50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

"Don't say that you love me!" said every vinyl copy of Tusk at Reckless Records in 1993.

Lol Alfred. Now the cover photo makes perfect sense.

One thing that really blows my mind is how expensive the album was to start with. It listed for $16.98 for the vinyl set upon release, which adjusted for inflation today is $63.55. Of course, very few people who actually bought it then probably paid list, but still. I believe even then that was a pretty high price point for a double, although understandable given this was the beginning of 'superstar pricing' not to mention the cost of packaging and the recording itself.

I found a pretty seriously water-damaged copy at my local record store for £7 or so a few years back that plays absolutely fine (the inner sleeves however are all gummed together), and that will do me. My first copy was the CD with the edited Sara, which seems criminal now.

Wasn't there some hoohah about "Tusk" getting premiered in its entirety on the radio, allowing people to record it, and the band/management/label blaming that for soft sales?

edited "sara" and the remixed "i know i'm not wrong," the latter of which was retained for the 2004 double-disc reissue and for literal years made me think my vinyl copy was flawed but just for that particular song

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i prefer the og "i know i'm not wrong" now, it breathes more, but sometimes i miss the tricked-out quality of the remix

Wasn't there some hoohah about "Tusk" getting premiered in its entirety on the radio, allowing people to record it, and the band/management/label blaming that for soft sales?

Yeah, a chain of radio stations were allowed a full-length album premiere by Warner's, which backfired.

We don't know to what extent it affected sales; WB will want a villain. The price had a lot to do with depressed sales.

I think I remember paying $14 for it when it came out.

I paid $1, but I had to walk to the record store in a snowstorm.