What Does a Band Owe You After a Huge Album?
After Rumours, Fleetwood Mac could have made the safest follow-up imaginable. Instead, Tusk challenged the very idea of what a successful band should do next. Dave compares commercially successful follow-ups from Styx, Kansas and Boston with records that took a more artistically risky path, then asks a deceptively difficult question: what does a band owe its audience after a blockbuster? This isn’t an argument that change is always better. It’s an argument that commercial continuity and artistic courage are different measures—and that a follow-up album deserves to be heard as a choice, not…
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