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Originally Posted by vivfox
...the TUSK album was released to radio on the 12th of October and released to the public on the 15th, but many radio stations played the album in its entirety which later was deemed to have hurt album sales because a lot of us taped it off the radio. I taped it but I also bought...
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I've heard Mick say that.
I traded Paul McCartney's
Pipes Of Peace album
for
TUSK. I believe I got the better of that trade.
I've never looked at
Tusk as a failure. An experimental
double album that went 4X Platinum (2 million sold).
Not bad, not bad at all.
However, it might be the album that testifies to Lindsey's
genius or his insecurity. Afraid the new album wouldn't
achieve the success of
Rumours, maybe in this way
he took the easy way out. Why not make an album that's
guaranteed not to be a commercial success on purpose?
No risk there.