I KNOW I'M NOT WRONG) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
6. STORMS (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
7. LINDSEY'S SONG #2 (THAT'S ALL FOR EVERYONE) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
8. SISTERS OF THE MOON (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
9. OUT ON THE ROAD (THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
10. BROWN EYES (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
11. NEVER MAKE ME CRY (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
12. SONG #1 (I KNOW I'M NOT WRONG) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
13. HONEY HI (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
14. BEAUTIFUL CHILD (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
15. SONG # 3 (WALK A THIN LINE) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
16. COME ON BABY (NEVER FORGET) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
17. SONG #1 (I KNOW I'M NOT WRONG) (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED) (ALTERNATE)
18. KISS AND RUN (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
19. FARMER'S DAUGHTER (PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED)
20. THINK ABOUT ME (REMASTERD SINGLE VERSION)
21. SISTERS OF THE MOON (REMASTERED SINGLE VERSION)