another tusk mention ...

[carrie721]

this time on blender magazine's "most disastrous albums of all time" list. oh please.

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2205

BEFORE
In 1977, Fleetwood Mac became soft-rock royalty with Rumours, which sold 8 million copies in its first year alone.

"HOPE YOU LIKE OUR NEW DIRECTION!"
"I remember someone saying, 'God, you must be scared ****less! How are you going to follow up Rumours?'" guitarist Lindsey Buckingham recalled. His answer was to seek inspiration from new-wave acts such as the Clash and Talking Heads.

When Warner Bros. heard Tusk, "a lot of people saw their Christmas bonuses flying out the window," Buckingham said. Priced at $16, a lot of money in 1979, the double album failed to come close to Rumours' success. "Six months [after Tusk came out]," Buckingham added, "[drummer] Mick [Fleetwood] said, 'You blew it.'"

AFTER
The Mac recovered some commercial ground with their next record, 1982's Mirage, but would never match Rumours' sales.

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
"It's part of musicians' job description to follow idiosyncratic flights of fancy," Moby says. "Like the Beatles' Revolution #9' or Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Not that people rushed out to buy that, either."