"Tusk" was released in September 1979 as the New Wave and punk scene was rising in popularity. Buckingham was eager to dive into more experimental sounds on their twelfth album, with Mick Fleetwood once saying that the guitarist wanted to "follow that muse creatively" as their band and many more of their era were being seen as "dinosaurs."
Buckingham once explained that they wanted the drums to have a "hypnotic feel" and found a 15-second section that worked. It led them to make "a circular loop of two-inch tape that went across the room. We let it run for ten minutes and put the song over it." The track even experimented with Kleenex boxes and lamb chops.
“I was in a room in the town square with a horrific hangover, and I was woken by the sound of the local brass band that relentlessly went round and round the square,” he said, according to Rolling Stone. “As the day went on, they got drunker and drunker. But one thing was apparent. Everyone followed the brass band around the town, and I thought, ‘What a good idea!'”
Fleetwood Mac soon finished "Tusk" and were adamant that it be the title track for the album. The band felt the track would pique people's interest, with the studio agreeing it would cause conversation among fans due to it being a departure from their usual sound. The track did face some hiccups when copies of it were recalled due to a scratch on the B-side during its manufacturing, with the promo copies the only ones unaffected.
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