Though individual tracks do stand out-McVie's "Over & Over", "Never Make Me Cry", "Sara", "Storms" and "Beautiful Child", "Buckingham's "Walk a Thin Line" and "Tusk"-the album is best experienced as a long, flowing whole, moods emerging, harmonies shifting and odd sound experiments percolating underneath the smooth professional sheen. Ironically, they had the least influence over the musical direction of the band. Buckingham took on much of the production himself, recording at home and in the personally modified Village Recorder studio in West Los Angeles, until he fashioned an album both quirky and accessible, as much a part of the '70s rock elite establishment as informed by the funkier experiments of the emerging punk and new wave. Throughout all of their incarnations, the only consistent members of Fleetwood Mac were drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie - the rhythm section that provided the band with their name. In 1979, the band recorded the title track for the album Tusk with the rock group Fleetwood Mac, which resulted in a platinum album for that song no other collegiate. Rated 28 in the best albums of 1979, and 2100 of all-time album. It's an expansive, 20-track collection that allows each of the three songwriters-Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks-to stretch their musical vocabulary with the very best sonics that money could buy. Known as the Spirit of Troy, the Trojan Marching Band has performed at the Academy Awards, the Hollywood Bowl, the Rose Parade, and in numerous film and television productions. Fleetwood Mac decided to follow up the career-defining, best-selling Rumours with an album that would not compromise their integrity or seem like a quick rehash of their proven FM-radio-friendly formula.
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