10 Greatest Fleetwood Mac Albums
3. Tusk (1979)
Riding high on the mega successful releases of Fleetwood Mac and Rumours in '75 and '77 respectively, Tusk arguably marks Fleetwood Mac at their highest peak of superstardom. With a production cost rumoured to have eclipsed the $1 million mark (making it the most expensive album of its genre for the time), this is perhaps Mac at their most unleashed and experimental.
Heavily influenced by the takeover of the Punk movement in the music industry, Tusk was written by the band to be entirely different to what Rumours had been, and what Warner Bros. were looking for in terms of another commercial hit.
But whilst Tusk's sales of four million units paled in comparison to Rumours' ten million, the fact that the album routinely finds itself nestled in amongst compilations of the greatest of all time should go along way in showing off the legacy it has gone onto cultivate.
The likes of 'Tusk', 'Think About Me', 'Angel', 'Not That Funny' and 'Sara' might have been a more experimental type of tune for critics and fans to swallow, there's no denying the album is an absolute masterclass in how creative these extraordinary musical artists were capable of reaching.