Behind The Mask
 

Behind The Mask is one of my favourite Fleetwood Mac albums and one of the few albums that I can listen to in its entirety without skipping a track. So, it's challenging for me to choose the tracks I like the most but this is my list:

Love Is Dangerous
In The Back Of My Mind
Do You Know
Save Me
When The Sun Goes Down
Behind The Mask
Freedom

What are your favourite songs from this album?

Save Me
In The Back Of My Mind
Behind The Mask
When The Sun Goes Down (country fan as a kid and a bluegrass fan, so I love this)

Honestly, that's kind of it. BTM is not one of my favorite albums.

Like or love ALL of them EXCEPT "The Second Time"...which just has permanently encamped itself in the lowest sludge of the 7 song cesspool called "the worst of Fleetwood Mac".

I thought it was a pretty good album considering the new line-up, and yes I could generally listen all the way through it as well. At the time I had it on cassette. Haven't listened in a while.
Favs:
In the back of my Mind
Love is Dangerous
Stand on a Rock
Save Me
I thought the tour was good also, nice stage lighting, merchandise, and good opening acts (World Party or Squeeze? at some New England shows..)

I would only add one more song to your great list. When It Comes To Love

The Billy/Christine combo was a great one and one that was not explored enough, just like the Rick/Stevie combo. This version of Love Is Dangerous is great (Rick's solo version is awesome but very different in arrangement and style from this CD's version). Rick and Stevie's "Desiree" from Rick's King of Hearts CD would have just been awesome if done by FM during this era.

The tour for this CD was great. In The Back Of My Mind flowing into The Chain was a stroke of genius! It was just awesome! The short blues set from Rick was outstanding (as if it would have been anything less!!), and everything seemed to be flowing nicely. It's just a shame that there wasn't perhaps some different material on the CD, or that there wasn't more acceptance of where the band was trying to go at that point. The Tango In The Night tour was awesome as well (my first FM show was on that tour) and those 2 guys blew me away! "Oh Well", the things that might have/could have/should have been with this line-up have been debated and theorized ad nauseum, so I won't attempt to open any of those discussions again! :thumbsup:

July 3, 1990
 

Fleetwood Mac played Richfield, Coliseum on July 3 on the Behind the mask tour. I was wondering if anyone else knew that Billy Burnette sang Rhiannon that night instead of Stevie. Now I didn't go to that show but I remember reading the review of it and that is what they said. And I have a ton of BTM shows on tape but not that one. Has anyone ever heard that? Also I checked on the Legacy because they always have those little tidbits of info next to the shows but there was nothing there. So I thought that was odd.

^Proof of what happens to your brain on crack.

Travisevian, there are plenty of people here that
will help you kick the habit. Just be very careful
of the enablers in this particular Ledge forum.

My faves are 'In the Back of My Mind' and 'Behind the Mask'.

If that happened, I'd love to see or hear it. Perhaps Stevie got sick or something at the last minute and had to leave, so Billy did Rhiannon? :shrug:

My favs are Save Me, Skies the Limit, Affairs of the Heart, and Hard Feelings.

That's for sure. Rick wrote a nice intrumental. Then Stevie spoiled it by writing lyrics for it, and singing them. I suppose this could have been good in the vein of Landslide. Yet, the lyrics were terrible and her delivery was questionable.

A missed opportunity and great mistake (Stevie has had her share). When I play the album, though, I still listen to the song. It's like passing a horrible car accident on a highway --- you don't want to see it, but you have to look!

That's funny.

I'd like to just understand
the album cover. That would
be enough for me.

I love this one too. I am pretty sure that I have a live version kicking around somewhere. They did it one or two times on the tour. Christine whipped out the accordian for it.

I like:
Freedom
Behind the Mask
When It Comes to Love
When the Sun Goes Down

- Jake

Oooh, I'd love to hear that! Chris doesn't play the accordian that often!

Christine: Behind The Mask
Stevie: Freedom
Billy: Hard Feelings
Rick & Stevie: Love is Dangerous
Rick & Billy: When The Sun Goes Down

A respectable, decent album overall; very listenable.

The only songs that made it into the live set were:
Save Me
Stand On The Rock
Love is Dangerous - dropped at some point in the tour
When The Sun Goes Down - great live song featuring Billy & Rick, but inexplicably dropped early on
In The Back of My Mind - good song, but horrible as a show opener

Curiously, not one new Stevie song in the set. Was this a silent protest of her not completely accepting the band without Lindsey? The thing I dislike the most about this era of the band is that this is when Stevie's solo songs (Stand Back and Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You) started creeping into the set lists, with Stand Back becoming a staple of Fleetwood Mac shows, despite it being a song in a style so unlike Fleetwood Mac. And, Stevie brought other elements of her solo career into the band - Sharon and Laurie, as well as a few of her band members. The brand that was Fleetwood Mac became more diluted.